The mark you all have left on my soul could never be repaid. This experience has saved my life, thank you.

-Jeff Daughtery, Military Spouse and 2025 HHH program participant

This July 24th 2026, Atz Kilcher with Miriam and Adam, co founders of Open Circle will take 12 Veterans on a powerful healing journey to Heroes Healing Homestead, nestled at the tip of Kachemak Bay, Alaska. In this remote and breathtaking setting, Veterans will reconnect with nature, community, and themselves—finding strength, healing, and renewal.

This mission … is about something bigger than any one of us.

It started with a man. Atz Kilcher. Vietnam veteran. Someone who came home from a war this country wasn't ready to welcome him back from — and found his way to healing not in a hospital or a program, but in the raw, unforgiving quiet of the Alaskan wilderness. A place that saved his life. A place he now calls Heroes Healing Homestead.

And now he's giving that place away. To the next generation of veterans still trying to find their way home.

These men and women will ruck miles into the Alaskan backcountry on foot. Every footstep is a step of faith. Not a mission for duty this time — but for self discovery. For healing. For a chance to meet the unbroken version of themselves again.

And for those who carry music inside them… something else happens out there. In the quiet of that wilderness, Atz walks alongside them — not as a teacher exactly, but as someone who's been there. Who knows what it costs. Who knows what's possible. Songs get written. Real ones. The kind that can only be born when you strip everything else away.

Those songs don't stay in Alaska.

They will travel to Nashville, where they'll work with Grammy Award-winning producer Joe West on the soundtrack. The recordings become an EP — Heroes Healing Homestead: Songs From The Alaskan Wilderness — each track carrying a veteran's unique story, woven together with the voice and spoken word of Atz Kilcher. Different wars. Different wounds. Different generations. One healing journey.

The story comes full circle on the legendary airwaves of WSM Radio — home of the Grand Ole Opry — where the artists and Atz sit down to tell what happened out there. The songs play. Some are performed live. And if the stars align… they take that stage at the Grand Ole Opry itself.

We needed to raise $45,000 to bring this dream to life - we have twelve Veterans ready to come to Heroes Healing Homestead this July 24 - we have volunteers - we are still short the money.

We are 60% of the way there

We have raised $25,000 and need to raise $20,000 more by July 6 to make this possible.

Please help us continue this journey of healing and saving lives. Every donation helps cover travel, accommodations, and essential resources for these Veterans.

$50 helps provide shared camp supplies
$100 helps cover food for a participant
$250 helps support transportation and gear

$3500 supports a full veteran experience

Larger gifts directly expand access and sustainability for future veteran programs

Most importantly, your support helps make sure no veteran has to carry everything alone.

Thank you for helping make this possible.

— Atz and everyone at Open Circle

This experience is something that I’ll always remember. It was more beneficial than years of therapy or any medicine. I learned more about myself, learned tools to be a better person. Honestly, the best decision I’ve made in my life. Thank you for helping put my life back on track

- Zack Sliver, Veteran and 2025 HHH participant

I have been doing intense and continuous recovery and healing work for nearly 2 decades and I have never felt more internally clean and mentally clear as I do right now. I feel rearranged in the best possible way.

- John Evans, Combat Medic and 2025 HHH participant

Healing Heroes

Help us take 12 Veterans on a Life-Changing Healing Journey to Alaska.

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