Residential Retreats

sub-category of All ID Offerings

From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

With Gregory Kramer

November 6 - 15, 2026
Barre, MA

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 […]

Finding Freedom in Relaxing the Sense of Self

With Nicola Redfern and Bart van Melik

February 23 - 28, 2027
Barre, MA
Grounded in the teachings of the Buddha, this residential Insight Dialogue retreat explores these questions through both silent and relational practice. Drawing on core Buddhist teachings such as impermanence (anicca) and not-self (anattā), we investigate how the sense of self is continually forming in experience.

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat

With Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye and Yenkuei Chuang

August 20 - 25, 2027
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 Brahmaviharas, the four limitless heart qualities.

Deep Relational Wisdom of Mettānattā

With Gregory Kramer

November 2 - 14, 2027
Barre, MA

This retreat will explore relational wisdom as it arises in relational meditation practice. Together we will learn and practice mettānattā, the unification of mettā–and all the brahmaviharas–and not-self, anattā. Relational contact can amplify anger, fear, and delusion, but it can also strengthen wholesome meditative qualities. The Buddha described relational contact as a necessary condition for arousing right view. Wisdom grows […]