Programs

WARRIOR TRANSITION LEADERSHIP TRAINING

The next workshop is Friday, July 8^th, starting 7 PM through Sunday, July 10 at 3PM at the Malvern Retreat House 315 South Warren Avenue Malvern, PA 19355-2705

What is the Warrior Transition Workshop? Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center’s Freedom and Honor Transition Team offers a free hands-on workshop to provide you a new perspective, key tools and the support you need to make your transition home easier.  Combat Stress and transition issues are a natural course in a military person’s journey after combat. What will I get out of this weekend and what will it help me with?  The workshop will reduce the impact of combat stress and give you the skills to create positive new pathways to reconnect with family, friends, work and school. This is not a mental health program, but a confidential post-deployment training program designed by combat vets and expert trainers for those who want to take leadership in their own lives.  What is an experiential training? It is hands-on, peer-to-peer training using leadership techniques and exercises that allow you to “learn” through experience.  It’s not a lecture and, it’s not talk therapy either.  You gain the ability to break down thoughts and patterns that don't serve you.  The program incorporates video, music, story and other exercises mixed with decompression time, self-reflection and some real laughs! What makes this different from mental health programs?  We do not use a mental health based model.  It is a training geared to the combat veteran’s natural style of learning.  This is a personal transformation leadership program designed by combat Vets and trainers.  Completely Confidential. No Rank. No Uniform. Are you affiliated with the VA?  NO, The Freedom and Honor team is housed at The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Education Center in Philadelphia, PA a 30 year old non-profit that assists Veterans with every and any service needed. To date, Freedom and Honor has served more than 7,000 military personnel. 

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Transition Warrior One Day Program
Vets with Vets, No Rank, No Uniform - Non-mental health.

 (Lunch & Dinner included)

Sample Curriculum - These are experiential excerises which allow participants to gain leadership skills; learn the use of emotional intelligence and engage in their own transition.

1. Honor & Acknowledgement
2. Container of Confidentality
3. The Why of Combat Stress
4. What Do I Still Carry?
5. What’s at Risk?

If interested in upcoming program, email Martin@freedomandhonor.org

FINDING SOLID GROUND – Women Veterans Retreat
Unique women, unique experience – military women today face new challenges both in-theatre and at home.  Women still represent only 10% of the military.  53% are moms and many of them single parents.  To date, 193,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.  All veterans face – combat PTSD and reintegration issues, women also confront a variety of other issues related to their gender from sexist stigmas to assault and rape. Freedom and Honor’s women’s retreat is designed to provide access and an outlet to delve into these areas with other female veterans.  Working with other women veterans, trained experts and two male support personnel, you will be given the opportunity and tools to sort through your experience and gain new perspective. The weekend will offer a sacred space to engage in discussions and processes which allow for the gentle release of the trapped trauma, bring awareness to underlying issues and resolve internal emotional conflicts that can often lead to destructive behavior. 

weekend of January 21st, 2011  - National Christian Conference Center, Valley Forge PA

FINDING SOLID GROUND - An Opportunity for Women Warriors to move through their experience via a training and leadership program that acknowledges your courage, your challenges and the road forward.

This training was designed specifically to meet the needs of women warriors and is a safe and structured training for each individual to choose their path and their own growth through a series of experiential exercises and learning methods. 

"What I can say is it is nothing like what you expect.  Certainly different from the "counselor", "patient" model and more than what you think is possible in one weekend.  I know I did it and now I staff the weekends to help my fellow troops."  Brenna Wheatley

Sample Curriculum

 Greeting - What is it to Honor Oneself

Sacred Space - Building the Container of Trust and Safety

Combat Stress - Connecting to the Impact

Dinner

Tombstone Exercise - what will my life say

The training will be lead by Nancy McGrory Richardson, facilitator for the Freedom and Honor program, other female veterans, experts in life and trauma.  Expert facilitators Turpin Mott will also be in integral part of the weekend to facilitate roles critical to enabling women to gain a new relationship to themselves and men in the world. Safety is our prime concern and their roles will be carefully laid out and every woman will have the right to choose to engage during these exercises.
 

YELLOW RIBBON Program Support.

Freedom and Honor provides a variety of services to support the Yellow Ribbon Program from design and conducting Yellow Ribbon events to train the trainer and combat coaching programs.  Currently Freedom and Honor is working with the Pennsylvania National Guard to provide Yellow Ribbon support services to more than 6400+ vets.  Freedom and Honor is partnered with Military Personnel Services (GSA) and is a small women owned enterprise which accepts credit card payments. For details, call Martin Richardson, 610-717-7797 or email martin@freedomandhonor.org

Since 2005 the Freedom and Honor team of combat vets and trainers have been supporting returning veterans and their families to work through combat stress and readjustment issues.  With a 99% showing a 99% success rate, our team can support your "Beyond the Yellow Ribbon" efforts in a variety of ways, for example:

• Assist in developing transition programs/events
• Additional training to mental health providers and transition teams
• Provide workshops and on-going support programs
• Develop and train “resiliency teams and transition leaders”

 Our Mission – Offer educational trainings that assist active military personnel and veterans with combat stress & transition issues, enabling a better quality of life for them and their families.



The Military Leadership Advantage    

Program Intent:
The intent of this experiential workshop program is to offer a leadership program for veterans giving a new view what leadership is, experience a variety of leadership roles and learn how to develop it in their own lives as they transition to civilian life.

Intended Target:
The Military Leadership Advantage is a six week course designed for veteran organizations, colleges and universities as well as companies with large veteran populations. The program is designed for veterans of any age or experience, any conflict, military branch of service and at any period of their life whether they have recently returned or have been separated from military duty for many years. Each session is 1 ½ hours.

Curriculum Outline:

Week 1: Introduction and Intention
An introduction to the program and outline the intent of what will be covered during the 6 week program.

Week 2: Operating Styles
Know thy self and focus on the individual strengths and weakness; encompass leadership experiences of past particularly military.

Week 3: The Mantel of Leadership
Engage the students through discussion and interactive exercises on the mantel of leadership and the paradigms within - the mantel of leadership.

Week 4: Cornerstones of Leadership and Shadow
Examine the four cornerstones of leadership using and archetype styles an uncovering the shadow side of leadership

Week 5: Leadership Mission
Develop personal leadership mission and the implementation of that mission.

Week 6: The Spiritual Aspects of Leadership
Focus on the spiritual aspects of leadership -- the heart of leadership; the “courage” of leadership.

Cost:  $3500 per class plus travel and materials for facilitators (class size 15 participants)

Note: All of our programs are portable and can be schedule based on number of participants. Call for information for availability and fees.