Alert, not anxious.
Prepared, not paranoid.
A 2-day weekend intensive that gives everyday civilians the situational awareness and digital security skills that intelligence operators use — without the paranoia or the jargon.
Two days. Permanent skills.
Each day builds on the last — from how you see the physical world to how you control your digital footprint.
Situational Awareness
See what others miss.
Master Cooper's Color Codes, learn pre-incident indicators, and develop the awareness habits that operators use in the field — adapted for everyday civilian life.
- Cooper's Color Codes & threat level assessment
- Pre-incident indicators & behavioral analysis
- Environmental scanning techniques
- The OODA loop in everyday decisions
- Baseline establishment & anomaly detection
- Soft skills: projection, deterrence, de-escalation
Digital Security & OPSEC
Control your digital footprint.
Understand how your digital life is exposed and learn the practical OPSEC disciplines used by intelligence professionals — without going off-grid or becoming paranoid.
- OSINT: what adversaries can find about you
- Social media hygiene & privacy settings audit
- Password architecture & credential management
- Home network security basics
- Travel security & device discipline
- Personal threat modeling for civilians
This isn't theory.
This is field-tested.
Nearly two decades in military intelligence operations. Deployments in multiple theaters. A cybersecurity transition that applied real-world OPSEC to the digital environment.
Grounded Vigilance exists because this knowledge shouldn't require a security clearance to access. Regular people deserve these skills.
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Start seeing the world
differently.
One weekend. Skills you'll use every day for the rest of your life.