In-Person

In Person Retreats

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.

Spiritual Friendship and the Dhamma of Relationality

With Bhante Anuruddha, Riët Aarsse and Dave Leggatt

August 10 - 17, 2025
Sri Lanka

Good friends, companions, and associates are the whole of the spiritual life. (SN 3.18) Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice grounded in the Buddha’s teachings. While many meditation practices direct us to cultivate mindfulness internally, Insight Dialogue invites you to follow the Buddha’s instruction to cultivate mindfulness internally, externally, and both internally and externally. […]

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.

Wahrheit hier und jetzt

With Ayya Anopama

August 16 - 22, 2025
Mittersill, Österreich
Gewahrsein und Freundlichkeit sind von zentraler Bedeutung, um uns mit dem zu verbinden, was wir sind und wirklich wollen. Das Gewahrsein offenbart, was in jedem Moment da ist, und Freundlichkeit erlaubt uns, diese Erfahrung zu empfangen und uns dafür zu öffnen, sie mit Weisheit zu sehen und die Wahrheit zum Vorschein kommen zu lassen.

The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

With Jill Shepherd and Elizabeth Faria

August 22 - 28, 2025
Byron Bay, Australia
A six-night retreat weaving together silent and relational insight meditation practice This retreat offers a rare opportunity to bring together two complementary practices: silent insight (vipassanā) meditation and Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice that involves mindful speaking and listening together in pairs or small groups.

Retraite de Dialogue Conscient

With Anne Michel and Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch

September 4 - 7, 2025
Jaun, Suisse

La pratique du Dialogue Conscient nous met en relation directe avec la beauté et la complexité du monde interrelationnel. Lorsque l'expérience est vécue en pleine conscience ici et maintenant, nos peurs relationnelles s'adoucissent et nos besoins d'être reconnus diminuent. La confiance s'installe, ancrée dans l'instant, libérée des projections et des doutes. La retraite sera entièrement […]

Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World Evening Program

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 12, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

Relational Dharma for a Ruptured World

With Gregory Kramer and Anna-Brown Griswold

September 13 - 14, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
At their root of the overlapping crises we are facing, they’re relational. The hatred and injustice are born of closed heartedness. And in the absence of true connection, many of us turn to the search for pleasure and escape—leading to cycles of addiction and eco-destruction. This retreat is an invitation into a different way of being together—one grounded in the Dharma and in our capacity for presence, mutuality of awareness, and truth-telling.

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 […]

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 ?

'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 […]