Insight Dialogue
September 8–12 (Wednesday dinner – Sunday lunch) Insight Dialogue involves interaction with others in an explicit meditation practice as a way of awakening insight and compassion. The process brings the mindfulness and tranquility of silent meditation directly into the participants’ experience in relationship. While drawing from Buddhist teachings, Insight Dialogue is not a religious practice. Rather, this is a human practice that offers an opportunity to become intimate with all experience: nature, other people, and ourselves. We touch the whole human condition: longing and fear, joy and interrelatedness, suffering and freedom. We come to understand how happiness comes from letting go rather than clinging, from compassion more than self-satisfaction. We explore interpersonal relationships as a place of 
freedom and find peace while engaged with others. This retreat is a blend of silent insight meditation, loving-kindness (metta) meditation, time in nature, and the interpersonal meditation practice of Insight Dialogue.
Gregory Kramer is a meditation teacher, an author, the director of the Metta Foundation, and a visiting faculty member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts. He has been teaching Vipassana and loving-kindness meditation since 1980. He is the developer of Insight Dialogue and teaches the practice worldwide. He holds a PhD in Learning and Change in Human Systems, is the author of Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom, and co-wrote Cultivating Mindfulness in Relationship: Insight Dialogue and the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program. For further information, see www.metta.org. Gregory will be joined by fellow teacher Mary Rees.
Program fee $70 Locals / Day Visitor fee $85