Connection is a Survival Skill

$78 or 2 monthly payments of $39

Connection is a Survival Skill

A self-paced course to empower you to feel more connected to nature, the wild world around you, and the wild within yourself.

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Connection is a Survival Skill is a self-paced online course on connecting to the natural world around you, and your own wilder self.

The video lessons are guide you in:

Deepening your connection to the living world around you.
Broadening your awareness and mindset.
Implementing simple but powerful habits to feel more grounded in your body, no matter where you are.
Recognizing your place in the ecosystem and participating in it.

Feel more connected, confident and resilient as you go through your life, whether in the wilderness, the backyard or at your laptop.

This course is for you if

🏕️ You’ve felt fear or hesitation when going out in the wild.

🔑 You’ve felt trapped in your life or in your body (or in your apartment!).

💪 You want to learn to be more self-sufficient and resilient.

🏞️ You feel ready to have more understanding of and connection to the natural world around you.

💭 You want support in developing habits of a more positive mindset.

🌆 You live in an urban environment, or in a place with abundant access to nature.

What You'll Learn

1. Introduction to Connection
What does it mean to feel connected? We’ll talk about aspects of it and why connection may be more important to survival and day to day well being than any physical skill.

2. Intentions and Tools
The best person to hold you accountable is you. This module provides a tool for you to set your intentions, and ways to follow up on them and track your progress.

3. Curiosity
The concept of “beginner’s mind” is an old and potent one. When we think we know everything about something, we turn a part of ourselves off. Curiosity, and practices for cultivating it and looking deeper are part of engaging more deeply with the world around us.

4. Awareness
Bringing more of our senses to all we do, and broadening the ways we take in information changes the way we see the world and our place in it. You’ll learn some practices to help cultivate broader awareness in your daily life.

5. Belonging
One of the most damaging myths in western culture is the idea that we are separate from nature, that we are not animals who belong here too. Understanding human history and learning some skills to feel more at home in nature can provide a sense of belonging, as can sharing those skills within the context of human communities.

6. Gratitude
One of the unfortunate aspects of American culture is the propensity many have to take for granted the good things we have and focus instead on the negative. Simple, regular gratitude practices can change your whole outlook, which in turn can change your life.

7. Reciprocity
Gratitude is a wonderful thing. Giving back in a meaningful way is taking gratitude one step further.

About Woniya

Woniya Thibeault has been teaching ancestral skills for over 20 years. She has spent a lot of her adult life living off grid, growing and gathering as much of her diet as she can, tanning the hides for the clothes she wears, harvesting the willow for the baskets she gathers food into and more. She has both decades of experience with wilderness living, and a formal education with a Masters Degree in Environmental Science, and combines these to teach in a way that brings a knowledge of and love of the living world around her. She has put these skills to the test as a participant and runner up on Season 6 of Alone on the History Channel. She is passionate about offering her knowledge of the skills she used there to the many people who were inspired by watching her journey. She looks forward to bringing the Buckskin Revolution to a world of people hungry to revolutionize the way they live their lives.

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Pricing

This course includes 7 modules of exclusive content you won't see anywhere else. We believe in the value provided and we hope you do too. And we hope this feels like a wonderful investment in a future enriched by all you’ll learn!

Registration: $78 or
2 monthly payments of $39 ✨

FAQs

I live in a city without much access to nature, how will I be able to take advantage of what I learn?

Even if you live in an urban environment, there are a lot of ways to connect to nature, even if it’s your houseplants or the trees outside your window! We do recommend you take in as much nature as you can at local parks or tree-lined streets. If you can’t get outside (we get it, it’s a weird time!), we include nature footage as part of the course, so you get to experience the wild places even if you can't get to them.

I have a busy schedule, will I be able to work this course around it?

The videos are pre-recorded so you can watch them whenever it works for you! Because each of the practices build on each other, we recommend you complete the course within 30 days, but you are welcome to do so faster or slower depending on your schedule. You’ll have access to the videos forever.

Where does this information come from?

Much of what Woniya teaches is based on 25 years of studying traditional skills and making them a way of life. She also has a formal education in biology including a Masters degree in Environmental Science, with a focus in Botany and Entomology. After decades of studying and teaching, she became a student herself in a nature connection program and found that it transformed the way she approached the world and these skills.

This course draws upon all of these backgrounds, and also the lived experience of how applying these principles in a “survival situation” can transform an otherwise harrowing event into a life changing experience of depth and beauty.

Is this the same as the gathering?

Much of this content is from the early weeks of the Fall Buckskin Revolution Gathering, so there is a lot of overlap, with some small changes and additions.

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