During the program, inmates who practice in meditation groups, and want to become meditation facilitators in prison, will receive the appropriate training during one year of study. Following this year of study, inmates who are granted permission will facilitate an inmate meditation group, with the continuous assistance of the Quiet Within volunteers.

There are a few advantages of training inmates as meditation facilitators:

• The study, perseverance, and commitment of inmates training to become facilitators will support their own rehabilitation.
• The level of prisoners’ identification, attention and understanding will improve in groups that inmates facilitate – which will help their practice. This is similar to the 12 Steps Program, where treatment providers are themselves recovering addicts. Thus, inmates will meet a facilitator who is an inmate like them, who understands what they are going through, speaks their own language, knows the life that led them to prison, knows what it means to be a prisoner and live in prison, knows the importance of practice during incarceration, and has been able to practice despite all the external and internal-mental difficulties.
• This is an opportunity, for the facilitator inmate, as well as for the practicing inmates, to experiences generosity, benevolence, and good intentions, especially in the prison setting, where such gestures are rare.
• The entire experience can work as self-healing: The facilitator inmate helps others, and concurrently, is being helped by them.