Timor Awakening (Timor Leste) – Veterans Care Association

11-day experience disrupting veterans routines to take time to pause, learn about themselves and seize responsibility for a positive direction forward in life.

Timor Awakening is an immersive peer to peer wellbeing program for veterans; composing holistic health education, self-awareness, group therapy, mentoring, counselling, physical activity, historical commemoration and community development. The 11-day immersion in Timor-Leste, provides a disruption from participant’s routine to take pause, learn about themselves and seize responsibility for a positive direction forward in life. 

Timor Awakening is available to Australian & New Zealand Veterans (and spouse or carer), with or without operational service. Participants provide each other with inspiration, practical tools, strategies and routines in overcoming trauma and re-establishing purposeful lives.