Amy Selzer photo (right) © Tom LeGoff
In-Person: Mindful Kids Series – Mother’s Day Gathering
with Ingrid Norton and Amy Selzer
Sunday, May 10th, 2026 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Our Mindful Children’s Series is offering a special Mother’s Day family gathering with storyteller, writer, and Myth Lab founder Ingrid Norton who will share ancient stories of great mother goddesses from around the world—stories of love, courage, creativity, and the beginnings of life. Through lively, participatory storytelling, families will journey into the first oceans, the rich earth where humans were formed, and worlds shaped by imagination.
Together, children and grown-ups will listen, wonder, and help bring these stories to life. After the storytelling, children will create their own myths through art and imagination, while parents and caregivers gather with Buddhist teacher Amy Selzer for a conversation on mindful parenting, care for our world, and nurturing hopeful futures together. There will be time for sharing and mindful snacks after the program.
This is the fifth installment in our 2026 INSIGHT FAMILY PROGRAM — a series of monthly gatherings for parents, caregivers and children!
New York Insight offers monthly events for families to gather and engage mindfully with different themes, like kindness, courage and peacemaking. Each month’s gathering will feature a mix of storytelling or read-alouds by authors, as well as mindful movement, dialogue, meditation and play. We will begin in one big group for a check in, listen to storytelling, and explore the monthly theme together. Afterwards, children are invited to meet with teachers, work on an art project, experience the joy of community, spaciousness and mindful play.
Parents and caregivers will have the opportunity to meditate together and participate in a dialogue guided by a dharma teacher to explore the joys and challenges of parenting.
View our flyer for dates and details about other sessions in this series:
Mindful Kids Series – January-May 2026
Registration:
The recommended child age range for this program is 4 – 15. One adult per family may attend free. For example, if two adults and two children will be attending from your family, please select 2 Child tickets and 1 Additional Adult ticket.
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Teacher(s)
Ingrid Norton
Ingrid Norton is a writer, scholar, and storyteller based in Brooklyn. She is the founder of The Myth Lab, a community think tank that develops new imaginative stories to envision and inculcate a more ecologically and emotionally whole world. Norton holds a PhD in American literature from Princeton and a master’s of theology from Harvard Divinity School. She leads workshops on imaginative storytelling and cultural change and has performed ancient and modernized myths at venues from libraries to open air festivals. Norton is at work on a novel about a god and goddess who make a bet on two human lovers in a fictional version of the contemporary U.S.
Amy Selzer
Amy Selzer has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2002. She completed two year-long classes on Integrated Study and Practice with Andrew Olendski.
She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders Program. After she graduated, she saw a need to address the aging population. She is one of the founders of that sangha, Aging As A Spiritual Practice, which meets weekly to this day.
She has also been one of the core teachers in the year- long Death and Dying classes. She has served as Co-Chair on the Teacher’s Council for over 3 years.
Amy’s former career was team- teaching young children in an inclusion program for children with and without special needs. In addition, she worked with and supported the parents of those children.
She is particularly passionate about the dharma and the aging population, as well as all other practitioners.