Merritt Center Welcome Home Program for Combat Veterans

Welcome Home Program for Returning Combat Veterans

Free Weekend Retreats in Payson

The Merritt Center is offering a special educational retreat program for combat veterans. With the assistance of mentors, who are veterans themselves, and healing practitioners; returning vets will open the program with a Talking Circle to begin to release the experiences of war, and to begin to create the dream of a new life.

Through group and individual activities, participating veterans will learn to recognize the triggers of negative combat experience and learn ways to release negativity and reorder their personal priorities. They will learn to cleanse themselves of toxins of mind, body, emotions and spirit. The final retreat weekend will include family members who will join in a celebration of service and the awakening of a new vision of their future.

All returning veterans are welcomed to participate free of charge.

Seeking Women Combat Veterans for our next FREE four weekend program starting Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2015. For more information on this retreat and resources for women vets contact us.


Men 2015 Retreat Dates Four Free Weekends for combat vets: March 13-15, 2015 May 15-17, 2015 July 10-12, Sept. 11-13, 2015	Women 2015 Retreat Date Four Free Weekends for combat vets: Feb 27-Mar. 1, 2015 April 24-26, 2015 June 12-14, 2015 Aug 7-9, 2015

Overview of Training for Trainers: Aug. 28-30, 2015 for those leaders adding elements from this program to their programs. Workshop, Lodging/food: $360. Train the Trainer Intensive workshop for those leaders starting a program for returning veterans in another locale based on this program. This is a mirror of the four weekend retreat program. Call Betty for more information. Lodging/food: $725.