Art & Soul: Cultivating the Factors of Awakening in Relational Practice
March 26, 2023
Online via Zoom
This year’s Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of online mini retreats dharma, theme will be Cultivating the Factors of Awakening in Relational Practice. Each session will focus on one of the factors - mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. We will explore the unique qualities…
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Dharma Contemplation: Wise Attention and the Voice of Another
April 1 - 2, 2023
Cambridge, MA
Please do join us in the investigation of the meaning and power of spiritual friendship, dharma talk, and deep listening in cultivating wisdom, compassion, and liberation from suffering. We will engage in the practice of Dharma Contemplation, where meditative qualities of the heartmind, community wisdom, and the ancient Buddhist texts illuminate…
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Die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs und die 4 „himmlischen Verweilzustände“: Liebevolle Güte, Mitgefühl, Mitfreude und Gleichmut
April 14 - 16, 2023
Basel, Switzerland
Dieses Wochenende bietet Gelegenheit, die Grundprinzipien des Einsichtsdialogs, einer Meditationsform im Miteinander, kennenzulernen und sich in der erlernten Praxis zu üben und diese zu vertiefen. Ein Erforschen der eigenen Lebens-/Meditations-Praxis rund um die vier Brahmavihara-Herzqualitäten aus den buddhistischen Texten – Liebevolle Güte, Mitgefühl, Mitfreude und Gleichmut – wird dabei thematisch…
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Queer Insight Dialogue Sangha Day of Practice
April 22, 2023
Online
The Queer ID Sangha is delighted to offer this inaugural day of relational practice for the global LGBTQIA+ community to wake up together. We’ll celebrate the newly formed Queer ID Sangha by warmly welcoming practitioners who are brand new to Insight Dialogue as well as experienced Insight Dialogue community members.…
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Diálogo Consciente
April 23 - May 28, 2023
Durante este programa online de seis semanas nos reuniremos semanalmente para practicar las seis pautas del diálogo consciente. ¿Qué ocurre cuando haces una pausa consciente y relajas las tensiones? ¿Qué descubres cuando te abres a una conciencia más amplia y sintonizas con el cambio continuo de la vida?
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Art & Soul: Cultivating the Factors of Awakening in Relational Practice
April 23, 2023
Online via Zoom
This year’s Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of online mini retreats dharma, theme will be Cultivating the Factors of Awakening in Relational Practice. Each session will focus on one of the factors - mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. We will explore the unique qualities…
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Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat
May 6 - 14, 2023
Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Early Bird Discount, $850 until April 1
How do we find refuge in the Dhamma while fully embracing the world and its pain? What sources of wisdom, joy, and inspiration do we need to manifest compassionate action, freedom, and resilience? How might we transform the whole of life into a living Path where any moment is sacred, including…
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Exploring the Hindrances to Connection: Insight Dialogue City Retreat
May 12 - 14, 2023
Amsterdam, Netherlands
and Brent Beresford As human beings we are intrinsically relational and our lives are intertwined in numerous ways. And though we are interconnected, our hearts do not always feel and know this relationality. With Insight Dialogue we can explore how the experience of connection fluctuates with inner and outer circumstances.…
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Art & Soul: Mother’s Day
May 14, 2023
Online via Zoom
This year’s Art & Soul of Insight Dialogue, a monthly series of online mini retreats dharma, theme will be Cultivating the Factors of Awakening in Relational Practice. Each session will focus on one of the factors - mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. We will explore the unique qualities…
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Teaching Presence in Relationship
May 16 - 24, 2023
France
Registration is now open. This professional training is designed to prepare MBSR & MBCT instructors to teach Interpersonal Mindfulness as a follow-up to the 8-week MBSR program.
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Kalyana-mittata Retreat: A Gathering of Beautiful Friends
June 23 - July 2, 2023
near Toronto, Ontario Canada
Our vision is to explore the lived experience of Spiritual friendship, to provide the freedom to practice with what is familiar, but also the encouragement to practice with the unfamiliar, to venture close to the edge of the precipice, and to share our discoveries new and old. …]
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A Deep Dive into the Dhamma/Insight Dialogue Community Building
July 13 - 16, 2023
Surrey, UK
Cultivating connections internally, externally and both This invitation is for people interested in relational Buddhist practice or/and with an engaged connection to the Insight Dialogue community. You are invited to a three-day residential study retreat with the UK Insight Dialogue teachers/retreat teacher and founding teacher Gregory Kramer. Gregory is going…
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Returning to flow: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
July 18 - 23, 2023
near Asheville, North Carolina
In this retreat we’ll explore how the flow of experience is often taken as a basis for an independent, solid, unchanging self. Coming to know the ways each of our particular body/heart/minds become entangled in the selfing process, we can begin to disentangle. We will contemplate unwinding the tension and…
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Onverwachte wijsheid
July 21 - 25, 2023
Cadzand, Nederland
Omgaan met het onverwachte is misschien wel onze grootste uitdaging in het leven. Dingen in ons leven gaan vaak net niet zoals we willen of we worden geconfronteerd met veranderingen waar we niet op zitten te wachten. Hoe kunnen we deze uitdagingen het hoofd bieden?
