In-Person: GenMed Community Day – Connect, Share, and Deepen Your Practice
Sunday, May 4th, 2025 | 4:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Join us for a special gathering designed to build community and deepen connections within GenMed! This event will be a mix of casual connection, meaningful conversation, and shared practice.
We’ll begin with a communal meal—bring a dish to share if you’d like! Afterward, we’ll explore key themes relevant to early adulthood through a rotating discussion format. You’ll have the chance to join small group conversations on topics that feel alive for you. We will make space for deep listening and open-hearted sharing.
This is a great opportunity to meet like-minded practitioners, explore what’s alive in your practice, and find a sense of belonging in the GenMed community. Whether you’re new to the sangha or a longtime participant, we’d love to practice and connect with you.
GenMed is a space for those who resonate with the experience of early adulthood—however that may look for you. There’s no strict age range; if this stage of life speaks to you, you’re welcome here.
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The event will begin with a guided meditation and blessing of the meal.
Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our delicious spread! Looking forward to sharing this time with you.
We hope to see you there!
Registration:
If you are able, we invite you to offer dana to New York Insight. Although there is no registration fee and your presence remains the greatest gift, please consider making an offering through the form below. Much gratitude and appreciation for whatever you may offer.
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Teacher(s)
Guillaume Caron
Guillaume Caron is a dharma practitioner and mindfulness teacher rooted in the Western Theravada lineage. He discovered meditation through New York Insight in 2014 and gradually fell in love with the path of awakening. His main teachers and mentors are Bart van Melik and Martin Aylward.
Guillaume graduated from the Mindfulness Training Institute, taught by Martin Aylward and Mark Coleman, in 2023. He teaches workshops, courses, facilitates gatherings and serves as a Practice Leader for Generation Meditation, New York Insight’s young adults sangha.
Margrit Pittman-Polletta
Margrit Pittman-Polletta has been a practitioner of the Insight Meditation tradition since 2012, and has sat over a cumulative year of silent retreat since 2016. She is a qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher through the Mindfulness Center at Brown, as well as a certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher. Margrit enjoys teaching mindfulness and the Dharma in various communities, including Elm Community Insight, the Marlene Meyerson JCC and Brooklyn Insight Sangha. She is a trainee in the 2025-28 Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training Program. In addition to Margrit’s deep love of the Dharma and mindfulness practice, she is an educator with over 15 years of experience and currently works as an early childhood educator and caregiver for young people with special needs. Margrit is committed to integration of awareness and wisdom into daily life, and building inclusive community. She enjoys biking around Brooklyn, where she was born and raised and currently resides with her two cats.