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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 for a Ruptured World Evening Program

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 12, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 13 - 14, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

New Practice Group: Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity

With Brent Beresford and Alex Castanheira

September 14, 2025
online
Like us, you may have noticed how our gender conditioning can cause harmful consequences, how inhabiting masculinity in different ways brings discomfort, and how there is freedom that is available in a masculinity unhinged from its dominant characteristics. These, and many other shared experiences of our masculine conditioning, will be the base for our shared intention to explore masculinity.

Introducción al Diálogo Consciente

With Sandra Ramos Amézquita, Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch, Ayya Anopama and Fabiana Gomes

September 14 - October 19, 2025
online

Escucha profunda, la sabiduría compartida y el insight que despierta. El Diálogo Consciente es meditación en relación y nos recuerda que no estamos solos en este camino: "Soy porque somos". En esta introducción exploraremos, durante seis semanas, las seis pautas que nos invitan a pausar, abrirnos, escuchar profundamente y hablar con verdad. Una oportunidad única […]

Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series

With Angela Spaxman

September 20 - October 11, 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. Through practicing meditation in relationship, Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of human responsiveness and shared commitment to cultivate awareness, insight and compassion. The practice serves as a bridge to bring […]

Insight Dialogue-dag

With Chris van der Velden

September 20, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland
Tijdens deze dag is mededogen, het overkoepelende thema. We oefenen met de richtlijnen van Insight Dialogue.

Art & Soul: Right View, The Three Characteristics

With Marsha Lawson and Stéphane Benoist

September 21, 2025
Online via Zoom
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).

BUNDAME KARTU visiems Meditacijos atsiskyrimas/ Waking up together

With Ayya Anopama

October 1 - 5, 2025
Klaipėda, Lithuania

Tyloje ir kartu, ką reiškia… … sustoti ir atvykti į čia ir dabar; … atsipalaiduoti ir priimti dalykus tokius, kokie jie yra; … atsiverti ir praplėsti savo suvokimą įtraukiant kitus; … susiderinti su tuo, kas atsiranda, ir pasiduoti pokyčiams, nežinant; … giliai įsiklausyti, visu kūnu, priimti pasaulį ir jame ilsėtis; … kalbėti tiesą, su geraširdiškumu. […]

Vier Insight Dialogue-avonden

With Chris van der Velden

October 7 - November 18, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland

Aansluitend, op het thema van de Insight Dialogue-dag, is het mogelijk om deel te nemen aan vier Insight Dialogue bijeenkomsten. We oefenen op deze avonden met de richtlijnen en het centrale thema: “Mededogen, als weg naar vrede in ons zelf en de wereld waarin we leven”

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

October 9 - 30, 2025
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.

Cultiver une vie nourrie d’amitié et de joie dans un monde en feu

With Sandrine Rauter, Alex Castanheira and Brent Beresford

October 20 - 25, 2025
Vieu d'Izenave, France
Comme l’a souligné le Bouddha, les relations sont au cœur du chemin vers la libération de la souffrance. Comment alors cultiver l’amitié, la sagesse et la compassion dans nos manières d’être en lien ?

'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 […]

Art & Soul: Impermanence, The Three Characteristics

With Deborah Ennis

October 26, 2025
Online via Zoom
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).

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 […]

Insight Dialogue, Heart to Heart - Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship

With Rachel Hammerman

November 3 - 25, 2025
online

How can we cultivate a heart that opens to the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows of this world? In this course, we'll cultivate a boundless heart through Insight Dialogue. Week by week, heart to heart, we'll contemplate the four sublime abidings, or Brahma Viharas - Metta (Lovingkindness), Karuna (Compassion), Mudita (Appreciative Joy) and Upekkha (Equanimity). […]

Insight Dialogue - de drie karakteristieken

With Marieke Duijvestijn and Chris van der Velden

November 22, 2025
Tilburg, Nederland
Het thema van deze dag is de drie karakteristieken van het bestaan: de veranderlijke, onbevredigende, en oncontroleerbare aard ervan. Door deze karakteristieken samen te herkennen in onze ervaring kan er helderheid ontstaan en komt er ruimte voor compassie.

Despertando Juntos

With Ayya Anopama

November 26 - 30, 2025
Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Meditación en silencio y prácticas del Diálogo Consciente (Insight Dialogue) para despertar a la sabiduría y la compasión en una trama relacional. Que podamos juntos…. ... hacer una pausa y llegar plenamente al aquí y ahora….. ... relajarnos y aceptar las cosas como son…. ... abrir y expandir nuestra conciencia en mutualidad…. ... sintonizarnos con […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - 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 […]

The Relational Multiplier and The Need for Dhamma

With Gregory Kramer

December 14, 2025
online
Engaged with awareness and guided by wisdom, our relationships become a source of insight and liberation and strengthens our path. The Dhamma gives us the understanding to direct this relational power wisely. And this very power helps us realize the fullness of the Dhamma. In our time together, we will explore how this relational power can amplify and sustain meditative qualities.

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.

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.

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, […]

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 […]