Teacher

Donna Strickland

Donna Strickland experienced a profound interpersonal transformation when she first encountered Insight Dialogue in 2006. Since 2011, she has shared this deeply heart-opening practice by leading a number of Insight Dialogue classes in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a member of the teachers’ council at Show Me Dharma. As a former English professor, Donna developed […]

Insight Dialogue and Spiritual Friendship: An Experiential Retreat,

Joyce Curnan

Joyce Curnan has practised meditation since 2006. Drawn by its transformative power, she became an MBSR teacher in 2010 and attended her first Insight Dialogue retreat with Gregory Kramer that same year. Since then, she has been an active member of the Dutch Insight Dialogue community, offering introductory courses and co-facilitating monthly practice groups. She […]

Opening the heart, freeing the mind: An Insight Dialogue Retreat,

Asaf Federman

Asaf Federman was invited to teach by the dharma teacher Christopher Titmuss in 2018. He began to offer Insight Dialogue in 2022. His meditation practice started in 1998 at the Vipassana Institute of S.N. Goenka and developed in retreats and courses with various teachers including Christopher Titmuss, Stephen Bachelor, Stephen Fulder, Thich Naht Hanh, Joseph […]

Brent Beresford

Brent Beresford’s (they/them) greatest teachers are their children, showing them how unreasonable their expectations are, and encouraging the practice of relationship and community. Their work has been in engaging the power of relationship, accompanying individuals and groups since 2002. They have endeavoured to transmit teachings of Dhamma in various forms since 2013, through mindfulness-based approaches […]

Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority, Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient, Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity,

Viveka Bhikkhu

Viveka is a Buddhist monk who teaches mindfulness practice and compassionate living. He began exploring meditation in the early 90’s, attended his first retreat in 2002, and was ordained with Sayadaw U Tejaniya in 2013. Over a 20-year period, he was fortunate to train with various well-respected lay teachers in the West and Buddhist masters […]

Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient, Friday, last of month: Liberation with spiritual friends in the daily life,

Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch

Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch discovered meditation through mindfulness and Insight Dialogue programs in Switzerland. She then began attending retreats with different teachers including Anne Michel, Ajahn Sucittoand Bhante Bodhidhamma. She decided to deepen her practice in the Theravada tradition and since 2018 has been a Dharma study group led by Anne Michel. Adriana has been […]

Sunday/ Los últimos domingo del mes: Sesión mensual de la práctica de Diálogo Consciente, Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient,

Bhante Anuruddha

The Venerable Anuruddha Thero Karuwelagaswewa was born in Sri Lanka in 1971. At 8 years old he joined the monastery, was ordained as a monk at age 12, and later studied Buddhist philosophy at the University of Jayawardhanapura and a Buddhist approach to counseling at the University of Kelaniya’s Postgraduate Institute of Pali Buddhist Studies. […]

Nolitha Tsengiwe

Nolitha Tsengiwe, based in Johannesburg is a meditation teacher trained by the Insight Meditation Society, a teacher for Cloud Sangha and Dharmagiri meditation center, and a mentor for Sounds True Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She has practiced under Kittisaro and Thanissara (disciples of Ajahn Chah) for more than 20 years. Nolitha is a mother, […]

Friday, first: Dhamma Contemplation, Saturday, third: Dhamma Contemplation, Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority, The Path Of Spiritual Friendship, Developing a Vast Heart in Turbulent Times: Exploring the Four Brahmaviharas through Insight Dialogue,

Alex Castanheira

Alex Castanheira (they/them) began meditation’s practice as a teenager through Taisen Deshimaru’s books. In 2011, after engaging in an 8-week course in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, they decided to train as a Mindfulness-Based Intervention teacher. Since then, they have practiced meditation with different teachers in Europe (e.g., Martin Aylward) and Insight Dialogue mainly with Anne […]

Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe mensuel de pratique de Dialogue Conscient en français, Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient, Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity,

Sandrine Rauter

Sandrine Rauter entered the path of meditation through yoga practice in the early 2000s. With a strong commitment to share these transformative practices to many, she became a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher and trainer, offering MBSR programs since 2014 and Interpersonal Mindfulness programs since 2017 both to individuals and organisations. She was introduced to […]

Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe mensuel de pratique de Dialogue Conscient en français, Thursday/ Jeudi: Groupe de Pratique du Dialogue Conscient,