All ID Offerings (Online & In-person)

This is a parent list of all Metta-endorsed Relational Dhamma offerings (including ID and DC offerings). This does not include most IMP offerings or local practice groups (unless specially endorsed).

Monday: London, England, and Beyond

With Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Rosalie Dores and Malcolm Frow

Open Dates
Online

Our Insight Dialogue group currently meets via Zoom every three to four weeks on a Monday evening (UK time). We also run occasional day-long and weekend retreats in person in London.

Monday Weekly Drop-in Sessions

With Sue Brown, Michael Wilder, Patricia Fontaine and Susie Clarion

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

Drop-in sessions are Monday, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Americas eastern time. These sessions are open to anyone with prior silent meditation practice experience and prior Insight Dialogue practice experience (e.g., participation in an Insight Dialogue retreat or introductory Insight Dialogue course). You may join this drop-in group once, occasionally, or every week, it's up to you.

Thursday Weekly Drop-in Sessions

With Dave Leggatt, Angela Spaxman and Genevieve Heng

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

Drop-in sessions are Thursdays from 7:00-8:30 pm ET. Drop-in sessions are open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice. You may join once or every week; it's up to you.

Wednesday: 八正道-慧談線上修習

With Jessica Mui

Open Dates
Online

This online drop-in group meets weekly on Wednesday, 8-9:30 pm Chinese standard time/ 8-9:30 am Americas eastern time. Practice in Mandarin and Cantonese is facilitated by Jessica Mui. Organized by Hong Kong Insight.

Friday, 2nd and 4th, Practice Group

With Anita Bermont, Marsha Lawson and Deborah Ennis

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

This drop-in practice session meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month from 11:00 am-12:30 pm Americas Eastern Time. It is open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice.

Thursday Weekly Practice Group

With Mary Burns

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

Two Thursday practice sessions are available, from 6:00 am-7:30 am Americas eastern time and 9:00 am - 10:30 am Americas eastern time. These are for experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners.

Wednesday Weekly Practice Group

With Jane Cutler

Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Every Wednesday practice group with Jane Cutler and guest teachers and facilitators, UK time 7pm – 8.30pm, Central European 8pm - 9:30pm, Americas Eastern 2pm – 3:30pm, Americas Pacific 11 am -12:30pm.

Saturday (First) Monthly Practice Group, RiverRun Insight Dialogue

With Jaylene Summers

Open Dates
Online via Zoom
The group meets on the first Saturday of each month from 10:30 am-12 pm Eastern time monthly. Jaylene Summers co-facilitates with another Insight Dialogue practitioner.

Tuesday/ Dienstag (Jeden 2 und 4 im Monat)

With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Harald Tichy

Open Dates
online via Zoom
Einsichtsdialog für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene – offene fortlaufende Online-Gruppe​
Mit Bhante Sukhacitto, Renate Löseke, Harald Tichy

Friday, Monthly Insight Dialogue Practice in Dutch

With Riët Aarsse, Marieke Duijvestijn, Nynke Humalda and Simin Abravesh

Open Dates
online via zoom

A monthly practice with the Dutch Insight Dialogue Practice group. Every 2nd Friday morning of each month at 9.00-11.00 am CEST of each month (7.30-9.00 pm CEST) you are welcome for online ID practice. The sessions will be guided by Riët Aarsse, Simin Abravesh, Joyce Curnan, Marieke Duijvestijn, Nynke Humalda . Please register via this […]

Sunday Weekly Drop-in Sessions

With Dave Leggatt

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

Drop-in sessions are Sundays from 10:30 am-12:00 pm Americas Eastern Time. Drop-in sessions are open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice. You may join once or every week; it's up to you.

Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe mensuel de pratique de Dialogue Conscient en français

With Sandrine Rauter and Alex Castanheira

Open Dates
Online via ZOOM
Notre groupe de pratique de Dialogue Conscient se rencontre environ une fois par mois, généralement de 19h00 à 21h15 (CET). Nous organisons parfois des journées ou des weekends non résidentiels. Ces sessions de pratique de Dialogue Conscient sont proposées par Alexandre Castanheira et Sandrine Rauter, facilitateurs de Dialogue Conscient.

Friday, first: Dhamma Contemplation

With Jessica Mui, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Rachel Hammerman and Yenkuei Chuang

Open Dates
online
Dhamma Contemplation on the first Friday of each month. Compatible with Americas, European, Africa and Asia time zones.

