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Deployment Rollercoaster

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Deployment Explained
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Riding a rollercoaster can be an exhilarating ride.

First, there’s the lining up stage – you know that you will soon be on the rollercoaster but you don’t know how long you will have to wait.

Once on board, you feel the anticipation of starting; your heart beats faster, and you might worry about what’s going to happen next. Suddenly, you’re plunged into the unknown, and your stomach churns as the air rushes to your face.

Hurtling down the slope you might start to feel joy, exhilaration or possibly fear. At the end of the ride you try to get off, but your loved one asks you to go round one more time. The journey repeats. This time, you discover that you experience new emotions and notice the skyline a bit more.

Deployment can be a bit like this!

 

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Deployment Rollercoaster

Co-producing with young people from armed forces communities.

We wish to thank Isla, Lottie, Jayden, Sophia, and Rubie for sharing their lived experience and creativity in making this wonderful project happen.

Joining our team and project partner, Civic UK, online and offline sessions have run throughout the year in co-producing our interactive deployment rollercoaster presentation.

From sharing experiences of parental deployment and talking about strategies to help to designing website concepts, user journeys, and cartoon characters, young people’s experiences, thoughts, and imagination are at the heart of everything you see.

 

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Deployment Rollercoaster

 

What is Deployment?

Deployment means your serving parent or loved one will travel away from home to serve their country and do their job.

They can be gone for a long time. While they are gone you will feel lots of different feelings and that’s ok, it’s also completely normal.Whilst your serving parent or loved one is away you may miss them.

Friends and trusted adults can support you by learning about how you could be feeling and what might help you at different times. This is called the ‘Emotional Cycle of Deployment.’

 

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Deployment Rollercoaster

Deployment rollercoaster

Here are the seven stages to our Deployment Rollercoaster to help you navigate your deployment journey.
  1. Before they go
  2. Last few days together
  3. My serving parent or loved one is away
  4. I am used to them being away
  5. I hear that my serving parent or loved one will be returning
  6. My serving parent or loved one returns home
  7. Things are getting back to normal

 

 

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Deployment Rollercoaster

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust and BFBS Big Salute generously fund our digital deployment pack resource.