Bushcraft Survival Skills Course (1-Day Course): $258 (Adult) / $218 (Child)
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All of our courses here at SCT are at least 50% bushcraft and 50% survival…but our NEW Bushcraft Survival Skills Course is focused on 80% bushcraft skills!
Here’s a little on the difference between bushcraft vs survival – while most people might consider the words bushcraft and survival to be interchangeable, they are actually quite different terms.
The two different methods do often overlap when talking about wilderness courses or when out in the field…however, there is a noticeable distinction.
Survival tends to focus on the key things you need to do in order to stay alive and get back to safety.
Bushcraft tends to concentrate on the skills of living in the wilderness using natural materials and traditional methods to help you.
Survival
Training in survival techniques is based more around your equipment and was initially conceived to teach members of the military a variety of essential skills quickly, to enable them to survive in a remote environment – long enough to be rescued or to self-rescue from that emergency situation.
It typically relates to being able to survive on your own for up to 72 hours and returning to safety in the fastest way possible.
Real-world survival training concentrates on the priorities of survival and the critical steps to follow in a particular order – depending on the terrain, environment, and situation you’re in, based upon immediate needs (e.g. protection/shelter, warmth/fire, rescue signals, water, food, navigation etc).
Survival skills are really important skills to gain for anyone who enjoys spending time in the wilderness or carries out any activity or work that takes them into remote areas of Australia and beyond.
When you are thrown into a survival situation it means there is the strong possibility that your life is in potential danger.
The priorities that you need to follow in order to survive would be carried out as quickly and effortlessly as possible, such as putting up a basic shelter that will protect you from the elements, or treating / boiling water from a natural water source because that’s the only option available.
The critical actions you take when you’re in a wilderness survival situation will be done to save your life, and you won’t want to waste time or effort constructing anything unnecessary, because you’ll ideally be on the move (assuming you’re uninjured).
You can see an overview of all of our bushcraft and survival courses here.
Bushcraft
On the other hand, bushcraft is more of a natural skill set that involves a deep understanding of the wisdom and bush skills that traditional cultures across the world have used to survive and even thrive in the wilderness for tens of thousands of years.
Bushcraft is the umbrella subject that encompasses all survival training and has a direct link with the land and a stronger connection to nature.
Bushcraft often involves spending long periods of time in the wilderness doing things to make you more comfortable. It is more focused on ways to create things you’ll need from nature in a safe environment where your life isn’t in danger, unlike in a survival situation.
It includes a diverse range of disciplines such as building natural shelters, as well as a thorough understanding of some of these skills – for example: fire preparation & lighting, botany & plant identification, natural navigation, fishing, animal tracking, trapping & snaring, water procurement techniques etc.
THE LIFE & BUSH SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN FROM A COURSE THROUGH SURVIVAL COURSES TASMANIA WILL HELP TO INSTILL SELF-CONFIDENCE, SELF-RELIANCE IN THE BUSH, AND WILL HELP YOU TO SURVIVE IN THE FIELD
Course Syllabus – Bushcraft Survival Skills Course: $258 (Adult) / $218 (Child)
Duration: 1 day – 8:30am to 4:30pm
The cost includes: 1 day of bushcraft instruction from a fully qualified instructor, hot beverages, land use fees, insurance and your own 1m x 1m square cotton bandana / shemagh to take home. This Bushcraft Survival Skills Course will be held on a small, wild island or in pristine bushland where we can explore and practise more closely being in the field. We’ll be using the wilderness fully to our advantage on this course.
Minimum age: 8 years (customers under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult)
It is a pre-requisite for customers / students to attend the Essential Basic Survival Course 1 prior to attending this course
Skills covered:
- Gathering edibles – using natural plants around you to help stave off hunger, boost essential energy, and be able to thrive in the wilderness.
- Making a natural toothbrush – using plant material that’s native to Australia and found everywhere (hygiene is important for health even in the bush).
- Building a longer-term natural A-frame shelter – one you can stand up in and incorporate a small fire inside for maximum warmth.
- Using native tree bark as natural tinder to light a fire.
- Making proper ‘hooked’ tent pegs out of sticks.
- Making a fish trap (funnel / basket style trap) – suitable for catching fish and other freshwater animals in creeks, streams, and dams / lakes etc.
- Making a solid bed frame to get you off the ground completely.
Bushcraft relies much more significantly on a maximum use of traditional bush knowledge and skills with only a minimal reliance on equipment.
Survival and bushcraft do overlap in their need for self-reliance, but separate further from each other in their need for connection and the relationship to nature. Ideologically, they have two different foundations.
In the real world, however, we often transition from one to the other – as with bushcraft survival skills they concentrate much more heavily on bushcraft techniques – and at Survival Courses Tasmania we’ll cover much more specific bushcraft techniques on this course.
At SCT, we strive to deliver an all-round education in bushcraft and survival rather than instruction only. This enables our students to gain real-world skills and the right knowledge acquisition, combined with core personal development.
The invaluable life skills you will take with you from an SCT course will help you to grow in self-confidence, resilience and will help you become more self-reliant in the field. Read more in our series of blogs. There’s a course to suit everyone, regardless of your experience in the bush.
Definition of bushcraft.