February 26th, 2013 at 2:01 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, economic collapse, self sustainability, eco building, prepping, intentional community, community, societal collapse, herbal medic, texas herbal medicine)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman is interviewed by Ed Corcoran from Survival and Beyond. Sam and Ed discuss general survival topics such as:
- The concept of “civilization” and how we have lost touch with who we are as humans
- The idea behind The Human Path as a school
- The importance of the topic of community as part of any realistic survival training
- Herbal medicine and its place in a post-disaster or remote setting
- Modern medicine as compared to herbal or natural medicine
- Wilderness vs. Urban survival and cummunity sustainability
- Speculation on what might be most likely looming in our future as a species
- What role does our culture play in forming our perception of reality?
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December 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, the combat medic, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, primitive hunting, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the entire structure of classes and programs at The Human Path.
He addresses many of the questions that people have about how the program is structured at The Human Path, to include:
- What are the differences between core classes and peripheral or elective classes?
- What are the 4 paths or specialties that a person can follow within the core curriculum?
- What specific things do students learn in each of the specialties?
- What makes The Human Path so different from other survival schools?
- How does learning these skills make a difference in day-to-day life?
- What is the difference between Urban and Primitive tracks of instruction?
- What are the "Four A's" of survival that are a part of the core curriculum?
- How does a student move up from level 1 to level 2 in a specialty?
- How are concepts like teamwork, leadership and community taught as part of the classes?
The next Urban Core Basic class is January 25 - 27th, 2013.
Check out the Winter 2013 schedule for the next 2-3 months!
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December 26th, 2012 at 10:33 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In this podcast, Sam Coffman discusses The Human Path growth, classes and real-world action during 2012, as well as the direction for 2013 and beyond.
Sam answers questions such as:
- What kinds of learning experiences were developed throughout 2012 and what can we look forward to in 2013?
- How has the breadth of the curriculum has been defined over the past few years at The Human Path? What exactly does that breadth of information include?
- How have The Human Path instructors evolved with the school?
- Why is it necessary to implement testing and selection procedures for higher level classes and real-world teams? What might that testing procedure look like, and at what point in the different levels will we see it?
- As we focus in the 4 areas of our curriculum delivery - Lecture, Hands-on, Scenario and Real-world missions – how does this all merge to create an ideal learning and even life-changing environment?
- How did Nicaragua figure into learning experience during 2012, and what's next?
- What can we expect to see in 2013 in regards to real-world missions and new classes?
Our new calendar for 2013 is up online here.
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June 25th, 2012 at 2:03 pm (survival skills, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, wild food sources, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, field medicine, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, self sustainability, prepping, societal collapse, gardening)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses a recent news story in which a woman's medicinal and food garden were destroyed by an HOA and the city.
He covers topics such as:
- How can we prepare our own medicinal gardens to avoid falling prey to this kind of ignorance?
- What are some of the different types of urban camouflage gardening (Guerilla Gardening)?
- What are the different height levels and how can we create a medicinal garden in the front yard that uses this to help fit the garden in with HOA and municipal idiot-regulations?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that grow as ground cover and can replace a yard?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that are high ground cover, low-herbaceous level?
- What are some good medicinal herbaceous plants and how can we fit that into our yard in a way that doesn't stand out?
- What is the concept behind forest gardening and how can that help us be more prepared?
- What is the advantage of using local plants?
To learn more about using medicinal plants that you can grow, as well as harvest locally in the wild, sign up for the next Herbology Level 1 class here
Related Items:
More information about the incident discussed in this podcast about the mowed-down garden, news report
Companion Article, 'On Your Side of the Fence'
Upcoming class in Austin, TX: 'Cooking With Wild Edibles', July 26th
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March 21st, 2012 at 1:07 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, disaster preparedness, readiness, survival scenario, weapons, reviews, societal collapse)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the zombie apocalypse series - The Walking Dead - and how we can learn from critically thinking during and after watching shows pertaining to social collapse.
Sam discusses:
- Why it helps to think critically, even while watching fictional TV or Movies
- What we can learn from The Walking Dead in regards to basic self defense concepts
- What some of the different styles of leadership can do to group dynamics
- How to think about leadership with a group of random people
- If you have to fight to survive, then you have to discard false notions of anything other than fighting to win
- How important it is to think outside the box in a fight or a war
The Zombie Apocalypse is coming up in about 7 months. You must have taken the Urban or Primitive Core Basic in order to participate in the Zombie Apocalypse. Sign up now for the UCB or PCB.
May 2012 Urban Core Basic, Part 1 May 4 - 6th, and Part 2, June 1 - 3rd.
September Urban Core Basic, 5-Day Intensive: September 17 - 21st.
September 2012 Primitive Core Basic, Part 1 September 7 - 9th and Part 2, October 5 - 7th.
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