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With Yenkuei Chuang
December 15, 2024
Online via Zoom
Welcome to Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of mini retreats, organized by Insight Dialogue NE. We’ll use our mini-retreats this year to explore the Brahma Viharas..
With Elizabeth Faria and Jessica Mui
December 21 - 25, 2024
Lantau island, Hong Kong
Please join us in this rare opportunity to have an in-person, bilingual (Chinese and English) Insight Dialogue retreat in Hong Kong! This 5-day residential retreat is open to mindfulness meditation practitioners with or without Insight Dialogue experience.
With Elizabeth Faria and Dave Leggatt
December 26 - 30, 2024
Lantau island, Hong Kong
Come practice relational meditation with spiritual friends to celebrate the holiday season.
On this retreat, we will explore how in practice, together, we can draw on the Buddha’s teachings of the Brahma Viharas to cultivate a space free from attachment and how, from that base of freedom, we can investigate the deep teachings on causes and conditions.
With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama
December 29, 2024 - January 2, 2025
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.
With Marsha Lawson
January 17 - February 21, 2025
online
and Catarina Mak 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. All are welcome. Prior meditation experience recommended but not required. The program focuses on the core elements of this relational Dhamma practice. Participants will meet for six consecutive weeks […]
With Brent Beresford, Rachel Hammerman and Yenkuei Chuang
January 28 - 31, 2025
Montreal, Canada
This 4-day meditation retreat offers an opportunity to immerse fully in mindfulness, both individually and relationally, through the interpersonal meditation practice of Insight Dialogue. Together we’ll settle into a balanced heartmind, and explore the fundamental teachings of the Four Noble Truths, of suffering and liberation in relationships.
With Rachel Hammerman
February 13 - March 6, 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.
With Judy Bernstein, Susie Clarion, Holly Nelson-Johnson and Michele Zukerberg
February 13 - April 10, 2025
online
This nine-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.
With Nicola Redfern and Bart van Melik
February 28, 2025 - April 19, 2026
Barre, MA and online
An in-depth program, multi-month program where we will draw upon the practice of Insight Dialogue to explore the liberating potential of the Four Noble Truths in an immediate and relational way.
With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns, Nicola Redfern and Sandra Ramos Amézquita
May 5 - 11, 2025
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Early Registration: USD $725 by March 31
Regular Cost: USD $775 after March 31
Releasing the Views that Bind Us The Cascadia ID Retreat offers a rare opportunity to explore a range of different approaches to finding freedom, using the Insight Dialogue meditation practice to draw together wisdom from both the Insight and Zen traditions. We will explore one of the key obstacles to finding freedom: the ways we […]
With Tuere Sala and Peace Twesigye
August 1 - 6, 2025
Barre, MA
Together, we are stronger and more resilient, and we can support one another to go a little bit further on the path towards awakening. This program is about just that: supporting each other to awaken together. We will integrate the wisdom practice of Insight Dialogue with the Four Noble Truths.
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 […]
