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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. It will contribute to peace in yourself and anyone you come into contact with through deeply satisfying interactions. It consists of 3 in-person sessions and 1 online session designed to: […]
Truth Here and Now
With Ayya Anopama
Two-day Insight Dialogue workshop
With Elizabeth Faria and Jill Shepherd
The only constant is change ... But even in the midst of life’s uncertainties, it IS possible to find a sense of stability and refuge. All of the Buddha’s teachings show us how to cultivate resilience, so that we can navigate life’s inevitable ups and downs with some degree of balance, steadiness, ease and equanimity. […]
Insight Dialogue and Spiritual Friendship: An Experiential Retreat
With Donna Strickland and Sue Brown
Awareness, Release and Resilience: An Insight Dialogue Daylong
With Phyllis K. Hicks
Awakening in These Times: The Power of Community, Dharma & Wise Hope
With Rosalie Dores
Permitir la incertidumbre: Un retiro de Diálogo Consciente
With Ayya Anopama and Beatriz Rodriguez Vega
La incertidumbre se teme, se intenta controlar ¿Hay otras formas de relacionarse con ella? El cambio continuo no es una opción, es la naturaleza de nuestra existencia ¿qué pasa cuando sintonizamos con ese fluir impredecible y hacemos del “no saber” nuestra verdadera casa? En este retiro cultivaremos la atención plena y la quietud de la […]
The Gift of Generosity: Exploring Giving & Receiving
With Bart van Melik
What does it mean to be truly generous? The Buddha taught that generosity brings joy, yet giving and receiving can sometimes feel challenging. What gets in the way? This weekend in Berlin explores generosity through Insight Dialogue—a fully relational meditation practice where we cultivate mindfulness in speaking and listening. The gift of being heard supports our […]
'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 […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines
With Rachel Hammerman
Opening the heart, freeing the mind: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan
Join us for this relational meditation retreat. When we open to the immediacy of our experience, we have supportive conditions for seeing clearly, for loosening identification, and for transforming tension and reactivity into understanding. As we cultivate meditative qualities together, the heart releases into connection. We discover suffering and the end of suffering.[…]
Living Dharma
With Rosalie Dores and Ayya Anopama
As human beings subject to birth, ageing, sickness and death, how can we live in a way that leads to happiness? In response to this human predicament, the Buddha taught a path leading to freedom: a Dharma that is ‘apparent’ and accessible in the ‘here and now’ of our everyday lives, and that each of […]
Ruimte Geven
With Bart van Melik and Riët Aarsse
Ruimte geven is ons thema van deze retraite. Ruimte om te vertragen, om helemaal jezelf te zijn, om niets in jezelf af te wijzen. Tijdens deze dagen oefenen we samen in Insight Dialogue — een boeddhistische meditatievorm waarin we met aandacht spreken en luisteren. Door deze beoefening ontstaat er een natuurlijke rust en verbinding, die ons helpt […]
Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat
With Tuere Sala and Peace Twesigye
Insight Dialogue: A Relational Meditation Retreat
With Rosalie Dores
The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion
With Jill Shepherd and Elizabeth Faria
'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 […]
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 […]
Gemeinsam erwachen - ein 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 […]