Hero Academy 2024
Do you want to have the heroic competence to serve your tribe when help is needed?
Are you also overwhelmed by the idea of sacrificing your time and energy to transform yourself, yet still feel unfulfilled knowing that you are not living up to your potential?
The problem is that the world needs heroes, and heroes must make sacrifices. But who wants to make sacrifices for something that might not work?
I know how much time it takes to find the resources, learn the skills, and put it all together in a useful and meaningful way.
I know because I've done it.
I have dedicated my life to gathering and developing the primal tools, skills, and practices that humans have relied upon since the dawn of time. Not only that, I have integrated them into a comprehensive journey that makes these skills accessible, activates your latent abilities, saves years of precious time, and transforms your life and the communities you serve.
My passion is to share this ecology of skills and practices with you so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, and can get out there and do what matters.
Hero Academy is the ultimate immersion experience that brings together everything offered at Tribal Edge.
Do you feel the call to meaningful adventure? Do you want to be of greater service to your tribe and your world?
If you are a natural warrior, scout, protector, or guardian, you know there is more to life than just improving and empowering yourself. You see the needs around you every day and want to make the world a safer and better place wherever you go.
If this is you, welcome to Hero Academy.
If you are looking for more than the seminar experience, and you want to immerse yourself in a meaningful lifestyle of training like a warrior-monk at the edge of the wilderness, look no further.
Description
Hero Academy is a seven-week, traditional-style, training apprenticeship for anyone interested in the path of the everyday hero. Each week of this modular training focuses on a different theme including tracking, survival, healing, combat, stealth, and leadership, offering a holistic experience of the hero’s journey, complete with an optional vision quest in the final week.
This training provides an embodied immersion in the science, art, and philosophy of the everyday hero distilled from traditional, scientific, ancestral, and experiential practices and perspectives. It is designed to awaken and activate the innate heroic nature that is already within you and expand what you already know.
This is primal training, meaning it is driven by the universal needs and capacities of ordinary human beings found around the world who must respond to the selective forces of nature in every possible environment. The skills are taught within the context of our natural human senses and abilities, aided by simple everyday primal technology, while honoring the capacity of each individual’s fixed, and changeable attributes, at any moment- in any situation.
Since the focus of training is at the primal or essential level, the knowledge and skills developed through hero training are transferable to all areas of life and useful at nearly every scope and scale of application. Learn more about hero training below, or with a consultation.
Overview
Phase 1 - The Call
January - April : preparation
Weekly group on-ramp meetings via Zoom
Instruction, practices, coaching, and Q&A
Apprentice, guide, and mentor training
Phase 2 - The Adventure
Weeks 1-3 : Life-Preserving Training
Week 1
Role: Tracker
Focus: Nature Connection, Awareness, Observation, & 7 Arts of Tracking
Week 2
Role: Survivor
Focus: Survival Skills- Safety, Shelter, Water, Fire, Food, & Tools.
Week 3
Role: Healer
Focus: Healing, Health, Wellness, First Aid, Caretaking, & Preparedness
Weeks 4-6 : Life-Protecting Training
Week 4
Role: Protector
Focus: Fitness, Martial Arts, Tactics, Protecting Others, & Team Tactics
Week 5
Role: Shadow
Focus: Stealth, Stalking, Camouflage, Invisibility, Escape & Evasion
Week 6
Role: Leader
Focus: Service, Teaching, Guiding, Mentoring, Team & Community Building
Week 7 : The Quest
Week 7
Role: Visionary
Focus: Search, Quest, Mystery, Mission, Vision, and reintegration.
Phase 3 - The Return
Bonus Week 8 (optional) : Reintegration
Bringing your gift to the world
Follow-up monthly group meetings
Apprentice, guide, and mentor training
Book a free consultation to begin your adventure.
“Hero training reaches into all aspects of life in a way that I have yet to experience anywhere else.
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— GM
Details
Who: Humans ages 18+. This training is open to everyone and is especially useful for those who are responsible for others: parents, teachers, leaders, medical professionals, military, and law enforcement to name a few. Space is limited to 8 people.
What: Design your own experience with a flexible, modular approach providing up to 7 weeks of hero training. Including up to 8 hours of instruction per day, and 10+ hours of training options 5 days per week (with bonus adventures on weekends.) The academy starts with “The Call”, a four-month online preparation phase packed with instruction, practices, and guidance. The academy concludes with “The Return” an optional bonus 8th week for reintegration and ongoing follow-up meetings online with your new tribe.
When: Spring Immersion- May 4-June 23, 2024. (Preparation calls begin January 3rd with registration, and a bonus 8th week concludes on June 30th.)
Where: Tribal Edge Primal Arts Training Center, Blyn Washington, USA.
Instructors: Ben Sanford- lead guide, Victoria Jazwic-Sanford- soul guide, Tribal edge support staff, Special instructors (TBA)
How to register: Contact Ben Sanford for a consultation to find out more and to begin the application process.
Other details: Training occurs outdoors and camping is provided. Lodging is possible in nearby hotels if you have your own transportation. Food and camping gear are NOT provided (with a few exceptions for special meals). Participants have opportunities each week to resupply. You will receive a gear list upon registration.
Cost: $8,750. Deposit: $1,750.
(Inquire for partial academy rates)
Includes
Daily training regiment
Camping and outdoor living
Ala’cart-style weekly themes
Individual and group activities
Weekly field day adventures
An ecology of practices to take with you
Lifelong friendships and community
A life-changing Vision Quest
Much more!
Create your own experience
Our flexible training schedule and options allow you to participate as much or as little as you want.
Session 1: Protector Training- movement, martial arts, conditioning
Session 2: Theme Training- specialized theme of the week
Evening Session: group dialog, exercises, Q&A, and debrief.
About
No capes.
Just ordinary people living extraordinary lives.
Hero from the Greek word heros meaning “protector”, a hero is simply one who makes everyone a little bit safer because they are present. Everyone has the capacity of being a hero, not a superhero- but a human hero. Heroism is a choice and a perspective backed up by effective moral action.
A hero in waiting is a hero in training.
Hero training is designed to activate useful, ethical humans by providing training in the physical and moral skill-sets which assist the everyday hero to fulfill their role and duties in any situation.
Through a combination of training, exercises, lecture, group discussions, sharing and stories, we explore and activate your innate heroic nature and make it accessible to you in your everyday life. As a result, you will learn how to take care of yourself and others with a moral compass to guide you.
By diving into the skills, values and philosophy of the hero, and sharing experiences within a group setting, you will discover how life itself becomes your guide, leaving you transformed and inspired.
Learn how to take effective action in challenging situations.
Hero training covers a number of holistic, life supporting skill-sets, and works at many levels. We use a principle based training methodology in partner and team focused training with scenarios to study awareness, stress, safety, psychology, ethics and the tactics and tools of fitness, survival, healing, protection, stealth and leadership that produce the skills and mindset of useful, resilient, and ethical humans.
Hero training provides challenging, reality based experiences within a respectful training environment. Students and instructors practice physical and moral training together while learning and growing as a team along the heroic path.
Hero training is for humans of all walks of life.
You need no prior experience to access the training offered, and it will only enhance any training you already have.