Quarterly Workshops for Angulimala’s Buddhist Prison Chaplains only:
Please put the following dates for all four workshops in 2026 in your diaries and please make sure you prioritise at least two of them.
All Saturdays, the dates for 2026 are:
March 14th,
June 13th,
August 22nd,
November 28th.
The March workshop will be in person and on Zoom.
Those in June and August will be here and in person only.
Those three will run from 10:30am till 5pm.
November’s will be afternoon only and mostly on Zoom with a small in person attendance.
The purpose of these workshops is to provide Buddhist prison chaplains with mentoring and ongoing supervision and peer support. Attendance otherwise is by invitation to Angulimala members only. It’s highly recommended that everyone attends as many as possible but as a reminder, at interview each chaplain has committed to attending, previously one a year, but more recently, for new chaplains the requirement has been two a year.
Especially for new chaplains they are important so that we can get to know you and help you settle in and you should attend at least two workshops in each calendar year.
But really the more you can all come to and the more you contribute, the more we will all benefit.
It needs to be remembered that attendance is necessary to maintain endorsement.
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 provide opportunities to offload concerns and difficulties, they are reminders of what Buddhist prison chaplains are supposed to be doing, they encourage and help chaplains to maintain and improve standards, and they keep the team together. They’re often good fun. And the Thai food is excellent!
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