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Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat
August 18 - 23, 2023
Barre, MA
Together, we are stronger and more resilient and can support one another to go a little bit further on the path towards Awakening. This retreat is about just that: supporting each other to Awaken Together. We will integrate the wisdom practice of Insight Dialogue and the heart practices of the…
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East Coast: Inviting an Insight Dialogue Teacher to your Sangha
September 29 - October 15, 2023
For more the last several years Insight Dialogue has been offered only online, as the pandemic has ended and we ease back into in-person events, we have many new friends who have never experienced Insight Dialogue face to face. There’s a quality of practicing Insight Dialogue in-person that cannot be…
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Ongoing Practice Groups
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Open Dates
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The groups meets bi-weekly on Friday evening from 7:30-9:30 pm. Each evening has a theme and we follow the eightfold path in many aspects to support our practise in daily life.
Berlin, Germany
Open Dates
Berlin, Germany
The group meets once a month on Third Thursday, 7:30 – 9:30 pm. Both, experienced practitioners as well as individuals with a meditation practice who are new to Insight Dialogue are welcome.
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
Open Dates
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
The group meets once a month, Saturdays from 15:00 – 18:00. A group of experienced practitioners share responsibility for facilitating.
Bern & Fribourg, Switzerland
Open Dates
Bern & Fribourg
The group meets monthly for two hours. Fribourg session is in French; the Bern session in English. Participants can practice in German. Possibility for other locations.
Bristol, England
Open Dates
Bristol, England
Our practice group meets for 8 to 10 week terms, on Wednesday evenings from 7 – 9 pm. The group is facilitated by Jane Cutler and Jane Whitehead.
Den Bosch, Netherlands
Open Dates
Den Bosch, Netherlands
The group meets once a month for two hours on Thursday evening. Venues are variable. Please contact us.
Dharma Contemplation Online Practice Group
Open Dates
Online
Dhamma Contemplation Peer Group in English Language with the support of Tilorien Monastery from Belgium.
Dienstag (Jeden 2 und 4 im Monat)
Open Dates
online via Zoom
Einsichtsdialog für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene – offene fortlaufende Online-Gruppe Mit Bhante Sukhacitto, Renate Löseke, Harald Tichy
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Evanston, Illinois, USA
Open Dates
Evantson, Illinois
The group meets the second Wednesday of the month September through May. Doors open 6:00 pm, silent sit at 6:30 pm, Insight Dialogue practice from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Friday, 2nd and 4th, Practice Group
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
This drop-in practice session meets the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month from 11:00 am-12:30 pm Americas Eastern Time. It is open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice.
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Friday, first: Dhamma Contemplation
Open Dates
online
Dhamma Contemplation on the first Friday of each month. Compatible with Americas, European, Africa and Asia time zones.
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Friday/Saturday, third: Dhamma Contemplation
Open Dates
online
Dhamma Contemplation on the third Friday of each month. Compatible with Americas and Asia time zones.
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Friday Monthly Insight Dialogue Practice in Dutch
Open Dates
online via zoom
Online Insight Dialogue practice (in Dutch) Twice a month practice with the Dutch Insight Dialogue Practice group. Every 2nd Friday morning of each month at 9.00-11.00 am CEST and every 4th Thursday evening of each month (7.30-9.00 pm CEST) you are welcome for online ID practice. The sessions will be…
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Groningen, Netherlands
Open Dates
Groningen, Netherlands
The group meets every month, typically on Monday evening from 19:30 – 21:45. Insight Dialogue practice is facilitated by Marieke Duijvestijn.
Groupe mensuel de pratique de Dialogue Conscient en français
Open Dates
Online via ZOOM
Notre groupe de pratique de Dialogue Conscient se rencontre environ une fois par mois, généralement de 19h00 à 21h15 (CET). Nous organisons parfois des journées ou des weekends non résidentiels. Ces sessions de pratique de Dialogue Conscient sont proposées par Alexandre Castanheira et Sandrine Rauter, facilitateurs de Dialogue Conscient.
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Insight Dialogue Practice Group
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
This group meets one Saturday and one Sunday a month at a time convenient for those in North America and Europe.
Leiden, Netherlands
Open Dates
Leiden, Netherlands
The group meets from 7.30 – 9.30 am, typically on the first Monday of the month. Insight Dialogue practise is facilitated by Nynke Humalda.
Monday: London, England, and Beyond
Open Dates
Online
Our Insight Dialogue group currently meets on a Monday evening (British time) approximately every three weeks. We were a local practice group meeting in London but have moved online and welcome practitioners from anywhere.
