Spiritual Friendship: The Whole of the Path—An Insight Dialogue Retreat

There's a kind of friendship most of us quietly want but rarely find—one that holds us with warmth, and calls us toward our own liberation.
About this Event

The Buddha called it kalyana-mitta, spiritual friendship, and considered it not a supplement to the path but the whole of it.

This non-residential retreat explores spiritual friendship through Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice that brings presence and authenticity into direct contact with another person. We'll draw on the Buddha's own teachings on spiritual friendship as our guide.

In doing so, we'll cultivate the very qualities that make this kind of friendship possible: presence, honesty, compassion, and the willingness to be genuinely known.

Open to all. No prior experience with relational meditation practice is required.

Our Teachers

Dave Leggatt has practiced in the Vipassana tradition for many years, and joined the Insight Dialogue facilitator program in 2016. Since then he has been facilitating and teaching in-person residential retreats, workshops, and online offerings across the globe.

Sue Brown has practiced Insight Dialogue since 2006 and has taught it since 2011, co-leading a weekly sangha and supporting residential retreats. Her background as an attorney and mediator informs her deep relational approach.