Description

Civilian SERE Training in Colorado – Escape, Evasion & Survival Course

This course is designed to challenge you, not break you. You will be uncomfortable. You will get tired, face uncertainty, and encounter moments that test your resolve. Our instructors will push you with purpose. We want to help you learn about yourself, build practical skills, and discover what you can accomplish when things get difficult.

You do not need to arrive fearless or already know how to handle every situation. Come willing to learn, work with others, and take the next step when it feels hard. The goal is growth, not suffering for its own sake. We want you to leave with greater confidence, a clearer understanding of your limits, and the experience to know you are capable of more than you thought.

Who Takes This Course

Our students come from a wide range of civilian backgrounds. They include executives and business professionals looking for a demanding personal challenge, frequent travelers, and people whose work takes them into unfamiliar or higher risk environments.

Others come for a personal rite of passage. They want to step outside familiar routines, test themselves, and discover how they respond when things get difficult. You do not need military experience to take this course. You need a willingness to learn, contribute to a team, and challenge yourself.

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This is a hands-on civilian SERE training course in Colorado built to teach real-world escape, evasion, and survival skills. Designed for civilians, this training focuses on how to avoid detection, escape unlawful restraint, and move through hostile environments using practical fieldcraft, urban awareness, and psychological strategies.

Modeled after military SERE programs and taught by experienced instructors, this course goes beyond basic survival. You’ll train in lock picking, counter-surveillance, Grey Man movement, and resistance under pressure. Through scenario-based training, you’ll apply these skills in realistic situations that force you to think, adapt, and perform.

This course is built for people who want more than theory. Whether you’re preparing for high-risk travel, improving personal security, or pushing yourself through a demanding training experience, you’ll leave with practical skills and a deeper understanding of how you respond under stress.

This SERE A (Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape) civilian course is modeled after concepts used in military survival and resistance training programs. The experience is designed to expose participants to realistic survival, evasion, and resistance scenarios that require adaptability, awareness, decision making, and mental resilience.

Led by instructors with extensive field experience and SERE training backgrounds, students will learn how to navigate hostile environments, blend into crowds, avoid detection, and operate under pressure using practical techniques and scenario-based exercises.

The class covers survival skills such as firecraft, shelter building, water procurement, and movement through terrain while avoiding detection. Students will also train in lock picking, restraint escape concepts, Grey Man movement principles, surveillance awareness, counter-tracking, camouflage, and evasion techniques.

SERE is not only physical. It is psychological. Throughout the course, students will be placed into realistic, hands-on scenarios designed to test adaptability, stress management, decision making, and emotional control under pressure.

Whether you’re preparing for high-risk travel, improving personal security awareness, or looking for a demanding training experience that pushes you outside your comfort zone, this course offers a rare opportunity to experience realistic stress-based training in a controlled environment.

Important Course Reality & Expectations

This is not a recreational camping trip or a comfortable tactical experience. This course is intentionally designed to create stress, discomfort, uncertainty, frustration, fatigue, and interpersonal pressure in order to evaluate and develop how participants respond under challenging conditions.

The training environment may involve limited comfort, disrupted routines, primitive living conditions, reduced food access, sleep disruption, emotionally stressful scenarios, strong instructor pressure, team conflict, and physically and mentally demanding situations. Stress begins immediately upon arrival and continues throughout the course.

Participants may be required to adapt to unexpected changes, surrender comfort items or unnecessary gear, sleep in primitive or improvised shelters, process animals for food, and operate outside their normal comfort zone. Many elements of the course are intentionally undisclosed beforehand in order to preserve the realism and effectiveness of the training experience.

This course is not designed for everyone. Individuals who struggle with authority, emotional regulation under stress, confrontation, uncertainty, or high pressure environments may find this course overwhelming or inappropriate for their current abilities. Participants are expected to maintain control of themselves, work cohesively with others, and respond professionally under stress at all times.

Are you ready to take on the challenge?

I. Introduction to SERE Training

Overview of SERE and its military origins

Importance of SERE training in both military and civilian life

Introduction to instructors: US military Special Forces with SERE training and combat experience

II. Social Engineering and Psychological Manipulation

Understanding social engineering tactics

Recognizing and countering psychological manipulation

Role-playing scenarios to practice skills

III. Basic Survival Skills

Food: Identifying edible plants, trapping, and hunting basics

Fire: Various methods to start a fire, including without matches

Shelter: Building effective shelters with limited resources

Water: Finding and purifying water in different environments

IV. Lock Picking and Escape Techniques

Basics of picking padlocks, door locks, and handcuffs

Hands-on practice with various types of locks

Escaping from restraints using everyday objects

V. Grey Man Techniques

Understanding the concept of the “Grey Man” in high-risk environments

Techniques to blend in and avoid detection

Exercises in urban and rural environments to apply these skills

VI. Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance

Basics of surveillance techniques used by kidnappers or hostile forces

How to detect and avoid being followed

Practical exercises in identifying and evading surveillance

VII. Escape and Evasion Tactics

Strategies for escaping from unlawful detention

How to move through different terrains without being detected

Techniques to counter tracking and hide your trail

VIII. Camouflage and Hiding Techniques

How to effectively camouflage yourself in various environments

Techniques for hiding in urban and wilderness settings

Building natural and improvised camouflage

IX. Making Improvised Tools and Weapons

Identifying resources in your environment for tool and weapon-making

Techniques for constructing improvised weapons

Safety and ethical considerations when using improvised tools

X. Resisting Torture and Maintaining Mental Fortitude

Techniques for resisting physical and psychological torture

Importance of mental resilience in high-stress situations

Strategies for maintaining morale and hope during captivity

XI. Scenario-Based Training

Realistic scenarios where participants apply all learned skills

Simulated environments: urban, rural, and wilderness

Debriefing and feedback from instructors

 

SERE Registration — Refunds and Transfers

Cancellation requests qualify for a full refund or transfer to another class only if received within 5 days of the original purchase date and before the scheduled course begins. After that period, registrations are nonrefundable and cannot be transferred to another class.

If you cannot attend, you may arrange for a qualified replacement participant. The Survival University must approve the replacement and update the registration before the event.

If The Survival University resells your vacated spot, staff may authorize a partial refund of up to 70%. Neither resale nor a refund is guaranteed.

No refunds, credits, or transfers will be issued for no-shows, last-minute cancellations, voluntary withdrawal, or failure to complete the course.

By registering, you confirm that you have considered the course’s physical and mental demands and your ability to attend, and agree to these terms.