Deliverables
Four Pillars ©
This course paves a path to building a focused, noteworthy future for you! The “Four Pillars” journey starts with fundamental basics designed to help each person find themselves through a unique inward-looking excursion of self-appraisal, followed by building a powerful voice in multiple dimensions. The four "My's" are an empowerment framework with utility geared to enhance one's lifetime. The first two modules open a doorway to one's infinite possibilities, the third module cements one’s capacity to define one’s pinnacle interest, and the final module optimizes a "rinse and repeat" mindset that supercharges motivation and personal focus.
Target Audience:
Although this course was designed for teens and young adults, it is highly appropriate for all age groups. Available in a two or three-day intensive format for groups of eight to twenty-four participants or as a ten-week, iterative course for individuals online.
Coping with Grief on all Levels ©
This course addresses one of humanity’s most challenging universals: Grief. Ever since Kübler-Ross described the five stages of grief and then the seven stages of change through stressful loss perceptions, grief has been a conflicted topic. The conflict anchors on coping. We need to understand the action components of every type of grief and then the pathways to solid coping mechanisms that fit the modern world of constant sensory overload. This course is a prerequisite to our mission of addressing mental health issues and suicide ideation. We will travel from microgrief and the effects of gradual force overload to the ravages of deep, extended existential grief.
Target Audience:
Grief is a human universal. This course has multiple vectors and modules, allowing the presenters to address any audience in any grief environment. Coping mechanisms are unique to every individual, so we expand participants’ ability to self-analyze and self-actualize through critical thinking skills.
Kicking Suicide to the Curb ©
This course is about creating a mindset and feeding someone’s passion for saving lives. The number one prime creating the potential for suicide ideation is a “feeling of helplessness.” Once people lock onto a belief they are irrelevant to themselves and others, their self-worth is diminished, and they feel as if no one cares, good outcomes rarely follow. Not everyone shares the vision of a prosocial warrior, but suppose you could find a pathway to passionate prosocial advocacy and direct engagement? This course can give you insight into being an authentic prosocial champion. The power of informed and engaged advocacy is real; take the plunge and become empowered today!
Target Audience:
Yes, this course is about preventing suicide. Research shows communities that openly discuss how to create connection and support through inclusion are far less likely to experience high levels of suicide ideation or attempts.
The LEAP Approach to Intervention ©
This course approaches one of the tragic aspects of being human is how we universally struggle with how to be the help someone in our orbit needs. There are many acronym-labeled approaches to intervention; however, most align with being a professional in the behavioral field. Our system is time-proven and easy to understand and implement. All it takes is a mindset shift, minimal role-playing to embed the training, and a welcoming heart set. How important is it to be a lifesaver? I’ll give you a hint: I’d rather spend my time saving a life than ever preparing to attend untimely funerals that are decades too early.
Target Audience:
Survivors almost always express remorse for not being capable of doing “more.” Don’t be that person! We all experience negative emotions that could definitely spiral down into hopelessness and despair. Many times, we can use our coping mechanisms to uplift ourselves, but what if this time is “that one time?”
Programs
Lost in Transition ©
Description:
What does “transition” look like, feel like, or entail? Sadly, failures in transition are common and share two identical root causes regardless of the type of pivot we discuss. Familiar transitions are from active-duty military to civilian life, first-responders released due to declines in physical ability, competitive athletes to post-career less or non-competitive pursuits, down-sized executives facing “chronic nonemployability,” recently divorced, or empty nesters. Here’s one you might not identify with readily: Adult offspring out on their own for the f irst time. There are many other potential transitions, and we have training and responses that will allow an optimal approach to this challenging dynamic. This offering is the “power player” course that uplifts and accentuates what self-actualization becomes when someone faces a life-altering transitional pivot zone.
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Four Pillars © Community Boost Camps ©
Desrciption:
What is “Community” in today’s divisive social environment? Families are more disconnected than ever, and COVID-19 created a polar opposite effect when family groups were thrust into hyperbolic inclusion involuntarily. Add in the barriers to social interaction, and you have a recipe for social discontent. A day of fun interaction focused on how to co-create community and personal space is the answer to what ails society. Plus, it offers unique bonding opportunities intra-family, inter-family, and neighbors, permitting people to be “human” again. This full-day event guarantees lunch and fun. FFH focuses on “local first” groups, energizing congregations for pastors, culture-building for organizations, and community-building.
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Dinner with a Winner ©
Description:
Everyone loves a celebration. Why not include some light education and a story-sharing event with someone special? Well, yes, bring your “+ one”; however, we use our Dinner with a Winner event to honor someone from your backyard! That’s right, such as a noted prosocial advocate, someone with a ‘survivor to thriver’ story, a community activist who fits our mission, or someone our partners and sponsors nominate. We feed the room, have our honoree tell their story (or let us help them if they are stage-shy), gift them an honorarium, and interject some basic ideology from our core mission. “DWAW” is the perfect event for a date night or to gift someone you know needs an uplift with one of our scholarship packages. Won’t you join us for a memorable event?
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Prosocial Approach to PTSD/PTSI ©
Description:
PTSD/PTSI, most commonly attributed to veterans and first responders, is present in the daily lives of everyone. FFH aligns our approach to multiple trauma environments and vectors, primarily PTSI and STI. Although many sufferers devolve and anchor into PTSD, the more common version is not a disease or defect; we know it is an injury. Then, there is STI, certainly never a form of victimization anyone chooses. Yet, millions suffer from sexual trauma silently and needlessly, as we can help them escape from their pain and depression. There are answers; most require a tiny bit of courage and participation. Our trainers at FFH are the bridge between suffering in silence or getting confidential relief by removing the stigma and overwhelming shame most STI victims experience. Let us be your guide. Veterans, first responders, and STI survivor-thrivers willing to share?
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Grief and Micro-Grief ©
Description:
What is “Grief” in today’s expanded behavioral model? Kübler-Ross is almost 60 years old, and yet it remains the most cited of the modern grief models. This exclusive FFH offering starts with aspects of microgrief due to momentary PTSD and the consistent barrage of conflict through misapplied expectation dynamics to the well-researched “loss grief” and beyond into complicated or extended deep grief. Every level of potential grief is explored through meaningful dialogue and leads to optimized coping mechanisms. The framework includes the philosophical, spiritual, psychological, physical, and sociocultural dynamics of modern grief. Climb aboard and find your answers today.
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Optimal Journey to Oneself ©
Description:
What is Optimal? We start with a solid foundation that helps participants self-define their quality worldview. Eudaimonia from the annals of Aristotle and transcendence from the Maslow Hierarchy, concept models 2000+ years apart, synthesize into a modern, cutting-edge approach to human development, and that’s only the first module we will discuss. Every mentor of note has a model; how many give you core concepts you can build upon for your unique needs? At the intensive and mastermind levels, this program sets participants on an incredible journey toward hyper-success.
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Meet Our Team
Buddy Thornton
Co-Founder and Behavioral AdvisorRobert Thornton
Co-Founder, I.T. & AnalyticsLyndsey Scholta
Program AdministratorIsaiah Drone III
Fiscal SponsorLeann Coakley
AmbassadorRobert W. Jones
Business Advisor