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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.…]

'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).

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). […]

Art & Soul: Anicca Dukkha - Suffering of Change

With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson

November 16, 2025
Cambridge, MA
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).

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.

Mindfully Together

With Viveka Bhikkhu, Sandra Ramos Amézquita and Elizabeth Faria

December 20 - 25, 2025
Lantau, Hong Kong
In this meditation retreat, we will explore the power of connection and friendship as pathways to cultivating wisdom and awareness in the service of well-being and liberation.

The Generous Gift of Being Mindfully Present 正念臨在的餽贈

With Nolitha Tsengiwe and Dave Leggatt

December 27, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, 1942 This Insight Dialogue retreat invites participants into a deep exploration of Simone Weil’s profound insight, illuminated through the transformative power of relationality and the dharma, which is the Buddha’s understanding of the natural law.

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?

Cultivating Compassion

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 […]

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 […]