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Relational Dharma as Refuge and Response

With Gregory Kramer

April 22 - June 3, 2025
online
Join Gregory Kramer for six weekly gatherings designed as a space of spiritual refuge and friendship.  Gregory is offering these sessions as opportunities to be together in a challenging time. To ground our time together, he’ll offer some reflections on human relatedness and its intersection with the Buddhadhamma.

Developing a Vast Heart in Turbulent Times: Exploring the Four Brahmaviharas through Insight Dialogue

With Nolitha Tsengiwe and Anna-Brown Griswold

April 26 - May 31, 2025
online

Join us for a transformative 6-week journey into the Four Brahmaviharas—loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—through the practice of Insight Dialogue. This program invites us to explore the path of opening the heart and cultivating inner strength through both silent and relational meditation. We will explore the traditional teachings on the near and far obstacles […]

Investigation into Metta or Loving-kindness

With Jane Cutler

April 30 - June 25, 2025
online
We will investigate the qualities of Mettā or Loving-kindness, Compassion, Empathetic joy or gladness, Equanimity. Supporting change in ourselves, for those dear to us close by and those we don't know.

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 […]

Peaceful group meditation during the Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat focused on mindfulness and relational meditation.

Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Nicola Redfern

May 5 - 11, 2025
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Releasing the Views that Bind Us The Cascadia Insight Dialogue 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 […]

Cultivating Resilience and Equanimity in a World on Fire

With Jane Cutler and Dave Leggatt

May 9 - 10, 2025
Bristol, UK
With the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines we uncover the practical, embodied experience of Buddhist wisdom teachings.  The practice of Insight Dialogue can enhance mindfulness in our interactions and conversations, making these interactions an opportunity to co-create greater understanding and peace in our troubled world. 

Art & Soul: Mother's Day

With Janet Surrey

May 11, 2025
Online via Zoom
Welcome to Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of mini retreats, organized by Insight Dialogue NE. This is our annual Mother's Day practice.

Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series

With Angela Spaxman

May 24 - June 12, 2025
Hong Kong

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

May 28 - June 1, 2025
Devon, United Kingdom
with Laura Bridgman We will explore how we can be present within ourselves through the power of silent meditation and also through the relational practices of Insight Dialogue and inquiry by listening deeply and speaking from silence. In the unconditional acceptance of our inner experience and in relationship with others, the doors to compassion and liberating insight can open.

Two-day Insight Dialogue workshop

With Elizabeth Faria and Jill Shepherd

May 31 - June 1, 2025
Sydney, Australia

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

June 6 - 8, 2025
online
The Buddha famously declared that spiritual friendship is the “whole of the holy life.” But what does that mean, and how does that manifest, in our daily lives? In this retreat, we will draw on the support of Insight Dialogue to inquire into the nature and experience of spiritual friendship.

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.

Awakening in These Times: The Power of Community, Dharma & Wise Hope

With Rosalie Dores

June 9 - July 28, 2025
online
We live in times of unprecedented challenge. The supportive power of gathering in community, with like minded others cannot be overstated. This seven-week course is a call to gather together.

Permitir la incertidumbre: Un retiro de Diálogo Consciente

With Ayya Anopama and Beatriz Rodriguez Vega

June 13 - 18, 2025
Soria, Espania

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

June 27 - 29, 2025
Berlin, Deutschland

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

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 […]

Opening the heart, freeing the mind: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan

July 15 - 20, 2025
near Asheville, North Carolina

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

July 17 - 24, 2025
Kruusila, Finland

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

July 31 - August 3, 2025
Cadzand, Netherlands

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

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.

Insight Dialogue: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Rosalie Dores

August 15 - 21, 2025
Devon, United Kingdom
With Jenny Wilks. Silent meditation supports and nourishes the cultivation of non-reactive awareness and kind acceptance of our inner experience. However, we also need to bring these same qualities into our various interactions and relationships, as it is often in our exchanges with others that challenge and suffering can arise. In this retreat, we will explore how relationship itself can be a path of practice.

'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 […]

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

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 […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - ein Vipassana-Meditationsretreat mit Einsichtsdialog

With Ayya Anopama and Irene Bumbacher

December 8 - 14, 2025
Unterwasser, Switzerland

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 […]