The Heroines Journey Course will be starting in 2026 and we are inviting early expressions of interest from female combat veterans for our online and in person cohorts. Please email us at enquiries@forward-assist.com to register your interest.

This is an 11-week course for female combat veterans, providing one in person group session per week, with activities to complete at home in between meet ups, and personal one on one weekly checkins with each beneficiary. Providing up to 10 spaces per course, run 4 times per year, for a yearly total of 40 beneficiaries.

The Heroine’s Journey course, likely to be the first of it’s kind in the UK, is a profound psychospiritual journey that aims to guide women to cultivate a path of fulfilment, living from an integrated authentic self and healing internalised patriarchal wounds and repairing the disconnection from their feminine nature. It validates the cost of adaptation to masculine systems, guides the healing of emotional wounds left unspoken in military life, helps rediscover inner balance, community and identity beyond service and transforms the warrior into the whole women. 

In practical terms, expected outcomes for women completing The Heroine’s Journey include improved emotional regulation, reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and PTSD, stronger social networks with other women veterans, and increased confidence in parenting, relationships and work. Meaningful change will be tracked using simple, validated wellbeing and functioning measures, participant feedback, and follow-up interviews at 3 and 6 months to understand sustained impact and inform future development. For the wider Army community, this should translate into reduced use of emergency or crisis services, improved family stability and a greater likelihood of women veterans sustaining employment or meaningful activity.