In-Person

In Person Retreats

Art & Soul: Anicca Dukkha - Suffering of Change

With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson

November 16, 2025
Cambridge, MA
The 2025-2026 theme for practice will be the Three Characteristics, also known as the "Three Marks of Existence": impermanence (anicca), suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha), and not-self or selflessness (anatta).

Insight Dialogue - de drie karakteristieken

With Marieke Duijvestijn and Chris van der Velden

November 22, 2025
Tilburg, Nederland
Het thema van deze dag is de drie karakteristieken van het bestaan: de veranderlijke, onbevredigende, en oncontroleerbare aard ervan. Door deze karakteristieken samen te herkennen in onze ervaring kan er helderheid ontstaan en komt er ruimte voor compassie.

Fierce Care, Steady Heart: An Insight Dialogue Weekend Retreat

With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Sue Brown

November 22 - 23, 2025
Washington, DC

How can we care deeply — for those we love and the causes we cherish — without being pulled into frustration, depletion, or indifference? How do we keep our hearts open without clinging to how things “should” be? Join Insight Dialogue teachers Sue Brown and Bhante Sukhacitto for two-day, nonresidential retreat to cultivate caring presence without attachment. We’ll explore […]

Despertando Juntos

With Ayya Anopama

November 26 - 30, 2025
Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Meditación en silencio y prácticas del Diálogo Consciente (Insight Dialogue) para despertar a la sabiduría y la compasión en una trama relacional. Que podamos juntos…. ... hacer una pausa y llegar plenamente al aquí y ahora….. ... relajarnos y aceptar las cosas como son…. ... abrir y expandir nuestra conciencia en mutualidad…. ... sintonizarnos con […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - 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 […]

Mindfully Together

With Viveka Bhikkhu, Sandra Ramos Amézquita and Elizabeth Faria

December 20 - 25, 2025
Lantau, Hong Kong
In this meditation retreat, we will explore the power of connection and friendship as pathways to cultivating wisdom and awareness in the service of well-being and liberation.

The Generous Gift of Being Mindfully Present 正念臨在的餽贈

With Nolitha Tsengiwe and Dave Leggatt

December 27, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, 1942 This Insight Dialogue retreat invites participants into a deep exploration of Simone Weil’s profound insight, illuminated through the transformative power of relationality and the dharma, which is the Buddha’s understanding of the natural law.

从洞见中尋獲自由 Finding Freedom through Insight

With Riët Aarsse and Jessica Mui

January 3 - 8, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
How do we maintain a sense of stability and openness while in contact with others? Much of our life is with others, and it can be challenging to maintain inner harmony and connection when we are in the busy-ness of our lives. What hinders, what supports being free from relational suffering?

Cultivating Compassion

With Ayya Anopama and Nolitha Tsengiwe

January 10 - 15, 2026
Lantau, Hong Kong
What does it mean to truly be awake? What can be released when seen in the light of death? How might we live with greater presence and compassion, even amidst uncertainty?

Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Ayya Anopama

February 13 - 19, 2026
Devon, United Kingdom

with Laura Bridgman Rooted in Buddhist tradition, this retreat will invite a gentle yet profound exploration of interconnection. Together, we will inquire into habits of separateness, and as insights arise, the illusion of isolation can transform into responsiveness, reciprocity, and a sense of belonging. With pausing, spaciousness and care, we will deepen presence with ourselves, […]

Mettānattā : mettā as a practice of self effacement and insight

With Gregory Kramer and Irene Bumbacher

April 30 - May 9, 2026
Beatenberg, Suisse

A powerful teaching is hidden in plain sight: metta is a practice of anatta, of not-self. This can be expressed by a compound Pali word, mettānattā. When we cultivate true friendliness, we move our focus of attention from ourselves to others. This diminishes the trance of self-identity. This is one way that Insight Dialogue functions […]

Peaceful group meditation during the Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat focused on mindfulness and relational meditation.

Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat - Save the Date

With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Nicola Redfern

June 1 - 7, 2026
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

With Gregory Kramer

November 6 - 15, 2026
Barre, MA

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 […]