Queer Wilderness First Aid + CPR With Wild Med
October 4-5, 2025, 9am-5pm each day
Join us this October for an engaging WFA + CPR Course with Institute for Wild Med, hosted at our Basecamp at Beaver Falls in Halifax, Vermont.
This highly immersive experience combines experiential learning games, realistic scenarios, lectures rich with meaningful stories, and opportunity for Q&A. The Wild Med WFA curriculum is inclusive and trauma-informed, focusing on how to offer effective, compassionate treatment for any body and every body.
This certification training is intended for the LGBTQ+ community, is open to allies, and will be led by Wild Med’s queer + trans instructors.
The 2-hour CPR portion of this course will take place online prior to the course. Specific course location and details will be sent in your registration and reminder emails. Note: It may be possible to stay overnight and/or use the kitchen at Basecamp for an additional fee. Please contact us for cost and other details.
GENERAL INFO
Location: Basecamp at Beaver Falls, Halifax, VT
(Wabanaki and Elnu Abenaki Lands)
Age: 18+. If you are under 18, please contact Wild Med for more details and to make sure the course is the right fit for you.
Start Date: October 4, 2025
End Date: October 5, 2025 Length: 16 hours in-person WFA + 2 hours online CPR
Cost: $300 per person
Some scholarship assistance is available. Please email Wild Med for details. Certification Period: 2 years
Includes: WFA + CPR certification
Doesn't Include: Clothing, meals, lodging, travel to course site. Contact us for details if you’d like to stay overnight or use the kitchen at our Basecamp!
PACKING LIST
Water and other beverages you find helpful for very full days of learning
Hearty lunch + snacks
Clothing to be outside in any possible weather and that you feel comfortable getting dirty/muddy/bloody (fake)
Pen/pencil
Camp chair if you have one, for outdor lessons
Daypack with lots of stuff in it that you might have on a long hike (i.e. fleece sweater, sleeping pad, trekking poles, rope, bandanas, hat, etc) that you can use to improvise splints
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Information for our land acknowledgment was gathered from nativeland.ca, which provides an estimate of original indigenous land occupation, but does not take into account migratory patterns or movement of the many surrounding communities. We recognize the historical complexity of indigenous movement across the land, and honor with gratitude the many, many surviving native nations whose land we benefit from in our work to diversify the outdoors.