Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program


Reverend Jennifer Block, MA, is the Public Education Director and Chaplain at Zen Hospice Project. She is an ordained interfaith minister and a Buddhist chaplain certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries in San Rafael, California. She has an undergraduate degree in communications from Boston University and a graduate theology degree from Naropa University.


Gil Fronsdal is the Vipassana teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and teaches retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County. He is a Zen Priest through the San Francisco Zen Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University.



Paul Haller is a Zen priest and Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center. For many years he was the head of Zen Center’s jail outreach program. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Zen Hospice Project of San Francisco.




Plus a variety of guest teachers.