In-Person: People of Color Sangha – A Homecoming Potluck
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury, Isabel Adon, and Felicia Dickerson
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 | 1:30pm – 3:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
“The next Buddha will be Sangha.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
NYIMC’s POC Sangha celebrates its return to in-person sangha! During the pandemic, the New York Insight POC Sangha maintained its bi-weekly presence by moving online.
To kick off the return to in-person/hybrid sangha meetings, you are invited to a potluck on Sunday, September 22 from 1:30-3:30 PM. This gathering is open to all those identifying as BIPOC.
Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to share with the community and RSVP so that we know how many people to prepare for!
We look forward to welcoming old and new friends to be in community and meditate together.
Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wildecy de Fátima Jury has been formally practicing Theravada/Vipassana meditation since 2000. She graduated from the Dedicated Practitioner Program and the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock, in California. She is a Dharmacharya Lay-Ordained Monastic Minister by the Venerables Pannavati and Pannadipa. She completed the Dharmapala Training with teachers Thanissara and Kittisaro and the Mindfulness Mentoring Training (MMT) with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. In 2024, she completed the Original Medicine Foundation and at the moment she is enrolled at the year-long In-Depth Original Medicine Program, both through Braided Wisdom.
She has offered classes and retreats at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, Insight LA, Zen Center and University of Syracuse, at meditation centers in Brazil, Harlem Insight Community, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and New York Insight Meditation Center. At the moment Fátima is a resident teacher at NYIMC.
She has studied different spiritual practices and as a spiritual practitioner she has worked with many multicultural communities. She holds a BA in Psychology and Women’s Study and a Master in Social Work. She is certified in Aboriginal Focusing Oriented Therapy through the Justice Institute in Vancouver, BC.
Her intention is to promote the strengthening of sanghas and communities through the cultivation of compassion, unity and decolonization of oppressed and oppressive minds. She is an artist, a writer, and a poet who describes herself as a person within floating identities.
Isabel Adon
Isabel Adon, LCSW, is a committed meditator with over a decade of meditation and retreat experience. Born in the Dominican Republic and fluent in Spanish and English, she has worked for over 25 years as a therapist and administrator of psychiatric and clinical services for children and families in New York. She lectures in social work, consults on and volunteers for trauma-related programs. She currently serves as Chair of the Diversity Committee at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Isabel is committed to creating opportunities for youth, LGBTIQ and POC in various setting.
Felicia Dickerson
Felicia Dickerson came to meditation through Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses at UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center in 2011. Since then she has deepened her practice in sangha with Against the Stream, in retreat at Insight Meditation Society, and through courses at NY Insight, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and Spirit Rock.
She continues to show up to hold space, build community, and support New York Insight as a Practice Leader with the Harlem and BIPOC, and Midlife sanghas. With the kind support and guidance of NYI mentors, she is currently enrolled in Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders training program in 2025-2026.