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Diane Musho Hamilton is an exceptionally gifted mediator, master facilitator, author, and an authentic contemporary spiritual teacher for our time.
Diane has been a practitioner of meditation for almost 30 years. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk with her husband Michael Zimmerman, and received dharma transmission in 2006. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004.
With extraordinary warmth, depth, and insight, she encourages us to consciously evolve beyond old and limited ideas of who we are so that we might discover our own unique expression of wisdom and of compassion in this time.
Diane is the author of Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Shambhala Publications) which applies mindfulness to work with and resolve the inevitable interpersonal conflicts that arise in all areas of life. Her newest book is The Zen of You And Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone (Shambhala Publications, March 2017) She is also featured in the book, The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. (Wisdom Publications).
She is well known as an innovator in conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations. She has mediated a broad range of disputes and transactions including divorces, probate, employment, contracts, and multi-party negotiations. She works in a variety of settings including private industry, governmental agencies and non-profit and of course individuals.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Timeless Teachings: Listening is Zazen
Published on: 13 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings Practice of Emptiness
Published on: 13 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: Use of Language
Published on: 12 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: Attention as Emptiness
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: Beyond Identity
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: Language is Powerful
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: Listening Is Zazen
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Timeless Teachings: What Moves Us
Published on: 11 Oct 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Guided Meditation
Published on: 30 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Sitting Meditation
Published on: 30 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Contemplation on Impermanence
Published on: 29 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Tonglen Meditation
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Prepare to Die
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Meditation on Dissolution
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Loving Kindness
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Compassionate Exchange
Published on: 28 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Zazen Instruction
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Tonglen Meditation
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Preparing to Die
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Guided Meditation – Open Awareness
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Meditation on Dissolution
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Loving Kindness Meditation
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Contemplation on Impermanence
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Compassionate Exchange
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Building A Container
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Sameness and Difference
Published on: 26 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Attention and Intention
Published on: 20 Sep 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Loving Kindness Meditation
Published on: 17 Jul 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Day of Integral Diversity Info Call, Friday April 21
Published on: 6 Apr 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Real LIFE Facilitator Program – Free Information Call with Diane Musho Hamilton on March 17th.
Published on: 10 Mar 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Mediation Fundamentals: The Structure of Mediation
Published on: 17 Feb 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Mediation Fundamentals – Perspective Taking Skills in Mediation
Published on: 7 Feb 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Developing Emotional Maturity – The Schema of Emotions
Published on: 2 Feb 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Developing Emotional Maturity
Published on: 18 Jan 23 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Developing Emotional Maturity
Published on: 16 Sep 21 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
How Leaders Lead Summit: Diane Musho Hamilton with Sara Ness
Published on: 30 Nov 20 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Compassionate Conversations: What the Germans Can Teach Americans About Reconciling with Our Past
Published on: 2 Nov 20 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
More About Mediation Fundamentals
Published on: 27 Oct 20 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
About Mediation Fundamentals
Published on: 27 Oct 20 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Global Resilience Summit: Diane Musho Hamilton and Fleet Maull on Sensemaking and Resilient Systems.
Published on: 10 Jul 20 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion
Published on: 25 Nov 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Tattoos of Zen
Published on: 18 Nov 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Fighting With Family
Published on: 9 Nov 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Autonomy and Communion
Published on: 29 Oct 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Keeping it Light
Published on: 11 Oct 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
Conflict Is Good News
Published on: 30 Sep 19 in Diane Musho Hamilton – YouTube
by Diane Musho Hamilton
When a conversation takes a turn into the sometimes uncomfortable and often contentious topics of race, religion, gender, sexuality, and politics, it can be difficult to know what to say or how to respond to someone you disagree with. Compassionate Conversations empowers us to transform these conversations into opportunities to bridge divides and mend relationships by providing the basic set of conflict resolution skills we need to be successful, including listening, reframing, and dealing with strong emotions. Addressing the long history of injury and pain for marginalized groups, the authors explore topics like social privilege, power dynamics, and, political correctness allowing us to be more mindful in our conversations. Each chapter contains practices and reflection questions to help readers feel more prepared to talk through polarizing issues, ultimately encouraging us to take risks, to understand and recognize our deep commonalities, to be willing to make mistakes, and to become more intimate with expressing our truths, as well as listening to those of others.
