The men’s curriculum explores the traditional male warrior role through historical perspectives, from Shakespeare’s Henry V to Vietnam veteran author Doug Peacock to Iraq War veteran Stacy Bare. Many wonder how to help veterans, we believe in open dialogue and forest bathing in the Rocky Mountains as an effective tool to help combat veterans.

Huts for Vets is designed to promote an enlarged sense of self through an intensified belonging to the natural world. This larger belonging can provide security, identity and psychological strength, all derived from the realization that we are part of something bigger, older and more complex than anything we know. There is nothing like a starry night sky to enhance this awareness.

With three full days in the mountains the effects of wilderness are, on their own, therapeutic. The static of the outside world becomes muted and the senses grow more acute. A calming remove from the tumult of the world is quickly achieved as there is no cell or internet reception. Focus on the ideas explored in the seminar becomes more pronounced while immersion in nature is unfiltered.

Huts for Vets looks at how to help veterans
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Edward Abbey
  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Doug Peacock
  • Laurens Van Der Post
  • Shakespeare
  • Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Viktor Frankl
  • William Wordsworth
  • Chief Luther Standing Bear
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh