The following handouts go along with their respective class. They will help you better learn the material presented and become better prepared under any circumstances.
FOUNDATION
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Mental Preparation for Disasters (sub-titled, What’ll it be, Gloom, Doom, Panic, Denial, or PEACE), Foundation class #1008— Getting your emotional mindset in place before a disaster is critical to making it through tough situations. There are many great books to help you understand the process of developing mental and emotional resilience. Here are the eight that I use to guide people through the process in several of the classes that I teach.
Your 72-Hour Kit Could Kill You (audio overview)— Recorded in front of a live audience at a Civil Defense training meeting in April of 1997 (40 Min). This is additional background material to help people understand the issues and limits of nearly all commercial 72-hour kits, and is provided as support material for two full classes taught by Jim Phillips: Your 72-Hour Kit Could Kill You, Foundation class #1107, & An Evacuation Kit to Live By, Foundation class #1220, available on DVD at JimsWay.com.
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It’s what you don’t know that will kill you (or get you sick, lost, scared, hurt, or kill someone else). Since you don’t know what you don’t know, how do you figure out what you don’t know—should you even bother to worry about it. You need a way of looking at things and asking searching questions to uncover the answers to the questions you don’t know to ask. You'll also need an organized structure for what you should Learn, Do and Have to face the future with hope and confidence. {1hr 17min video}
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Foundation Library, Part 1- Intro and Get Started (28min) A library of printed books and other media is a critical part of your Provident Living program in preparing to meet the future with hope and confidence. In this series on the Foundation Library we'll explore some of the most important publications to have in a variety of media and formats.
Part-1 (of the nine) lays the framework for this process, then each one of the eight that follows builds on the ones before it. |
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Foundation Library, Part 2 (18min) |
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Foundation Library, Part 3 (13min) |
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Foundation Library, Part 4 (28min) |
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Foundation Library, Part 5 (58min) |
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Foundation Library, Part 8 (32min) Foundation Library, Part 9 (55min) |
CLOTHING
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PALS Extreme Cold Weather Footwear Overview and Performance Review (58min)
If you want to learn how to make them, you will find that as one of the sections in the Winter Without Worries online class. It is located in the Members Only Library. PALS Winter Footwear Development & Production (76min) for those that want the warm feet but do not want to have to make them. This program is for yoiu |
Winter Without Worries, Part-0 is the introduction and overview to the class series Winter Without Worries that will be available online for the first time at JimsWay.com. It is Very Important to Watch This Introduction to Understand the Structure, Order and Process for This Class Series to be Successfully Taught Online. The Winter Without Worries Class Series, with Over 20-Hours of Instruction and a 180+ page Class Manual, Is on JimsWay.com in the Members Only Library.
In 1984 I taught the original version of the class titled Without Fire of Shelter (WOFOS), which 20 years later was changed to Winter Without Worries™. WOFOS went through five editions, WWW is now in its seventh. I taught WOFOS for the first time in Provo, Utah one night a week over six weeks starting March of 1984, with the 17 students paying $35 each to cover classroom rent and printing of the manual. Later we had to charge up to $150 each to cover auditorium and printing costs.
From this humble beginning came a 10,000 sq-ft manufacturing plant in Orem, Utah that delivered several million dollars of unique extreme cold weather clothing and footwear making its way to the North and South Poles, mountain peaks in Alaska, the Andes, and Antarctica, 50-states in the U.S., the Pakistani Military, U.S. Navy Seal Teams, U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, U.S. Marines, and even the Soviet Union’s Submarine Service, just to name a few.
From 1984 thru 2018 all classes were presented live, in person. The full 28-hour WWW class has been given to over 1,000 students, with the dozens of classes derived from the original winter course being taught live to well over 10,000 participants. The published and online versions of these other classes have gone to even more.
The Winter Without Worries™ classes in the past required me to bring a small moving van full of boxes and bags with samples and examples to illustrate the items being presented.
For years I’ve dreamt of properly recording and publishing this class in detail to the world. For this attempt, it will be the poor man's approach. The intent is to one day soon have the resources to make it better, and significantly shorter through illustrated details and animation.
This first WWW, Part-0 installment will share the structure, process, difficulties, and what you can do to get the best winter safety and comfort in the most extreme conditions possible. To make this happen I’ll have to take approaches and use methods I’ve never attempted before. Your participation and understanding are very important to make this work for both of us.
In 1984 I taught the original version of the class titled Without Fire of Shelter (WOFOS), which 20 years later was changed to Winter Without Worries™. WOFOS went through five editions, WWW is now in its seventh. I taught WOFOS for the first time in Provo, Utah one night a week over six weeks starting March of 1984, with the 17 students paying $35 each to cover classroom rent and printing of the manual. Later we had to charge up to $150 each to cover auditorium and printing costs.
From this humble beginning came a 10,000 sq-ft manufacturing plant in Orem, Utah that delivered several million dollars of unique extreme cold weather clothing and footwear making its way to the North and South Poles, mountain peaks in Alaska, the Andes, and Antarctica, 50-states in the U.S., the Pakistani Military, U.S. Navy Seal Teams, U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, U.S. Marines, and even the Soviet Union’s Submarine Service, just to name a few.
From 1984 thru 2018 all classes were presented live, in person. The full 28-hour WWW class has been given to over 1,000 students, with the dozens of classes derived from the original winter course being taught live to well over 10,000 participants. The published and online versions of these other classes have gone to even more.
