Our Program
Someone once said, the best healing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse.
We have developed a leadership training module called our Warrior Mission Ranch Academy, where we have partnered with various trainers to develop individual skills. Once an individual skill is proficient we then move on to group tasks. We believe in Veterans teaching Veterans. Once a Veteran in our program becomes trained in a skill they become the mentor for the upcoming Veteran. Trust me just as a Green Beret teaching small unit tactics in a foreign country, you will lean more from teaching than anything else. The program culminates in taking a small trained unit of Veterans onto a working cattle ranch to put their skills to the test. This is where the unit challenges their leadership and team building skills to accomplish the mission at hand. You will be tired, dirty, sore, and on top of the world accomplishing something new. This is not the time to quit, this is the time to “Change and grow from Challenges”
Warrior Mission Ranch Academy activities are designed to develop individual growth, confidence building and learning to trust again. Even when people feel that they have no outlet, a horse will always be there for you. Warrior Mission Ranch helps participants take what they learn on the ranch and apply that to all aspects of their lives.
PHASE 1:
During the first phase of the Warrior Mission Ranch program, participants travel to one of our camps in Colorado for instruction in horsemanship, riding, pack training, back-country skills, stock management, leadership course, and the basics of being an outdoorsman.
PHASE 2:
RANCH WEEK:
Students will depart to commercial working ranches around the state. Integrating in all ranch operations, learning new skills and working as a real cowboy putting their new skills to use for a week.
Upon completion of Ranch Week, the class returns to educational classes the next day. In Phase 2 there is a lot more responsibility as the class beings to become self-run with oversight, and our students will find themselves wrangling horses, checking stock and prepping for classes. Here the instructors will teach our students shoeing, equine medicine, ground work flanking calves. The learning is real.
PHASE 3:
“A man’s work makes room for him in life”.
In Phase 3 it’s all about our students applying themselves in real world situations. We work closely with various outfits and construction companies across the country to place our students into temporary internships, and also job placements into wilderness outfitter as a hand, learning horsemanship, or working cattle on a ranch. These internships take place all around the country - Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, etc. We strategically created a follow up program with certified business coaches and consultants to reinforce the tools learned throughout the course, coach through challenges faced as the Warrior’s reintegrate back into the work force. No matter what a student chooses, it’s imperative that they find meaningful work and keep progressing.
Please note that applications must be completed in their entirety in order for the applicant to be considered for our program.
There are so many similarities between Cowboys and Veterans! Our programs expose Warriors to the “cowboy way of life.” Both tracts focus on leadership, healing, and accomplishment.
