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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saturday (First) Monthly Practice Group, RiverRun Insight Dialogue
With Jaylene Summers
Tuesday/ Dienstag (Jeden 2 und 4 im Monat)
With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Harald Tichy
Mit Bhante Sukhacitto, Renate Löseke, Harald Tichy
Friday, Monthly Insight Dialogue Practice in Dutch
With Riët Aarsse, Marieke Duijvestijn, Nynke Humalda and Simin Abravesh
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
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
Friday, first: Dhamma Contemplation
With Jessica Mui, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Rachel Hammerman and Yenkuei Chuang
Thursday Bi-Weekly Practice
With Angela Spaxman and Genevieve Heng
Thursday, third: Dharma Contemplation
With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson
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
Saturday, monthly, Queer Insight Dialogue Sangha
With Elizabeth Faria, Patricia Fontaine and Rachel Hammerman
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
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
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
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
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
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
Virtual Dhamma Hall
“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
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
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
Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World Evening Program
With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold
Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World
With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold
New Practice Group: Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity
With Brent Beresford and Alex Castanheira
Introducción al Diálogo Consciente
With Sandra Ramos Amézquita, Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch, Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes
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
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
Art & Soul: Right View, The Three Characteristics
With Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist
BUNDAME KARTU visiems Meditacijos atsiskyrimas/ Waking up together
With Ayya Anopama
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
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
Cultiver une vie nourrie d’amitié et de joie dans un monde en feu
With Sandrine Rauter, Alex Castanheira and Brent Beresford
'A Life Well Lived' - A series of Dialogue Retreat Days
With Rosalie Dores
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
Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue
With Gregory Kramer
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
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
Despertando Juntos
With Ayya Anopama
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
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
Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama
Introduction to Insight Dialogue - Online
With Marsha Lawson
Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program
With Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine and Sue Brown
Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat
With Ayya Anopama
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
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 […]