Everything Is Workable uses mindfulness to work with and resolve the inevitable interpersonal conflicts that arise in all areas of life.
Conflict is going to be part of your life—as long as you have relationships, hold down a job, or have dry cleaning to be picked up. Bracing yourself against it won’t make it go away, but if you approach it consciously, you can navigate it in a way that not only honors everyone involved but makes it a source of deep insight as well. Seasoned mediator Diane Hamilton provides the skill set you need to engage conflict with wisdom and compassion, and even—sometimes—to be grateful for it. She teaches how to:
• Cultivate the mirror-like quality of attention as your base
• Identify the three personal conflict styles and determine which one you fall into
• Recognize the three fundamental perspectives in any conflict situation and learn to inhabit each of them
• Turn conflicts in families, at work, and in every kind of interpersonal relationship into win-win situations
The Zen of You and Me explains how to deal with interpersonal conflict–from a Zen perspective.
The people who get under your skin the most can, in fact, be your greatest teachers. It’s not a matter of overlooking differences, as is often taught, but of regarding those difficult aspects of the relationship with curiosity and compassion–for those very differences offer a path to profound connection. Diane Hamilton’s practical, reality-based guide to living harmoniously with even your most irritating fellow humans—spouses, partners, colleagues, parents, children–shows that “getting along” is really a matter of discovering that our differences are nothing other than an expression of our even deeper shared unity.
Recent Videos and Podcasts where Diane Musho Hamilton has been interviewed
Diane Musho Hamilton (award-winning mediator and Zen Roshi) and Jeff Salzman (integral political commentator and host of The Daily Evolver) join Terry to react, reflect, and take to heart this
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Zen Roshi, professional mediator, and author Diane Musho Hamilton joins Terry to explore the deep human crisis of relationship and communication that underlies so many of our current challenges by
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Calming your brain during conflict is a fundamental skill. I have had a lot of questions about this, particularly how to engage the four steps for practicing mindfulness during conflict. Join me for a free online 75-minute mini-workshop on Thursday, July 6, at noon MT to walk you through the technique and respond to your questions. Register here: bit.ly/CYBCalming Your
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“I have made many mistakes in my life. Many. Lots of times I have earnestly attempted to communicate and only made matters worse… There are different ways to go about it. We can ignore the whole thing and withdraw from the challenge of relationships. On the other hand, we can come out of the cave, down to the ground and
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“Some people would comment that we are making progress in learning how to get along. Maybe we are less violent than we have been in the past. And it is true that many of us want to change the way we deal with conflict, and learn how to work consciously with them in a way that is genuine and compassionate,
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Earlier this year we had the opportunity to support Kirk Eklund and 19 other leaders, facilitators and coaches in our Real LIFE Facilitator Program. The seven-month immersive training focuses on leadership, Integral theory, facilitation skills, and working with the energy and dynamics of groups. Its goal is to support your personal development and your ability to have a positive impact
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Join Diane Musho Hamilton, founder of Two Arrows Zen, Friday, June 17th, as she talks about the Real LIFE Facilitator Programs she’ll be teaching in 2023. The lion’s roar is fearlessness in the sense that everything in our life is workable. Nothing is rejected as bad or grasped as good. But everything we experience deeply and fully in our life,
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Listening Involves Letting Go – releasing your tight grip on things in the mind. At first it may feel like falling, but once you have befriended it, once you have learned to relax with it, it feels good to let go. Our private opinions and judgments no longer create a division between us and the person speaking. We simply join
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Living Wide Awake: A 90-Day Online Commit to Sit Practice Periodnewyorkzencenterforcontemplativecare.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.comLed by New York Zen Center’s Guiding Teacher: Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei with weekly dharma talks from Chodo Robert Campbell, Ben Connelly, Koshin
