Mindful Dialogue: Cultivating Insight and Connection in Relationships
online 6-Week Course, Mondays from 19.30 - 21.00 CET
- Starting on 8 September 2025
- Course Dates: September 8, 15, 22 [pause], October 6, 13, and 20, 2025.
With Lot Heijke, senior meditation teacher, MBSR, and mindful dialogue trainer.
Bringing mindfulness into your relationships
If you have practised mindfulness, you have likely experienced its benefits: greater clarity, calm, and resilience. But what happens when we step into dialogue? How can we bring this same awareness into our conversations and relationships?
Human connection is essential to our well-being. It brings joy, a sense of belonging, and meaning. At the same time, our interactions can also be a source of tension, misunderstanding, or self-doubt. We may feel unheard, undervalued, or caught in self-judgment—comparing ourselves to others, feeling either inadequate or superior. In these moments, we can lose touch with both ourselves and those around us.
Mindful dialogue offers a way to deepen our awareness of where we experience ease and connection in relationships—and where we lose it. Through a combination of guided meditation and simple yet profound reflection exercises in pairs, we explore patterns in our interactions. This practice helps us bridge the calm and wisdom we cultivate in meditation with the complexities of human connection, allowing us to engage in relationships with greater ease, presence, and openness.
What to expect
This course is both reflective and interactive, with a balance of guided meditation, mindful speaking, and deep listening practices. Each session will explore a specific theme related to communication and connection, helping you notice patterns in how you relate to others.
- Meditative Practices – We begin with individual meditation to cultivate presence and awareness.
- Guided Reflections – Simple but profound exercises in pairs allow you to explore themes such as presence, reactivity, and deep listening.
- Gentle Structure – Each session follows a clear format, inspired by the Insight Dialogue method developed by Gregory Kramer.
- Supportive Atmosphere – No need to perform, impress, or ‘get it right.’ This is a safe space for exploration and growth.
Expect to gain insights into your habitual ways of relating and discover how mindful awareness can help you bring more ease and authenticity to your conversations.
For whom?
This course is an invitation to explore how mindfulness can support deeper, more meaningful connections. If you’re curious about bringing the depth of your meditation practice into everyday interactions, join us for this unique and supportive experience.
To participate in this course, it is necessary to have completed an 8-week mindfulness course beforehand. If you haven't done so yet but would still like to join, please contact us before registering.
Benefits of Mindful Dialogue
By practising mindful speaking and deep listening, you will:
- Develop greater awareness in communication – Recognise your habitual reactions and patterns in relationships.
- Enhance your listening skills – Learn to truly listen without the urge to interrupt, fix, or judge.
- Bring more presence into conversations – Speak from a place of calm rather than autopilot.
- Deepen your connections – Create more meaningful and open interactions with others.
- Reduce reactivity – Respond to conversations with clarity rather than impulsive emotion.
- Integrate mindfulness into daily life – Move beyond solitary meditation practice into relational mindfulness.
For many, this practice can be transformative, helping to create relationships that feel more spacious, understanding, and fulfilling.
What you walk away with
- A feeling of being less stressed and more composed in relationships
- The intention to pause when being triggered
- The ability to deeply listen and speak from your heart
- New ideas and inspiration on how to deepen your mindfulness or spiritual practice
- A renewed or deepened meditation habit
- New like-minded friends
Course format
- Meditative exercises and mindful reflections on key themes
- Individual practice and paired dialogue
- Based on the Insight Dialogue method developed by Gregory Kramer
- Teaching in English
- Small group size for safe and interactive setting
- Log in from the safety and comfort of your home via Zoom
You are required to connect from a device resting on a solid surface and not with a hand-held device.
Please check our requirements for online classes here.
Meet the teacher
Lot Heijke
Lot Heijke is a senior meditation and MBSR teacher, lead trainer for the Brussels Mindfulness Teacher Training, and an experienced mindfulness supervisor. Certified by the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) in Massachusetts, she was mentored by Sylvia Boorstein in Insight Meditation and trained by Gregory Kramer. Since 2004, she has taught mindfulness, led retreats, and trained MBSR teachers internationally.
Known for her warm, insightful, and humorous approach, she integrates mindfulness with deep presence and care.
Rate
Early bird discount until 8 August 2025: €299 (incl. VAT) / €247 (excl. VAT)
Thereafter Full fee: €349 (incl. VAT) / €288 (excl. VAT)
The fee includes:
- 6 weekly sessions of 1.5 hours (total of 9 hours)
- handouts with impulses to integrate the practices into your daily life
- Lifetime access to 270+ guided meditations by our teachers
- Email reminders and summaries between the sessions
- Deep learning and connection with each other and the teacher
Don't wait any longer - register today
Flexible Payment Options:
If you are facing financial difficulties, please contact us to arrange payment in two instalments.
Employer Reimbursements:
For employer-sponsored reimbursements, kindly provide us with the necessary invoice details. The applicable fee is €477 (exclusive of VAT).
Diplomatic Status:
If you have diplomatic status, please let us know to process your VAT exemption.
Unlock the power of mindful dialogue for deeply nourishing relationships
Ready to improve your communication skills? Join us for this transformative 6-week journey and learn how to harness the power of mindful dialogue to create lasting positive change.
Sign up today and start building the mental habits that will enhance your life from the inside out.
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Health & Well-being Guidelines - In-person
While meditation and well-being courses, workshops and other in-person events can be very nourishing; they can demand some stability of psychological health and can be triggering for some people.
Have you experienced significant trauma or psychiatric illness, or are your currently struggling with your mental health such as with anxiety, depression, or burnout? If so, it's important for you and the mindfulness trainer to discuss your specific situation as they might not be able to give you the kind of individual psychological care and support you need right now.
If you are currently under the care of a mental health professional, please discuss your attendance with them. You should be in a relatively stable period of mental well-being and have adequate psychological resilience.
Please fill in the questions in the registration form as open and honestly as possible to give us an idea of your current situation. The teacher of the event may reach out to you for more information.
We also ask that if you are feeling ill to consider not attending the class, for the health and safety of the trainer and others in the group. Listening to your body and taking rest can also be an important act of self-care.
If you are unsure, or have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us directly at info@brusselsmindfulness.be.
What participants of previous courses said
"This course has given me the language and very useful basic tools to help me have a more positive attitude towards life. I can now better understand my basic needs in order to be happy and how I can take care of them."
"After many years of searching, high & low and across several different places, courses & approaches, I can say with full confidence that the Positive Neuroplasticity course with the Brussels Mindfulness Institute IS IT. The best course & practice I have come across, in the broad field of mindfulness."
"I’m so happy and fulfilled (with work ongoing / more progress to be made still, of course!) to have found & attended it. The practice has brought a measurable change for the better in my life, I very much feel, and has helped me enormously in dealing with anxiety, stress and (post-) burnout."
"Specifically and on top of the daily practice, I loved the scientific foundations of the course, and the rational(ist) approach at its core. Very solid stuff, with leads & links to additional reading which I have found both fascinating and practically applicable in my psychological & emotive pursuits. I would recommend it very highly indeed!”
"Without your coaching I wouldn't have the tools to explore and treat my problems. The antidotes you laid out in the pillar connection, examples like rehearsing, using I instead of you to start a conversation has helped enormously. I feel by doing just that, there is a U-turn in my life. Thanks to you and also thanks to me! "
Read more testimonials here.
Questions?
Do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions. For all administrative and practical questions, please contact us via info@brusselsmindfulness.be. For questions about our courses and events, have a look at our FAQ.
Many thanks for your registration. We look forward to meeting you soon.
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