Our practice group meets for 8 to 10-week terms, on Wednesday evenings from 7 – 9 pm. The group is facilitated by Jane Cutler. She has attended retreats and facilitation workshops with Gregory Kramer since 2005 and is an Insight Dialogue teacher. Donations are invited to cover the cost of room rental and to support our donations to teachers in the Insight Dialogue community. We also have Insight Dialogue practice days 3 or 4 times a year and a weekend retreat once a year. We offer a weekend “hybrid” retreat once a year with facilitators in Europe, which includes both…

Format of practice: Each practice period consists of related guided silent meditation, simple guidance and teachings, related contemplations in small groups and the whole group, short body care practice away from screen, lead mindful movement practice. Come as a regular weekly participant or drop in when you can. This group is suitable for any one with established experience of practicing with the six Insight Dialogue guidelines. There is a strong and established community core group attending regularly with others coming as and when it serves them well. Other teachers and facilitators are invited to offer practice in this group. Do be in touch with Jane…

The Online Introduction to Insight Dialogue is an eight-week offering that covers the six Insight Dialogue guidelines using Dhamma teachings as a contemplative frame. The Insight Dialogue guidelines and the three bases, wisdom, meditative awareness, and relationship, are the foundational elements of the relational Dhamma practice of Insight Dialogue. Participants will meet in real-time via Zoom for 90 minutes. Each week will include instruction on individual guidelines and their role in crafting a contemplative dialogue practice. What is offered will be informed by the Three Bases of Insight Dialogue. This regular Wednesday Insight Dialogue practice group offers the opportunity for…

This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately learn about suffering in all its gross and subtle manifestations in our heart-mind. The beauty of the path is that we encounter this in most of our meditation sessions in the form of hindrances, both internally, externally, and both. When the meditative qualities are strong,…

This short program aims to deepen understandings and application of trauma sensitive Insight Dialogue. We warmly welcome registration from those in the community who facilitate and teach Insight Dialogue along with others dedicated Insight Dialogue practitioners. The Buddha taught suffering and the end of suffering. To end suffering as a goal means implicitly to intimately learn about suffering in all its gross and subtle manifestations in our heart-mind. The beauty of the path is that we encounter this in most of our meditation sessions in the form of hindrances, both internally, externally, and both. When the meditative qualities are strong,…