In-Person

In Person Retreats

Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series

With Angela Spaxman

September 20 - October 11, 2025
Hong Kong

This four-part workshop series will introduce you to a  transformational practice that opens the door to more calm, stability, presence and insight in your life. Through practicing meditation in relationship, Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of human responsiveness and shared commitment to cultivate awareness, insight and compassion. The practice serves as a bridge to bring […]

Insight Dialogue-dag

With Chris van der Velden

September 20, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland
Tijdens deze dag is mededogen, het overkoepelende thema. We oefenen met de richtlijnen van Insight Dialogue.

BUNDAME KARTU visiems Meditacijos atsiskyrimas/ Waking up together

With Ayya Anopama

October 1 - 5, 2025
Klaipėda, Lithuania

Tyloje ir kartu, ką reiškia… … sustoti ir atvykti į čia ir dabar; … atsipalaiduoti ir priimti dalykus tokius, kokie jie yra; … atsiverti ir praplėsti savo suvokimą įtraukiant kitus; … susiderinti su tuo, kas atsiranda, ir pasiduoti pokyčiams, nežinant; … giliai įsiklausyti, visu kūnu, priimti pasaulį ir jame ilsėtis; … kalbėti tiesą, su geraširdiškumu. […]

Vier Insight Dialogue-avonden

With Chris van der Velden

October 7 - November 18, 2025
Den Bosch, Nederland

en Marion Weustink Aansluitend, op het thema van de Insight Dialogue-dag, is het mogelijk om deel te nemen aan vier Insight Dialogue bijeenkomsten. We oefenen op deze avonden met de richtlijnen en het centrale thema: “Mededogen, als weg naar vrede in ons zelf en de wereld waarin we leven”

Cultiver une vie nourrie d’amitié et de joie dans un monde en feu

With Sandrine Rauter, Alex Castanheira and Brent Beresford

October 20 - 25, 2025
Vieu d'Izenave, France
Comme l’a souligné le Bouddha, les relations sont au cœur du chemin vers la libération de la souffrance. Comment alors cultiver l’amitié, la sagesse et la compassion dans nos manières d’être en lien ?

The Seeds of Intention

With Dave Leggatt

October 24 - 26, 2025
Shutesbury, MA

An Insight Dialogue Investigation into the Buddha’s Teaching on Karma. Karma has become one of the most misunderstood concepts in Western spiritual culture—often reduced to cosmic justice, fate, or the notion of “what goes around comes around.” The Buddha’s actual teaching on karma reveals something far more profound and liberating: karma as intentional action (cetanā) […]

'A Life Well Lived' - A series of Dialogue Retreat Days

With Rosalie Dores

October 26, 2025
Brighton and Hove, UK

The Buddha’s teachings offer practical guidance on how to actively cultivate a life that leads towards greater freedom, wellbeing and happiness for ourselves and others. In this series of three daylong retreats, we will take time in silence and relational meditation (Insight Dialogue*) to investigate the role that Sila (ethics), Samadhi (absorption) and Panna (wisdom) play in […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]