About Us
After being released from the IDF, many fighters deal with the effects of combat events in their day-to-day lives. The For Tomorrow Association helps those fighters who are released from military service in dealing with the events. The association's activities include group trips in nature guided by professionals. As part of these trips, the participants learn and practice A model for strengthening mental resilience and there are discussion circles that are a protected space where everyone can share with the group about combat events they have experienced and the process of dealing with them.
Group Process
A journey for tomorrow is a support and learning group for women and men who have experienced significant events during their military service. Some of the groups are organic teams or departmentsnew frequency and openness while sharing their personal point of view on joint combat eventseach other for the first time at the beginning of the journey process for commanders and fighters who choose to do so.
Personal Process
As part of the journey process, from the interview stage to the farewell meeting, each participant goes through a personal process within the process that the whole group goes through. The process allows the participants to learn about their personal sources of resilience, to diversify coping styles and to experience a participatory emotional discourse in the group.
Working With Nature
In the journeys for tomorrow the group spends most of the day in nature. Being in nature helps to create an open atmosphere. Nature brings the participants back to positive experiences from childhood and enables a sense of continuity, continuity, growth and renewal that help the personal process of each participant.
The journey process for tomorrow
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Initial Introduction
The journeys carried out by an association for tomorrow are mental journeys, the journey process begins with a short meeting for an initial introduction with the pair of facilitators who will accompany the entire process. The meeting is usually held in Tel Aviv but changes from time to time according to the convenience of the facilitators and participants.
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The Main Journey Chapter
A few days after the opening meeting (between 3 and 10 days)Leaving for the main part of the trip: 8 days (Monday to Monday) for trips abroad, and 6 days (Sunday to Friday) for trips taking place in Israel.
During this episode, the participants will meet again with themselves and their teammates and will go through a significant mental process together that will strengthen the relationship between them to understand more successfully how to deal with experiences they have gone through and left a mark on them and in addition they will be able to acquire tools to deal with the multitude of life's obstacles that will be placed before them in the future
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Opening Meeting
The next step is the opening meeting - a two-day meeting on Thursday and Friday (until 13:00) and takes place at some site in Israel.In this meeting, the other participants in the journey are introduced for the first time, and organic team journeys meet again with the members on a very different platform from the one they have known until now.
During the meeting, they write together a "group contract" drafted by the participants, the meaning of which is to allow room for a healthy and open emotional dialogue.
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The Day After The Journey
About two weeks after the end of the main chapter, a farewell meeting is held in which the process is summarized and "the day after the journey" is talked about.
This meeting lasted for several hours on Thursday from the morning until the evening.
About two weeks after the end of the main chapter, a farewell meeting is held in which the process is summarized and "the day after the journey" is talked about.
This meeting lasted for several hours on Thursday from the morning until the evening.
The Day After The Journey
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Your donations help to support our mission to assist veterans of the Israel Defense Forces who went through extremely difficult experiences as a result of their service. It is our goal to help them overcome their "invisible scars" so they can go on to live healthy, productive lives and contribute to and strengthen Israeli society.
Through group journeys in nature led by psychologists and outdoor therapists, veterans gain emotional tools to process, cope and repackage their internal scars. This journey also allows them to share with and support others who have endured similar incidents. Through this program, they learn they are not alone.
Friends of B'shvil Hamachar (A Path to Tomorrow) provides what the Israeli government cannot - the quiet, healing environment of the Colorado Mountains along with the loving supportive families that offer a critical element of recovery and therapy. The therapy and group activities provide Israeli wounded warriors with innovative and transformational counseling that builds confidence and improves their lives. With your help, all services are provided free of charge to the soldiers.
B'shvil Hamachar (Path to Tomorrow) began in 2007 after the Second Lebanon War when the founders realized that hundreds of soldiers who returned from the war were quietly suffering. These soldiers have been released from the Army but are not yet released inside. Since then B'shvil Hamachar has been offering journeys to provide critical counseling for these soldiers.
: Links to websites containing studies
The website of the National Organization for the Treatment of Trauma Victims (USA): National Center for PTSD. A site that has a lot of material, quite up-to-date, regarding the various treatment options. In addition, there are personal testimonies of people dealing with PTSD about life alongside the condition, as well as about the various treatments, alongside links to informational materials about treatments - for trauma victims and their families, and for professionals.
One soul - all the rights and treatments offered as part of the reform in the Department of Rehabilitation of the Disabled of the Ministry of Defense, which contains information about the various treatment options for those suffering from post-trauma due to war and their families, as well as the way to promote the right to receive them.
https://shikum.mod.gov.il/OneSoul/Pages/default.aspx
The website of the European Journal of Trauma Research, of the European Trauma Research Association ESTSS - all the articles on the website are open for reading, and were written by first-class professionals among the researchers and therapists around the world
Books in the field of treatment and coping:
Translated book : registered in the body / Bessel van der Kolk
Translated book: In the kingdom of the hungry spirits / Gabor Mata
Professional research papers
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Email: office@bshvil.org
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