Thursday Bi-Weekly Practice

With Angela Spaxman and Genevieve Heng

Open Dates
online via Zoom
Bi-weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:30 pm Chinese standard time/ 7:00 - 8:30 am Americas Eastern Standard Time. Organized by Hong Kong Insight.

Thursday, third: Dharma Contemplation

With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson

Open Dates
online

Jan Surrey and Marsha Lawson offer a Dharma Contemplation relational practice on third Thursdays from 7:15 - 8:45 pm Americas Eastern Time (Boston). The practice of Dharma Contemplation provides would-be readers of the Buddhist suttas with an accessible doorway into this rich vein of wisdom through relational practice with these wisdom texts. For more information […]

Saturday, third: Dhamma Contemplation

With Jessica Mui, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Rachel Hammerman and Yenkuei Chuang

Open Dates
online
Dhamma Contemplation on the third Saturday of each month. Compatible with Americas and Asia time zones.

Saturday, monthly, Queer Insight Dialogue Sangha

With Elizabeth Faria, Patricia Fontaine and Rachel Hammerman

Open Dates
online via Zoom

The Queer Insight Dialogue (ID) Sangha is a two hour drop-in online practice group for LGBTQIA+ identifying relational dharma practitioners around the world to share practice, experience, support, learnings, and care. In addition to holding affinity space for practice, over time the Queer ID Sangha will also offer learning opportunities to the broader Insight Dialogue […]

Sunday/ Los últimos domingo del mes: Sesión mensual de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente

With Beatriz Rodriguez Vega, Sandra Ramos Amézquita, Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch, Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes

Open Dates
online

Sesión mensual de la práctica de| Zoom | En español | 90 minutos  Esta sesión es una oportunidad para practicar dialogo consciente en español para todas las personas con una práctica de meditación individual habitual y que hayan realizado alguna introducción al Dialogo Consciente Cada sesión es una práctica que aspira a profundizar en la […]

Lausanne, Switzerland

With Anne Michel and Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch

Open Dates
Lausanne, Suisse

Ce cours s’adresse à toutes les personnes intéressées par la pratique du Dialogue Conscient, avec ou sans expérience de méditation. La pratique de Dialogue Conscient offre la possibilité de cultiver les qualités méditatives que nous travaillons habituellement dans la méditation en silence, mais dans l’échange avec une ou plusieurs personnes. Souvent, une grande source de stress vient de nos relations avec […]

London, England, and Beyond

With Emma Donaldson-Feilder and Malcolm Frow

Open Dates
Online

Our Insight Dialogue group currently meets via Zoom every three to four weeks on a Monday evening (UK time). We also run occasional day-long and weekend retreats in person in London.

Wednesday: Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific (IDAP)

With Anita Bermont, Elizabeth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Gregory Kramer

Open Dates
online

Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific offers an online study and practice series which meets twice a month on Wednesday morning (Asia/Aust/NZ) or Tuesday afternoon (Americas). This group is based in Australia. The Divine Abidings and an Ethical Life The four brahmavihāra are at the heart of ethics, and ethical living becomes the embodiment of the brahmavihāra […]

Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority

With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang and Brent Beresford

Open Dates
online

Please join us on select Mondays to cultivate a space to learn, share, and deepen in this relational practice of meditation. This is a group meant for people who self-identify as BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority.  Together we will explore the teachings of the Buddha using Insight Dialogue guidelines. We will cultivate internal and interpersonal awareness, wisdom, care, and resilience to meet the challenges of our lives.…]

Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient

With Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch, Alex Castanheira, Brent Beresford, Sandrine Rauter, Stéphane Benoist and Viveka Bhikkhu

Open Dates
En ligne et en direct sur Zoom.
Notre intention est de former une communauté autour de la pratique du dialogue conscient, dédiée au chemin d'une vie remplie de douceur et de sagesse, en relation avec les autres et avec le monde dont nous faisons partie.

