THE STATION FOUNDATION

Why The Station Foundation?
There is a growing need to address the post-combat impact on the lives of returning Special Operations Warriors and Families.

The effects of combat extend well beyond the battlefield – disrupting the lives of service members and their families. This is especially true for our nation's most quiet professionals – Special Operations Forces (SOF). The heavy demands and ever-increasing expectations placed on SOF make it extremely difficult to preserve the health, wellness, and readiness of its members and families.

As members of SOF, we have firsthand experience of the cumulative results of combat, especially the sacrifices and impacts on the quiet warriors and their families. We recognized the importance of establishing the same level of support in homecoming as received in combat and the urgency to protect this community before it was too late.

A Homecoming For The SOF Community
The Station Foundation is on a mission to preserve the health and wellness of Special Operations Forces (SOF) by providing a level of care and support currently unavailable through SOCOM or other government channels. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, The Station is a crucial stop on a warrior's journey home to return from combat and reintegrate into their lives, families, and community. The Station provides a safe, discrete, and powerful process of reconnecting to what matters most in their lives.

Our Approach
The Station provides programs and services that address the ongoing and emerging challenges affecting the wellness, resilience, and health of the SOF Community, including Service Members, Spouses, Children, Caregivers, and Gold Star Children. By experiencing The Station's work, participants can enhance self-awareness, reconnect with their values, and leverage their personal strengths.

The Station has three distinct projects catering to the SOF Community's diverse demographics:

I. Homecoming Project
Our Homecoming Project presents immersive experiences in Montana for SOF Service Members, Spouses, and Children. Through various mindfulness mediums, participants increase self-awareness, identify the best approaches to manage stress, and harness their strengths. Participants disconnect from the world and turn inward to focus on their needs. These programs are offered in a safe, remote, intimate environment where participants release the pressures of their lives and find (connect or increase comfort with) stillness.

Restore: This comprehensive survival training with a realistic wilderness mission reconnects service members and their children. Restore fosters a deep sense of validation by integrating children into their parents' lives. This integration enhances a child's self-worth, self-esteem, and connection with their parent. Our carefree environment supports essential social and emotional development. Restore provides a private, safe, and relaxed setting for warriors and their children to share the meaning of service and inspire thriving relationships.

TrAC (Transition Azimuth Check): Service members connect with high-level executives in this mentoring workshop designed to help participants leverage their unique skill set in the civilian work environment and prepare for the unfamiliar terrain that lies ahead.

Spouse Performance Program (SPP): This empowering workshop encourages spouses to identify and value themselves as a priority. They learn how to balance service for others with care for themselves while functioning as the at-home head of the family.

Return: Service members embark on a nine-day Hero Journey and immerse themselves in the Way of the Warrior beyond the battlefield. Through shared rites of passage and a homecoming ceremony steeped in
tradition, participants heal, grow, and strengthen their connection to ancestral roots.

Journey of Self Care: A week-long experience placing special emphasis on education surrounding the importance of integrating intentional self-care practices into their lives. Participants leverage curiosity, creativity, and compassion to build a solid foundation of self-care and further discover what supports them best.

II. Legacy Project
Our Legacy Project equips our Nation's Special Operations Forces' Gold Star Children (those who lost a loved one in combat or combat-related training) with resources and a support system that helps them flourish in the face of challenges. We help them learn who they are and how to develop their strengths. To help the Gold Star Children create a life of deep meaning and value rooted in character, we stand beside them through middle school, high school, and college. Regardless of our individual passion, strengths, and successes – integrity sets the tone and path. When our Gold Star Children have their values in order and are passionately present, their lives become extraordinary.

The Crossing: During this 10-day wilderness program, adolescent Gold Star Children are partnered with teammates of the Fallen who shared military service with their parents. By combining extensive survival training with a three-day crucible, participants apply leadership principles to navigate unfamiliar terrain, forge lasting connections with Special Operations and the Gold Star Community, and pay tribute to our Fallen Warriors by successfully completing a challenging adventure similar to real-world mission scenarios.

III. Interwoven Project
The Station Foundation's outreach project, Interwoven, helps reach the SOF Community in their hometown. Interwoven blends The Station's culture and curriculum through virtual and in-person workshops into participants' local communities as a practical complement to our Montana immersive programming.

Through mindfulness practices such as yoga, art, and time in nature, participants learn tools to manage stress, prioritize well-being, increase self-awareness, and strengthen relationships. Interwoven's in-person events and virtual courses build a community and friendships within the larger SOF Community.

Virtual Courses: These are 4 – 6 week immersions into various topics ranging from enhancing family connectedness, increasing self-awareness, and improving stress and energy management.

In-Person Experiences: outStations are an extension of The Station in local SOF communities. These satellite locations offer day events carefully curated around virtues and mindfulness. Currently, we have outStations serving the areas of Camp Lejeune, Fort Carson, Fort Liberty, San Diego, and Virginia Beach.

Thank You For Supporting The Station
Your generosity provides a powerful path for the Special Operations Community – Warriors, Spouses, Children, Gold Star Children, and Mentors – to attend our world-class programming and return home with meaning and purpose beyond war.

People like you have impacted thousands since 2012. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to helping SOF Families.