Online: Holding Space for the Immigrant Community
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Thursday, June 26th, 2025 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Immigrant communities are facing a challenging time right now. At the moment these communities are very vulnerable and subjected to a tremendous amount of fear, worry, and aggression. How do we work with these difficulties? What can we do to take care of ourselves in uncertain times?
The Buddha discovered that it’s possible to overcome mental and emotional challenges and transform our suffering into awakening.
Join teacher Wildecy de Fátima Jury for an evening reflection on the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Seven Factors of Awakening. Together we’ll discuss how to use these lessons to avoid the trap of despair.
This event is open to anyone who has immigrated to the US, whether recently or in the past. We also warmly welcome anyone who identifies as the child, spouse, partner, or family member of a loved one who has immigrated.
We hope to offer a welcoming and nurturing space for all participants to share their experiences, their anxiety, apprehension, and any other feelings they are experiencing. The intention of this class is to utilize the beauty of the dharma as a pillar of hope and apply the Buddha’s wisdom to our present moment.
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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.