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To feature on the home page.Art and Soul Mini Retreat
With Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist
Necessary Fervour – The Zeal of Relationship
With Gregory Kramer
Liberating Wisdom for our Times
With Rosalie Dores
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
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
“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
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
Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Anita Bermont
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
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
Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response
With Rosalie Dores
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
Waking Up Together: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Rachel Hammerman
Despertar Juntos
With Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes
Coscienze in accordo: la dimensione vibratoria e non-duale implicita nel campo di consapevolezza relazionale
With Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi
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
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
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
Relationship and Wisdom - mutual supports on the path
With Emma Donaldson-Feilder
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
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
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
Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Jane Cutler
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
Deepening the Insight Dialogue Guidelines with “Global Social Witnessing”
With Jane Cutler
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
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Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat
With Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye and Yenkuei Chuang
Deep Relational Wisdom of Mettānattā
With Gregory Kramer
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 […]






















