Yashar Mousavand | Survival Instructor, Curriculum Designer, Founder

Professional Summary

Founder of Yashar Survival Academy in Tehran, Iran. Outdoor skills educator with more than seven years of teaching experience focused on practical survival, bushcraft, and lightweight backcountry travel. Specializes in turning field-tested techniques into repeatable skills that hold under stress, with instruction built for real constraints such as limited time, limited gear, poor weather, and mixed experience levels.

Core Credentials

• Founder and lead instructor, Yashar Survival Academy

• Curriculum designer for beginner, intermediate, and advanced workshops

• Trained in outdoor first aid for remote settings and group emergency planning

• Field experience across the Alborz range, northern forests, and desert environments

• Instruction delivered in both classroom and field conditions with scenario-based assessment

Technical Expertise

• Land navigation with map, compass, and terrain association

• Shelter selection, site preparation, and construction for real weather

• Fire craft in varied conditions using multiple ignition and sustainment methods

• Water sourcing, risk recognition, and purification techniques

• Risk assessment, route planning, and backcountry decision making

• Practical knots, rope systems, and safe tool use for campcraft

• Trip planning, load selection, and lightweight systems for efficient movement

• Casualty care until help arrives, including patient assessment, stabilization, and evacuation planning

Fieldwork and Environments

• Alborz Mountains: multi-day travel, elevation exposure, cold-weather fire and shelter

• Northern forests: wet-weather fire, water hygiene, navigation in limited visibility

• Desert environments: heat exposure management, shade engineering, water security

Instructional Approach

• Scenario-driven training that replaces memorization with decision making under pressure

• Clear decision frameworks that are easy to recall in cold, wind, and time-limited conditions

• Retrieval practice, teach-backs, and micro-drills with defined start and success criteria

• Constraint-led practice that shapes correct sequence without constant correction

• Short external-focus cues before repetitions and structured one-minute debriefs after

• Ethical stress exposures that are realistic, measurable, and safe

Safety, Ethics, and Compliance

• Safety as first principle in all courses with progressive difficulty and stop rules

• Leave No Trace practices, local ecology awareness, and cultural and legal respect

• Risk controls that emphasize prevention, early recognition, and calm problem solving

• Energy management strategies that reduce error rates in cold, wet, and windy conditions

Curriculum and Assessment

• Step-by-step course designs that build from fundamentals to field transfer

• Priority stacks that install correct order for safety, exposure control, signaling, water, navigation, and morale

• Micro-drills with timing windows and pass criteria that can be tracked with a watch and a pencil

• Compact 0 to 3 rubrics that remain legible on wet paper and support rapid evaluation

• After-action reviews that capture what was planned, what happened, what changed decisions, and what to adjust next time

Publications and Community Education

• Guides, checklists, case studies, and after-action reviews to help students retain and apply skills

• Tutorials and skill breakdowns shared through YouTube and Aparat

• Articles on survival practice, lightweight travel, and instructional design for outdoor educators

Representative Course Outcomes

• Faster and more accurate shelter builds in adverse weather

• Higher first-try success rates for fire in rain and wind

• Cleaner signaling layers with improved sequence and visibility

• Fewer hygiene errors around water collection and treatment

• More confident navigation choices in low-visibility terrain

Collaboration and Reach

• Works with outdoor educators, bushcraft instructors, medics, and field researchers to align instruction with evidence and real-world demands

• Designs joint modules that integrate first aid, navigation, and exposure control into a single, coherent system

Mission

Teach clear, evidence-informed skills that give people the judgment and repeatable habits to prevent problems when possible, manage them when necessary, and return home safe.