Day Long Retreats

sub-category of All ID Offerings

Embodying Wisdom in Challenging Times: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Michele Zukerberg

May 3, 2025
Olympia, Washington, USA

How do we grow wisdom, joy, and compassion in these relentlessly challenging times? “In Insight Dialogue practice…we consciously cultivate presence in relationship… we extend the potential for calm, concentration and insight – all central to the sphere of silent meditation – into the interpersonal.” Rosalie Dores, Insight Dialogue Teacher Interpersonal relationships can be a source […]

Awareness, Release and Resilience: An Insight Dialogue Daylong

With Phyllis K. Hicks

June 7, 2025
Durham, North Carolina
In difficult times, it can be a challenge to rest in awareness, allowing the clear knowing of stress and the mental and physical habits that sustain it. Shifting from unwholesome to wholesome states connects us with all of life, providing energy and spaciousness for clear seeing. This allows the release of suffering and the cultivation of wise action and a calm and joyful presence in the world.

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

With Rosalie Dores

June 28, 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 […]

'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 […]