8:30am = Doors open

9:00am - 10:15am = Part 1 | Total Health

10:15am - 10:30am = quick break

10:30am - 12:00noon = Part 2 | PTSD

12:00noon - 12:45pm = Lunch (on-site)

12:45pm - 2:00pm = Part 3 | Moral Injury

2:00pm - 2:15pm = quick break

2:15pm - 3:00pm = Intro, implementation, and more

3:00pm = dismiss

American Legion Post 17 has opened their doors to us for this event.

Address: 216 Welch Ave, Talladega, AL 35160

Note: attendees are not required to be members of the American Legion. This event is open to the public.

There are numerous (fantastic) options near the workshop location. However, there are a few within a 5-minute drive. 

We’ll provide you with—

📘 GY6-- the workbook-size edition (plenty of space to write in the margins)

🍗 lunch

☕️ coffee, water, and snacks

You need to bring—

✍️ something to write with

🤯 a “can do” attitude

👏 any team members / friends you think would benefit from the workshop

The book is written to be read, understood, and applied. This isn’t a book for professional therapists; this is a manual for highly skilled heroes— for the men and women who put their lives on the line and serve as warriors, firefighters, peace keepers, law enforcement, paramedics, and other first responders. 

GY6 is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prescribe.

The goal of this resource is to help you begin the process of exploration and discovery as you pursue total wholeness, as well as normalize the conversation about emotional and spiritual health.

This year we’re hosting multiple “GY6 Live!” workshops throughout the region.

At the same time, we’re also creating—

📻 Audiobook of the resource

📺 Online, on-demand course

👨‍🏫 Additional workshops and training opportunities

⚜️ Certification program to equip more leaders to share this resource

🔗 Coaching programs to walk leaders through the framework, helping them implement it over time

🚌 On-site visits to municipalities & ministries & other places, to help them get a jump-start or refresh on the concepts

📳 Online community and regular Zoom-type training opportunities

📱Smartphone app, so we can take the resource anywhere— even on “across the globe” mission trips.

Bottom line— this is not just a “one-and-done” event. This is the beginning of an ongoing movement.

Absolutely!

Be sure to register them in advance, so we can prep for them.

Anyone is welcome— team members, staff from your business / work, other first responders or veterans or military personnel you know...

Even friends, family members, and others who want to learn more are welcome to attend.

Estimates suggest that veterans comprise 11-13% of the population (varies per area). Accounting for their families, we can safely estimate that 25% of the population is impacted by military-related concerns.

The percentages are somewhat higher in the south, where the enlistment numbers are highest.

And, they’re even more elevated in areas with military-dense population bases (where the numbers may go as high as 15-20% of the population, plus their families).

Though first responders comprise about 1% of the population, they are a significant presence as well.

Statistically, law enforcement officers are 3-3.5x more likely to die by suicide than they are in a gunfight.

This means that in a church or other group of 1,000, potentially 300 people (or more) may be impacted in some way... 

Notably, 1 of every 3 veterans are estimated to be impacted by PTSD. The numbers are somewhat higher for first responders.

Here’s a plan to start / timeline (adjustable, yet actionable in the current form) in any city / geographic area / church or nonprofit as a hub, etc.

Here are the steps, month-by-month.

Month 1 = Review the information and read the book.

Month 2 = do the following:

• Obtain consensus and take action, hold initial meetings with potential influencers
• Identify a leadership team / task force of 7-10 veterans and/or first responders from nearby churches, civic groups, etc. This group will work through the GY6 resource so they can promote it intelligently and with confidence

Month 3 = focus on the following:

• Work with this aforementioned group, walking them through the GY6 resource. We can do this by meeting either weekly in person or biweekly in person and biweekly via Zoom. In person is best.
• The goal of this initial run is to intentionally expose them to the GY6 resources, impart vision to them, and glean from their insights.
• Taking the time— on the front end— to do this well will go a long way towards launching the movement
• Contact local groups re: CEUs, so you can meet their requirements and begin scheduling

Month 4 = continue working with the lead team recruited in Month 2

Month 5 = After the group has completed the resource, plan and promote an initial mini-workshop.