Virtual Dhamma Hall

Open Dates
Online via Zoom

“Here, gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, they sit down; having folded their legs crosswise, set their body erect, and establish mindfulness in front of them, mindful they breathe in, mindful they breathe out.” (Satipatthana, using the gender expansive pronoun they) This virtual Dhamma Hall […]

Thursdays: Prática de Diálogo Consciente Semanal em Português

With Fabiana Gomes

Open Dates
online

The Gota do Dharma, Dhamma Drop, was created in 2020, during the pandemic, and has become a community of practitioners committed to self-development through practice and growth within an online community. It fosters mutual support and the building of trusting connections that allow us to experientially learn the teachings of the Buddha. This practice is […]

Friday, last of month: Liberation with spiritual friends in the daily life

With Viveka Bhikkhu

Open Dates
online

and Cindy Lafontaine and Catarina Mak Come practice with spiritual friends, allowing for the Dhamma to come alive, supporting the conditions for freedom to unfold in the here and now. Together, we explore how the Dhamma illuminates our daily experiences—whether in our work, family relationships, or community interactions. In this space, we bring awareness to […]

Sunday Sangha 2025–2026: Returning to A Whole Life Path

September 7, 2025 - May 3, 2026
online
The 2025-2026 Sunday Sangha sessions will revisit the Whole Life Path—Gregory Kramer's practical and relational approach to the Noble Eightfold Path.

Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World Evening Program

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 12, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 13 - 14, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

New Practice Group: Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity

With Brent Beresford and Alex Castanheira

September 14, 2025
online
Like us, you may have noticed how our gender conditioning can cause harmful consequences, how inhabiting masculinity in different ways brings discomfort, and how there is freedom that is available in a masculinity unhinged from its dominant characteristics. These, and many other shared experiences of our masculine conditioning, will be the base for our shared intention to explore masculinity.

Introducción al Diálogo Consciente

With Sandra Ramos Amézquita, Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch, Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes

September 14 - October 19, 2025
online

Escucha profunda, la sabiduría compartida y el insight que despierta. El Diálogo Consciente es meditación en relación y nos recuerda que no estamos solos en este camino: "Soy porque somos". En esta introducción exploraremos, durante seis semanas, las seis pautas que nos invitan a pausar, abrirnos, escuchar profundamente y hablar con verdad. Una oportunidad única […]

Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series

With Angela Spaxman

September 20 - October 11, 2025
Hong Kong

This four-part workshop series will introduce you to a  transformational practice that opens the door to more calm, stability, presence and insight in your life. Through practicing meditation in relationship, Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of human responsiveness and shared commitment to cultivate awareness, insight and compassion. The practice serves as a bridge to bring […]

Insight Dialogue-dag

With Chris van der Velden

September 20, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland
Tijdens deze dag is mededogen, het overkoepelende thema. We oefenen met de richtlijnen van Insight Dialogue.

Art & Soul: Right View, The Three Characteristics

With Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist

September 21, 2025
Online via Zoom
The 2025-2026 theme for practice will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta).

BUNDAME KARTU visiems Meditacijos atsiskyrimas/ Waking up together

With Ayya Anopama

October 1 - 5, 2025
Klaipėda, Lithuania

Tyloje ir kartu, ką reiškia… … sustoti ir atvykti į čia ir dabar; … atsipalaiduoti ir priimti dalykus tokius, kokie jie yra; … atsiverti ir praplėsti savo suvokimą įtraukiant kitus; … susiderinti su tuo, kas atsiranda, ir pasiduoti pokyčiams, nežinant; … giliai įsiklausyti, visu kūnu, priimti pasaulį ir jame ilsėtis; … kalbėti tiesą, su geraširdiškumu. […]

Vier Insight Dialogue-avonden

With Chris van der Velden

October 7 - November 18, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland

Aansluitend, op het thema van de Insight Dialogue-dag, is het mogelijk om deel te nemen aan vier Insight Dialogue bijeenkomsten. We oefenen op deze avonden met de richtlijnen en het centrale thema: “Mededogen, als weg naar vrede in ons zelf en de wereld waarin we leven”

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

October 9 - 30, 2025
online
Join us for four weeks to explore the six guidelines Insight Dialogue guidelines through a combination of guidance, silent meditation, contemplation, and breakout sessions. Through experiential learning your understanding of this transformative practice will deepen.

Cultiver une vie nourrie d’amitié et de joie dans un monde en feu

With Sandrine Rauter, Alex Castanheira and Brent Beresford

October 20 - 25, 2025
Vieu d'Izenave, France
Comme l’a souligné le Bouddha, les relations sont au cœur du chemin vers la libération de la souffrance. Comment alors cultiver l’amitié, la sagesse et la compassion dans nos manières d’être en lien ?

'A Life Well Lived' - A series of Dialogue Retreat Days

With Rosalie Dores

October 26, 2025
Brighton and Hove, UK

The Buddha’s teachings offer practical guidance on how to actively cultivate a life that leads towards greater freedom, wellbeing and happiness for ourselves and others. In this series of three daylong retreats, we will take time in silence and relational meditation (Insight Dialogue*) to investigate the role that Sila (ethics), Samadhi (absorption) and Panna (wisdom) play in […]

Art & Soul: Impermanence, The Three Characteristics

With Deborah Ennis

October 26, 2025
Online via Zoom
The 2025-2026 theme for practice will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta).

