Breaking In
You think it's hard breaking out of prison?
You want to try breaking in.
What does it take for one man with no history of prison or prison service to earn the right to work with people on both sides of the the bars?
What does that feel like - and why should you care anyway?
Andy Mouncey Founder of Run For Your Life CIC does not work for the Prison Service. Here he talks candidly about how it feels to do the work he does in this most challenging of places, and how that continues to generate more questions than answers.
Breaking In
In Praise Of People
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It's taken a decade or so for Andy to really recognise the risks, limits and costs of his choice to do this work as a sole practitioner but here he is. In this episode he talks about the steps he has taken to move away from professional isolation as well as the goal to move at least some of the work upstream.
He also lifts the lid on the what and why of his pre-start courtship process that he has refined over the years before a prison program even gets a look-in:
- Is there a NEED here I can contribute to?
- Am I welcome and WANTED?
These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.