Episode 048-2Josh Goldberg is the Director of Strategy at Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness, the nation’s first privately funded rural wellness center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans and their families. The Retreat runs short-duration, high-impact retreats focused on combat-related stress for combat veterans (male and female), spouses, caregivers, couples, families and Gold Star Families. Since opening in September 2013, the Retreat has hosted more than 2,500 guests.

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Josh is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives – including Boulder Crest’s work to develop the nation’s first comprehensive, non-clinical curriculum based on Post-Traumatic Growth, Warrior PATHH. Warrior PATHH is an 18-month program, initiated by a 7-day retreat, designed to harness the unique strength of combat veterans while enabling them to transform their struggle into growth and strength. In addition, he oversees strategic partnerships and scale and expansion efforts.

Prior to joining Boulder Crest Retreat, Josh worked as a communications executive at ExxonMobil’s Dallas headquarters from 2006-2011, and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at 2M Companies. During his time at 2M, Josh began advising several non-profit organizations supporting veterans, with a specific focus on combat-related stress and PTSD. After volunteering for a number of months, and in recognition of the remarkable strength, capacity and potential of the combat veterans, Josh chose to dedicate his life to ensuring that service members, veterans and their families had the opportunity to live the great lives they deserved – full of passion, purpose and service – here at home.

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SUMMARY:

Josh Goldberg  is the Director of Strategy at Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness, the nation’s first privately funded rural wellness center dedicated exclusively to combat veterans and their families. The Retreat runs short-duration, high-impact retreats focused on combat-related stress for combat veterans (male and female), spouses, caregivers, couples, families and Gold Star Families. Since opening in September 2013, the Retreat has hosted more than 2,500 guests.

Josh is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives – including Boulder Crest’s work to develop the nation’s first comprehensive, non-clinical curriculum based on Post-Traumatic Growth, Warrior PATHH. Warrior PATHH is an 18-month program, initiated by a 7-day retreat, designed to harness the unique strength of combat veterans while enabling them to transform their struggle into growth and strength. In addition, he oversees strategic partnerships and scale and expansion efforts.

Prior to joining Boulder Crest Retreat, Josh worked as a communications executive at ExxonMobil’s Dallas headquarters from 2006-2011, and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at 2M Companies. During his time at 2M, Josh began advising several non-profit organizations supporting veterans, with a specific focus on combat-related stress and PTSD. After volunteering for a number of months, and in recognition of the remarkable strength, capacity and potential of the combat veterans, Josh chose to dedicate his life to ensuring that service members, veterans and their families had the opportunity to live the great lives they deserved – full of passion, purpose and service – here at home.

Boulder Crest Retreat is the nation’s first privately-funded rural wellness center dedicated exclusively to our nation’s combat veterans and their families. We are committed to improving the physical, emotional, spiritual and economic wellbeing of this remarkable community of heroes, and ensuring they have the opportunity to succeed in their new mission – a life of passion, purpose and service – here at home.

The organization makes sure that in the aftermath of war veterans are given the chance to live the life that they deserve. They offer  services like PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Therapies for Healing Heroes)  which consists of five key programs:

– Warrior PATHH: a free 7-day combat stress recovery retreat for warriors (with separate programs for male and female combat veterans)
– Family PATHH: a free 5-day combat stress recovery retreat focused on combat veterans and their families
– Couples PATHH: a free 3-day combat stress recovery retreat focused on combat veterans and their spouses
– Caregiver PATHH: a free 3-day combat stress recovery retreat focused on those providing care to a spouse or child who was wounded in combat
– Career PATHH: a free 1-day transition seminar focused on providing transitioning or transitioned service members with the clarity required to live the life they deserve here at home.

Programs are designed to enable people to transform deep times of struggle into strength.  And all of the PATHH programs are built on something called post-traumatic growth.  And so the programs are intended to really harness the power of struggle, to help create a life that is authentic, fulfilling, true and purposeful.

Veterans can engage in activities such as offer fishing, kayaking hiking, archery, golf clubs and more. Labyrinth walks is a walking form of meditation to combat stress and reflect on stuffs they need to leave behind.  These recreational activities are not merely for recreational but really as reflection opportunities to have conversations about who people want to be.