It is SO impressive what The Boulder Crest Foundation and The Boulder Crest Institute are doing for our Combat Veterans to help them heal from traumas. Their work is groundbreaking. The focus is on the teachings of posttraumatic growth. There are so many heartwarming Veterans Testimonials as to just how powerful this place is in helping so many be able to finally start ‘living’ again.
Here’s just one.
“Boulder Crest was here when I was at my rock bottom. My relationships were failing. I didn’t allow people to love me. It was chaos. I was at a point where none of the treatments were working. Boulder Crest has an amazing program. Just driving onto the property I felt this release. It challenges you. It gives you a different approach. It helped me process my traumas. I’m starting to live now.” – Marcos Warrior Pathh Participant
Ken Falke, Founder & Chairman of Boulder Crest, is a 21-year combat veteran of the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community and retired Master Chief Petty Officer. He believes there’s no greater mission than helping Veterans, first responders, and their families rediscover hope, purpose, and a future that is truly worth living. It’s his passion. He spends the majority of his time educating the public and private sectors on the issues surrounding the long-term care of our returning military personnel and their families from the last 20 years of war.
Ken is excited about the breakthrough success he’s seeing at Boulder Crest, and says this is the coolest thing he’s ever worked on and he’s worked on some pretty cool things. Ken is highly respected around the world as an innovative and forward-thinking leader on the subjects of wounded warrior care, military and veteran transition, counterterrorism, military training, and innovative technology development.
I’m so honored to be able to shine a light on Ken Falke and Boulder Crest this Veterans Day and every day.
To help transform ‘struggle to strength’, Boulder Crest offers 2 peaceful locations for struggling veterans to come spend a week, spend quality time, be embraced, understood and heal. One location is in Bluemont, VA and the other in Sonoita, Arizona. Plus they offer many other programs across the country where those who are struggling can get the quality help they need to find the path to a life worth living.
The Boulder Crest locations feature things like ADA-accessible cabins with plenty of amenities for comfort and for families to join in. Therapeutic and recreational activities like equine, archery, art, music, labyrinth walks, and fishing. And optional organized group activities, like barbecues and bonfires, which create opportunities for guests to connect with, and draw strength from, one another in what they’ve coined as a ‘warrior’s paradise’.
The Boulder Crest Institute, located in Bluemont VA, serves as the hub for the development, delivery, study, and scaling of their groundbreaking, Posttraumatic Growth-based programs. The Institute led the development of the Warrior PATHH curriculum, which is now delivered in nine locations across the country: Boulder Crest Virginia, Boulder Crest Arizona, Boulder Crest Mobile Training Team, and through partnerships in Florida (Gratitude America), Georgia (Camp Southern Ground), South Carolina (Big Red Barn Retreat), Maine (Travis Mills Foundation), Arkansas (Sheep Dog Impact Assistance), and Washington State (Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation).
The Institute is also currently leading programs in Miami, Florida and Tucson, Arizona, to integrate Struggle Well Training and Posttraumatic Growth into their police departments. This project is made possible by the support of the FirstNet by AT&T, the Gary Sinise Foundation, and the Community-Police Relations Foundation.
Since the Institute’s opening in January 2018, Boeing has been an invaluable strategic partner and supporter, enabling them to develop and deliver training on Posttraumatic Growth for the mental health community.
Ken Falke and Boulder Crest Institute Co-Founder & Exec. Dir. Josh Goldberg, also co-authored a book that’s taken the mental health world by storm. It’s called “Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma.” It’s changing the lives of Veterans, First Responders and anyone who’s been worn down by ‘struggling’.
“Struggle” the authors say, “is the story of every great leader, every great man, and every great woman. Through encountering obstacles, heroes are tested and forged into becoming the great, authentic human beings they are destined to be.”
I love this quote on their website:
” It’s time to learn how to struggle well. Because struggle is a terrible thing to waste.”
Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg, the authors of Struggle Well, have trained more than 40,000 people in the principles and practices of how to Struggle Well.
Boulder Crest Foundation is doing amazing work and there are so many ways you can support them. Here’s where you can find out more about them BoulderCrest.org.
And if you want to meet a real hero please take a few minutes to meet Ken Falke, Founder & Chairman Boulder Crest Foundation, in this warm podcast conversation from The Debbie Nigro Show.
The world is a better place because of people like Ken Falke.
