Trustees

Dedicated to making the dharma more accessible to New Zealanders, the four trustees are:

 

Christine Dann

who lives in Port Levy on Banks Peninsula, and has been practising insight meditation since 2000. She is a member of the Waipapa sangha which sits weekly in Diamond Harbour. She is variously a writer, researcher, teacher, and Green activist.

 

Colleen Shaw

who lives in Nelson works as an occupational therapist. Originally from Canada, she was part of a zen group.

 

Ramsey Margolis

who started a sitting group in 1999 which developed into Wellington Insight Meditation Community, and put out a newsletter for the group that is now INSIGHTAotearoa. Among the teachers he has sat with are Martine and Stephen Batchelor, Eric Kolvig, Gregory Kramer, Jason Siff, Jeremy Logan, Christopher Titmuss and Arinna Weisman. Since 2006, he has been working for the New Zealand Cooperatives Association as its Executive Director.

 

Vivien Blackshaw

who is an artist living on Auckland’s North Shore who has a love for insight dialogue as a meditation practice. She spent some time involved in the building of Bodhinyanarama buddhist monastery in Stokes Valley, and first learned to meditate there under the guidance of Ajahn Viradhammo.

 

Trustees serve as volunteers. We welcome your feedback as to how to improve the work of the trust.