Quarterly Workshops for Angulimala’s Buddhist Prison Chaplains:

The next Workshop is on Saturday, May 26th.
Our Guest Speaker that afternoon will be Dr Peter Bennett, formerly Governor of HMP Grendon and Springhill and now Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). He will be reflecting on his experience as a Prison Governor and talking about imprisonment from an international and human rights perspective.

In 2012, the Angulimala Workshops will be on the last Saturdays of February and May, and on the first Saturdays of September and December. That is February 25th, May 26th, September 1st and December 1st.

The Workshop day commences with meditation at 10am and is expected to run until approximately 5pm.

These Workshops are for Buddhist prison chaplains. Attendance otherwise is by invitation to Angulimala members only.

New chaplains, for the first three years, are required to attend at least two of the quarterly training workshops in each calendar year. After that it’s at least one per calendar year but really the more you can come to the better.

The workshops are important for several reasons that most will well understand. They offer support and friendship, they enable the sharing of information and good practice, they are an opportunity to offload concerns and difficulties, they are reminders of what Buddhist prison chaplains are supposed to be doing and so encourage and help chaplains to maintain and improve standards, and they keep the team together. And they’re often good fun.