This course explores the psychological, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of military and high-stakes service through a transpersonal lens. Students examine how trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, military sexual trauma, and moral injury shape identity, relationships, and the search for meaning. The course frames these challenges not as fixed pathologies but as invitations into integration, reconnection, and post-traumatic growth. Core themes include grief, belonging, moral conflict, and the experience of soul wounding as dimensions of the veteran journey.
A three day in-person immersion introduces storytelling practice, ritual, contemplative inquiry, and peer witnessing as approaches that foster embodied understanding and communal healing. Students begin to translate their insights into early forms of peer leadership, space holding, and community engagement, laying the foundation for the leadership capacities developed later in the concentration.