Elizabeth Faria

Elizabeth has studied with Gregory Kramer and the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community since 2008. She began practicing vipassana on long retreats meditation in 1996. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists Professional Training Course in Buddhism and Psychotherapy.

She is trained as a psychologist with 30 years of both meditation experience and practice as a psychotherapist. She is deeply moved by the Dharma and its potential to bring ease and wisdom through solitary and relational meditation practice.

She is also very inspired by how direct and accessible Insight Dialogue’s guidelines are to bring the dharma alive for experienced and new meditators and show a way to encompass the whole lives as the path to waking up.

Insight Dialogue – The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion Retreat

Is a six-night retreat weaving together silent and relational insight meditation practice.
This retreat offers a rare opportunity to bring together two complementary practices: silent insight (vipassanā) meditation and Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice that involves mindful speaking and listening together in pairs or small groups.

We will combine both these powerful approaches to explore and strengthen the two wings of awakening: wisdom and compassion. Wisdom or insight helps us to understand the causes of unsatisfactoriness, stress, distress, and suffering, and compassion, together with its sister qualities of kindness, appreciative joy, and equanimity, offers the nourishment and support to experience increasingly deep freedom of heart and mind.