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Finding wisdom and compassion in relationship

With Emma Donaldson-Feilder

June 20, 2026
London, England

How can we best navigate relationships in a world context that seems to bring daily heightening of turmoil, uncertainty and threat? The need has never been greater for us to find compassion and wisdom in all our interactions with our fellow beings and the world. During this in-person retreat day, we will explore relational aspects […]

Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response

With Rosalie Dores

June 21, 2026
Brighton and Hove, UK

These Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat days will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha's teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times.Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking and listening, […]

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

June 30 - July 21, 2026
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.

Finding Confidence in the Path of Peace

With Angela Spaxman and Genevieve Heng

July 11 - 12, 2026
Hong Kong
You are invited to immerse yourself in a weekend of relational meditation practice. We will explore how we can become skilled in goodness and know the path of peace for ourselves. Our deep investigations will lead to personal insights applicable to daily life.

Finding (Moments of) Ease in the Midst of it All

With Jill Shepherd

July 25 - 26, 2026
Sydney, Australia

In these uncertain times, deep steadiness of heart and mind can feel increasingly out of reach. Yet when we bring our meditative practice directly into our human relationships, new understandings become possible as we face our challenges together. This two-day workshop offers an immersive introduction to Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice. Through its six […]

Ruimte geven en ontvangen: een Insight Dialogue Retraite

With Bart van Melik and Riët Aarsse

July 29 - August 2, 2026
Cadzand, Netherlands

Een retraite geeft tijd en ruimte om helemaal met jezelf te zijn. Hoe ervaren we ruimte als we niet alleen, maar gezamenlijk vertragen, verstillen en gezamenlijk opmerkzaam zijn? In deze retraite, gaan we exploreren hoe het is om ruimte te geven én om ruimte te ontvangen. Soms geven we makkelijker en soms is ontvangen juist […]

Returning to Love: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan

July 31 - August 5, 2026
near Asheville, North Carolina

Running throughout the Buddha’s teachings are the profound benefits of awareness, release, and spiritual friendship—each supporting the clear seeing of what we may not be able to perceive on our own. The three bases of Insight Dialogue practice—meditation, wisdom, and relationship—form both a foundation and a path of unbinding. When mindfulness permeates our ways of relating, we begin to realize the transformative power of solitude and friendship in our lives..[…]

Awaken Together: Women and Nuns’ Insight Dialogue Residential Retreat

With Riët Aarsse and Jessica Mui

August 9 - 14, 2026
Katana, Sri Lanka
By admitting Mahapajapati (the stepmother of the Buddha) and her 500 courageous companions in the Noble Sangha, the Buddha pointed in several ways to the equal possibility for women to attain enlightenment. Numerous inspiring examples of this can be found in the early Buddhist texts. This Insight Dialogue retreat hopes to provide a practice space for women which diminishes any possible gender-specific aspects of the monastic discipline while in interpersonal practice.

Awaken Together: An Insight Dialogue Residential Retreat

With Bhante Anuruddha, Jessica Mui and Riët Aarsse

August 15 - 20, 2026
Katana, Sri Lanka
In this Insight Dialogue retreat we will explore this teaching of the Buddha and how it applies when we are meditating together. How does mindfulness and relationality unfold while practicing with the support of the mindfulness and presence of a spiritual friend. Much of our dukkha is relational. You are invited to investigate how the relational can support the cultivation of the factors of awakening and thus create further insight in the conditions for awakening together.

Speak What Matters

With Bart van Melik

August 28 - 30, 2026
Berlin, Deutschland

What does it mean to speak wisely? The Buddha taught that our words bring connection or harm. Together we explore what it means to speak what matters: is it true? kind, appropriate, and timely?

Sunday Sangha 2026–2027: Listen Deeply, Speak the Truth

September 6, 2026 - May 2, 2027
online
The 2026-2027 Sunday Sangha series invites a spacious exploration of the Insight Dialogue guidelines: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth.

Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik

September 11 - 17, 2026
Cragsmoor, New York, USA

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 […]

"Awake Together" An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Rosalie Dores

September 24 - 28, 2026
Mnichovo Hradiště (Czech Rep.)

​In this retreat we will explore how we can be present with ourselves while in relationship with others through silent meditation and the relational meditation practice of Insight Dialogue. We will cultivate and strengthen the meditative qualities of mindfulness, investigation, concentration, and tranquility experienced in personal practice, and access them in the midst of relating […]

Liberating Wisdom for our Times

With Rosalie Dores

October 3, 2026
online

This online Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat day will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha’s teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering, and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times. Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking […]

Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path

With Elizabeth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Anita Bermont

October 7 - December 16, 2026
online

“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 […]

Cultivar la confianza: Un retiro de Diálogo Consciente

With Ayya Anopama and Beatriz Rodriguez Vega

October 8 - 14, 2026
Soria, Espania

Este retiro ofrece un espacio para ralentizar el ritmo y practicar juntos la condición de ser un ser humano a través de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente. En un mundo marcado por la velocidad, la fragmentación y la separación habitual, nos volcamos hacia la presencia, las relaciones y el cuidado como experiencia vivida. Basándonos en […]

Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response

With Rosalie Dores

October 17, 2026
Brighton and Hove, UK

These Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat days will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha's teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times.Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking and listening, […]

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 […]