Workshops & Excursions
Workshops & Excursions
We can tailor any of our wilderness survival, wilderness medicine, or land navigation programs to meet your specific training requirements, more effectively assess and manage risk, prepare to better respond to medical emergencies, and become stronger leaders.
Oftentimes, individuals or groups prefer a more personalized approach to meeting their needs. This not only helps them to better achieve their goals, or try something new and innovative, but allows them to do so within existing constraints, like time, budget, and location.
At True North, our ultimate goal is to provide you and your group with the skills and knowledge to explore, protect, and lead others with confidence, while enjoying a little bit of fun in the process! We believe the best place to do this is in the Great Outdoors.
- Learn survival, emergency management, and leadership skills from master instructors.
- Challenge yourself physically and mentally in the wilderness.
- Build stronger teams and interpersonal relationships through succeeding together.
- Travel through some of the most rugged and beautiful scenery in the world.
I have completed several of Erik’s field courses, and thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on learning exercises and partnering with group members to complete a task. Best of all, Erik loves teaching, and works with a big smile!
We’re often asked these questions about this course...
True North has a lot of experience working with a wide variety of organizations, from youth groups, to private business, search-and-rescue teams, hospitals, and the military. We’ve run workshops for UPMC Children’s Hospital and trained Army ROTC cadets. Organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and North Country Trail Association have asked us to work with their teams because they appreciate that leading others in the outdoors, whether children or adults, involves a level of responsibility that extends far beyond just providing a fun and exciting trip.
True North can help you or your staff to more effectively assess and manage risk, as well as prepare for and better respond to medical emergencies. This is one important reason why the Boy Scouts and the American Camp Association now require Wilderness First Aid certification in many cases. This way, you or your staff will be ready to respond to an outdoor emergency, or, better yet, avoid one altogether. Our training will also help your organization’s outdoor leaders to become better teachers.
Yes, we consistently provide specific training for both individual candidates and units in both the military and numerous law enforcement agencies. We’ve worked with most branches and ranks. Many are in an SOF or leadership pipeline, like Special Forces (18X), Ranger, OCS, BOLC, and WOCS, while others are preparing for CAG selection. We also provide instructor development to combat training groups and special mission units.
Our students truly come from all backgrounds and represent a wide variety of interests. In a class of ten people, it is common that the youngest is 16 and the oldest 70, with a broad mix of ages in between. Also, our courses are fairly consistently comprised of 50% female students. Certainly, many hikers and backpackers register, but we also get many rock climbers, hunters, scout leaders, outdoor educators, adventure racers, and forest rangers.
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Because Mother Nature doesn't care about your skill level. And She doesn't just give up because you've had enough. Get the skills you need to survive and conquer any situation!
