New Bell Minder Profile: Charmaine Jones

We gratefully welcome Charmaine Jones as our newest Bell Minder! Charmaine brings her gentle mindfulness and wisdom gleaned from her work as a palliative care physician to facilitate our practice together for the first time on Sunday, November 21st. 

Charmaine worked in hospice/palliative medicine, including serving as Program Lead for the Regional Palliative Medicine Program in Windsor and Essex County. She learned early on that spirituality was an important component of her work – both for her patients and for her own survival. She dabbled in learning something about Buddhism and read of Thich Nhat Hanh over the years but it wasn’t until her retirement that she was able to explore fully.

After a week at Plum Village in 2018, she wanted to join a sangha; however, living on a small island north of Kingston made it impractical until the pandemic opened up zoom meetings! She is grateful to have found the Interbeing Sangha of Kingston.