WordTrails® For Veterans

WordTrails has proven to be a very effective tool to help Veterans and those they love become more able to reach across the divides that separate them.

We work closely with a group called WayPoint Vets, founded by a dear friend Sarah Lee.

We used WordTrails with powerful results in trainings with participants in their spring 2025 ATLAS training program. (Video introduction to the ATLAS program below)

A way we at WordTrails have come to think about the Veterans experience is that it involves, by necessity, a dampening of empathy. The military uses a structured, methodical process to achieve this. No harm, no foul – to go to war against other humans requires this.

And…so far as a society we have clearly not done a good enough job to reconnect these men and women with their innate humanness, when they come home.

This is a gap WordTrails stands ready to bridge.

Finding the words

“We haven’t been encouraged to use that kind of language. How can we be more exact in our language in order to communicate to another person the ways in which we feel?”

“Learning how to describe how you’re feeling? Wow. Just wow. That’s when the real magic happens.”

“If we can identify what’s going on inside ourselves, then we have a starting point.”