Retreat Teacher
Janet Surrey
Janet Surrey teaches Insight Dialogue retreats internationally and leads a monthly practice group in the Boston area. Jan serves on the Insight Dialogue Community Teachers’ Council and the coordinating team for the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community. She has worked with Gregory Kramer since 2007. Her original teacher was Vimala Thakar. Jan has also done many […]
Thursday, third: Dharma Contemplation, The Path of Dharma Friendship, Dharma Friendship,
Anna-Brown Griswold
Anna-Brown fell in love with Insight Dialogue practice in 2012 after nearly twenty years of practice and study in the Tibetan and Zen koan lineages of Buddhism, including monastic practice and extended solitary retreats. For most of her adult life she’s been experimenting with how to integrate the awakening power of dharma practice, the skills […]
Nicola Redfern
Nicola Redfern has an extensive background in both Zen and Vipassana meditation. She has been trained to teach Insight Dialogue by founding teacher Gregory Kramer. With a strong belief that awakening is not simply a solo endeavor, Nicola is particularly interested in getting meditation off the cushion and fully integrated into life, work, and relationships. […]
Sharon Beckman-Brindley
Sharon Beckman-Brindley is an Insight Dialogue Teacher who has taught Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide. She also is a co-founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community in Charlottesville, VA. A clinical psychologist with over 30 years of both meditation experience and practice as a psychotherapist, she has a special interest in developing programs for mental health […]
Anne Michel
Anne Michel has practiced vipassana meditation since 1973, mainly in Theravada tradition. She deepened her path with many monastic and lay teachers including Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Sucitto, Jack Kornfield, and Carole Wilson. Anne has taught meditation in Europe since 2001. Teaching Insight Dialogue has allowed an important deepening of her practice by way extending vipassana […]
Rosalie Dores
Rosalie Dores is an Insight Dialogue Retreat Teacher. She has practiced meditation and yoga since 1992. Her dharma roots are within the Vipassana,Theravada, Insight Meditation traditions and Insight Dialogue. Rosalie is dedicated to offering teachings that engage at the interface between ancient wisdom and the challenges of our modern world. She recognises that Insight Dialogue addresses […]
"Awake Together" An Insight Dialogue Retreat, Liberating Wisdom for our Times, Liberating Wisdom for These Times - Refuge, Relationship & Response, Teaching Presence in Relationship: an Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training retreat,
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Patricia Genoud-Feldman began practicing Vipassana and Brahma Vihara on intensive retreats and Dzogchenin in Asia in 1984. Her two main teachers were Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Sayadaw U Pandita. After much time spent on retreat, Patricia completed teacher-training at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Patricia was introduced to Insight Dialogue at a retreat […]
Elizabeth Faria
Elizabeth Faria has studied with Gregory Kramer and the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community since 2008. She began practicing vipassana on long retreats meditation in 1996. She took a two-year break from work to dedicate time to meditation practice in India, the US, Australia, and Thailand. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Australian Association of Buddhist […]
Saturday, monthly, Queer Insight Dialogue Sangha, Wednesday: Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific (IDAP), Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path,
Jill Shepherd
Jill Shepherd leads Insight Dialogue courses and non-residential workshops internationally. She began studying and practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999, and recently spent seven years on staff at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, where she participated in several long retreats and Buddhist study programs, as well as offering weekly meditation classes […]
Wednesday: Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific (IDAP), Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Group: A Whole-Life Path,
Gregory Kramer
Gregory Kramer is the Founding Teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community and has been teaching insight meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has studied with esteemed teachers, including Anagarika Dhammadina, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya […]
The Path of Dharma Friendship, Dharma Friendship, From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue,
Antonella Commellato
Antonella Commellato teaches retreats, day longs, and guides Insight Dialogue and Dharma Contemplation groups in Italy. Antonella began to meditate in the Vipassana tradition in 1992, attending retreats led by Corrado Pensa and other Vipassana teachers. In 1998 she became deeply involved in the Advaita Vedanta (non-dual) tradition as a disciple of Raphael. Antonella leads […]
Fabio Giommi
Fabio Giommi teaches retreats, day longs, and guides Insight Dialogue practice groups in Italy. Fabio began to meditate in 1997 in the Vipassana tradition, attending retreats led by Corrado Pensa and monastic teachers from Thai and Burmese traditions. In 1998 he became deeply involved in the Advaita Vedanta (non-dual) tradition as well as a disciple […]
Bhikkhu Sukhacitto
Bhikkhu Sukhacitto was born in Germany in 1963 and first came into contact with Buddhism in 1986 in Thailand by attending a meditation retreat, offered through Wat Suan Mokkh. He ordained there as a monk in 1990. He returned to the West in 1993. Since then he has lived at various monasteries, including Dhammapala Monastery […]
Bart van Melik
Bart van Melik is a guiding teacher at the Community Meditation Center in New York City. He has been teaching Insight Dialogue and silent meditation since 2009, and has been trained by Joseph Goldstein, Carol Wilson, Gregory Kramer, and Phyllis Hicks. Bart is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program. Bart […]
Speak What Matters, Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat,
Florence Meleo-Meyer
Florence Meleo-Meyer teaches Insight Dialogue retreats in the US and abroad and is co-developer of the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP). She has studied in India and the US with meditation masters, S.Muktananda and S.Chidvilasananda since 1976 and has practiced insight meditation for over 20 years. She met and began studying with Gregory Kramer in 2003. […]
Phyllis K. Hicks
Phyllis Hicks teaches Insight Dialogue retreats internationally and serves on the Insight Dialogue Community Teachers’ Council. Phyllis has trained and taught with Gregory Kramer since 2004. She has worked as a psychotherapist for over 30 years, bringing together Eastern and Western understandings of psychology and contemplative practice in a clinical setting. She is a co-developer […]
Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat, Teaching Presence in Relationship: an Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training retreat,
Mary Burns
Mary Burns teaches Insight Dialogue internationally and also offers the practice online. She engages actively in the Insight Dialogue Community by participating in the Teachers Council, Guiding Sangha, Awakening White Awareness cohort and by mentoring facilitators and teachers in development. For more than three decades she has been drawn to the intersection of eastern and […]