MTT Fleet Guided Body Scan 9.22.21

Fleet Guided Compassion Practice 9.22.21

Guided meditation with Fleet Maull from our Engaged Mindfulness Institute's Mindfulness teacher training.

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Fleet Maull MTT Retreat Compassion Practice (9-29-22)

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

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

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

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

Ep.5 Liberation from the Inner Prison with Robina Courtin

In this episode, Leslie Booker speaks with cohost Julie Paquette about her time working with incarcerated youth.

- “What do we do about it?” The inspiration to truly see the unseen
- The process of developing trust
- “The function of freedom is to free someone else"

Booker is a Buddhist Meditation Teacher, Writer, and Lover of Liberation. She shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with children who had been incarcerated in juvenile facilities and Rikers Island and other vulnerable populations in NYC for over a decade. The gifts from this work have allowed Booker to show up with a fierce heart to cultivate a space of belonging. She is a co-author of ‘Best Practices for Yoga in a Criminal Justice Setting,’ a contributor to Georgetown Law's report on ‘Gender & Trauma,' and contributed to Sharon Salzberg's book ‘Happiness at Work.’ She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary, graduated from Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training, and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.

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

Ep.9 Youth in Prisons with Leslie Booker

In this episode, Michael Yellow Bird speaks with Fleet Maull about his experiences working with indigenous youth, and his research focused on "Neurodecolonization".
 
- The systemic impacts of Colonization and abolishing indigenous sacred meditative practices
- “Neurodecolonization” The conceptual mindfulness framework and healing trauma in incarcerated, indigenous groups
- Building cognitive resilience in indigenous youth

Michael Yellow Bird, IMTA CMT-P, MSW, PhD, is Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. He is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations in North Dakota, USA. He is a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and is a certified mindfulness facilitator/teacher–professional. He has been involved in meditation and Indigenous contemplative practices for more than 45 years. His research focuses on mindful decolonization and neurodecolonization. He has implemented meditation programs and conducted mindfulness research in Indigenous communities in the US. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the co-editor and co-author of several books that focus on decolonization, social work, mindfulness, and Indigenous Peoples. He is the creator of Siíŝu' tooxuuciitu'ooxIt (Mind beautiful all calm): An Arikara Mindfulness Curriculum for Youth. His mindfulness and neurodecolonization works are featured on several mindfulness podcasts. His most recent press article can be found at: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/meaningful-mindfulness-576071502.html

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

Ep.10 Neurodecolonization with Indigenous Incarcerated Youth with Michael Yellow Bird

In this episode, Dave Smith talks with Vita Pires about his work in prisons and recovery groups. 

- What is the Secular Path of Dharma?
- Prison work as service work.
- Training in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence in prisons and recovery groups.

Dave Smith is an internationally recognized Buddhist meditation teacher, addiction treatment specialist, and published author. His background is rooted in the Insight Meditation tradition, and he was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He has extensive experience bringing meditative interventions into jails, prisons, youth detention centers, and addiction treatment facilities. Dave teaches residential meditation retreats and classes, provides training and consulting in secular and Buddhist contexts, and works with students through his meditation mentoring program. He recently founded the Secular Dharma Foundation and lives in Paonia, Colorado.

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

Ep.11 Secular Dharma in Prisons with David M. Smith

In this episode, Gail Jackson speaks with  Sandy Inkster about her experiences working as a probation and parole officer, and her work with drumming and sound immersion. 

- Mindfulness Inside: Point of view of a parole/probation officer/certified mindfulness teacher
- Drumming, gongs, and sound immersion: how it helps ground both prisoners and those working in prisons
- Creating immersive environments for those traumatized by racial violence

Gail Jackson comes to us from the unceded land of the Dena’ina People in Anchorage, Alaska, where she is the owner and founder of CreativeRhythms. She is a graduate of the Engaged Mindfulness Institute's 500-hour Mindfulness Teacher Training. Gail facilitates mindfulness practices in marginalized communities as well as community and corporate drumming circles for well-being. She is also a performing artist and is one of 40 luminaries in the new documentary “ We All Just Need To Gong,” and recently finished recording a CD due out in September featuring her sound artistry using the gongs. This CD also works well as a sound meditation. Gail is a social justice activist bringing awareness to her community of the killings of black and brown people. During Juneteenth, she facilitates “Say Their Name,” a Celebration community coming together to acknowledge those that have been killed through drumming for healing.

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

Ep.12 Sound Immersion as Somatic Healing with Gail Jackson

In this episode, Carmen Alonso talks with John MacAdams about her experiences facilitating PMI's Path of Freedom program. 

- Connecting incarcerated folks with the outside community through each group taking PMI’s Path of Freedom course and writing to each other
- Working in supermax and maximum security environments
- Cultivating humility and patience as qualities necessary for effective service

Carmen Alonso is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. She is dedicated to serving adults in both individual psychotherapy and group settings. Carmen has taught mindfulness-based interventions to alleviate stress and decrease suffering to a wide variety of groups, such as:
• Patients with clinical depression and anxiety
• Veterans with and without PTSD
• Spanish-speaking populations •Medical residents
• School personnel
• Athletes
• Police officers
• Residents in maximum and medium security facilities (including men in the segregation unit in the most secure correctional facility in Wisconsin)
Some of the mindfulness-based interventions Carmen has offered throughout the years are Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Path of Freedom, and Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training. She has also combined her mindfulness teachings with Tae Kwon Do, a martial art she has practiced for over 30 years, including nearly 25 years as the head instructor of the Choi Tae Kwon Do School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

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