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Diane Musho Hamilton is a mediator, author, and teacher of Zen. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 40 years. Diane began her studies in 1983 at Naropa University with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche and became a Zen student of Genpo Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk with her husband, Michael Zimmerman, and received dharma transmission from Roshi in 2006. In 2018, Diane received the final seal of Inka from Sidney Musai Walter Roshi, also a successor of Genpo Merzel Roshi.

As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system. She won several prestigious awards for her work in this area.

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 in Denver, Colorado, since 2004. She is the founder and lead trainer of the Real LIFE Facilitator Program, which certifies practitioners in a developmental approach to group facilitation.

With her husband, Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi, is the co-founder of Two Arrows Zen, a center for Zen study and practice with locations in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.

She is the author of three books published by Shambhala Publications – Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution, The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone, and Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.

She is also a contributor to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Wisdom, 2013), The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers (Tami Simon, ed., Sounds True, 2017), and Radical Compassion: On the Path of Boundless Love (Shambhala, 2014).