Ep.7 Leaving Prison Before You Get Out with Kim Grose Moore

Prison Mindfulness

In this episode, Kim Grose Moore speaks with John MacAdams about her work as executive director of the GRIP Training Institute.

• Leaving prison before you get out: A year of deep transformation
• The power of accountability and forgiveness for those sentenced to custody (and for all of us)
• Maintaining program integrity, consistency and impact while scaling-up mindfulness-based programs in prison

KIM GROSE MOORE Kim Grose Moore has contributed for more than 20 years to making the San Francisco Bay Area a more just and equitable community. She is now the Executive Director of the GRIP Training Institute, whose mission is to create the personal and systemic change to turn violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing. Kim is endorsed as a Buddhist Chaplain through the Insight Meditation Center of Redwood City, CA. She is a strong believer of the community organizing principle, “the first revolution is internal." The Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP) program currently takes incarcerated people in California state prisons through an intensive yearlong, mindfulness-based journey of trauma healing and accountability. In the last 10 years, more than 1200 students have graduated from the program, 528 have been released and the recidivism rate is less than 1%. Kim lives with her family in San Jose, CA.

To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org