Fleet Maull

Fleet Maull has been a student of the Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1977 and is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He earned a masters degree in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University in 1979, attended the Vajradhatu Seminaries and Kalapa Assemblies, 1981 – 1984, and received the Vajrayogini Abhisheka in 1989. He is currently completing his dissertation for a Ph.D. in social psychology.

Fleet has been a Dorje Kasung since 1978, attending the Magyal Pomra Encampments, 1979 – 1984, and serving the Vidyadhara as kusung and then attaché, traveling extensively with the Vidyadhara, 1981 – 1984. Maull Kado currently serves as kusung to Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Fleet founded Prison Dharma Network in 1989, National Prison Hospice Association in 1991, Peacemaker Institute in 2001, and the Center for Contemplative End of Life Care Programs at Naropa University in 2003. He served on the Naropa University faculty from 1999 to 2009, teaching courses in psychology, meditation, socially engaged buddhism. He also serves as senior faculty with the Upaya Institute’s (Santa Fe, NM) Being with Dying program and co-director of the Upaya Institute’s Chaplaincy Training Program.

Fleet is also a Dharma successor of Zen master and social entrepreneur, Roshi Bernie Glassman, and a fully empowered teacher or Sensei and senior priest in the Zen Peacemaker Sangha and the Soto Zen lineage of Maezumi Roshi. As a Zen peacemaker, Fleet serves as a spirit holder of the annual Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and leads street retreats and other bearing witness retreats.

His teaching and peacemaking activities range from retreat and Dharma centers to the streets of major cities, to former death camps in Poland, to Rwanda and Israel-Palestine, to corporate board rooms and to 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, end of life care and socially engaged buddhism.

For further information see: www.FleetMaull.com

Teaching Schedule

2012 (note SC after city location is for Shambhala Center)
Dec 26 - Jan 2	Providence, RI SC	Urban Retreat Weekthun
Jan 9 - Jan 11	Danville, IL	Corporate Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence (MBEI) Training
Feb 15 - Feb 18	Danville, IL	Corporate MBEI Training
Feb 25 - Feb 26	Providence, RI SC	Way of Shambhala Level I: Art of Being Human
Mar 11 - 13	Danville, IL	Corporate MBEI Training
Mar 15 - 16	Cranston, RI	RI DOC Staff MBEI Training
Mar 16 - 18	Providence, RI SC	Shambhala Sadhana Retreat
Mar 22 - 23	Cranston, RI	RI DOC Staff Motivational Interviewing Training
Mar 28 - Apr 1	Norwood, MA	UMASS Center for Mindfulness Scientific Conference
Apr 13	Davis, CA SC	Radical Responsibility
APr 13 - 15	Davis, CA Sc	Awakened Leadership: Community Enlightened Society
Apr 17	Berkeley, CA SC	Scorpion Seal Path: View, Practice & Action
Apr 18	Berkeley, CA SC	Path of Freedom Prison Program Intro
Apr 19	Silicon Valley, CA SC	Rediscovering Our Humanity in an Age of Cynicism and Materialism
Apr 21	San Francisco, CA SC	Returning to Goodness:rediscovering the Wisdom of Society
Apr 21 - 22	San Francisco, CA SC	The Heart of Action: A revolutionary Path to Conflict Transformation
Apr 27 - May 4	Shambhala Mountain Center	Acharya Retreat with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
May 5 - May 6	Shambhala Mountain Center	SI Practice & Education Summit
May 18 - May 20	Providence, RI SC	Way of Shambhala Level V: Open Sky
May 31 - Jun 6	Danville, IL	Corporate MBEI Retreat
Jun 10 - Jun 14	Shambhala Mountain Center	Radial Responsibility: Authentic & Compassionate Leadership Retreat
Jun 14 - Jun 18	Shambhala Mountain Center	Kurukulla Teachings and Abhisheka with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Magnetizing Gesar Abhisheka with His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
Jun 18 - Jun 29	Shambhala Mountain Center	Scorpion Seal Assembly III & Scorpion Seal Assembly IV
Aug 15 - Aug 19	Upaya Zen Center	Radical Responsibility Retreat
Oct 4 - Oct 10	Providence, RI	Providence Street Retreat
Oct 15 - Oct 21	Rhode Island	The Event Residential Retreat
Nov 2	Krakow, Poland, SC	TBD
Nov 3 - Nov 10	Oscwiem, Poland	Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat
Nov 10 - Nov 11	Krakow, Poland SC	TBD
Nov 15 - Nov 19	Springfield, NH	Prison Retreat at Wonderwill Mountain Refuge
Dec 10 - Dec 16	Danville, IL	Corporate Training
Dec 26 - Jan 1	Providence, RI SC	Urban Retreat Weekthun