For Those Who Served
Healing for Our Veterans
If you're a Veteran carrying PTSD, chronic pain, or the weight of the transition home, the Convergence Retreat & Wellness Center is for you — at no cost to you.
Your stay and your treatments are funded by our guests and donors, so you can focus on one thing: healing. Stop surviving. Start thriving.
Explore the retreat:
- Overview
- Guests
- Veterans
- Investors
- Donors & Legacy
- Volunteers
What Veterans Receive
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Holistic Healing
Integrative therapies, stress-recovery, fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness in a natural, tropical setting.
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PTSD Dive Therapy
Veteran-led SCUBA therapy — controlled breathing, focus, and camaraderie shown to lower stress and steady mood.
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Peer Support
Connection with fellow Veterans and guidance for reintegration and the return to civilian life.
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At No Cost to You
Free or subsidized stays and treatments, funded by our paying guests and generous donors.
Your Healing Is Fully Funded
You served. Now it's your turn to be served. Every guest who books a stay and every donor who gives underwrites care for Veterans — so cost is never a barrier to healing.
At No Cost to You
Eligible Veterans receive stays and treatments free or subsidized, thanks to our for-profit retreat and generous donors.
Sustainably Funded
A percentage of every guest fee and membership flows into the nonprofit that cares for Veterans — dependable support, not one-off charity.
More Than a Getaway
Integrative therapies, PTSD dive therapy, peer support, and reintegration — built to help you stop surviving and start thriving.
A Place to Heal
Our restored waterfront property in Bocas del Toro, Panama, is a calm, natural setting built for recovery — steps from the Caribbean, surrounded by native landscaping.
- Tinted cool-roof thatch coating — solar-reflective and cost-effective
- Earthy eco-resort palette: sage, sand, and stone wall tones
- Fully restored and re-stained local hardwood decks
- Native landscaping and privacy planting throughout
- Integrated solar decks and optimized mini-kitchens
- Over-the-water short-term rental units
- Communal bar & grill and a stone plunge pool
- Private hand-carved stone soaking tubs
Veterans Helping Veterans
Convergence was founded by U.S. Veterans and their supporters who learned firsthand that healing comes from peer connection and purpose. What began at our Mirror Ranch retreat — equine-assisted work and dialectical behavior therapy — grew into SCUBA dive therapy for PTSD, and then into Panama.
Alongside partners like YWAM Ships and SAR Panama, our all-Veteran crews have run mobile medical missions (84 people treated in two days), humanitarian aid deliveries, and healing retreats aboard the M/V Ceaseless Explorer. Now our onshore Wellness Center gives that mission a permanent home.
There, Veterans move from surviving to thriving — turning wounded warriors into healers for both oceans and communities.
Ready to Take the First Step?
Reach out to apply for a Veteran retreat, or refer a Veteran who could use our support. We'll walk you through what's available and what's next.