This mini-workshop has the following objectives:

• 50 attenders
• 90-minutes total time, giving participants a taste of what’s to come— and preview what a full-day workshop might look like
• Introduce them to the concepts in the book
• Honor the attenders in some way
• Talk about the progress that has been made
• Invite business leaders and potential investors to “come and see” (with no “hard ask”)
• Give everyone a chance to join the project in some way

Note: This night would also serve as an initial “test” / pilot project, get feedback, and build anticipation towards a workshop.

Month 6 = Add more to the leadership circle and multiply our capacity, from the workshop.

Run a short-term “Zoom” group

Month 7 = Host the larger workshop (i.e., +100 attenders), provide next steps, and lead people into groups.

Some of the attendees of this workshop would include:

• Heroes
• Family members
• Leaders of nonprofits and VSOs and LEO networks
• Church and/or business leaders who want to learn more
• CEU participants

Month 8 = replicate the groups, have a joint meeting with the appropriate church staff and the GY6 leadership team, and determine next steps based on what we have learned during this process

Month 9 = Shepherd the effort, launch new groups, etc., present in VSOs, chaplains’ organizations, etc.

Month 10 = host a family workshop (i.e., Soul Wholeness or something like it).

Continue the process... 

The following heroes will be impacted from your site by this project in the short term (these numbers will readily double by the time we include families):

• 10 leaders to be recruited to form the leadership team (Month 2 and following)
• 10 civic and business and/or church leaders to help network the project
• 50 more, with shared books during this effort (distributed through the leadership team)

First mini workshop, to test the material = 50 attenders (to be comprised of the leadership team, some of the 50, and others… accounting for absentees and others who cannot attend), Month 5

Short term Zoom group expands the circle = 75 total impacted, by adding more to leadership circle after they see the vision of what we are doing, as well as Zoom group, Months 5 and 6

Next workshop and live recording = 100 total, Month 7 (tentative)

Should be able to raise the number to 200+, including groups and presentations at VSOs, fire houses, etc. (Months 7 and 8)

Continue shepherding the effort throughout Month 9

Host a family event, targeting not only heroes but also family members, with 300+ attendees, Month 10

The subsequent launch of the next round of small groups should facilitate impacted 500+ persons— in person— with the first year

Note: these are persons impacted from your location. This does not include persons impacted in other cities where other GY6 hubs may begin. To be clear, your initial investment will make all of that possible, as well.

We’re happy to come to you if you want to host.

Email [email protected] OR call/text 205-291-1391.

We’ll respond within 24 hours.

We are seeking financial partners and relational connections.

We would love to talk with you further about your involvement in a way that might enhance the work you’re currently doing. We believe this resource can enhance your efforts— not be a distraction.

We’re looking for people who will both invest in the mission financially and those who will serve as boots on the ground to actively participate.

If you choose to get involved, envision the following opportunities:

•  A large workshop hosted at your civic center, a local church, or place of business once every 4— 5 months (1-2 days in length). This might impact 50-200 people.
•  At that workshop participants will be led through the GY6 resource. They will be encouraged to invite family members (i.e., spouse or adult children) and friends (peers).
•  Participants will be invited to take a next step and walk with a small group for 9-10 weeks, journeying through the same material again. These groups might be hosted—
•  At a church or other organization
•  “Outside” of your organization— at a business, library, community center, VSOs (i.e., Veterans of Foreign Wars / VFW, American Legion), firehouse, etc.

Notably, veterans, military personnel, and first responders in your relational sphere already have contacts with these associations. They may have just not (yet) known they can turn them into their personal mission and serve others.

• As they make their way through the resources with a smaller group, they are encouraged to take the “next best step” for them. This might include—
•  Leading a group
• Taking a deeper dive in their own healing journey
• Stepping into their purpose, or even overcoming an addiction.

Resources are presented and made available.

• Participants are also invited to attend the next larger workshop and invite others.

Some of these steps are described and illustrated on this webpage.

Absolutely. 

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