The Winter Without Worries™ classes in the past required me to bring a small moving van full of boxes and bags with samples and examples to illustrate the items being presented.
For years I’ve dreamt of properly recording and publishing this class in detail to the world. For this attempt, it will be the poor man's approach. The intent is to one day soon have the resources to make it better, and significantly shorter through illustrated details and animation.
This first WWW, Part-0 installment will share the structure, process, difficulties, and what you can do to get the best winter safety and comfort in the most extreme conditions possible. To make this happen I’ll have to take approaches and use methods I’ve never attempted before. Your participation and understanding are very important to make this work for both of us.
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Winter Without Worries, Part-0 is the introduction and overview to the Winter Without Worries class series.
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Living In Winter Without Heat with Jim Phillips and Ken Kutac was recorded Friday, January 1, 1999 in an igloo overlooking Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado.
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This article (which you can link to at the right) was written for Jack Lawson (author of "Civil Defense Manual"). Jack asked me to write it on the premise of what totally unprepared people should do for a winter emergency at home without any heat or power (as happened in Texas, February 2021). Most of the online advice is very misleading, impractical, and/or hazardous on what you need to do to keep your house warm in such a situation.
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WATER
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Strategies for Harvesting & Using Roof Top Water, WATER Class #3002
I was asked by one of my followers if I had any advice on rain barrels. She said there was so much information on them that it was confusing, and did I have a recommenced product or design? Having been asked similar questions about harvesting roof-top water, I decided to use it as a topic for my regular Wednesday night Zoom class, then post it on my webpage and YouTube for everyone. DROUGHT- Impacts/ Issues/ Strategies WATER Class #3005 Far-Reaching Effects on Sanitation, Culinary Water and Food Production. Take action now before outside forces and draconian regulations make life miserable. Help those around you to do the same, or we'll all suffer. Currently, our area is in the midst of an "exceptional" drought. At the moment our friends and neighbors in the agricultural business are experiencing significant difficulties with their livelihood. For the typical residence, it is not yet seriously affecting or threatening lifestyle. However, should this continue for an extended number of years it will spell big trouble for everyone. What should you be doing now to reduce the impact? More importantly, how should you be preparing for the possibility of this situation continuing and worsening over the next few years. At some point, the effects will be unmistakable and will affect your water availability for sanitation, culinary uses, and food production/ availability/ cost The time to head off the worst of such impact is now. The responsibility lies with all of us, not some government bureaucrat who won't get the memo until it's to late to respond ahead of the issues, and then won't do the right things anyway. |
SANITATION
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Get Out and Get Growing, Part 1 of 2- Just how important is it, really? Is it truly worth the pain, effort, and expense? What should you produce, how much to produce? What about weather/climate/drought/floods/frost/etc.? How do I find practical solutions when I’m so flipping busy?
You might discover (after it’s too late) that you really have no choice, so now is the time to practice and get ahead of the learning curve. The time may come when you will only be able to eat what you and your community (tribe) can produce. |
SHELTER
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WELLNESS
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Hypothermia via The Dehydration Black Hole, The Huge Missing Link for Body Warmth During Emergencies (and the Good Times Too). (1hr 18min)
Most people teaching preparedness do not recognize the vital part water consumption plays in keeping warm. They do not understand the laws of nature (physics, chemistry & physiology) involved and therefore are unable to explain the critical need for drinking copious amounts of water. Typically in teaching about cold weather emergencies when there are no utilities at home or in a car, the focus goes: 1) Shelter, 2) Heat, 3) Food, 4) Clothing, 5) And, by the way, you need to have water and drink fluids. In reality, the exact reverse order is correct—which is The Law of Wilderness Wisdom. The need for you to stay well hydrated in cold weather is critical for your strength, warmth, and survival. Dehydration does not just have a minor effect on the body nor do you have to go days without water to feel the impact. It’s very important to understand—in depth—why this is true and what to do about it. |
TOOLS
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Module-8, TOOLS, Practical Solar-Electric Options, Pt-1, The Reality, Risks, Options & Your Commitment (TOOLS Class #8280.1)
Electricity is the Magic Genie of Our Modern Life. It’s possible to live without it, but very impractical. Just how vital is electricity to our governmental, industrial, commercial, communal, and individual lives? Almost no one thinks about being without power for an extended period. In our lifetime it’s always been there within easy reach in some form. When it’s been lost, we just expect (demand?) that someone will fix it ASAP, STAT, right NOW! In today’s world, electric utility power—the power grid—is the most vulnerable part of our modern, very comfortable, safe, powerful, convenient lifestyle. Most people are oblivious to how easily the mass-electrification of our whole society could be lost for decades; how totally dependent our society and our safety are on power being available all the time. Don’t fall victim to that thinking, a very seductive and dangerous dependence that ubiquitous utility power is somehow a fundamental right to which you are entitled. There are practical options you can have; in this class, we’ll explore the solar option the most. You’ll understand the true performance reality of becoming your own power company using solar electric generation, along with cost and value expectations. The intent is to keep you from spending big bucks and then fail to get the results the literature and/or salesman wants you to believe. You’ll understand what you can expect for the price you pay along with being able to realistically decide what you need vs what you want. | ||
SUPPLIES
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The Truth About Emergency Alcohol Can Heaters
These things are fun to look at and people think they are a real solution, however, most people do not understand the reality of what they will do, and will not do. DOWNLOAD and Read My Full Reply to a Query I'd Received Years Ago
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