Today was one of the house-blocks well-being day. Last year we created a day for each house-block to promote the principles of growth (see these in my projects section on my website). It involved cooking and play, investment and relationship building activities and ultimately it aimed to showcase how prisons can be meaningful, humane and …
So I am sitting on a plane on my way to Skopje, to start a new mission with the council of Europe. As I sit here I felt, for the first time, a little unnerved about the whole situation around me. Maybe it is all this mindfulness stuff I am doing at the moment to …
I dread that notice in a prison reception. For those that work in prison you will know that notice and that realisation that someone who you may have been speaking to the day before is no longer alive. It makes me feel sick to my very core and desperate to find out if everyone is OK and …
For many people, prisoners and non-prisoners, art is a medium that is used to express ones self. Art can provide an open window into someones mind and dreams and enable them to escape from their reality, if only temporarily. As Thomas Merton said, ‘Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time’. In this …
#prison blog; Log 23 -‘Creativity is contagious, pass it on’ (Albert Einstein) Read More »
I remember the moment a strong, passionate prison manager came up to me and conveyed her idea of a coffee morning in an enhanced houseblock and her subsequent significantly more courageous plan of holding an all prison MacMillan Coffee Morning in the grounds. This member of staff engages with some of our most complex men …
#prison blog; Log 24- Doing Time and Giving Back Read More »