Darren Janger was a long-time treasured volunteer and former Board member. He left the board when he became too ill from lung cancer to continue his service. We will miss Darren, and are so grateful to have known him and shared in the beauty of his heart. ???? The...
Photo: CIW June 2019 Volunteer Team Welcome to July! Now that the ‘June gloom’ has passed and the summer sun is shining here in Santa Barbara, we are taking stock and celebrating a LOT! We just returned from leading our “Pathways to Freedom – Breaking the Cycle”...
Photo, L-R: Arlene Stepputat (Founding Board Member), Kristianne & Bonnie With the inclusion of two new prison facilities to our program schedule, a few of us gathered in what is a rare in-person meeting at the FTC office to discuss expansion plans. We have many...
“I found the Mind and Supermind lecture presented by Drs. Bonnie and David Paul to be especially meaningful. This was due both to hearing about the amazing work they do in prisons, and to the listening exercise they led us through. I learned something significant and...
We are preparing for two projects with two workshops in our new series: Pathways to Freedom. March, 2016- Valley State Prison for Men (VSP). This will be our fifth workshop at VSP, and our first all mentor advanced workshop. The men of VSP were the ones who inspired...
It started at maximum security Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla. Rhonda Leland, a self-proclaimed “lifer,” wrote a letter in 2002 to the president of the University of Santa Monica, a private graduate school offering master’s degrees in spiritual...
