The Coming Home Project offers free, confidential group support and stress management retreats for OIF and OEF veterans and families. A multidisciplinary team of veterans, family members, psychotherapists and interfaith leaders, we are devoted to offering innovative, compassionate care to address the mental, emotional, spiritual and relationship problems service members face. Our retreats invite participants to share experiences and stories, struggles and breakthroughs, in an atmosphere of mutual support, safety, and trust; to find understanding and acceptance; to learn new skills, like mindfulness and yoga, for reducing stress and anxiety and enhancing well-being; to improve communication and relationships; to express what cannot be spoken through expressive means such as writing and drawing; to enjoy invigorating outdoor recreational activities in scenic, peaceful settings; and to tend and transform the invisible injuries of war in heart, mind, identity, spirit, and relationships. 

Join other veterans and families to:

• Support one another in the passage of return and reentry.
• Share experiences and stories of service and return.
• Learn useful skills for managing strong feelings, reducing stress and anxiety, and enhancing well-being.
• Improve communication and relationships.
• Find comfort and strength, safety and trust, in community with fellow veterans and families.

Workshops and retreats are open to all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and families. No particular political, ideological or religious belief or affiliation is represented or required. Everyone is welcome as they are and all will be honored and treated with respect. The intention of Coming Home is to serve veterans and families and contribute to their well-being and healing, not to convert anyone to a particular point of view. Retreats are facilitated by veterans, psychotherapists, and interfaith leaders who are experienced with trauma and the challenges faced by returning veterans and their families. The workshops are free, confidential and we offer travel and lodging scholarships for those outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. They are not psychotherapy, but they are therapeutic.