Please join us!
Please join us!
and Manuela O’Connell
A 5-week experiential journey into relational mindfulness and embodied insight offered in English and Spanish
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice rooted in the wisdom of the Buddha’s teachings. It is grounded in equal measure by three bases….wisdom, meditation, relationship. We will discover together how this liberates. Through speaking and listening in awareness with others, meditation unfolds not only in silence, but within the living field of relationship. In this way, practice becomes immediate, embodied, and deeply human.
In this 5-week introductory group, we will explore how deepening our awareness allows for more compassion and wisdom to emerge between us—moment by moment—as we meet each other in presence.
Insight Dialogue invites us to discover that what is often unseen in individual practice can become visible in relationship. As we slow down together, mindfulness and concentration are amplified through contact, allowing insight to arise more spontaneously, naturally and directly. The relational space becomes a mirror, a teacher, and a path.
Our work together will be primarily experiential. Each session will include:
- Guided silent meditation to ground awareness in the body
- Introduction and deepening of the six Insight Dialogue guidelines
- Contemplative dialogue practice in dyads and small groups
- Space for integration and shared reflection
We will practice with the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue—Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth—not as techniques to perform, but as living supports for inhabiting experience with greater sensitivity and care. These guidelines help us to remain present in the unfolding of experience, especially in the vulnerability and richness of human connection.