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 western healing practices and has had the good fortune to study with many gifted meditation teachers including in-depth study with Gregory Kramer since 2004 and decades of study with Stephen Gilligan, and John Welwood. Mary lives in Chapel Hill, NC, where she also works as a psychotherapist.
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Events with Mary Burns
Thursday Weekly Practice GroupOpen Dates
Facilitated by Mary Burns, Carolynn Barko, and other Insight Dialogue Facilitators. Two sessions available: Thursdays at 6:00 am- 7:30 am Americas eastern time and Thursdays at 9:00 am – 10:30 am Americas eastern time. These two Thursday practice sessions are open to experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners with at least one introduction to online Insight Dialogue course or an Insight Dialogue retreat experience. Contemplations are based on the Whole-Life Path work of Gregory Kramer with emphasis on learning and reviewing the Insight Dialogue guidelines. Session format includes silent practice, a contemplation offered by the facilitator, and Insight Dialogue practice. The online session will take…
14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue RetreatJune 1 - 7, 2026
Growing Resilience and Relational Capacity Through careful and skillful practice, with the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will expand our relational capacities as awareness meets awareness. This is an empowering response to the alienation, cruelty, and disempowerment saturating our societies. In our fractured world, greater relational capacity offers us greater resilience and balance. This, along with silence, time in nature, and shared meditative inquiry, resource us to participate in the world as it is with enhanced compassion, equanimity, and radical relatedness.