Insight dialogue

Insight dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness (e.g., mindfulness, concentration), the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and dialogue to support insight into the nature, causes, and release of human suffering. Six meditation instructions, or guidelines, form the core of the practice.

Rationale

Engaging in mindful dialogue with one or more other people supported by instruction in the guidelines and by contemplations that encourage a direct and intimate inquiry into the human experience is the form of the practice. Insight dialogue is taught and practiced in a number of contexts—residential retreats, daylong workshops, community practice groups, and online (e.g., via Skype).

Insight dialogue has its roots in the Buddha's early teachings on the human experience (Pāli Canon) and the practice of Insight or Vipassanā meditation; however, people of all faiths and backgrounds can practice. Gregory Kramer and Terri O'Fallon co-created insight dialogue. Gregory Kramer, the Founder and Guiding Teacher of Metta Programs, continued developing the practice and has been teaching it worldwide since 1995.

Guidelines

Although designed to work together, the insight dialogue guidelines are typically taught individually, in sequence.

Pause

Temporal pause; stepping out of habitual thoughts and reactions into experience in the present moment; mindfulness.

Relax

Invitation to calm the body and mind; receiving whatever sensations, thoughts, and feelings are present; acceptance.

Open

Extension of mindfulness from internal to include the external; spaciousness; matures to include the relational moment; mutuality.

Attune to emergence

Entering the relational moment without an agenda; awareness of the impermanence of thoughts and feelings; allowing experience to unfold; "don't know" mind. This guideline was originally termed "Trust emergence".[1]

Listen deeply

Listening mindfully, with an awareness that is relaxed and open; ripens into unhindered receptivity to the unfolding words, emotions, and presence of another.

Speak the truth

Articulation of the truth of one's subjective experience with mindfulness; discernment of what to say amid the universe of possibilities; ripens into an acute sensitivity to the voice of the moment that "speaks through" the meditator.

See also

References
  1. In a January 2019 blog post, Gregory Kramer suggested the new wording "Attune to emergence": "New guideline wording: attune to emergence". gregorykramer.org. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

Sources

Further reading
  • Baker, Stuart (March 2016). "Working in the present moment: the impact of mindfulness on trainee psychotherapists' experience of relational depth". Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 16 (1): 5–14. doi:10.1002/capr.12038.
  • Fitch, Geoff; O'Fallon, Terri (2014). "Theory U applied in transformative development". In Gunnlaugson, Olen; Baron, Charles; Cayer, Mario (eds.). Perspectives on theory U: insights from the field. Advances in human resources management and organizational development. Hershey, PA: Business Science Reference. pp. 114–127. ISBN 9781466647930. OCLC 859061202.
  • Isaacs, William N. (1999). Dialogue and the art of thinking together: a pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life. New York: Currency/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385479998. OCLC 41108544.
  • Kramer, Gregory; Meleo-Meyer, Florence; Turner, Martha Lee (2008). "Cultivating mindfulness in relationship: insight dialogue and the interpersonal mindfulness program". In Hick, Steven F.; Bien, Thomas (eds.). Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship. New York: Guilford Press. pp. 195–214. ISBN 9781593858209. OCLC 213008208.
  • McCollum, Eric E.; Gehart, Diane R. (July 2010). "Using mindfulness meditation to teach beginning therapists therapeutic presence: a qualitative study". Journal of Marital & Family Therapy. 36 (3): 347–360. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00214.x. PMID 20618581.
  • Picard, Cheryl Ann; Jull, Marnie (Winter 2011). "Learning through deepening conversations: a key strategy of insight mediation". Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 29 (2): 151–176. doi:10.1002/crq.20040.
  • Surrey, Janet L.; Kramer, Gregory (2013). "Relational mindfulness". In Germer, Christopher K.; Siegel, Ronald D.; Fulton, Paul R. (eds.). Mindfulness and psychotherapy (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press. pp. 94–111. ISBN 9781462511372. OCLC 827724406.
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