Residential Retreats

sub-category of All ID Offerings

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]