Fleet Maull

Fleet Maull, PhD is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur and peacemaker who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation. He founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence, 1985 to 1999. He also founded the transformational education platform Heart Mind Institute and co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute where he trains trauma-informed mindfulness teachers who work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and marginalization. He has served on the leadership team for the annual Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat for more than 20 years and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat. He has also trained genocide survivors as trauma para-counselors working in villages throughout Rwanda. He was a longtime senior student and personal attendant of Karme-Choling's founder, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and currently studies with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He is a Roshi (Zen master/senior teacher) and Dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman in the Zen Peacemaker Community, a senior teacher in the Shambhala-Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and leads meditation retreats worldwide. He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness or NSM, a deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma informed approach to mindfulness & awareness meditation practice that facilitates self-healing, self-regulation, and awakening. He founded the Global Resilience Summits and the Global First Responder Resilience Summit and co-founded The Best Year of Your Life Summit, SummitPalooza, the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit, and The Self-Care Summit. Dr. Maull has interviewed and studied the work of Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Laurie Leitch, Stephen Porges, Kelly McGonigal, Dan Siegel, Kristin Willeaumier, Rick Hanson, Andrea Pennington, Richie Davidson, Richard Schwartz, Steven C. Hayes and many other leading experts in healing trauma and cultivating well-being and resilience. He has been a presenter for the Collective Trauma Summit, the Trauma Super Conference, The Embodiment Conference, the Anxiety Super Conference, the Mindful Leadership Summit, the Harvard Medical School Meditation & Psychotherapy Conference, and many other in-person and online national conferences. He taught Socially Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Psychology, and Contemplative Approaches to Social Action & Peacemaking at Naropa University, 1999 -2009, and has been a guest lecturer and seminar presenter at the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Colorado. Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good; Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull, and the Resilient C.O.: Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed professional journals.