Facilitator
Chris van der Velden
Chris van der Velden has been practicing Insight Dialogue and vipassana meditation for over a decade and has offered guidance since 2022. He is part of the Insight Dialogue community in The Netherlands. Chris came into contact with Insight Dialogue by his vipassana teacher Inez Roelofs in 2014. Inez was his teacher until her passing […]
Renate Löseke
Renate Löseke is a social educator and a mother of four almost-grown children. She has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2002 with different teachers, mainly with Renate Seifarth, and has been practicing Insight Dialogue since 2016. Insight Dialogue has deeply impressed her from the beginning and has become an important part of her everyday practice. […]
Genevieve Heng
Genevieve Heng (she/her) has been practising Insight Meditation/mindfulness since 2013 and Insight Dialogue since 2019. She enjoys offering Introduction to Insight Dialogue courses and co-facilitates at various online and in-person practice groups. She is deeply appreciative of the long Theravada Buddhist tradition through which these living practices of waking up into freedom reach us today. […]
Thursday Weekly Drop-in Sessions, Thursday Bi-Weekly Practice,
Angela Spaxman
Angela Spaxman joined the Insight Dialogue Facilitator Cohort Asia in 2020 and has since been a regular host of introductory courses and drop-in groups internationally online and in-person in Hong Kong. Angela has been experimenting with inner work including meditation since 1999 following many different teachers. She is inspired to bring more clear seeing and […]
Thursday Weekly Drop-in Sessions, Thursday Bi-Weekly Practice, Insight Dialogue – Introductory Workshop Series,
Fabiana Gomes
Fabiana Gomes holds a degree in Social Communications, a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and Cognitive Development, and has conducted research in drug addiction recovery, anxiety, and mindfulness trauma sensitivity. An MBSR instructor at the Global Mindfulness Collaborative, she trained with Florence Meleo-Meyer, Zayda Valejo, and Maria Noel. Since 2017, she has practiced Insight Dialogue, inspired […]
Sunday/ Los últimos domingo del mes: Sesión mensual de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente, Thursdays: Prática de Diálogo Consciente Semanal em Português,
Sandra Ramos Amézquita
Sandra has been practicing Insight Dialogue since 2020 and individual silent meditation since 2004. She is a member of Teacher Development 2 cohort and Spanish Insight Dialogue group. She studied with a variety of meditation teachers including Dr. Alan Wallace, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. Sandra spent three years in monasteries in Myanmar, under […]
Sunday/ Los últimos domingo del mes: Sesión mensual de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente,
Stéphane Benoist
Stéphane Benoist has been practicing meditation in the Insight tradition since 2015 and Insight Dialogue since 2018; he has been offering Insight Dialogue since 2020. He is particularly interested in bringing gentleness to the deep commitment to formal and informal practice. Mentored by Insight Dialogue teacher Jan Surrey, Stéphane is a student of Soto Zen teacher […]
Nobantu Mpotulo
Nobantu is very new to Insight Dialogue having over 3 year of practicing Insight Dialogue rigorously. Nobantu was introduced to Insight Dialogue 7 years ago through attending an Insight Dialogue retreat. She was struck by the power of this relational practice. Nobantu is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader Program and a Buddhist teacher […]
Natalie Eldridge
Natalie Eldridge values the way spiritual friendship and community have nourished her lifelong meditation practice. For more than a decade she has practiced with the Insight Dialogue Northeast community, where she frequently facilitates. She has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years, integrating Eastern and Western understandings of psychology and contemplative practice in clinical settings. […]
Ellaya Ayal Mor
Ellaya Ayal Mor has been practicing Dharma and Vipassana for over 25 years, studying and practicing intensively in Israel, Europe and India. She became acquainted with Insight Dialogue 13 years ago through Gregory Kramer's book, Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom. In the summer of 2019 was fortunate enough sit a retreat with Gregory that […]