Touching the Possible:

Living Peace

 

An Insight Dialogue Retreat with Phyllis Hicks 

As humans we are exquisitely sensitive, every moment awash in a sea of contact. With feeling, thinking, and perceiving a sense of the world arises.  Pausing to notice how this happens internally and relationally is a profound resource for peace and wise action in our daily life.  In this Insight Dialogue retreat we will practice taking refuge in awareness, wisdom, and spiritual friendship (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.)  We will investigate obstacles to friendship and beloved community, internally in the heart-mind, and externally in social constructions. Cultivating Lovingkindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Relational Equanimity, we will explore foundations for peace, possibilities for courageous personal and collective action, and the benefits of deep companionship on the Noble Eightfold Path. The retreat will be held in Noble Silence except for the Insight Dialogue sessions. We will alternate periods of silent meditation practice, Insight Dialogue, mindful movement and time in nature.

Insight Dialogue brings the mindfulness and tranquility of traditional silent meditation practice into our contact with others.  It offers a way of cultivating sustained concentration and mindfulness as we investigate patterns of stress and reactivity.   This co-meditative practice allows us to face the complexity of the relational dimension with awareness, and true investigation into the nature of suffering and its release can begin.   More information about the practice of Insight Dialogue, can be found at https://metta.org/insight-dialogue-3/

Phyllis Hicks, DMin, NCLPC  teaches Insight Dialogue retreats internationality. She is co-author of the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program and serves on Metta Programs Teachers’ Council. As a psychotherapist she has brought together Eastern and Western understandings of psychology and contemplative practice in clinical settings for thirty years. She is a guiding teacher for the Triangle Insight Community and teaches Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction at Duke Integrative Medicine. She directs the Pastoral Care and Counseling Institute of Durham, North Carolina, a non-profit center for counseling and clinical education. 

 

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