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Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama
Introduction to Insight Dialogue - Online
With Marsha Lawson
从洞见中尋獲自由 Finding Freedom through Insight
With Riët Aarsse and Jessica Mui
Awake together - Wisdom Here and Now
With Ayya Anopama and Nolitha Tsengiwe
Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Jane Cutler
The Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue is an eight-week offering that covers the six Insight Dialogue guidelines using Dhamma teachings as a contemplative frame. The Insight Dialogue guidelines and the three bases, wisdom, meditative awareness, and relationship, are the foundational elements of the relational Dhamma practice of Insight Dialogue. Participants will meet in real-time via […]
Art and Soul: From Non-Becoming (Anatta) to True Care
With Anita Bermont
Engaging Wise Intention to Navigate Worlds of Change
With Jane Cutler
Explore meeting the unknown using relational Insight Dialogue meditation Wise intention In Buddhism, ‘wise intention’ involves cultivating a mindset of renunciation (letting go), goodwill and non-harm. It is the underlying motivation behind our thoughts, words, and actions. It is vital for reducing suffering by counteracting greed, hatred, and delusion - the delusion that we are individuals […]
Einführung in den Einsichtsdialog
With Stefan Hanser
Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program
With Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine and Sue Brown
Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path
With Elizabeth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Anita Bermont
“The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path provides a wiser way through life than any offered by our conditioning. It’s an intentional path through life’s tangle. And intention is necessary. Any change for the good must face the momentum that made things as they are now. Old habits run deep within us; we complicate, palliate, protect and […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines
With Rachel Hammerman
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, […]
Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Americas–Africa–Europe time zones)
With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler
This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately […]
Engaging Wise Intention to Navigate Worlds of Change
With Jane Cutler
Explore meeting the unknown using relational Insight Dialogue meditation Wise intention In Buddhism, ‘wise intention’ involves cultivating a mindset of renunciation (letting go), goodwill and non-harm. It is the underlying motivation behind our thoughts, words, and actions. It is vital for reducing suffering by counteracting greed, hatred, and delusion - the delusion that we are individuals […]
Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Asia, Africa, Europe time zones)
With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler
This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately […]
Het pad naar bevrijding, een levensomvattend pad
With Chris van der Velden
De Boeddha gaf het nobele achtvoudig pad als weg naar vrij worden van lijden. Tijdens deze cyclus, van zes bijeenkomsten, onderzoeken we de eerste vijf padfactoren: * wijze visie * wijze intentie * wijs spreken * wijs handelen * wijs levensonderhoud * Met Insight Dialogue cultiveren we meditatieve kwaliteiten, ontwikkelen we meditatie-in-relatie en contempleren we gezamenlijk over onderwerpen […]
14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Jessica Mui
Growing Resilience and Relational Capacity Through careful and skillful practice, with the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will expand our relational capacities as awareness meets awareness. This is an empowering response to the alienation, cruelty, and disempowerment saturating our societies. In our fractured world, greater relational capacity offers us greater resilience and balance. […]
Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik
In times of rapid change, ecological fragility, and social unrest, our habitual patterns—of perception, thought, speech, and reaction shape our inner experience and view of the world. This retreat invites us to the immediacy of each moment and the quiet joy of simply being here, now. Together, we will explore the transformative potential of relating […]
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 […]