In September 2024 IMC’s sibling organization, Sati Center is offering its 22nd yearlong INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY. Started by Gil Fronsdal, Jennifer Block, and Paul Haller, this is an eleven month training in spiritual care skills that lay at the foundation of professional and volunteer chaplaincy work in such places as hospitals and prisons. It is also a training in basic spiritual and pastoral care offered in a Sangha, or Buddhist community.
Since 2020, the original INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY is also being offered as a separate online for people unable to come to Redwood City for the in-person program. It is taught by Vanessa Able, Dawn Neal, and Trent Thornley with support from Gil, Jennifer, and Paul.
More information at sati.org here and on page 4 of the schedule pages of the IMC summer newsletter.