Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings the mindfulness, tranquility, and insight of traditional silent meditation into our direct experience with others. Practicing the Insight Dialogue guidelines strengthens our inner sense of relatedness. Moving in the world with a strong sense of relatedness can enable us to use every human encounter as a step on the path of wakefulness, transforming relationship itself into a source of support for insight and compassion.

This series is an invitation to learn and practice the Insight Dialogue guidelines while recognizing how cultural conditioning and systemic inequity are embodied interpersonally. We are all caught up in internalized and externally enacted cultural habitual patterns that create suffering for others and ourselves. Together, we will explore how suffering is generated by how we embody and receive cultural/systemic patterns of injustice, inequality, and social change. This exploration can help us discern how we can support one another to live with wisdom and compassion even as we find ourselves caught up in broader cultural and social systems, and help to sustain us as we seek to skillfully transform those structures that cause suffering.