Black Ops to Backcount w/ Matt Williams of Nodens Outdoors

The Nodens Outdoors program is unique and requires constant, near-daily contact between Nodens staff and recipients for 8-9 months. Their premise is simple--return our transitioning warriors to their natural state and many of the physiological, emotional, mental, nuerological issues that face that demographic can start to heal. Nodens believe that bowhunting is uniquely able to provide that natural state.   Bowhunting places the recipient in the wild, outdoors, where they exercise their primal function of hunting and providing food for their families. It requires all the skill they have gained in careers in Special Operations and allows them to transition those skills into a civilian setting. Nodens use of human performance sensors throughout the program shows that this model works to improve key physiological markers.  Nodens program provides the recipient the knowledge, equipment and experience to add bowhunting into their lives as a continual therapeutic measure -- and reinforces this with advanced human performance training and analytics and surrounds the recipients with a new team...a Tribe.  In 2023, Nodens will expand and scale their program to include the family members of alumni recipients in order to further unify the Veterans with their Tribe. Their family will be invited to a retreat at the Ranch in Julian to learn the same skills so that outdoor immersion isn't just another thing that takes their Veteran away from home...they can share in the experience and fortify one another.  To learn more checkout: https://www.nodensoutdoors.org/