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Prison Dharma Network: Online Auction: Bid For A Worthy Cause!

Posted on Nov 2nd, 2009 by

The Prison Dharma Network Online Auction 2009 is open for bidding November 2-15th!

Check out our catalogue here.

Our goal this year is to raise $7,500 to support our work of transforming lives in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities. We need your support! This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items that will make great gifts for holiday giving!

If you have items to donate please email info@prisondharmanetwork.org

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Prison Dharma Network: 20 Years of Service!

Posted on May 30th, 2009 by

Peacemaker Institute

meditation in prison

From Thrangu Rinpoche:
"I am delighted to hear that the Prison Dharma Network is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The work that the Network has done on behalf of prisoners is wonderful. The Dharma is a way to help free sentient beings from suffering, and so bringing it to those who are experiencing the suffering of imprisonment is especially beneficial. In the short term it helps them quiet their minds, reduce the disturbances of the afflictions, and find peace, and in the long run it will bring them to lasting happiness. This is a tremendous service to them and all other beings as well. I hope that the Prison Dharma Network can continue to provide such beneficial service for many years to come."

From Acharya Pema Chodron:
“I have been honored to serve as a spiritual advisor to the Prison Dharma Network since its founding and fully endorse the work they continue to accomplish. Through my own experience with prisoners, I have directly witnessed the transformative potential of prison meditation programs. Please support Prison Dharma Network in any way you can."

2009 PDN Matching Grant

Dear Friend,
We have received a generous matching grant that will help launch our next 20 years of providing service, programs, teachings, resources and community to prisoners and prison dharma volunteers.

We are requesting your help!
We are requesting a donation of $10 (or more) from you at this time. All donations we receive in 2009 will be matched 100% by the matching grant provider and will allow us to provide transformational tools to thousands of prisoners.

Your generosity is very much appreciated by us and all of the prisoners who will benefit from your kindness. Please help us celebrate 20 years of supporting transformation for prisoners and launch the next 20 years.

Donate Now By Clicking Here . .

Learn More:
Visit the PDN Website here

Volunteer:
Become a Dharma Mentor here

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Nonviolent Communication Workshop with John Kinyon

An NVC workshop with John Kinyon
in Boulder, Colorado

April 25-26
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 10am-5pm

Location: Naropa Paramita Campus

Cost: $295 for two full days of training.
Early Bird Discount: If you register by March 20, it's only $250, a $45 savings.

For more info or to Register click here

John Kinyon is a leading trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and its global network, and is a co-founder of the Bay Area NVC organization. John works with individuals, groups, and organizations and has offered mediation and communication skills training to thousands of people around the world, including providing conflict resolution training to Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in 2002.

Integral Peacemaker Training: Transforming Self

with Fleet Maull and Judith Ansara Gass
March 20-22, 2009, Boulder, Colorado

Intro for new participants: 5-6:30pm Friday
(open to the public; feel free to bring family and friends)

Schedule: Friday 7-10pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-6pm
Cost: $375 ($325 early bird if registered one month in advance)

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This is one of the core component trainings of our Integral Peacemaker Training program. These trainings do not need to be taken in any particular order. New participants join at each component.

Denver Street Retreat

The Peacemaker Institute's annual Denver Street Retreat will take place Wednesday March 4th through Saturday March 7th. The retreat will be lead by Sensei Fleet Shinryu Maull and Sensei Grover Genro Gauntt. If you would like to participate please download the application form and mail it along with your $108 registration fee to: Peacemaker Institute, P.O. Box 4623, Boulder, CO 80306-4623.

The Street Retreat, developed a a bearing witness plunge practice by the renowned Zen teacher and social activist, Roshi Bernie Glassman, is a powerful vehicle for bearing witness to the struggles people face when finding themselves homeless as well as our own inner struggles related to survival, materialism, greed and generosity. Your retreat leaders have been leading street retreats for many years in major urban centers throughout North American and Europe. For more information on the Street Retreat please visit www,peacemakerinstitute.org.

