Residential Retreats
sub-category of All ID Offerings
Awakening Together: A Relational Meditation Retreat
With Ayya Anopama
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat
With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Jessica Mui
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. […]
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..[…]
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 […]
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 […]