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Monday Weekly Drop-in Sessions
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Drop-in sessions are Monday, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Americas eastern time. These sessions are open to anyone with prior silent meditation practice experience and prior Insight Dialogue practice experience (e.g., participation in an Insight Dialogue retreat or introductory Insight Dialogue course). You may join this drop-in group once, occasionally,…
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New Castle, NSW, Australia
Open Dates
Newcastle, NSW
The Newcastle Insight Dialogue Group meets fortnightly during the year, except from late December to end of January. The group is facilitated by Susan Burgoyne who has been practising ID since 2009.
New York, New York, USA – In person/Online
Open Dates
New York, New York
The peer led group meets the first and third Friday of each month from 10 am–12 pm US eastern time. Facilitation is shared. New members are welcome.
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Open Dates
Nijmegen, Netherlands
This is a peer-led Insight Dialogue group. We meet on Monday evenings every fortnight in the home of a group member.
Saturday (First) Monthly Practice Group, RiverRun Insight Dialogue
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
The group meets on the first Saturday of each month from 10:30 am-12 pm Eastern time monthly. Jaylene Summers co-facilitates with another Insight Dialogue practitioner.
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Sonntage: Der 8fache Pfad als individueller Lebensweg in Alltag und Praxis
Open Dates
Der 8fache Pfad als individueller Lebensweg in Alltag und Praxis" - eine Serie an 10 Abenden plus Vertiefungsabende von Jänner 2022 bis Mai 2023. Die Abende können auch einzeln besucht werden. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich!
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Sunday Weekly Drop-in Sessions
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Drop-in sessions are Sundays from 10:30 am-12:00 pm Americas Eastern Time. Drop-in sessions are open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice. You may join once or every week; it's up to you.
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Thursday, third: Dharma Contemplation
Open Dates
online
Jan Surrey and Marsha Lawson offer a Dharma Contemplation relational practice on third Thursdays from 7:15 - 8:45 pm Americas Eastern Time (Boston). The practice of Dharma Contemplation provides would-be readers of the Buddhist suttas with an accessible doorway into this rich vein of wisdom through relational practice with these…
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Thursday Bi-Weekly Practice
Open Dates
online via Zoom
Bi-weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:30 pm Chinese standard time/ 7:00 - 8:30 am Americas Eastern Standard Time. Organized by Hong Kong Insight.
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Thursday Monthly Insight Dialogue Practice in Dutch
Open Dates
online via zoom
Online Insight Dialogue practice (in Dutch) Twice a month practice with the Dutch Insight Dialogue Practice group. Every 2nd Friday morning of each month at 9.00-11.00 am CEST and every 4th Thursday evening of each month (7.30-9.00 pm CEST) you are welcome for online ID practice. The sessions will be…
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Thursday Weekly Drop-in Sessions
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
assisted by Qingqing Wang, Gen Heng, and Angela Spaxman. Drop-in sessions are Thursdays from 7:00-8:30 pm ET. Drop-in sessions are open to anyone with some experience in a contemplative practice and familiarity with Insight Dialogue through reading or practice. You may join once or every week; it's up to you.
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Thursday Weekly Practice Group
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Two Thursday practice sessions are available, from 6:00 am-7:30 am Americas eastern time and 9:00 am - 10:30 am Americas eastern time. These are for experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners.
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Tuesday (1st, 3rd and 5th Each Month) Practice Group
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Sessions are 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month, 7:05-8:15 pm Americas Eastern Time. This is an ongoing Insight Dialogue group that has been meeting since 2019. We welcome beginners and new participants.
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Utrecht, Netherlands
Open Dates
Utrecht, Netherlands
The group meets once a month on Friday from 19:30 – 21:30. Insight Dialogue practice is facilitated by the group members.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Open Dates
Vancouver, British Columbia
Our Insight Dialogue sangha meets from 7:00 – 9:30 pm on the second Monday each month. We usually have two peer facilitators guiding each evening.
Vienna, Austria – Saturday
Open Dates
Vienna, Austria
This group meets Saturday every second month, 9 am to 5 pm in Vienna, Austria and is facilitated by Harald Reiter.
Vienna, Austria – Tuesday
Open Dates
Vienna, Austria
The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month from 18:30 – 21:00 and is led by Interpersonal-Mindfulness Teacher, Thomas Zaussinger.
Wednesday: 八正道-慧談線上修習
Open Dates
Online
This online drop-in group meets weekly on Wednesday, 8-9:30 pm Chinese standard time/ Tuesday, 8-9:30 am Americas eastern time. Practice in Mandarin and Cantonese is facilitated by Jessica Mui. Organized by Hong Kong Insight.
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Wednesday for People with Asian-Heritage
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
This drop-in practice session for people with Asian heritage meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 12:00-1:30 pm Americas Eastern Time.
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Wednesday Weekly Practice Group
Open Dates
Online via Zoom
Every Wednesday practice group with Jane Cutler and guest teachers and facilitators, UK time 7pm – 8.30pm, Central European 8pm - 9:30pm, Americas Eastern 2pm – 3:30pm, Americas Pacific 11 am -12:30pm.
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