Sensei Fleet Maull

Sensei Fleet Maull, M.A., Ph.D. cand., is an author, meditation teacher, consultant, executive coach, trainer, university teacher, end of life educator and social activist working for peace, prison reform and social transformation. He is a student of the late Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.

He is also a Dharma successor of Zen master and social entrepreneur, Roshi Bernie Glassman, and a senior teacher and ordained priest in the Zen Peacemaker Community. He is a certified trainer with the Ojai Foundation’s Center for Council Training, Peacemaker Institute, and New Line Consulting.

He founded both Prison Dharma Network and National Prison Hospice Association while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum sentence on drug charges in a federal prison from 1985 to 1999. Fleet helped start the first hospice program inside an American prison, initiating a prison hospice movement that now includes over 50 hospice programs in U.S. state and federal prisons. He is a faculty member at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he teaches courses in psychology, meditation, socially engaged spirituality and contemplative and integral approaches to social action, peacemaking, and politics. He is the founder and director of the Center for Contemplative End of Life Care Programs at Naropa University and senior faculty with the Upaya Institute’s Being with Dying program. Fleet also founded and directs Peacemaker Institute, a leading provider of integral and transformative leadership training for nonprofit and for-profit leaders, community activists, and peacemakers.

Fleet leads meditation retreats, leadership trainings, bearing witness retreats and street retreats throughout the United States and Europe, where he also visits prisons and jails doing transformational work with both prisoners and prison staff. He is a frequent presenter at conferences on prison work, end of life care, peacemaking and socially engaged spirituality. His peacemaking activities range from the streets of U.S. cities, to former concentration camps in Poland, to Israel-Palestine, and the forgotten world inside our jails and prisons. Fleet is the author of Dharma in Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull and numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of corrections and end of life care. He has been interviewed widely in the print, radio, and television media, including National Public Radio’s Fresh Air program and the nationally syndicated E-Town.

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