Dharma Talk by Laura O’Loughlin, Zen teacher.

Laura O’Loughlin is a co-founder of Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC). She is a dharma teacher and Director for Ancestral Heart Zen Monastery. Laura received lay dharma entrustment from Teah Strozer in 2017 and had also formally studied with Darlene Cohen. She is a psychotherapist using mindfulness and trauma modalities to support healing and transformation. Before co-founding Brooklyn Zen Center, Laura trained residentially at Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, San Francisco Zen Center's City Center as well as Austin Zen Center, where she served as Director. Laura is interested in how Soto Zen, alongside other somatic and wisdom practices, can support practitioners and communities to transform racial, patriarchal and other social harms. Laura has co-facilitated the undoing whiteness group at BZC for several years and has led sacred feminine retreats.