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Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority
With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang and Brent Beresford
Please join us on select Mondays to cultivate a space to learn, share, and deepen in this relational practice of meditation. This is a group meant for people who self-identify as BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority. Together we will explore the teachings of the Buddha using Insight Dialogue guidelines. We will cultivate internal and interpersonal awareness, wisdom, care, and resilience to meet the challenges of our lives.…]
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 […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Sue Brown
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal Dhamma practice that brings together meditation, the Buddha’s teachings, and human relatedness. Through mindful speaking and listening with partners, the practice supports insight into the causes of human suffering and the possibility of release. During this online course, we will practice with the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue to cultivate […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines
With Rachel Hammerman
Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat
With Ayya Anopama
with Laura Bridgman Rooted in Buddhist tradition, this retreat will invite a gentle yet profound exploration of interconnection. Together, we will inquire into habits of separateness, and as insights arise, the illusion of isolation can transform into responsiveness, reciprocity, and a sense of belonging. With pausing, spaciousness and care, we will deepen presence with ourselves, […]
Art and Soul: Dukkha
With Marsha Lawson and Natalie Eldridge
Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Americas–Africa–Europe time zones)
With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler
This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately […]
The Four Noble Truths in Relationships
With Rachel Hammerman and Deanna Burkett
A four-week course using Insight Dialogue to explore suffering and freedom from suffering within relationship. The Buddha taught one thing: suffering (dukkha) and its end. In this course, we explore how this foundational teaching unfolds in the live experience of relationships. We will leverage the power of wholesome relationships in our practice container to investigate […]
Art and Soul: Anicca and Friendship
With Janet Surrey
Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Asia, Africa, Europe time zones)
With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler
This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately […]
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines
With Rachel Hammerman
Het pad naar bevrijding, een levensomvattend pad
With Chris van der Velden
De Boeddha gaf het nobele achtvoudig pad als weg naar vrij worden van lijden. Tijdens deze cyclus, van zes bijeenkomsten, onderzoeken we de eerste vijf padfactoren: * wijze visie * wijze intentie * wijs spreken * wijs handelen * wijs levensonderhoud * Met Insight Dialogue cultiveren we meditatieve kwaliteiten, ontwikkelen we meditatie-in-relatie en contempleren we gezamenlijk over onderwerpen […]
Art and Soul: Anicca
With Nolitha Tsengiwe
Exploration des Cinq Facultés Spirituelles
With Patricia Genoud-Feldman and Sandrine Rauter
Art and Soul: Mother's Day
With Janet Surrey
Sources of Joy and Sources of Sorrow
With Gregory Kramer, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Riët Aarsse and Asaf Federman
In times of global turmoil, how do we cultivate joy, wisdom, and inner balance? How do we meet the sorrows of the world without being overwhelmed? This six-day retreat invites us to explore how joy and sorrow arise in the body-heart-mind—both in silence and in relational contact with others. Drawing on the Buddha's teachings, we […]
Gemeinsam wach durch Achtsamkeit- Meditationsseminar im Schweigen mit Einsichtsdialog
With Ayya Anopama
In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Kraft der stillen Meditation und die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs in uns selbst und mit anderen präsent sein können. Die sechs Meditationsleitfäden des Einsichtsdialogs unterstützen uns dabei, Achtsamkeit und Geistesruhe zu kultivieren, während wir gemeinsam verschiedene Aspekte unserer menschlichen Erfahrung in der Unmittelbarkeit des gegenwärtigen Augenblicks […]
Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik
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 […]
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 […]