Watch Party: Talk and Q&A with Dharma Teacher DaRa Williams

Schedule

Thu Aug 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Park Slope (location in email) | Brooklyn, NY

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Our talk with DaRa is on Zoom, but we're getting together at our Brooklyn HQ for a watch party!
About this Event

Once per month, we do a talk and Q&A with a meditation teacher or other special guest.

The talk is on Zoom, but we also gather in person in BK for a watch party!

Come hang out, eat popcorn, watch the talk on the big screen, and ask the guest your questions!

This month's guest is DaRa Williams.

This program is free and donation-based.


Event Details
  • We'll do some silent meditation from 7 to 7:30 PM, then the talk will go till 9.
  • Please arrive between 7 and 7:30 PM (during the meditation portion).
  • We'll make popcorn and have tea available. There's also a taco truck outside :)
  • The event location will be in the confirmation email once you sign up.

About DaRa Williams

DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist. DaRa has been a meditator for the past 25 years and is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is an IMS Emeritus Guiding Teacher. She is the program manager and a core teacher in the current IMS Teacher Training Program.

DaRa has been a clinician and administrator in the field of mental health for over 25 years and currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a certified trainer and practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma. DaRa integrates these skills, understandings, wisdom traditions and world views in her intention for contributing to the ending of suffering for all beings.

"It is my belief that vipassana meditation and the dharma are ideal for transforming suffering, particularly the trauma of oppression and its many vicissitudes-where the chains around our minds and hearts can be broken and dissolved. Awareness and wisdom become the vehicle for freedom and transforming lives." [DaRa Williams]

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Where is it happening?

Park Slope (location in email), Park Slope, Brooklyn, United States

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