The SOF Team Room is an event collaboratively hosted by Global SOF and the Military Special Operations Family Collaborative (MSOFC). It is a SOF-focused conversation that aims to provide an open, honest space for dialogue within the special operations community, resembling the familiar team room atmosphere.
The most recent SOF Team Room took place virtually on Tuesday, 27 AUG 2024. This event’s topics included:
- Rally Point: Will tackle networking or interacting with people after service
- Beyond Exposures: Will dig into the very real challenges many face with traumatic brain injury and sleep.
- Endless Pursuit: Will tackle purpose after service.
Speakers in the event included:
- Dr. Joseph Bonvie, Home Base
- Garrett Cathcart, More Perfect Union
- Dr. Chris Frueh, author of Operator Syndrome
- Jake Harriman, More Perfect Union
- Dr. Sofia Matta, Home Base
- Bob Newman, The Honor Foundation
- Matt Parrish, Task Force Dagger
- Kevin Stacy, The Station Foundation
Information and resources about each topic are below!
Rally Point & Team Room Leaders
In the past, the Team Room brought in keynotes who were often senior leaders, but tonight we are focusing solely on the topics mentioned in the SOF Force Survey. Rally Point will tackle networking or interacting with people after service. Beyond Exposures will dig into the very real challenges many face with traumatic brain injury and sleep, and our last segment, Endless Pursuit, will tackle purpose after service.
Resources:
Beyond Exposures
No one goes to war certain they will go unscathed. No community understands the repercussions of war more than special operations, but exposures don’t define you. Making the most of your health in and after service is key.
Drs. Bonvie and Matta shared many resources to accompany their informative session.
Resources:
- Health Promotion and Wellness – Sleep: https://www.med.navy.mil/Navy-and-Marine-Corps-Force-Health-Protection-Command/Population-Health/Health-Promotion-and-Wellness/sleep
- Army Press Journal – Sleep Performance: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/November-December-2023/Sleep-Performance
- Managing Sleep After a Concussion: https://health.mil/Reference-Center/Publications/2020/07/31/Management-of-Sleep-Disturbances-Following-ConcussionmTBI-Clinical-Recommendation
- Sleep After Concussion Infographic
- Treating Insomnia Patients
- Insomnia Medications
- Sleep and Performance: Changing the Army’s Sleeplessness Culture
- Army Wellness Center – P3 for All Graphic
Upcoming Event Highlight:
Have you registered yet for the 2024 Home Base Brain Health Summit: Promoting HealthSpan Through Collaboration and Innovation? It takes place from 11 – 12 SEP 2024.
Register Now to Reserve Your Spot at the inaugural Summit!
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Capacity is limited, and we hope to see you for this important discussion, networking, and education event. Don’t miss out and register today!
For any questions, please contact educationathomebase@mgb.org.
Endless Pursuit
Purpose and hardship are connected. Purpose goes beyond a job, duty, or title. For our SOF community, purpose is often is accompanied by risk and hardship. Maybe you even start to think purpose “feels a certain way”…. Like the feeling of success or flow as MBA types like to say. But when you leave service and your purpose has to evolve, how do you recognize it?
Resources:
Norman Moser
Home Base is on target…What are all of the treatments for TBI and Operator Syndrome.
Norman Moser