Upcoming Retreats
Insight Dialogue
with Donna Strickland
🗓 Dates: TBA
Insight Dialogue retreat offers a combination of dialogue practice that includes speaking and listening, silent sitting meditation, talks on Buddhist teachings, and mindful movement.
This is a deeply heart-opening relational meditation practice with the same intention as silent meditation practice: to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and insight.
To learn more: Insight Dialogue
Work that Reconnects
with Caya Tanksi
🗓 Dates: TBA
Through guided meditation, contemplative practices, and interactive exercises (in dyads, small groups, and larger settings), we'll explore our interconnectedness and build community.
This work, developed by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, helps us connect with what's happening in our world, respond compassionately, and envision a more sustainable future for all Beings.
To learn more:
Work that Reconnects and Joanna Macy
Past Retreats
with Donna Strickland and Sue Brown
with Mid America Dharma
🗓 Saturday, June 7
📍 Online
🕘 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Central Time
Sutta Study: Spring/Summer 2025: An Online Study Group
with Philip Jones
with Mid America Dharma
🗓 Wednesdays
April 16 through August 20, 2025
📍Online
🕘 6:30 - 8:30 PM Central Time
MEETING A FEARFUL AND UNCERTAIN WORLD WITH AN OPEN HEART A Weekend Non-residential Retreat Led by John Cunningham
In Person and Online Via Zoom
With the recent changes in our country and around the world, many of us are facing fear and uncertainty at a level that we have not previously experienced. We find ourselves increasingly unsettled as new events and information unfold and we may find it difficult to find our center, to find the peace that felt much easier to find in the past. In this retreat, we will explore what is happening around us at a deeper level and work with practices that allow us to find peace in the midst of chaos. We will work with coming home to our true nature, finding calmness in the storm and connected compassion.
Dates and Times:
Friday, April 11: Free Public Talk from 7–9 p.m. CT**
Saturday, April 12: All Day Session from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. CT
Sunday, April 13: Morning Session from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. CT
Location:
Show Me Dharma, 1600 W. Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203 & Via ZoomOptional Contribution: A contribution to Show Me Dharma is not required to attend the retreat, but you must register if you plan to take part in the Saturday and Sunday sessions. Any amount to aid us with the retreat as well as ongoing expenses is greatly appreciated!
About the Teacher:
John has been teaching meditation for over 25 years. His practice and teaching combines Vipassana, loving-kindness and non-dual teachings from various spiritual traditions. John has studied with several teachers, but his primary teacher has been Matthew Flickstein. Work with Matthew includes numerous retreats and several extended study programs, including teacher training programs, a one-year study of the Satipatthana Sutta, and a two-year program on non-duality. John’s personal retreat experience in recent years has focused primarily on self-retreats. John’s teachings these days focus on finding our true nature and living life from that nature with peace and joy. John is the primary teacher for Insight Meditation of Cleveland and leads several sanghas in the northeast Ohio area. He leads retreats and workshops throughout the eastern United States. John is married and has three sons, ages 44, 40 (died in May 2019), and 15 years old. Together with his wife, Laurie, John leads a mindful parenting group in the Cleveland area.