Deployment Class for Oregon MilSpouses!
By Katie • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Communication, Guard/Reserve Issues, Parenting, Passing the Time, RelationshipsAttention Oregon National Guard Spouses & Friends:
Lane Community College offers new Deployment classes!
Holding Down the Homefront: A Guide for Spouses
Based on the Army’s Battlemind training for spouses and her own work with military families as a Certified Professional Life Coach, Katie Dyer – National Guard wife and Founder of Heroes At Home, LLC – will lead a course designed to help you recognize your inner strength and resiliency, and show you how to build a network of resources and support.
How will the deployment affect your life and relationships? Do you have the skills you need to survive and thrive during a year without your spouse? Come network with other spouses in the same position and meet a Battle Buddy that can help you get through it. We’ll cover everything from minimizing the stress of deployment on children, to keeping your marriage strong during the separation, to using this year as time for your own personal growth. Each class session includes time for answering questions, brainstorming problems, and sharing struggles and celebrations.
Deployment…. The more you know, the easier it is!
Holding Down the Homefront is an 11-week course taught on Wednesday nights from 6-8pm, beginning June 24.
Register Here!
For more information, email Katie Dyer
Supporting our Citizen Soldiers: A Guide for Civilians
All of us know someone who is affected by Oregon’s recent National Guard deployment. But do you know what to say to a friend, neighbor or co-worker who’s loved one has been sent overseas? How do you reach out without upsetting them? How do you show support for our military families, even if you don’t support the deployment? Katie Dyer, military spouse, Certified Professional Life Coach, and Founder of Heroes At Home, LLC , talks about her own experiences of deployment – the transition from a civilian family to an Army family overnight, the isolation from friends who didn’t know what to say, and the struggle to ‘do it all’ while her husband was away – and offers practical ideas for showing your support and offering help in meaningful ways.
Supporting our Citizen Soldiers is a seminar taught on Saturday, July 18 from 9am-1pm.
For more information, email Katie Dyer
Katie is of the opinion that re-deployment is harder than deployment itself. The year Paul and I spent apart was tough, but nothing could have prepared me for trying to come back together again. Homecoming was full of challenges I never expected - no matter how many books I read!
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