Wildfires are no longer simply local emergencies. They’re a clear and growing symptom of a changing climate and stressed ecosystems: longer fire seasons, bigger burn areas, communities increasingly at risk.
If you live or manage land in a fire-prone zone, you already know how fragile the balance is. Homes, livelihoods, natural systems — all are vulnerable. Yet many communities lack access to practical, context-sensitive training that brings together prevention, response and regeneration.
That gap is what The Wildfire Resilience Training seeks to fill. Delivered online to reach as broad an audience as possible, this training – created in partnership with Matthew Trumm from ERC Treetop Permaculture – offers an integrated pathway: learn how to reduce risk, respond when fire strikes, and regenerate landscapes, livelihoods and communities. The programme emphasises not just survival, but resilience – building capacity to thrive after fire, and working with nature rather than against it.
Who is this for
Whether you’re a landowner, community member or land-management practitioner, this course is designed for you:
- Landowners wanting practical strategies to reduce wildfire risk on their property and help protect their neighbourhood.
- Concerned citizens who recognise that mega-fires aren’t just isolated events, but tied to broader climate extremes – and want to take meaningful action.
- Organisations and practitioners managing land in fire-prone areas who want to strengthen their wildfire resilience plans and incorporate long-term ecosystem restoration.
What this training covers
This course is comprehensive. It guides you through the full spectrum of wildfire resilience:
- Reduce – Learn how to “read the landscape and work with it”, fire-proof your property through holistic design, turn hazardous fuels into tools, and implement water-retention and rehydration systems.
- Respond – What to do immediately after wildfire strikes: erosion and toxic runoff prevention, mitigation and remediation, how to organise as a community and heal together, navigating the clean-up and rebuild in the 0–18 month timeframe.
- Regenerate – Learn to think like nature to regenerate land and livelihoods: rebuild and redesign fire-resilient homes and landscapes, create holistic management plans, and collaborate to take lasting action.
The curriculum is structured into six modules:
- Understanding Fire & Fire Ecosystems
- Restoring Lands & Livelihoods after Fire
- Reducing Wildfire Risk & Designing for Resilience
- Mid‐Fire Action
- Ongoing Land Management
- Taking Action
The bigger picture: climate change, communities, and resilience
Wildfire is not just a physical event – it’s a stress test on ecosystems, social systems and community resilience. Communities living in fire-prone areas face layered challenges: climate-driven intensification of fire risk, degraded landscapes that amplify that risk, and often limited capacity to rebuild in sustainable, regenerative ways.
By building capacity in prevention, response and regeneration, this training supports communities to transition from reactive to proactive, from vulnerability to resilience. It aligns with the broader goal of ecosystem restoration – recognising that healthy, well‐managed ecosystems are among our best allies in the fight against climate change and extreme fire events.
Why this training is different
- It’s globally relevant: Although developed in a U.S. context, the training is designed to be applicable anywhere in the world experiencing wildfires.
- It brings real-world experience: Led by experts who have worked in fire-impacted areas, including the course lead Matthew Trumm — who has built on his extensive experience with wildfires and regenerative landscapes to create this course.
- It’s accessible: There are provisions for low-income rates, discounted options for survivors, monthly payment plans, and a “Pay it Forward” rate to support bursaries for others.
How it will support you and your community
- For individual landowners: Gain actionable strategies to protect your house and property, design defensible landscapes, and embed resilience into your home environment.
- For community groups: Learn how to organise collective response and rebuild efforts, minimise secondary damage (e.g., erosion, toxic runoff), and support neighbours in ways that build social resilience as well as ecological resilience.
- For practitioners: Add to your toolbox of approaches: ecosystem-based design, post-fire restoration, water systems, community facilitation, resilient infrastructure — all tied into wildfire contexts.
- For ecosystems: By shifting from destructive fire cycles to regenerative ones, the training helps re-establish healthier landscapes that can store more carbon, hold more water, support biodiversity, and reduce future fire intensity.
A call to action
If you or your community are facing fire – or want to get ahead of it – this is an opportunity to step into a new paradigm: not just surviving fire, but thriving with fire-adapted landscapes. The Wildfire Resilience Training opens registrations now — you can sign up for a free webinar to preview the course, ask questions and decide if it’s right for you.
Forward-thinking leaders, landowners, communities: this is the moment to build resilience. The time to act is today.
This essential new, online training starts in February 2026. If you’re interested to learn more, register now for one of our FREE webinars taking place on Thursday October 30 or Monday November 3, 2025.