In-Person
In Person Retreats
Insight Dialogue – A 4-day mindful presence retreat
With Nolitha Tsengiwe and Dave Leggatt
This Insight Dialogue retreat invites participants into a deep exploration of Simone Weil’s profound insight that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” illuminated through the transformative power of relationality and the Buddha’s understanding of dharma as natural law. Through the practice of Insight Dialogue —speaking the truth and listening deeply together—we will […]
Art & Soul: Anicca Dukkha
With Janet Surrey and Marsha Lawson
Exploration des Cinq Facultés Spirituelles
With Patricia Genoud-Feldman and Sandrine Rauter
Mettānattā : mettā as a practice of self effacement and insight
With Gregory Kramer and Irene Bumbacher
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 […]
Reconnecting with Life
With Nicola Redfern
An Insight Dialogue Weekend Retreat with Nicola Redfern In these times, it is easy to feel overwhelmed or disheartened as we witness what Joanna Macy calls the Great Unraveling. At the same time, we are also participants in what she names the Great Turning—the profound shift from a life-taking society to one that sustains and […]
Sources of Joy and Sources of Sorrow
With Gregory Kramer, Nolitha Tsengiwe, Riët Aarsse and Asaf Federman
In times of global turmoil, how do we cultivate joy, wisdom, and inner balance? How do we meet the sorrows of the world without being overwhelmed? This six-day retreat invites us to explore how joy and sorrow arise in the body-heart-mind—both in silence and in relational contact with others. Drawing on the Buddha's teachings, we […]
Retraite de Dialogue Conscient
With Anne Michel
Gemeinsam wach durch Achtsamkeit- Meditationsseminar im Schweigen mit Einsichtsdialog
With Ayya Anopama
In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Kraft der stillen Meditation und die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs in uns selbst und mit anderen präsent sein können. Die sechs Meditationsleitfäden des Einsichtsdialogs unterstützen uns dabei, Achtsamkeit und Geistesruhe zu kultivieren, während wir gemeinsam verschiedene Aspekte unserer menschlichen Erfahrung in der Unmittelbarkeit des gegenwärtigen Augenblicks […]
14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Gregory Kramer and Mary Burns
Growing Resilience and Relational Capacity Through careful and skillful practice, with the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will expand our relational capacities as awareness meets awareness. This is an empowering response to the alienation, cruelty, and disempowerment saturating our societies. In our fractured world, greater relational capacity offers us greater resilience and balance. […]
Finding wisdom and compassion in relationship
With Emma Donaldson-Feilder
How can we best navigate relationships in a world context that seems to bring daily heightening of turmoil, uncertainty and threat? The need has never been greater for us to find compassion and wisdom in all our interactions with our fellow beings and the world. During this in-person retreat day, we will explore relational aspects […]
Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response
With Rosalie Dores
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, […]
Ruimte geven en ontvangen: een Insight Dialogue Retraite
With Bart van Melik and Riët Aarsse
Een retraite geeft tijd en ruimte om helemaal met jezelf te zijn. Hoe ervaren we ruimte als we niet alleen, maar gezamenlijk vertragen, verstillen en gezamenlijk opmerkzaam zijn? In deze retraite, gaan we exploreren hoe het is om ruimte te geven én om ruimte te ontvangen. Soms geven we makkelijker en soms is ontvangen juist […]
Returning to Love: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan
Running throughout the Buddha’s teachings are the profound benefits of awareness, release, and spiritual friendship—each supporting the clear seeing of what we may not be able to perceive on our own. The three bases of Insight Dialogue practice—meditation, wisdom, and relationship—form both a foundation and a path of unbinding. When mindfulness permeates our ways of relating, we begin to realize the transformative power of solitude and friendship in our lives..[…]
Gemeinsam Erwachen: Vipassana-Einsichtsdialog Retreat
With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Ayya Anopama
In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Meditationspraxis des Einsichtsdialogs in uns selbst und miteinander präsent sein können. Durch das Sprechen aus der Stille und das tiefe Zuhören wird die Achtsamkeit und Geistesruhe der stillen Vipassana-Meditationsübung in die Interaktion mit anderen eingebracht. Das ermöglicht uns Dinge, die wir normalerweise in der Geschäftigkeit […]
Speak What Matters
With Bart van Melik
What does it mean to speak wisely? The Buddha taught that our words bring connection or harm. Together we explore what it means to speak what matters: is it true? kind, appropriate, and timely?
Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik
In times of rapid change, ecological fragility, and social unrest, our habitual patterns—of perception, thought, speech, and reaction shape our inner experience and view of the world. This retreat invites us to the immediacy of each moment and the quiet joy of simply being here, now. Together, we will explore the transformative potential of relating […]
Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response
With Rosalie Dores
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, […]
From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue
With Gregory Kramer
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 […]