Deer Hart Lodge provides a safe place and space for veterans to engage in transformative healing & renewing activities, and ceremony, personalized life coaching services, personal growth classes, workshops & retreats.
Serving veterans, their families, and their supporting community to heal the physical, emotional, moral, heart, and soul wounds of war and providing the support and tools to effectively heal from and manage the effects of these experiences for authentic transitions and reintegration back to civilian life as community elders.
Our work is based on the concepts of Buffalo Medicine & follows in the tradition of Edward Tick and Soldier’s Heart; building and fostering the interactive and interchanging roles between warrior and community, serving to heal our warriors, bringing them home to help them have meaningful lives and roles as elder warriors and community elders.
As long as we live in this country, pay taxes and are a part of the System, all wars that our warriors participate in are all OUR WARS – like it or not. It is not just the Soldier’s burden, it belongs to civilians too. Both veterans and civilians participate in these retreats, civilians providing care, comfort and acceptance to veterans and ritualistically and emotionally unloading (veterans) and civilians taking on our part of the burden of war, literally “taking a load off” the veteran.
We are located five minutes from downtown Gainesville!
Executive Director: Paige Allison, Ph. D.
Call Us, We Help! (352) 316-5474