Together Apart – Building Beloved Community Behind and Beyond Bars

With Erin Parish & Sita Lozoff What if our criminal legal system was made of communities of curious and creative people working together to get well? Our current system works to disconnect communities and makes it hard for people to build healthy, helpful, and nurturing communities within this structure. The desire to connect and create, however, […]
Leaving Prison Behind: A Council Before I Go

Please join Roshi Eve Marko and Jared Seide, Exec Director of Center for Council, in a dynamic conversation about Leaving Prison Behind: A Council Before I Go. This new illustrated novella chronicles the journey of Ray, a fictionalized participant in a council-based program for incarcerated people.
The Whole Language – The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Fr. Gregory Boyle will share what he has learned in three decades working with marginalized populations at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, California—that love is the answer, community is the context, and tenderness is the connective tissue. Tenderness reflects the foundational notion that there is no us and them, only us. Homeboy seeks to be […]
Healing Dharma Inside Prisons

Since the 1980s, the US has been the leader in mass incarceration making up approximately 25% of the world’s prison population though its population is only 4-5% of the world. Harsh long sentences from our criminal justice system have kept more than 2 million bodies inside the prisons costing taxpayers more than $80 billion per […]
Listening from the Heart – Where Compassion Begins

Join Jared Seide for a conversation about Center for Council and its work building council-based programs that foster compassion in prisons, community-based organizations, hospitals, schools, and police agencies. Jared will talk about the evolution of the organization’s work and what has led to the publication of his new book: Where Compassion Begins: Foundational Practices to […]
Dukkha from the Inside & Outside of Prison Walls

Since the 1980s, the US has been the leader in mass incarceration making up approximately 25% of the world’s prison population though its population is only 4-5% of the world. Harsh long sentences from our criminal justice system have kept more than 2 million bodies inside the prisons costing taxpayers more than $80 billion per […]