Retreats
Insight Meditation Center of Kansas City is committed to providing meaningful meditation opportunities for everyone.
We sponsor two residential retreats per year for Temple Buddhist Center.
Our next retreat will be Summer 2026.
Virtual and In-Person attendance is always available.
Our next Retreat will be announced soon.
Practice format will be similar to residential retreats:
Alternate periods of sitting and walking, instruction, conferences, contemplative movement (Tai Chi Chih), Dharma talks, and Heart Practices.
Insight Meditation is a practice that aims to free the mind from the distortions of self-centeredness, negativity, and confusion. Through the intensive practice of moment-to-moment investigation of the body-mind process the mind gradually sees more clearly into the nature of itself. Such clear seeing leads to freedom from the attachments and misconceptions that cause our suffering and allows us to open to a path of wisdom and compassion.
About our retreat leaders:
Robert Brumet: He has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1990. Robert received Community Dharma Leader certification from Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2000. He is also a Spiritual Director, having received certification from Mt. St. Scholastica College in 2013.
Victor J. Dougherty: He has been leading groups in the KC area in mindfulness and meditation for over 20 years. Currently, the director of the Temple Buddhist Center, Victor represents Western Buddhism as a member of the Department of Health and Human services task force on Faith/Mental Health.
Teacher Dana
Dana (the Pali word for “generosity”) has been part of the Buddhist tradition for over 2500 years. Traditionally, in Asia it took the form of a lay person supporting the monastic community through offerings of food and other provisions. As the dharma has come to the West “dana” has taken the form of financial donations offered to teachers and retreat leaders.
In this tradition, the registration fee for any retreat is intended to cover only the cost of the retreat itself. None of this money is given to the teacher. Instead, the teacher relies upon the generosity of the participants, in the same spirit in which monks and nuns traditionally relied upon the lay community for support.
Generosity itself is a spiritual practice. It is a practice which the Buddha recommended particularly for lay persons who were not able to engage in the more rigorous spiritual practices of the monastic community. Generosity opens the mind and heart and helps to free us from the bondage of fear and greed.
There is value in consistent, daily meditation.
Please join us for some of these weekly mindfulness and meditation events. IMCKC and TBC host opportunities daily, weekly and monthly to meditate together in community with a leader/teacher to guide and support you.
Most of our classes, retreats, and events have an online option in addition to in-person. No matter how you choose to join us, you will feel included and welcome.
Go to our Classes & Event page to get more details and find out how to connect.