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WHAT TO EXPECT AT WARRIOR PATHH
Warrior PATHH empowers participants to achieve lasting, life-changing transformation. While Warrior PATHH instructors are not trained mental health professionals, they are individuals who have personally journeyed from struggle to strength. They deliver a military-style training experience that draws on each participant’s unique strengths, skills, and abilities—engaging the mind, body, heart, and spirit—while fostering reconnection with self and a new community of fellow Warriors.
WHAT TO EXPECT AT WARRIOR PATHH?
We Want to Change the Narrative from one of PTS to one of POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH (PTG)
In Posttraumatic Growth among Warrior PATHH students.
Sustained reduction of stress experienced by Warrior PATHH graduates
Sustained reduction in anxiety experienced by Warrior PATHH graduate
Did you know?
Our WARRIOR PATHH Program is FREE of charge to all accepted participants.
A COMMUNITY THAT UNDERSTANDS
Warrior PATHH is designed built by warriors for warriors. It is a science-based program that has a foundation of POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH. At Warrior PATHH, you will be surrounded by a community people who understand your story and struggles, because they, too, have lived them.
PEACEFUL SURROUNDINGS TO DRAW STRENGTH
The Big Red Barn Retreat is home to the Warrior PATHH program in South Carolina is nestled on 75 wooded acres around a small pond with 5 miles of walking trails. This rural setting is a perfect backdrop for peace, contemplation, and transformation
WARRIOR PATHH FAQs
This PTG-based training program—created by Warriors for Warriors—combines a powerful blend of Warrior practices to help participants make peace with their past, live fully in the present, and begin planning for their future. The program equips participants to transform struggle into growth in the aftermath of trauma.
Warrior PATHH is offered twice a month at the Big Red Barn Retreat, with an equal number of all-male and all-female classes available throughout the year. We also partner with Boulder Crest, which delivers the program at its locations in Arizona and Virginia, as well as through two Mobile Training Teams. Additionally, Warrior PATHH is available through seven partner organizations across the country: GratitudeAmerica (Florida), Camp Southern Ground (Georgia), Big Red Barn Retreat (South Carolina), Travis Mills Foundation (Maine), Sheep Dog Impact Assistance (Arkansas), Eagle Oak Retreat (Texas), and Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation (Washington State).
Participation in the Warrior PATHH program is entirely voluntary and requires a strong personal desire to attend. For this reason, each participant must complete the application themselves. Please share the link to the Warrior PATHH page with the potential participant and encourage them to complete the application directly.
After submitting the application, the next step is a screening call with a PATHH Guide—an alumnus of the program—to help determine if Warrior PATHH is the right fit. If it’s determined to be a good match, we’ll then discuss potential dates and locations for participation.
This program was created for our nation’s Warriors—those who inspire strength and courage in others by doing hard things. This includes first responders (active or retired police officers, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, EMS personnel, and members of federal law enforcement or intelligence agencies) as well as military personnel (combat veterans, and former, active, or retired service members, including those in the National Guard and Reserves).
“PATHH” stands for Progressive and Alternative Training for Helping Heroes.
Disclaimer
Warrior PATHH is a peer-based training program that utilizes a range of educational and experiential activities to teach essential life skills, foster community integration and involvement, and support overall well-being—including physical, emotional, relational, financial, and spiritual health.
Warrior PATHH is not an outpatient or residential clinical treatment program and does not provide any healthcare services. This includes the use of licensed healthcare professionals in delivering the program or supervising staff.
The program does not include any form of healthcare provision, such as individual, group, or family counseling or psychotherapy, medication management, or medical interventions.
Warrior PATHH is not intended to replace or serve as a substitute for professional healthcare services, which may be ongoing or necessary for some participants.
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