Situational Awareness

Ken Hardy

Situational awareness is one of the most valuable and overlooked preparedness skills. This interactive class focuses on learning to read your environment, recognize potential threats early, and make better decisions before a situation turns dangerous.

Through discussion and real-world examples, attendees will explore how awareness, attention, and mindset can reduce vulnerability in everyday life as well as during emergencies. The class also looks at high-profile incidents in the news to identify warning signs, missed opportunities, and ways some outcomes may have been avoided.

Topics include:

  • Increasing awareness of your personal environment
  • Identifying potential threats and behavioral cues
  • Learning from real-world incidents and public events
  • Practical techniques for applying situational awareness in daily life
  • Adapting awareness skills to the homesteading and preparedness lifestyle

This session is designed to help attendees become more observant, more intentional, and better prepared to avoid danger whenever possible. In a homesteading or prepper setting, situational awareness is not just a security skill—it is a foundational habit of resilience.