Nina Gold (she/her) has been practicing Insight meditation since 2007. She is a graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training program, with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and was a member of Spirit Rock's CDL6 cohort. She has taught Mindfulness, co-facilitated SF Insight’s 9 month Investigating White Identity and has been a yoga teacher since 1998.
She is most energized and inspired by her current work with the GRIP Training Institute’s restorative justice program, where she works with and learns from the incarcerated people at San Quentin. She loves truth and opening to the whole of life as practice. Dharma practice has profoundly transformed her and she shares these teachings with gratitude and joy.
The introduction to the GRIP-Training Institute will be led by Tommy Shakur Ross, Nina Gold, Robin Guillen and Lindsey Villarreal.
GRIP, Guiding Rage Into Power, is a yearlong program of personal transformation, healing and accountability offered in the California State prisons. It is rooted in restorative justice principals, with the understanding that "hurt people, hurt people and healed people, heal people.”
This program began as a basic insight meditation program at San Quentin Prison some 25 years ago. Through real time experience and evidence-based methodology, under the guidance of Jacques Verduin, the program evolved into a deep and comprehensive journey where the participants are able to understand their past traumas and transform their violent behavior. The program is guided by the principles of Stopping Violent Actions, Cultivating Mindfulness, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Victim Impact.
Join Bernard Moss, Tommy Shakur Ross and Nina Gold for an evening introduction to the GRIP-Training Institute.
GRIP, “Guiding Rage Into Power”, is a year long program of personal transformation, healing and accountability offered in the California State prisons. It is rooted in restorative justice principals, with the understanding that “hurt people, hurt people and healed people, heal people."
This program began as a basic insight meditation program at San Quentin Prison some 25 years ago. Through real time experience and evidence based methodology, under the guidance of Jacques Verduin, the program evolved into a deep and comprehensive journey where the participants are able to understand their past traumas and transform their violent behavior. The program is guided by the principles of Stopping Violent Actions, Cultivating Mindfulness, Developing Emotional Intelligence and Understanding Victim Impact.
To donate to GRIP, please go here:
https://grip-traininginstitute.org/donate/
