Houses of Healing Workshop
beginning April 7.
Dear Friends-
In addition to jobs and housing,
effective re-entry and reintegration for formerly incarcerated men and women
requires a number of intangibles, including such emotional literacy skills as
anger and stress management and other day-to-day coping and life management
skills. Frankly, these are skills we
all need to acquire and
nurture.
One of the best courses for
developing these much needed tools is based on Robin Casarjian's remarkable
book "Houses of Healing: A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and
Freedom." The book offers a powerful set of tools for fostering
self-awareness and inner healing. Its
proven program is a synthesis of contem- porary psychological, social, and
spiritual thinking and practices designed to teach and increase
self-understanding. The course explores such topics as “Who am I?”,
family relationships, stress management, facing the impact of our actions and
taking responsibility, forgiveness and self-forgiveness, and spiritual
development. Relaxation and meditation techniques are taught and practiced from
the start. The lessons and exercises can benefit anyone and everyone.
I will be facilitating a
Houses of Healing workshop in downtown Boston for 12 Thursdays beginning April
7 from 6:30 to 8:30. It is open to anyone who has been incarcerated as
well as their family and friends.
Community members who are interested in prison ministry and/or re-entry
work are also encouraged to participate.
The course is free and open to
all, whether you have done the course previously, or are doing it for the first
time. We will be meeting very close to the Park Street 'T' stop in
downtown Boston. For more information, contact me at
Brad
Brockmann
(I first taught Houses of Healing four years ago at
Suffolk County House of Corrections. In May of last year, I graduated from
Episcopal Divinity School with a Master of Divinity degree. I am currently
working part-time with Partakers building congregational sponsorship of their
prison college education program, "College Behind Bars." I also
work part-time as an attorney with Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services.)