In-Person

In Person Retreats

Insight Dialogue Berichtnavigatie Oefendag

With Marieke Duijvestijn

November 24, 2024
Netherlands

en Chris van der Velden Tijdens deze dag kun je kennismaken met Insight Dialogue of je beoefening opfrissen. Wat is 'meditatie in dialoog'? Hoe kun je aandacht toepassen in dialoog met een ander? Hoe kun je daarbij opmerkzaam blijven? Vipassana-meditatie met Insight Dialogue is een boeddhistische oefening voor de ontwikkeling van wijsheid en mededogen door […]

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.

Suffering and Liberation in Relationships - An Insight Dialogue Retreat in the Heart of Winter

With Brent Beresford, Rachel Hammerman and Yenkuei Chuang

January 28 - 31, 2025
Montreal, Canada
This 4-day meditation retreat offers an opportunity to immerse fully in mindfulness, both individually and relationally, through the interpersonal meditation practice of Insight Dialogue. Together we’ll settle into a balanced heartmind, and explore the fundamental teachings of the Four Noble Truths, of suffering and liberation in relationships.

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.

Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns, Nicola Redfern and Sandra Ramos Amézquita

May 5 - 11, 2025
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Early Registration: USD $725 by March 31
Regular Cost: USD $775 after March 31

Releasing the Views that Bind Us The Cascadia ID Retreat offers a rare opportunity to explore a range of different approaches to finding freedom, using the Insight Dialogue meditation practice to draw together wisdom from both the Insight and Zen traditions. We will explore one of the key obstacles to finding freedom: the ways we […]

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 […]