Practice opportunities are offered freely for those interested and informal community gatherings happen periodically. To be on our mailing list, please contact us.
Some people participate simply by attending sitting groups or retreats or by receiving our monthly e-newsletters. Others volunteer their time in various ways. A volunteer advisory board oversees and provides ongoing care for the organization.
Valley Insight relies on financial contributions from the sangha. The teachers are not paid by Valley Insight–they, too, rely on donations for support.
Opportunities for Giving
- Come to a sitting group or retreat and join us in “practicing peace”
- Become a member of Valley Insight
- Contact us to sign up for our mailing list and receive monthly e-newsletters for information and inspiration on living a wakeful, compassionate life
- Help set up or clean up at our weekly Hanover sitting
- Serve on the advisory board
- Help with organizational details such as maintaining a mailing list or assisting with organizing events
- Support our teachers financially in their work of teaching, writing and guiding the organization
- Make a recurring or one-time donation to Valley Insight
- Sponsor the Monday evening sitting in Hanover by offering the $35 rent
- Support the prison sangha with a contribution ear-marked to help pay for gas used by the volunteers who make the monthly drive to Berlin, New Hampshire (2.5 hours each way).
- Be creative! Tell us another way you can give
- Whatever you do, take time to feel the effects of giving in your mind and heart. Notice how it feels to be anonymous in your giving and notice how it feels to be named. There isn’t a right way in this respect. Just keep noticing intention and how it feels in the heart. Remember: “When you walk in the mist you get wet.” (Dogen) Feel the moisture!