In-Person

In Person Retreats

Introduction to Insight Dialogue: “Pause and Relax"

With Yenkuei Chuang

April 5, 2025
Portland, ME, USA
Over the course of three and a half hours, we will learn about the first two guidelines: Pause & Relax. 

Art & Soul: Equanimity - Brahma Vihara

With Marsha Lawson and Yenkuei Chuang

April 6, 2025
Cambridge, MA
For this Sunday, we will practice to understand equanimity by using the Insight Dialogue guidelines of Pause, Relax and Open. We will explore the ways in which equanimity and non-equanimity are sensed and felt.

The Path Of Spiritual Friendship

With Elizabeth Faria, Dave Leggatt and Nolitha Tsengiwe

April 17 - 21, 2025
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The stresses of this uncertain world distort the mind's perceptions and shape our relationships with loved ones, nature, and ourselves. When we practice Insight Dialogue, we bring the stillness and insight of meditation into the rich, dynamic realm of human interaction. With the support of a partner, we uncover profound truths about ourselves, our patterns, […]

Être là avec les choses telles qu'elles sont

With Anne Michel

April 20 - 25, 2025
Seine-et-Marne, France

Durant cette retraite, nous allons nous intéresser à ce dont nous aimerions beaucoup être libérés : les émotions douloureuses qui nous poussent à penser, à dire ou à faire ce qui n’est pas bénéfique, pour nous-même ou pour les autres, et que nous ne choisissons pas. Avant de lâcher prise, nous avons à rencontrer ces émotions, sans les laisser […]

Embodying Wisdom in Challenging Times: An Introduction to Insight Dialogue

With Michele Zukerberg

May 3, 2025
Olympia, Washington, USA

How do we grow wisdom, joy, and compassion in these relentlessly challenging times? “In Insight Dialogue practice…we consciously cultivate presence in relationship… we extend the potential for calm, concentration and insight – all central to the sphere of silent meditation – into the interpersonal.” Rosalie Dores, Insight Dialogue Teacher Interpersonal relationships can be a source […]

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

Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Nicola Redfern

May 5 - 11, 2025
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Releasing the Views that Bind Us The Cascadia Insight Dialogue 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 […]

Cultivating Resilience and Equanimity in a World on Fire

With Jane Cutler and Dave Leggatt

May 9 - 10, 2025
Bristol, UK
With the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines we uncover the practical, embodied experience of Buddhist wisdom teachings.  The practice of Insight Dialogue can enhance mindfulness in our interactions and conversations, making these interactions an opportunity to co-create greater understanding and peace in our troubled world. 

Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series

With Angela Spaxman

May 24 - June 12, 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. It will contribute to peace in yourself and anyone you come into contact with through deeply satisfying interactions. It consists of 3 in-person sessions and 1 online session designed to: […]

Truth Here and Now

With Ayya Anopama

May 28 - June 1, 2025
Devon, United Kingdom
with Laura Bridgman We will explore how we can be present within ourselves through the power of silent meditation and also through the relational practices of Insight Dialogue and inquiry by listening deeply and speaking from silence. In the unconditional acceptance of our inner experience and in relationship with others, the doors to compassion and liberating insight can open.

Two-day Insight Dialogue workshop

With Elizabeth Faria and Jill Shepherd

May 31 - June 1, 2025
Sydney, Australia

The only constant is change ... But even in the midst of life’s uncertainties, it IS possible to find a sense of stability and refuge. All of the Buddha’s teachings show us how to cultivate resilience, so that we can navigate life’s inevitable ups and downs with some degree of balance, steadiness, ease and equanimity. […]

The Gift of Generosity: Exploring Giving & Receiving

With Bart van Melik

June 27 - 29, 2025
Berlin, Deutschland

What does it mean to be truly generous? The Buddha taught that generosity brings joy, yet giving and receiving can sometimes feel challenging. What gets in the way? This weekend in Berlin explores generosity through Insight Dialogue—a fully relational meditation practice where we cultivate mindfulness in speaking and listening. The gift of being heard supports our […]

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

With Rosalie Dores

June 28, 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 […]

Opening the heart, freeing the mind: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan

July 15 - 20, 2025
near Asheville, North Carolina

Join us for this relational meditation retreat. When we open to the immediacy of our experience, we have supportive conditions for seeing clearly, for loosening identification, and for transforming tension and reactivity into understanding.  As we cultivate meditative qualities together, the heart releases into connection.  We discover suffering and the end of suffering.[…]

Living Dharma

With Rosalie Dores and Ayya Anopama

July 17 - 24, 2025
Kruusila, Finland

As human beings subject to birth, ageing, sickness and death, how can we live in a way that leads to happiness? In response to this human predicament, the Buddha taught a path leading to freedom: a Dharma that is ‘apparent’ and accessible in the ‘here and now’ of our everyday lives, and that each of […]

Ruimte Geven

With Bart van Melik and Riët Aarsse

July 31 - August 3, 2025
Cadzand, Netherlands

Ruimte geven is ons thema van deze retraite. Ruimte om te vertragen, om helemaal jezelf te zijn, om niets in jezelf af te wijzen. Tijdens deze dagen oefenen we samen in Insight Dialogue — een boeddhistische meditatievorm waarin we met aandacht spreken en luisteren. Door deze beoefening ontstaat er een natuurlijke rust en verbinding, die ons helpt […]

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.

Insight Dialogue: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Rosalie Dores

August 15 - 21, 2025
Devon, United Kingdom
With Jenny Wilks. Silent meditation supports and nourishes the cultivation of non-reactive awareness and kind acceptance of our inner experience. However, we also need to bring these same qualities into our various interactions and relationships, as it is often in our exchanges with others that challenge and suffering can arise. In this retreat, we will explore how relationship itself can be a path of practice.

'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 […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - ein 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 […]