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Diane Musho Hamilton

Diane Musho Hamilton is a Zen teacher, author, professional mediator, and facilitator. Diane began her studies at Naropa University in 1983 with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Genpo Dennis Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk and received dharma transmission in 2006. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed by Genpo Roshi to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004. She is the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary and the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a center for Zen study and practice, established in 2008 with her husband Michael Mugaku Zimmerman. Her most recent book, coauthored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh, is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, (Shambhala Publications, 2020.)