Programs & Booking
Battlefield: Home offers documentary screenings, guided dialogue, speaking engagements, workshops, and educational programs designed to help communities explore trauma, transition, caregiving, identity, military family systems, PTSD, TBI, moral injury, grief, and human connection.
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Film Screening + Guided Discussion
A screening of Battlefield: Home – Breaking the Silence, followed by facilitated dialogue and audience discussion.
Speaking + Community Dialogue
Talks and guided dialogue for conferences, campuses, libraries, organizations, and community groups.
Workshops + Educational Programs
Longer-format programs using storytelling, facilitated discussion, and structured reflection.
Community Dialogue Events
Programs designed to bring military-connected and civilian communities into deeper conversation around shared human experience.
WHO THIS IS FOR
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Community organizations
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Schools and universities
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Healthcare, education, and community settings
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Military and veteran-connected services
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Rural and underserved communities
FOCUSED AREAS
Caregiving, Chronic Stress & Family Systems
Programs exploring caregiving, long-term stress, grief, burnout, family dynamics, and emotional realities that often go unseen.
Conversations Surrounding Suicide, Survival & Human Impact
Programs exploring suicide, survival, stigma, grief, identity, resilience, and the difficult realities that are often carried in silence.
Collaborative conversations may include Kris Engdall and others whose lived experience contributes to discussions surrounding suicide, resilience, and human impact.
Military Family, Legacy, and Generational Storytelling
Programs exploring the long-term impact of military service across generations — including identity, transition, remembrance, sacrifice, belonging, and military family systems.
Collaborative conversations may include Dr. Circe Olson Woessner and contributors focused on military family history, cultural memory, and intergenerational storytelling.
Transition, Identity & Invisible Impact
Programs exploring transition, identity loss, PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), moral injury, caregiving, grief, isolation, and the often-unspoken realities people carry long after service, crisis, or major life change.
Collaborative Voices
Kristopher Engdall, M.S.
Kristopher Engdall is a U.S. Army veteran whose work reflects a deep commitment to improving understanding, access, and connection within communities navigating trauma, crisis response, and behavioral health systems. He currently serves as a consultant with the State of New Mexico and previously worked with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Region 6.
Drawing from both personal and professional experience, Kris contributes to conversations focused on suicide, resilience, rural communities, veteran experiences, and the realities that often exist between policy and everyday life. His work often centers on helping individuals and communities better navigate fragmented systems of care and support.
His approach emphasizes listening first, fostering honest dialogue, and creating space for conversations grounded in humanity, lived experience, and understanding.
He believes meaningful change happens when systems begin reflecting the real experiences of the people they are meant to serve.
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Dr. Circe Olson Woessner
Dr. Circe Olson Woessner is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center. An Army spouse of 20 years and mother of an Army veteran, her work explores the lasting impact of military life across generations through storytelling, education, cultural memory, and community dialogue.
Drawing from decades of experience in Department of Defense schools, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and public humanities programming, Circe develops museum exhibits, workshops, podcasts, discussion groups, and collaborative educational initiatives focused on military-connected families and communities.
She has co-edited multiple anthologies documenting military family experiences, identity, service, remembrance, and cultural memory, including In Service With Uncle Sam, The Home Front Hearth, On Freedom’s Frontier, and Schooling With Uncle Sam.”
Her work centers on preserving lived experiences, strengthening intergenerational understanding, and ensuring military family stories are not lost to silence or time.
“Battlefield: Home Rapid Response Initiative is extremely effective at helping local leadership and combat veterans learn to speak the same language…I can’t think of a better system to get both sides interacting together effectively.”
— Gary Miranda II, USMC Combat Veteran – Jonesboro, Arkansas