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Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority

With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang, Brent Beresford and Tuere Sala

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.…]

Art & Soul: Upekkha - Equanimity

With Yenkuei Chuang

December 15, 2024
Online via Zoom
Welcome to Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of mini retreats, organized by Insight Dialogue NE. We’ll use our mini-retreats this year to explore the Brahma Viharas..

共尋自由 Finding Freedom Together

With Elizabeth Faria and Jessica Mui

December 21 - 25, 2024
Lantau island, Hong Kong
Please join us in this rare opportunity to have an in-person, bilingual (Chinese and English) Insight Dialogue retreat in Hong Kong! This 5-day residential retreat is open to mindfulness meditation practitioners with or without Insight Dialogue experience.

Finding Freedom Together

With Elizabeth Faria and Dave Leggatt

December 26 - 30, 2024
Lantau island, Hong Kong
Come practice relational meditation with spiritual friends to celebrate the holiday season. On this retreat, we will explore how in practice, together, we can draw on the Buddha’s teachings of the Brahma Viharas to cultivate a space free from attachment and how, from that base of freedom, we can investigate the deep teachings on causes and conditions.

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Nicola Redfern and Ayya Anopama

December 29, 2024 - January 2, 2025
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 17 - February 21, 2025
online

and Catarina Mak 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.  All are welcome. Prior meditation experience recommended but not required.  The program focuses on the core elements of this relational Dhamma practice.  Participants will meet for six consecutive weeks […]

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: Grounding in the Guidelines

With Rachel Hammerman

February 13 - March 6, 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.

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

With Judy Bernstein, Susie Clarion, Holly Nelson-Johnson and Michele Zukerberg

February 13 - April 10, 2025
online
This nine-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.

Finding Freedom Together: A BCBS Path Program

With Nicola Redfern and Bart van Melik

February 28, 2025 - April 19, 2026
Barre, MA and online
An in-depth program, multi-month program where we will draw upon the practice of Insight Dialogue to explore the liberating potential of the Four Noble Truths in an immediate and relational way.

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.

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 […]