Come to Your Senses! Cultivating Awareness with Chris Gilmour — WildFed Podcast #058

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In this episode:

Chris Gilmour | Forager, tracker & wilderness survival guide

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Chris

  • Wilderness and urban survival

  • Designing smarter by modeling after nature

  • Using bird language to build awareness

  • The dulling of our senses and wall of grief

  • How tracking is useful beyond finding wildlife

  • How tracking has shaped our development

  • Reading micro-nuances in tracks

  • Counter tracking — the stories you leave behind

  • Useful exercises to get started in building awareness

  • About Chris's courses

  • How crises like COVID-19 can highlight weaknesses in preparedness systems

  • Where to find Chris’s work


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Meet Chris Gilmour

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Chris Gilmour is a modern-day homesteader & hunter-gatherer, forager, certified wildlife tracker and wilderness survival guide.

He's the founder of Changing World where he consults and trains organizations in emergency preparedness/response, nature awareness and self-reliance. His wild food business — Wild Muskoka Botanicals — produces artisan wild foods and cocktail mixers. He also teaches two eCourses — Nature’s Forgotten Language and Survive the Storms. Find him at his blog, Changing World.

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