Prison Mindfulness

Prison Mindfulness

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Prison Mindfulness episodes

  • Ep.5 Liberation from the Inner Prison with Robina Courtin

    In this episode, Robina Courtin speaks with Vita Pires, about her correspondence work with prisoners and her experiences with the Liberation Prison Project.

    • Knowing the nature of the mind: the path of dharma inside
  • The power of learning dharma through the mail with a prison pen pal
  • “You could sit through a month of fiction films and not come across a character half as interesting as Robina Courtin”- Jake Wilson, Urban Cinefile


    • ROBINA COURTIN Since being ordained as a Buddhist nun in the late 1970s at Kopan Monastery in the Kathmandu valley, Ven. Robina Courtin has worked full-time for her teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and their worldwide network of Buddhist activities, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life, including her work with prisoners, has been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom.

    To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org

    47 min
  • Ep.4 Trauma-Informed Engagement with Rev. Dr. Michael Christie

    In this episode, Rev. Dr. Michael Christie speaks with John MacAdams about his experiences starting as a volunteer and then as an employed chaplain and supervisor working for the Connecticut Department of Corrections. 

    • Moving from volunteer to full-time professional in prison
  • How each volunteer’s self-awareness is essential to being impactful in prison
  • The power of mindfulness to heal and the boundaries we need to hold

    • MICHAEL CHRISTIE Dr. Michael Christie is the Chaplain Supervisor with the CT DOC. He offers Faith and spiritual coaching to the men and teaches trauma informed mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, Path of Freedom and inner healing work.


    To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org

    47 min
  • Ep.3 Dharma in Prison - Learning More Than Teaching with Venerable Thubten Chodron

    In this episode, Venerable Thubten Chodron speaks with Fleet Maull about her work with Sravasti Abbey and her experiences providing resources and support for incarcerated individuals.


    • The transformative nature of compassion when working with incarcerated individuals
  • The importance of diversity in the Buddhist teaching groups offered to prisoners.
  • Offering incarcerated individuals tools/skills before release to ease the transition


    • VEN. THUBTEN CHODRON Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977, Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey. Sravasti Abbey is one of the first Tibetan Buddhist training monasteries for Westerners in the U.S. She holds gender equality, social engagement, and care for the environment among her core values. Venerable Chodron teaches worldwide and is known for her practical and humorous explanations of how to apply Buddhist teachings in daily life. She is also involved in prison outreach and interfaith dialogue. She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation. She is currently assisting His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the writing and publication of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume series of teachings on the Buddhist path. Visit thubtenchodron.org for a media library of her teachings, and sravasti.org to learn more about the Abbey.


    To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep.2 The Power of Kindness with Sita Lozoff and Erin Parish

    In this episode, Sita Lozoff and Erin Parish talk with Vita Pires, about the past, present, and future of the Human Kindness Foundation. 

    • How the Human Kindness Project began in 1973
  • Nurturing the creative spirit “inside”
  • Offering opportunities for prisoners and former prisoners ways to share their wisdom

    • ERIN PARISH Erin Parish is the Executive Director of Human Kindness Foundation. She has twenty years of experience helping individuals and communities build resilience after war and incarceration. Erin has worked with victims and combatants of violence in Colombia and Northern Ireland. In North Carolina, she’s designed peer support reentry programs and transitional jobs programs for people coming out of prison, and driver’s license restoration programs to help people avoid incarceration. In all of her work, she seeks to create conditions that allow others to realize their full power. She has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Masters in History from Duke University and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College Dublin. In her free time, she loves cooking and throwing dinner parties, discovering new music, and playing outside with her family.

    SITA LOZOFF Sita Lozoff is the co-founder of the Prison-Ashram Project with her late husband, Bo Lozoff and Ram Dass in 1973. She's presently the spiritual director of this project which is still thriving almost for close to fifty years. She taught mindfulness on North Carolina's death row for years and we continue to send out hundreds of free books to people inside.


    To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org

    38 min
  • Ep.1 Radically Shifting Belief Systems with Bernard Moss

    In this episode, Bernard Moss speaks with Fleet Maull about his experiences with incarceration, learning alternatives to violence, and his work with the GRIP program.

    • The rationale behind engaging in violence and a gangster lifestyle
  • Shifting value systems - from violence to peace-making
  • Creating safety for transformation through the GRIP program

    • BERNARD MOSS is a GRIP Senior Facilitator, and Peacemaker, and an expert in violence Prevention, mindfulness, and emotional Intelligence. He currently resides in Pittsburg, California. Bernard was one of the first to go through and graduate the GRIP program at San Quentin. After he graduated he went on to facilitate three GRIP groups. He was granted parole after 28 years and currently facilitates GRIP at San Quentin state Prison and Mule Creek State Prison.


    To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org

     

     

    55 min

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Prison Mindfulness Podcast for those bringing mindfulness and transformational contemplative practices to underserved populations. Our nonprofit focuses on teaching mindfulness in prisons, jails, and…