Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness (e.g., mindfulness, concentration), the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and dialogue to support insight into the nature, causes, and release of human suffering.
[2] The practice of ID aims to develop mindfulness and other meditative qualities (such as investigation, tranquility, and concentration) in the midst of interpersonal interaction, and to generate insight through mediative dialogue.
[3] The scaffolding for Insight Dialogue is provided by six meditation instructions: Pause; Relax; Open; Attune to Emergence; Listen Deeply; Speak the Truth.
In brief, Pause calls forth mindfulness; Relax, tranquility and acceptance; Open, relational availability and spaciousness; Trust Emergence, flexibility and letting go; Listen Deeply, receptivity and attunement; and Speak the Truth, integrity and care.”[2] In a January 2019 blog post, Gregory Kramer suggested the new wording "Attune to emergence" for the fourth guideline.
“Those four foundations ara also foundations for Insight Dialogue: the body, feelings, mental states, and phenomena.” Moreover, Kramer asserts that each of the guidelines have their origins in traditional practices, e.g. mindfulness or sati for Pause; calm concentration or samadhi for Relax; and lovingkindness or metta for Open.