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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.…]

Despertar juntos: introducción al Diálogo Consciente

With Ayya Anopama

June 7, 2025
Barcelona, España
Este retiro de un día ofrece una introducción al Diálogo Consciente, una práctica de meditación interpersonal que puede ayudarnos a estar despiertas en nuestra vida cotidiana y con las demás. Reúne la conciencia meditativa, las enseñanzas del Buda y el poder de las relaciones para desarrollar una percepción y compasión profundas.

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 […]

Mindful Inside and Out: The Buddha’s Radical Relational Teaching

With Gregory Kramer

June 21, 2025
Online
We can engage the power of relationships – of spiritual friends – to amplify and sustain mindfulness. When the power of mindfulness ripens, the calm and receptive presence of another can make insight into not-self accessible rather than scary, a natural result of de-centering the self.

'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 […]

Waking Up Together

With Ayya Anopama

June 28 - July 4, 2025
Czech Republic
In this retreat we will explore how we can be present within ourselves and with others through the power of silent meditation and the practice of Insight Dialogue, listening deeply and speaking from silence. We will cultivate mindfulness and stillness as we explore different aspects of our human experience in the immediacy of the present moment. In the unconditional acceptance of our inner experience and in relationship with others, the door to compassion and liberating insight opens.

Insight Dialogue for the Asian Diaspora

With Yenkuei Chuang

July 2 - 30, 2025
Online via Zoom
We will learn the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue and use these guidelines as meditative tools to help us slow down and contemplate what it means to show up Asian with each other. Together we will see what will be known in ways unavailable in a BIPOC or predominantly White group. In addition to the six ID guidelines, we will allow dhamma teachings and the relational support to help name and loosen some of the identifications and views.

In un mondo fatto di parole dall’inizio alla fine, nulla di solido ha un suo solido sé.

With Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi

July 3 - 6, 2025
Italy

Incantamenti e autoinganni della mente alla luce della pratica di consapevolezza.

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

July 10 - 31, 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.

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.

Wahrheit hier und jetzt

With Ayya Anopama

August 16 - 22, 2025
Mittersill, Österreich
Gewahrsein und Freundlichkeit sind von zentraler Bedeutung, um uns mit dem zu verbinden, was wir sind und wirklich wollen. Das Gewahrsein offenbart, was in jedem Moment da ist, und Freundlichkeit erlaubt uns, diese Erfahrung zu empfangen und uns dafür zu öffnen, sie mit Weisheit zu sehen und die Wahrheit zum Vorschein kommen zu lassen.

The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

With Jill Shepherd and Elizabeth Faria

August 22 - 28, 2025
Byron Bay, Australia
A six-night retreat weaving together silent and relational insight meditation practice This retreat offers a rare opportunity to bring together two complementary practices: silent insight (vipassanā) meditation and Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice that involves mindful speaking and listening together in pairs or small groups.

'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 […]

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.