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Dave Smith

For nearly 30 years, Dave Smith has held a practice rooted in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) tradition. He was empowered to teach through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, is a certified teacher for Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) which combines contemporary emotion based scientific research with contemplative practices and psychology drawn from Buddhism.

Dave teaches residential meditation retreats, weekly live dharma classes, online courses, and workshops. He has developed educational tools and resources, including mindfulness and emotional skills training, in both secular and Buddhist contexts. Dave also works with students 1:1 through his dharma mentoring program.

Dave has brought dharma and meditative interventions into a variety of settings including jails, prisons, youth detention centers and addiction treatment facilities. Dave lives in rural Colorado with his wife and two sons.

Upcoming Programs by Dave Smith

FREE ONLINE PROGRAM: Authenticity in an Artificial World: Cultivating A Life Worth Living

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December 7, 2025

Program Start Date & Time: December 7th | 4:00 pm Program End Date & Time: December 7th | 5:30 pm As we become endlessly distracted by the artificial, the search for authenticity becomes vital. Contentment, meaning, and purpose have become fleeting ideas of a world forgotten. It does not have to be this way. The […]

FREE ONLINE EVENT: Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy

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February 1, 2026

Program Start Date & Time: February 1st  |  3:00 pm MT Program End Date & Time: February 1st  |  5:00 pm MT Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy We live in a time when our attention is constantly being pulled, packaged, and sold. What was once called the “attention economy” has now become the addiction economy—where endless […]

Authentic Intelligence: Mindfulness for the Modern World

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February 13–16, 2026

Program Arrival Date & Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm on Feb 13 Program Start Date & Time: Feb 13th 5:30 pm orientation Program End Date & Time: Feb 16th 12:30 pm This weekend’s Mindfulness-based program will support a meaningful engagement with ourselves and this world. This retreat will provide practice and theory rooted in both […]

Mindfulness and Recovery Weekend Retreat

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April 2–5, 2026

Program Start Date & Time: April 2nd, 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: April 5th, 12:00 pm This weekend program offers a fresh approach to understanding and overcoming addiction. Together, we’ll create a framework for how addiction and recovery can be defined using insights from psychology, spirituality, and science. We’ll draw from a range […]

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