Raven Drum Foundation's Resiliency Program is an innovative healing program for veterans, active duty military, and their families. We use self-care modalities to aid in healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, combat-related trauma, and the everyday stress, anxiety, and depression experienced by service men and women and their families.

Current research demonstrates that the primary impact of traumatic experience is a bodily impact. Our body, as the site of all human experience, stores the memory of traumatic experience implicitly, and these memories permeate our thoughts, feelings and actions. By using the drum circle as a backbone, our programs incorporate Drumming, Rhythm, Movement, Dance, Yoga, Breathing techniques, and the practice of Mindfulness and Meditation. When combined together these modalities help to release and heal the trauma allowing the body to become integrated and whole.

Our program provides participants with self-help and self-healing tools to be incorporated into their daily lives to help cope with their emotional, physical and psychological wounds.

Over the past several years, we have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of veterans throughout the country and we hope to continue to expand our programs to reach more and more service men and women, especially new veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with life-changing injuries. Additionally, we are developing components of the program that will focus specifically on women veterans, as well as military spouses and partners.

Our Resiliency Veteran Program is our way of giving back to these courageous and inspiring warriors and providing them with a new path for the future.

Thank you for being a part of Raven Drum.

Hope begins with all of us,

Rick Allen and Lauren Monroe