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Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority

With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang and Brent Beresford

Open Dates
online

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.…]

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama

December 28, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Online via Zoom
We will explore the path to freedom and the obstacles that hinder us by contemplating the Verses of the Elder Nuns (Therīgāthā), a collection of poems from the very first Buddhist nuns. Together we will explore how we can meet ourselves fully, with compassion, and encounter the challenges in our own lives with patience and perseverance, developing resilience, inspiration and joy on the path.

Introduction to Insight Dialogue - Online

With Marsha Lawson

January 2 - February 6, 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.

从洞见中尋獲自由 Finding Freedom through Insight

With Riët Aarsse and Jessica Mui

January 3 - 8, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
How do we maintain a sense of stability and openness while in contact with others? Much of our life is with others, and it can be challenging to maintain inner harmony and connection when we are in the busy-ness of our lives. What hinders, what supports being free from relational suffering?

Awake together - Wisdom Here and Now

With Ayya Anopama and Nolitha Tsengiwe

January 10 - 15, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
What does it mean to truly be awake? What can be released when seen in the light of death? How might we live with greater presence and compassion, even amidst uncertainty?

Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Jane Cutler

January 14 - March 4, 2026
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 […]

Art and Soul: From Non-Becoming (Anatta) to True Care

With Anita Bermont

January 18, 2026
online
The 2025-2026 theme for practice will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta).

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

With Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine and Sue Brown

January 31 - March 26, 2026
online
This eight-week series for white-bodied people integrates the transformative Buddhist practice of Insight Dialogue (relational mindfulness) with anti-racism education. We will explore and co-create white anti-racist culture within a dedicated, compassionate community of study and practice.

Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path

With Elizabeth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Anita Bermont

February 4 - April 15, 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 […]

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

February 5 - 26, 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.

Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Ayya Anopama

February 13 - 19, 2026
Devon, United Kingdom

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, […]

Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Americas–Africa–Europe time zones)

With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler

March 3 - 24, 2026
online

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 […]

Truth and Presence: Trauma Sensitivity in Community (Asia, Africa, Europe time zones)

With Riët Aarsse and Jane Cutler

March 31 - May 5, 2026
online

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 […]

Het pad naar bevrijding, een levensomvattend pad

With Chris van der Velden

April 7 - June 16, 2026
Den Bosch, Nederland

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 […]

Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik

September 11 - 17, 2026
Cragsmoor, New York, USA

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

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 […]