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What happens when we practice Insight Dialogue in relationship to non-human creatures? In this course, we will explore the power of our relationship with beloved pets or other sentient creatures to cultivate wholesome mindstates and freedom from suffering. People are complex beings. Practicing Insight Dialogue with other meditators can be particularly challenging for those with […]

​In this retreat we will explore how we can be present with ourselves while in relationship with others through silent meditation and the relational meditation practice of Insight Dialogue. We will cultivate and strengthen the meditative qualities of mindfulness, investigation, concentration, and tranquility experienced in personal practice, and access them in the midst of relating […]

This online Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat day will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha’s teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering, and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times. Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking […]

“The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path provides a wiser way through life than any offered by our conditioning. It’s an intentional path through life’s tangle. And intention is necessary. Any change for the good must face the momentum that made things as they are now. Old habits run deep within us; we complicate, palliate, protect and […]

Este retiro ofrece un espacio para ralentizar el ritmo y practicar juntos la condición de ser un ser humano a través de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente. En un mundo marcado por la velocidad, la fragmentación y la separación habitual, nos volcamos hacia la presencia, las relaciones y el cuidado como experiencia vivida. Basándonos en […]

and Ron Wilcox Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice rooted in the Dhamma that brings together meditation, the wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings and human relatedness to support insight into the cause and release of suffering. Through the practice of listening deeply and wise speech we become channels for the wisdom of the Dhamma […]

Most of us think of service as something we do — a task, a role, an act of generosity given from one person to another. But what if service is also something that happens between us — a quality of attention, a way of meeting each other, a practice as alive and as demanding as […]

These Insight Dialogue (ID) retreat days will offer an opportunity to explore together how the Buddha's teachings on the three marks of existence; impermanence, suffering and not self can provide resource, resilience and liberation in these times.Six Insight Dialogue meditation guidelines will support us in bringing kind awareness into the heart of speaking and listening, […]

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 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 […]