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

With Gregory Kramer

October 27 - November 5, 2025
Barre, MA

Human beings are fully relational just as they are individual. Because the Dharma addresses the human experience of suffering and freedom, it, too, must be both fully relational and individual. This program will be an exploration of our living experience of the individual and relational manifestations of Dharma teachings on suffering and freedom, insight, the […]

Insight Dialogue, Heart to Heart - Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship

With Rachel Hammerman

November 3 - 25, 2025
online

How can we cultivate a heart that opens to the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows of this world? In this course, we'll cultivate a boundless heart through Insight Dialogue. Week by week, heart to heart, we'll contemplate the four sublime abidings, or Brahma Viharas - Metta (Lovingkindness), Karuna (Compassion), Mudita (Appreciative Joy) and Upekkha (Equanimity). […]

Insight Dialogue - de drie karakteristieken

With Marieke Duijvestijn and Chris van der Velden

November 22, 2025
Tilburg, Nederland
Het thema van deze dag is de drie karakteristieken van het bestaan: de veranderlijke, onbevredigende, en oncontroleerbare aard ervan. Door deze karakteristieken samen te herkennen in onze ervaring kan er helderheid ontstaan en komt er ruimte voor compassie.

Despertando Juntos

With Ayya Anopama

November 26 - 30, 2025
Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Meditación en silencio y prácticas del Diálogo Consciente (Insight Dialogue) para despertar a la sabiduría y la compasión en una trama relacional. Que podamos juntos…. ... hacer una pausa y llegar plenamente al aquí y ahora….. ... relajarnos y aceptar las cosas como son…. ... abrir y expandir nuestra conciencia en mutualidad…. ... sintonizarnos con […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - Vipassana-Meditationsretreat mit Einsichtsdialog

With Ayya Anopama and Irene Bumbacher

December 8 - 14, 2025
Unterwasser, Switzerland

In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Kraft der stillen Meditation und die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs, des tiefen Zuhörens und des Sprechens aus der Stille, in uns selbst und mit anderen präsent sein können. In der bedingungslosen Akzeptanz unserer inneren Erfahrung und in der Beziehung zu anderen öffnet sich die Tür zu […]

The Relational Multiplier and The Need for Dhamma

With Gregory Kramer

December 14, 2025
online
Engaged with awareness and guided by wisdom, our relationships become a source of insight and liberation and strengthens our path. The Dhamma gives us the understanding to direct this relational power wisely. And this very power helps us realize the fullness of the Dhamma. In our time together, we will explore how this relational power can amplify and sustain meditative qualities.

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama

December 28, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Online via Zoom
We will explore the path to freedom and the obstacles that hinder us by contemplating the Verses of the Elder Nuns (Therīgāthā), a collection of poems from the very first Buddhist nuns. Together we will explore how we can meet ourselves fully, with compassion, and encounter the challenges in our own lives with patience and perseverance, developing resilience, inspiration and joy on the path.

Introduction to Insight Dialogue - Online

With Marsha Lawson

January 2 - February 6, 2026
online
This Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue is a six-week offering that covers the six Insight Dialogue relational meditation guidelines using Dhamma teachings as a contemplative frame. The program focuses on the core elements of this relational Dhamma practice.

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

With Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine and Sue Brown

January 31 - March 26, 2026
online
This eight-week series for white-bodied people integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. We will explore and co-create white anti-racist culture within a dedicated, compassionate community of study and practice.

Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Ayya Anopama

February 13 - 19, 2026
Devon, United Kingdom

with Laura Bridgman Rooted in Buddhist tradition, this retreat will invite a gentle yet profound exploration of interconnection. Together, we will inquire into habits of separateness, and as insights arise, the illusion of isolation can transform into responsiveness, reciprocity, and a sense of belonging. With pausing, spaciousness and care, we will deepen presence with ourselves, […]

From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

With Gregory Kramer

November 6 - 15, 2026
Barre, MA

After some time with the teachings, practitioners can recognize when the Dharma is alive and when it is dry.  There are attitudes and practices that support us in transforming what might be a conceptual understanding of the Dharma to a vibrant, intuitive, embodied experience.  This retreat is about feeling the Dhamma as alive here and […]