Insight Dialogue Sangha for BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority
With Nolitha Tsengiwe, Yenkuei Chuang and Brent Beresford
Open Dates
Please join us on select Mondays from 12:30-2:00pm ET // 6:30-8pm CET to cultivate a space to learn, share, and deepen in this relational practice of meditation. This is a group meant for people who self-identify as BIPOC/BAME/Global Majority. Together we will explore the teachings of the Buddha using Insight Dialogue guidelines. We will cultivate internal and interpersonal awareness, wisdom, care, and resilience to meet the challenges of our lives.
To join this sangha, please fill out this form https://forms.gle/yqFNQHHJ6KQJWhzn7, and we will communicate with you to offer all the information you need.
Please note that it is our intention to cultivate and sustain sangha together. We will meet at minimum once a month, and more dates with us, and other teachers, will be offered beyond what is currently indicated.
Upcoming practices:
- Aug. 4
- Aug. 11
- Sept. 15
- Sept. 29
- Oct. 6
- Oct. 20
Leaders
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, licensed psychologist, executive coach and a leadership development consultant. She has a trauma sensitive lens in supporting clients who are in search of truth as a doorway to healing, well-being and freedom. Nolitha is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Yenkuei Chuang 莊琰珪 (she/her) lives near Boston, USA. As an immigrant woman of color, she is keenly interested in building a beloved inclusive community. Yenkuei began her daily life dharma practice with Zen Masters Thich Nhat Hanh and Sr. Annabelle in 1998. She has also been studying Vipassana and Early Buddhism with other teachers at the Insight Meditation Society and Barre Center for Buddhist Studies since 2013. In addition to teaching mindfulness meditation and facilitating sanghas, she offers psychotherapy and life coaching. Introduced to Insight Dialogue by Jan Surrey, she is part of the current Insight Dialogue Teacher Development Cohort. For more…
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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 and the practice of Insight Dialogue. Brent aspires to lean into the darker places, finding “how the dark too blooms and sings.” A person of mixed racial heritage, they also identify as gender nonconforming. Brent is inspired to explore the living Dhamma with folks. Taking…
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