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The Buddhist Prepper Program
Season 1: Food Security for Communities:
$800.00 (Canadian) per person
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A "Buddhist Prepper" combines Buddhist principles with a focus on preparedness inspired by the, Four Requisites which are food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. The Four Requisites provides a framework for survival while aligning spiritual ethics whereby anticipating future hardships are met with a calm and mindful attitude rather than one of fear.
This program teaches a mindset that can be delivered with community and organizational planning which encourages self-sufficiency that includes everyone and not just a few and it ensures a level of preparedness so that individuals and a community can survive and thrive in the event that there are emergencies.
Instead of panicking about potential disasters, a Buddhist Prepper might focus on developing inner resources like compassion, resilience, and a clear mind along with the practical actions that are required for navigating transitions.
A regular Prepper and a Buddhist Prepper both take steps to prepare for emergencies, but they differ fundamentally in their mindset and motivation. A regular Prepper, or survivalist, often focuses on external factors, such as societal collapse, natural disasters, or other catastrophes. Their preparations, which can range from stockpiling food and weapons to building bunkers, are typically driven by a desire for self-reliance and fear of relying on a government or society that might fail – they are largely driven by their own individual need to protect themselves.
In contrast, a Buddhist Prepper integrates their preparation with Buddhist teachings, emphasizing mental resilience and a sense of shared community. Rather than viewing a crisis as something to be endured alone, the Buddhist Prepper uses mindfulness and spiritual training to face instability with a calm mind and a focus on compassion for others. While they may still acquire practical supplies, their core belief is that material goods alone are not enough, and that true preparation comes from cultivating inner goodness and standing in kindness, even when things fall apart.
The Wildcraft Forest School has prepared a set of teachings based on a Buddhist approach towards preparing for societal transitions. The teaching program is pan-spiritual and pan-cultural and is based on bioregional methods for designing and implementing individual and community actions linked to societal transitions.
Preparing for change is important and involves developing a support network that can bring a balance of energy able to weather changes no matter if they come with calm or storms. In this Wildcraft Forest School program we offer an entirely different approach to prepping, one that does not encourage doomsday, violent or fearful behaviour, but creates motivation built on stewardship, caring and responsibility.
The Buddhist Prepper series takes an agape approach towards getting ready for big changes and is designed to suit any spiritual, political or cultural perspective. This program helps to guide individuals into a mindful, fearless and practical approach as they navigate the social and environmental challenges they might face whether it’s linked to political, economic or environmental upheavals.
What this course provides you with are practical tools to address issues of food, clothing, shelter, and medicine while creating a caring and intuitive approach towards building support networks and a protective environment so that the individuals, families and communities can thrive regardless of what risks surface in the world.
Buddhist Prepper Season 1:
Food Security for Communities
This program delivers training within real-life experiences as the participants form a team that will be guided to create a Food Security Assessment and Plan for a community in real time.
Participants will have a chance to not only learn skills but to hone experiences that will add to their experience as they learn methods of community economic development within a bioregional structure.
At the end of this program they will have created a valuable tool for a community as it tries to prepare for societal transitions.
This program is limited to eight people and includes online training with live online and in-person meetings. Assignments can be carried out remotely. The intake for this program ends on November 17, 2025 and it will begin shortly after and will run until April 15, 2026. Much of the program is self-guided. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a Certificate of Completion along with a letter describing their successful engagement with the program.
The program activities and events are also recorded and documented as a “Bioregional Food Security Project”. This program is open to international participation.
Further details about “Buddhist Prepper Season 1: Food Security for Communities” can be gathered by attending a free seminar about the project. Send us an email if you would like to participate.
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The Buddhist Prepper
Coaching Program
The Wildcraft Forest School offers a Buddhist Prepper Coaching Program. To become a certified coach join our Bioregional Specialist Training Program and learn how to deliver Buddist Prepper seminars to individuals, groups neighbourhoods and even businesses and non-profit agencies.
As a Bioregional Specialist you will take a leading role in helping to develop new “value chains” that will support local cultures while supporting the regeneration of natural systems in local watersheds. Also included in this lesson series are five presentation circles:
- Present and Future Trends: Bioregionalism and the Non-State World
- Regenerative Systems
- The Future of Water, Food and Medicine
- An Off-the-Grid Future
- The Future of Action and Leadership
This course series ends with a toolkit that describes the work and mission of a Bioregional Specialist, which includes an outline for a business or community practice. You can register for this training and have it delivered to you through distance learning or you can attend one of our 5-day camps.
This program delivers training within real-life experiences as the participants form a team that will be guided to create a Food Security Assessment and Plan for a community in real time.
Participants will have a chance to not only learn skills but to hone experiences that will add to their experience as they learn methods of community economic development within a bioregional structure.
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