Transforming Systems with Sensei Fleet Maull

January 9-11 in Boulder, CO

Transforming Systems addresses the Outer/Collective or Lower Right Quadrant in Ken Wilber’s AQAL Integral Model. This training is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and tools to enter the often daunting world of systems change with vision, confidence and the ability to create and sustain significant positive change. This workshop is part of the Peacemaker Institute's Integral Peacemaker Training (components do not need to be taken in any particular order).

Click here for more information or to register.

"Integral Peacemaker Training has provided me with effective methods for building bridges between my contemplative spiritual practice and the secular realm of social engagement and activity. It's integrative approach has expanded my awareness of the interconnectedness of self and other in interpersonal relationships, and also, in a wider, more expansive view, in societal and political manifestations as a part of groups and systems of all kinds. I consider this training one of the most important I have ever undertaken." —Cindy Cochran, Portland Shambhala Center member

Bidding for Good! Prison Dharma Network's Online Auction

The Prison Dharma Network Online Auction 2008 is open for bidding November 14 through December 1st!
Click here to browse our catalogue.

Our goal this year is to raise $20,000 to support our work of transforming lives in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities. We need your support!
This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items that will make great gifts for holiday giving!

"BUY NOW"...many items are listed at the 'buy now' price...so don't miss out on some great items...buy now!

We have over 130 fabulous items including:

* A Relax and Renew Weekend for Two at Shambhala Mountain Center
* A Zen Sesshin with Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya
* Unlimited monthly pass at Core Power Yoga (national)
* “Mini” Facial Acupuncture session

And many others great items ranging from Dharma Art, yoga retreats, dinners at fabulous restaurants, inspiring audio, great bodywork/healing sessions, and much much more....

Every bid helps support our cause. Check back often to see what's new as we will be adding to the catalogue throughout the 3 week auction. Feel free to place a Watch on your favorites, so that you'll know if the bid changes.

IMPORTANT: HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!
Tell Your Friends. The success of this online auction depends on spreading the word to as many people as possible. We need your help. Please Refer a Friend and encourage them to participate so they don't miss a single moment of this great opportunity to support this worthy cause.

Prison Dharma Network is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, winning bidders will receive a donation receipt for the amount of the bid exceeding the listed market value of the item.

Dhamma Brothers @ Boulder Theatre

Monday November 17th @ 7:30pm

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison—the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system—is forever changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. This film, with the power to dismantle stereotypes about men behind prison bars also, in the words of Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), “gives you hope for the human race."

Integral Peacemaker Training: Transforming Groups, Oct. 3-5

with Sensei Fleet Maull

Oct. 3-5, 2008

NEW DATES!

Earlybird registration deadline is Sept. 10th!
COST
for each of the four intensives individually is $375 ($325 if preregistered one month in advance).

* Click here to Register Now!

SCHEDULE:
Intro for new students (required): 5-6:30pm Friday
Friday 7-10pm
Saturday 9am-6pm
Sunday 9am-5pm

THE INNER & OUTER ARTS OF GROUP PROCESS

Finding your authentic voice in groups
Tracking the relational group field
Accessing collective intelligence
Weaving a matrix of connection
Wisdom Circles-Council & Community Building

Click here to read more about this training.

Integral Peacemaker Professional Certification
The workshops are ’stand alone’ and open to the public, as well as being core components of our Integral Peacemaker Professional Certification. (They do not need to be taken in order). See our website for more details on the certification program at
www.PeacemakerInstitute.org

Read what past participants have to say about these workshops:
"Extraordinary group of people--everyone here made it easy to be openhearted, truthful and deeply caring. I felt totally safe--Fleet & Judith made this so, too."

"I thought the training was well presented and am excited to be involved with you. I feel inspired and rejuvenated from this experience."

"You all did great..it's a huge purpose for such a short time!"

"I am delighted and inspired!"

"I'll just say that I feel the workshop was put together with a helluva lot of skill and impeccability and that the breadth and depth of knowledge between the two of you is specifically tailored to my learning needs. I feel grateful to have found my way here to this Certificate process."

"This is truly the most intense, meaningful and useful training I have ever attended, and it makes me excited and hungry for further training and putting these insights and skills into practice. Thank you all!"

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