Patrick McCollum Daily Workshops on Primitive Skills Survival techniques for a turbulent world A primer to overcome disaster, nuclear holocaust, and just plain getting lost   This three part series will cover basic survival techniques like finding food, water, shelter & creating fire, while at the same time addressing techniques for surviving nuclear and natural disasters.  We'll cover time tested techniques and practices and also include a number of new ones, like secret uses of your cell phone that the government doesn't want you to know.  If you've ever wanted to be totally self sufficient and secure that you're going to make it through anything, this workshop is for you! Patrick McCollum is a nationally recognized spiritual leader in the Wiccan faith community that has in recent history gone where no Pagan has ever gone before.  He was recently selected by the United States Commission on Civil Rights to advise Congress and has been active for more than two decades in the areas of human rights and social justice. Patrick is an expert in wilderness and urban survival techniques and specializes in teaching how to survive catastrophic events.   He previously taught survival for both Search and Rescue and for several law enforcement agencies and has shared his knowledge on this subject nationwide.  Patrick’s approach to survival is “Hands On”, encouraging participants to understand the fundamentals of survival and sustainability as applied to all aspect of the modern world. Patrick is author of: COURTING THE LADY, A WICCAN JOURNEY, a book on Wiccan spirituality, available at courtingthelady.com   Patrick is Director of the National Correctional Chaplaincy Directors Association and serves as the Chaplaincy Liaison for the American Academy of Religion.  He is also a Professional Member of both the American Correctional Chaplains Association (ACCA) and the Associated Chaplains in California State Service (ACCSS) and was the Keynote Speaker at the ACCSS annual Chaplain’s Training Conference in 2005.  He also served as the Keynote speaker for the North Carolina Department of Corrections in 2006. Patrick was an invited speaker at the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Barcelona, Spain in 2005 and serves as the Statewide Wiccan Chaplain in the California Department of Corrections.  Patrick advises numerous state and federal correctional systems on religious accommodation and chaplaincy issues and received a commendation from the California State Senate for his work in 1999.  In 2007, Patrick was instrumental in achieving the approval the Pentacle on military headstones and was also recommended to former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, to join a special team to help negotiate peace in the Middle East.