Facilitator
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 […]
Subhadra Srinivasan
Subhadra Srinivasan (Subha) has been practicing Insight meditation since 2007 with a focus of loving kindness practice, and graduated from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) in 2023. Subha was introduced to Insight Dialogue under the guidance of Marsha Lawson and Jan Surrey in 2022 and has been practicing Insight Dialogue since. Subha regularly […]
Moriah Armstrong
A lifelong meditator, Moriah settled into to the Buddha’s teachings in the early 2000. She was introduced to Insight Dialogue in 2010 when she attended a retreat with Gregory Kramer. As Insight Dialogue practice became more integral in her daily life, she touched the power and beauty of sangha and the depth of investigation. She […]
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 Bi-Weekly (HKIMS) Practice, Thursday/Friday Weekly Drop-in,
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 Bi-Weekly (HKIMS) Practice, Thursday/Friday Weekly Drop-in,
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, Wednesday/Thursday: Prática de Diálogo Consciente Semanal em Português, Despertar Juntos,
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, Cascadia North ✦ Insight Dialogue Retreat,
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 […]
Michele Zukerberg
Michele Zukerberg has been practicing Insight Meditation, including Insight Dialogue, since 2007. She currently facilitates an Insight Dialogue group in her hometown of Olympia, Washington. Drawing on her background in mediation and environmental conservation, Michele is committed to bridging spiritual, ecological, and social divides in her mindfulness offerings. Please offer Michele dana with venmo (@michele-zukerberg).
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 […]
Deanna Burkett
Deanna Burkett was introduced to meditation in 2007 during a one-month residential yoga teacher training at Kripalu. This month of intensive practice established bodily awareness as a way of meeting suffering, and this changed her life. Deanna first practiced Insight Dialogue in 2015 during an 8-week online course. Often living in rural areas, she has found […]
Harald Tichy
Harald began practicing 1982 with Joseph Goldstein in Bodhgaya, India, and was a long-term student of Ajahn Runjuan in the tradition of Ajahn Buddhadāsa, Wat Suan Mokkh, Thailand. Since 2010 he has been mentored by Gregory Kramer. Harald has taught calm and insight meditation since 1991 and began offering Insight Dialogue in 2008. His doctoral […]
Danica Jamison
Danica Jamison has been practicing Insight Dialogue since 2014 and has been a member of the Insight Dialogue Facilitator’s Cohort since 2016. She seeks opportunities to practice a loving, kind release from intoxication in all realms of life - as the parent of a young child, a partner, singer with the Threshold Choir, leader for […]
Patricia Fontaine
Patricia Fontaine co-facilitates Insight Dialogue in a weekly online drop-in session. Her twenty+ year meditation practice is steeped in Vipassana meditation. With Masters in Counseling Psychology and Transformative Language Arts, Patricia offers art and writing classes for those dealing with illness and transition. She’s engaged Insight Dialogue since 2008, and sees relational meditation practice as […]
Monday Weekly Drop-in Sessions, Saturday, monthly, Queer Insight Dialogue Sangha,
Michael Wilder
Searching the world in the early 1970s, Michael Wilder experienced Buddhist meditation in India with Lama Yeshe and S.N. Goenka. He continued with Vipassana in various forms and with other teachers. Insight Dialogue was added after experiencing the practice guided by Gregory Kramer and Mary Burns. Photography, a horse farm, cycling, painting, life, and friendship […]
Deborah Ennis
Deborah Ennis lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA. She has been studying and practicing Vipassana meditation for over 30 years, primarily focused on early Buddhist teachings. She is an active member of a weekly insight meditation group. She offers holistic psychotherapy with an embodied, relational-based approach. She is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher […]
Stefan Hanser
Stefan Hanser began meditating in the Vipassana tradition 2004. Since 2020 he has been practicing Mahayana Mind Training in the Nyingma und Sakya tradition. Being introduced to Insight Dialogue in 2017 and having participated in facilitator trainings with Gregory Kramer, the practice has become an integral part of his everyday life. He facilitates the practice […]
Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany, Verbundenheit erleben und verkörpern – Einsichtsdialog Retreat,