Ongoing: Start Your Week Well – Monday Morning Online Sitting
with the Auckland Insight Meditation Community
Start your week well by joining Auckland Insight for a regular Monday morning Zoom sitting hosted by Guiding Teacher, Jill Shepherd
Mondays 7:30- 8:00 am NZT. Everyone is welcome.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3011573331 Meeting ID: 301 157 3331
Start Your Week Well – Monday Morning Online Sitting
with the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre community
Start your week well by joining BMIMC for a regular Monday morning Zoom sitting hosted by Jill Shepherd and others from the BMIMC community
Mondays 7:30-8:00 am AEST. Everyone is welcome.
Register here to get the Zoom link
Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific Sangha’s 2026 Series on the Whole Life Path
offered by Beth Faria, Jill Shepherd and Anita Bermont.
“The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path provides a wiser way through life than any offered by our conditioning. It’s an intentional path through life’s tangle. And intention is necessary. Any change for the good must face the momentum that made things as they are now. Old habits run deep within us; we complicate, palliate, protect and meander. …
If we truly aspire to ending our personal ignorance and craving, supporting relationships rooted in mettā and compassion, and contributing to human flourishing and a just and humane society, then we need a fully immersive, always-on engagement with the Noble Eightfold Path. We need to engage the Buddha’s path as a whole-life path.” – Gregory Kramer
In 2026, the global Insight Dialogue community will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Gregory Kramer’s book, A Whole-Life Path. Here at IDAP, we’ll join that celebration by exploring the Noble Eightfold Path together, using Gregory’s book as a resource. We invite you to purchase this book (those in Australia may wish to purchase the book here or here, those in New Zealand here, and those internationally can find other options to purchase here), as a support for your practice and exploration. This is recommended, not required.
Over the course of the whole year*, we’ll discover how the eight factors can be strengthened in both silent and relational meditation and in every moment of our daily lives, powerfully supporting our progress on the Buddha’s path to freedom.
* We will offer a total of eighteen practice sessions, spread over three series of six meetings, with a one-month break between each series.
Series 1 (Feb 4 – Apr 15) will focus on the Wisdom aspect of the path: Wise View and Wise Intention.
Series 2 (Jun 2 – Aug 18) will focus on Ethics: Wise Speech, Wise Action, and Wise Livelihood.
Series 3 (6 Oct – 15 Dec) will focus on the Meditative factors of the path: Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, and Wise Samādhi
It is most ideal, schedule permitting, if you are able to attend the full year and benefit from the journey through the Whole Life Path together. However, you are also welcome to join one or more of the series. Within each series, the sessions build on the teaching and practice from the preceding session, so we request that you commit to attending all six sessions in each series that you sign up for. In other words, this course is not intended to be a drop-in group.
More about the Insight Dialogue Asia Pacific (IDAP) practice community:
Gregory Kramer began visiting and teaching in Australia in 2004. From there, seeds of the practice and this community were planted. We are grateful for the stewardship of the teachers over the years (Gregory, Beth, Jill, Anita), as well as the originating organising members (Susan Burgoyne, Jane Southwell and Ruth Yeatman). Today, IDAP is sustained by the ongoing support of the current IDAP committee and its regular practitioners.
We invite you to join this committed practice community. Together, we aim to create a supportive container that offers continuity and consistency, so practitioners can dive deeper into the Buddha’s teachings. The roots of this group are in Australia but it has grown to include and welcome practitioners from around the world.
If you have any questions about the community or this practice series, please email us at insightdialogueasiapacific@gmail.com.
Date and Time:
Series 1: 4 February 2026 – 15 April 2026
Series 2: 2 June 2026-18 August 2026
Series 3: 6 October 2026- 15 December 2026
Each series will run for 6 sessions on every other Wednesday (Australia, NZ and Asia)/Tuesday (North America).
10-1130 AET.
Suitable for Asia Pacific and North American time zones. Please see your local time here.
Prerequisite:
Participants must have completed an ‘Introduction to Insight Dialogue’ course and/or an Insight Dialogue retreat of two days or more, so they have a working knowledge of the Insight Dialogue Guidelines.
Join an introduction to Insight Dialogue here.
Registration and attendance: You are invited to register one or more series. You are asked to commit to all 6 sessions of each series you sign up for.
Language: English
Dāna: The teachings are freely offered. Participants will be invited to offer dāna to support the teachers.
? Joy ?
An online evening workshop for London Insight
Suitable for UK, Europe and US time zones
Joy is an important aspect of the Buddha’s path to freedom, appearing as both an awakening factor and one of the four heart qualities known as the brahmavihāra. However, for many people it can feel elusive – or even irrelevant – in the midst of so much global, societal and individual suffering.
For this reason, the word Joy in the title of this evening workshop is accompanied by question marks, as an invitation for us to explore together some common questions and/or doubts that often come up in relation to joy in the context of insight practice.
Together we’ll discover some of the ways that cultivating joy can help nourish the heart and deepen wisdom, even amid the challenging everyday realities that most of us face.
There will be a talk, meditation practice and an opportunity for questions.
The event is suitable for all levels of experience.
Date and time: 8 February 2026 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm UK time
Cost: £6.00 – £15.00
More info and to register here
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