RCS Insight Dialogue Practice Group, led by Katie Rhodes
Second Saturday of the Month
9:00-10:30 a.m. on Zoom
Monthly Practice Group Update
Insight dialogue is a powerful practice that helps bring mindfulness, wisdom and compassion into our inter-relational life using six guidelines of Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to emergence, Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth. The guidelines set conditions for safety and mindful presence. The practice invites slowing down and reconnecting with what is most alive in you.
For the next several months we will be exploring the Noble Eight Fold Path as a living, relational, and embodied path that meets us in our daily lives.
We will be using the book ‘A Whole Life Path: A Lay Buddhist’s Guide to Crafting a Dharma Infused Life by Gregory Kramer as reference. There is no need to read or study ahead of the sessions. In September we will begin with the first path factor, Right View.
Experience with insight dialogue practice is not necessary. We are looking to develop a core group of sangha friends with a commitment towards study and practice together.
Please email me at katie@katierhodes.net if you are interested, have questions, or want to be on an email list for the RCS Insight Dialogue Practice group.
Insight Dialogue practice opportunities coming up in January 2026
Introduction to Insight Dialogue: I will be assisting my mentor, Insight Dialogue Teacher, Marsha Lawson in a 6-week Introduction to Insight Dialogue. The class is through the Insight Dialogue Community and offered freely. We will meet Fridays January 2 - February 6, 2026 6:00-7:30 pm ET with an additional 15 minute Q&A at end. Registration is open at Insightdialogue.org/programs/11331/introduction-to-insight-dialogue-online/.
Insight Dialogue Day-long Retreat with Marsha Lawson and Katie Rhodes. Saturday January 18, 2026. More information to come…. 
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that uses natural human connectedness and the wisdom teachings of the Buddha to practice mindfulness meditation with others. It is particularly useful for investigating habitual responses in our actions of thought, word and deed.
This is a monthly opportunity to practice with friends from Red Clay Sangha. It is offered as a way for us to connect with each other using the ID meditation guidelines: Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Speak the Truth and Listen Deeply. We will be learning and sharing as we practice together.
The morning will include individual meditation practice, contemplation practice with a partner, and practice as a group.
Katie Rhodes is a member of Red Clay Sangha. She has been a Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, primarily in the Insight/Vipassana tradition. She has been practicing Insight Dialogue meditation since 2023 and is a member of the Northeast Insight Dialogue Teachers Cohort.
She uses mindfulness-based cognitive approaches in her work as a psychotherapist. She has a doctorate in clinical social work.
Questions? Please email Katie Rhodes
What to expect
All are welcome, no previous experience with meditation or Insight Dialogue experience is required.
The morning will include individual silent sitting as well as ID relational practice in group practice and in dyads and triads in breakout rooms: speaking and listening to self and others.
This practice group will meet on Zoom.
To attend the session online: Click here to join. Alternatively go to https://zoom.us/, click the links to enter a meeting, and enter meeting ID 971-373-141 and password 879550.
Questions or to Sign up to Receive Emails about RCS Insight Dialogue Practice Group
Please email Katie Rhodes
