Fierce Care, Steady Heart: An Insight Dialogue Weekend Retreat

How can we care deeply — for those we love and the causes we cherish — without being pulled into frustration, depletion, or indifference? How do we keep our hearts open without clinging to how things “should” be?

Join Insight Dialogue teachers Sue Brown and Bhante Sukhacitto for two-day, nonresidential retreat to cultivate caring presence without attachment. We’ll explore how to balance fierce commitment with a steady, grounded heart — sustaining the energy to show up fully, while releasing the suffering that comes from needing things to be a certain way.

Through silent meditation and guided Insight Dialogue practice, supported by six helpful guidelines, we’ll investigate how to:

• Meet moments of difficulty without closing the heart
• Experience the grounded clarity that remains when expectations soften or fall away
• Use relational meditation as a way to strengthen compassion while in relationship

No prior experience with Insight Dialogue is necessary. Some familiarity with silent meditation is helpful, but what matters most is a spirit of curiosity. This will be a space of shared exploration—an opportunity to steady the heart, nourish compassion, and practice awareness together in community.

Our Facilitators

Sue Brown has practiced Insight Dialogue since 2006 and 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.

Ordained as a Theravāda monk in 1990, Bhante Sukhacitto has shared Insight Dialogue internationally for nearly two decades, offering a bridge between silent meditation and the dynamics of everyday life.