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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 […]

Wisdom can help our relationships to thrive; relationship can also be a source of wisdom. How can we access greater wisdom and nourishing relationships in a world that seems to be challenging both? During this in-person retreat day, we will explore how the Buddha's teachings can guide us in relating wisely with ourselves and others. […]

The six guidelines of Insight Dialogue — Pause, Relax, Open, Trust Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth — are simple to name and take practice to inhabit. A weekend offers what a weekly class can’t: an extended container to settle into them. Over two days we’ll take up each guideline in turn, deepening your […]

How can we cultivate a heart that opens to the 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows of this world? The holiday season offers no shortage of either. Coworkers, friends, family — the people we love and the ones we struggle with, often the same person at the same table. In this course, we'll cultivate a boundless […]

We are relational beings. However, our experience of being relational might often be fragmented into limited perceptions of “you” and “I”, where “you” = “not me”. How would it be to release this and other causes of relational suffering through direct experience? What if human relationality could become a path for awakening? Insight Dialogue brings […]

When we come into a relationship of acceptance with the immediacy of what's happening, we have supportive conditions for expansion, for loosening identification, and for transforming tension and reactivity into understanding. In this retreat we will investigate how being fully present with habits of turning away from the unpleasant, unwanted and painful experiences, clears the […]

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 […]

Through using the method of Global Social Witnessing (GSW) whilst engaging the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will hear from a number of Insight Dialogue practitioners across the world describe how this relational practice has meaning and impact in their everyday lives. In this program, not only are you invited to deepen relationship to the Insight […]

This retreat will explore relational wisdom as it arises in relational meditation practice. Together we will learn and practice mettānattā, the unification of mettā–and all the brahmaviharas–and not-self, anattā. Relational contact can amplify anger, fear, and delusion, but it can also strengthen wholesome meditative qualities. The Buddha described relational contact as a necessary condition for arousing right view. Wisdom grows […]