Return to Belonging
A Day of Meditation, Inquiry, and Collective Practice With Caverly Morgan
at Seattle Insight Meditation Society (in-person or online)
June 26, 2026 | 9AM - 4:30PM Pacific
We all long to come home.
Not to a place. To ourselves.
We long to feel at ease. To know we're okay. To belong — not because we've earned it or fixed ourselves, but because belonging is what we already are.
And yet most of us spend our lives doing the opposite - striving, improving. All the while feeling disconnected from life.
This workshop is an invitation to stop running and look.
The world right now makes it easy to feel disconnected. Divisiveness is everywhere. The noise is relentless. It can seem harder than ever to access the peace that contemplative practice points toward — especially when that peace feels personal while the suffering feels collective.
But what if personal and collective aren't as separate as we think?
In this day together, we'll explore what happens when meditation, mindfulness, and inquiry are applied not just inward but outward — when the recognition of our own belonging becomes the foundation for how we show up in the world we share.
Two questions will guide our time:
Have you ever touched a deep sense of peace and belonging — and then feared losing it?
Have you ever recognized the world around you doesn't reflect what you know to be true about reality?
If either of these resonates, you're in the right place.
What People Are Saying
“Caverly has an uncanny intuition for what a group needs and skillfully guides us as a cohesive collective.”
—Eddie, Director, Cyber Information Security
”Somehow Caverly’s teachings have landed as the first practice I can reach for both on the cushion and in the moments of great everyday life as a means to center. This modern non dual approach brings ease and deep meaning in an accessible way. So, so grateful.”
—Elizabeth, Physician, mom
About Caverly Morgan
After eight years as a Zen monk, Caverly Morgan discovered something unexpected: nothing was missing. The freedom she'd been searching for was already here.
Named one of 2025's powerful women of the mindfulness movement, Caverly is a teacher of awakening, nonprofit founder, speaker, and author who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach.
Caverly supports others in remembering our true nature—not through more techniques or self-improvement strategies, but through presence, inquiry, and togetherness.
She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together and A Kids Book About Mindfulness. As founder of the nonprofits Peace in Schools (the nation's first for-credit mindfulness program in U.S. public high schools) and Realizing Freedom Together, she has pioneered ways for communities to awaken collectively, making teachings that lead to liberation accessible to all.
About Seattle Insight Meditation
Seattle Insight is an all-volunteer Dharma community dedicated to offering the Buddha’s teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Through meditation and daily practice, Seattle Insight encourages an ongoing investigation of our lives for the liberation of all beings and the stewardship of the planet.
Practitioners of all experience levels and all backgrounds are welcome.
Pricing
This workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $30–$60, in the spirit of making these teachings accessible to all. If $60 is within reach for you, your generosity helps make space for those for whom it isn't.
Seattle Insight is sustained by the generosity of the sangha, allowing us to make the teachings freely available to all, regardless of one’s ability to pay.