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Art and Soul Mini Retreat

With Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist

September 27, 2026
online
This year, the Northeast Insight Dialogue Sangha is offering mini retreats on Friendship: What does it mean, as the Buddha stated, that spiritual friendship is the whole of the holy life?

Necessary Fervour – The Zeal of Relationship

With Gregory Kramer

September 27, 2026
online
We often think of relationships contributing to our spiritual path through love, compassion, and the soothing of friendship. But relationships can also be a necessary source of zeal, especially for those who have rejected religion as too emotional, too non-rational, or politically and socially unworkable.

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 […]

Verbundenheit erleben und verkörpern – Einsichtsdialog Retreat

With Ayya Anopama and Stefan Hanser

October 3 - 4, 2026
Berlin, Deutschland

Wir sind für Verbundenheit geboren. In einer Welt voller Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht die tiefe Verbundenheit, nach der wir uns sehnen. Tief in uns spüren wir, dass wir so viel mehr geben und empfangen könnten. Einsichtsdialog nutzt die Kraft gegenseitiger Unterstützung und zwischenmenschlicher Resonanzfähigkeit zur Kultivierung von Achtsamkeit, Mitgefühl und befreiender Einsicht. Die Praxis des […]

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 […]

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

October 8 - 29, 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.

Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Anita Bermont

October 10 - 31, 2026
online

and Ron Wilcox Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice rooted in the Dhamma that brings together meditation, the wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings and human relatedness to support insight into the cause and release of suffering. Through the practice of listening deeply and wise speech we become channels for the wisdom of the Dhamma […]

Service As Relational Practice

October 11 - 25, 2026
online

Most of us think of service as something we do — a task, a role, an act of generosity given from one person to another. But what if service is also something that happens between us — a quality of attention, a way of meeting each other, a practice as alive and as demanding as […]

Satipatthana Sutta y Diálogo Consciente

With Sandra Ramos Amézquita and Fabiana Gomes

October 11 - November 1, 2026
El propósito es tender un puente claro entre la comprensión del Satipatthana Sutta —los cuatro fundamentos de la atención plena— y las seis pautas del Diálogo Consciente (Insight Dialogue).

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, […]

Refuge in the Sangha - Refuge in Friendship

With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson

October 18, 2026
Cambridge, MA
This year, the Northeast Insight Dialogue Sangha is offering mini retreats on Friendship: What does it mean, as the Buddha stated, that spiritual friendship is the whole of the holy life?

Waking Up Together: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Rachel Hammerman

October 21 - November 11, 2026
Seattle, WA, USA
Ever struggle to bring your meditation practice off the cushion and into your life? One reason it’s hard: we usually practice alone, eyes closed, in silence. But our days are spent in relationship — eyes open, talking.

Despertar Juntos

With Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes

October 22 - 25, 2026
Sintra, Portugal
Este retiro é um convite a parar, e a ver juntos. Na porta do aqui e agora, investigaremos as condições que dão origem ao sofrimento e os caminhos para a libertação.

Coscienze in accordo: la dimensione vibratoria e non-duale implicita nel campo di consapevolezza relazionale

With Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi

October 22 - 25, 2026
Lombardy, Italy

Consciousnesses in harmony: the vibrational and non-dual dimension implicit in the field of relational awareness with Margot Errante Un ritiro di insight dialogue (meditazione di consapevolezza relazionale), meditazione di consapevolezza individuale e pratica taoista sul livello vibratorio ed energetico della mente/corpo. A retreat including Insight dialogue (relational mindfulness meditation), individual mindfulness meditation, and Taoist practice focused […]

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 […]

Engaging Wise Intention to Navigate Worlds of Change

With Jane Cutler

November 7, 2026
Bristol, United Kingdom

Explore meeting the unknown using relational Insight Dialogue meditation 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 separate […]

Introduction to Insight Dialogue - Online

With Marsha Lawson

November 13 - December 18, 2026
online
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. The program focuses on the core elements of this relational Dhamma practice and grounded in satipatthana, the four foundations of mindfulness.

Relationship and Wisdom - mutual supports on the path

With Emma Donaldson-Feilder

November 14, 2026
London, England

Wisdom can help our relationships to thrive; relationship can also be a source of wisdom. How can we access greater wisdom and nourishing relationships in a world that seems to be challenging both? During this in-person retreat day, we will explore how the Buddha's teachings can guide us in relating wisely with ourselves and others. […]

Deepening Together: An Insight Dialogue Weekend Retreat

With Rachel Hammerman

November 14 - 15, 2026
Seattle, WA, USA

The six guidelines of Insight Dialogue — Pause, Relax, Open, Trust Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth — are simple to name and take practice to inhabit. A weekend offers what a weekly class can’t: an extended container to settle into them. Over two days we’ll take up each guideline in turn, deepening your […]

Heart to Heart: Brahma Viharas Through the Holidays

With Rachel Hammerman

November 18 - December 16, 2026
online

How can we cultivate a heart that opens to the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows of this world? The holiday season offers no shortage of either. Coworkers, friends, family — the people we love and the ones we struggle with, often the same person at the same table. In this course, we'll cultivate a boundless […]

Brahmavihara — A Pathway to Liberating Together

With Riët Aarsse and Dave Leggatt

December 7 - 12, 2026
Katana, Sri Lanka
Explore the Four Brahmavihāras, loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity, as ways of meeting life with greater understanding, connection, and freedom. This residential retreat weaves together silent meditation, mindful movement, and Insight Dialogue relational practice.

Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Jane Cutler

January 13 - March 3, 2027
Online via Zoom

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 […]

Finding Freedom in Relaxing the Sense of Self

With Nicola Redfern and Bart van Melik

February 23 - 28, 2027
Barre, MA
Grounded in the teachings of the Buddha, this residential Insight Dialogue retreat explores these questions through both silent and relational practice. Drawing on core Buddhist teachings such as impermanence (anicca) and not-self (anattā), we investigate how the sense of self is continually forming in experience.

Deepening the Insight Dialogue Guidelines with “Global Social Witnessing”

With Jane Cutler

March 10 - April 14, 2027
online

Through using the method of Global Social Witnessing (GSW) whilst engaging the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will hear from a number of Insight Dialogue practitioners across the world describe how this relational practice has meaning and impact in their everyday lives. In this program, not only are you invited to deepen relationship to the Insight […]

15th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

May 31 - June 6, 2027
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

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Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat

With Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye and Yenkuei Chuang

August 20 - 25, 2027
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 Brahmaviharas, the four limitless heart qualities.

Deep Relational Wisdom of Mettānattā

With Gregory Kramer

November 2 - 14, 2027
Barre, MA

This retreat will explore relational wisdom as it arises in relational meditation practice. Together we will learn and practice mettānattā, the unification of mettā–and all the brahmaviharas–and not-self, anattā. Relational contact can amplify anger, fear, and delusion, but it can also strengthen wholesome meditative qualities. The Buddha described relational contact as a necessary condition for arousing right view. Wisdom grows […]