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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.…]

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 […]

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. […]

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.

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 […]

'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 […]

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 […]