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The first step to inviting more flow involves slowing way down and becoming much more deliberate. When a facilitative leader can identify their own state, and really know the dimensions of their own interior, they become more capable of noticing and working with the subtleties of the states of other individuals and groups. #lifecoaching #reallifeprogram #integralfacilitator #facilitator #groupfacilitator #mediation #facilitationskills
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LEADERSHIP (by Rob MacNamara) Leadership is a broadly used and often ill-defined term. For some, leadership is the root cause of problems with power and hierarchy. For others, leadership holds the keys for solving our most difficult problems. We view leadership as your unique self-expression of your lived experiences. We see leadership as a verb; it is an activity. Leadership
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As facilitators, we’ve all had the experience of trying – and sometimes failing – to facilitate difficult conversations about race, class, power, and identity. These topics are very personal, emotionally charged, and while important to discuss and explore, often end up diverting us from our shared… More
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Join me and friends for a Free Info call on April 21 about the Day of Integral Diversity one-day workshop coming up on May 12. https://bit.ly/ integraldiversit y
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Learn how Mediation (not meditation!) skills can enhance your effectiveness as a #leader, #coach, or #facilitator. Join me for a free info call on Friday, October 23. https://bit.ly/2Iwyk5R. We’ll preview my new course, Mediation Fundamentals. https://lnkd.in/eAJPicy
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Free call Compassionate Conversations: The Essentials. July 31, 12 pm MT. #gabrielwilson #kimberlyloh https://lnkd.in/eg2NzuZ
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Dharma & The Evolution Of Conflict Tele-Summit, Free Online Global Event, Starts Tomorrow. March 20 – 24, 2019. Come together with Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Wendy Palmer, Steve McIntosh, Keith Witt, Ginny… https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/2399821053404063
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Looking forward to the second gathering for Dharma and the Evolution of Conflict, with Miles Kessler in Torrey, Utah. https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/2391589820893853
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Gratitude to http://Tricycle.org for sharing a chapter of The Zen of You and Me. https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/practice-is-the-way/
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I am honored to be with Sigrudur and Rosanna in Iceland next week. https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/2165626593490178
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With gratitude to the Jung Society of Utah. I hope you will join me for an evening of creative engagement on September 14th. https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/2101899733196198
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For audiobook lovers… http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Listen-to-Everything-Is-Workable-this-week-.html?soid=1103684938607&aid=mtvmoifSEEU
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Audible subscribers — Here’s my article in the Harvard Business Review, Calming Your Brain During Conflict. Enjoy it for free! https://www.audible.com/pd/Newspapers-Magazines/Calming-Your-Brain-During-Conflict-Audiobook/B019CQ0E30
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Tomorrow, June 21. I’m looking forward to my Radio Evolve livecast conversation with Thomas Steininger: INNER EVOLUTION FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION @noon MT, 2:00 pm EDT, 8:00 pm Central Europe. https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/1981344235251749
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Thanks to my dear friend, Jeff Salzman and his Daily Evolver, for a great conversation. https://www.dailyevolver.com/2018/04/whats-emerging-in-spiritual-practice-a-conversation-with-diane-musho-hamilton/?mc_cid=d4101dcadd&mc_eid=f1845091ad
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I’ll be at the Integral European Conference, May 22-27 in Hungary. Let’s meet there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP0RtLeVX6I&ab_channel=IntegralEuropeanConference
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I’m delighted to be collaborating with Miles Kessler on Dharma and the Evolution of Conflict. Please join us April 3 for the first Community Call on “Dharma as Your Nature.” https://www.facebook.com/dianemushohamilton/posts/1876764179043089
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Terry Patten’s bestselling new book, A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries, is a masterful… https://fb.me/2PGuOSQPx
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Next Stage Facilitation – my live 3-day training for those who want to become more authentic, spontaneous, and… https://fb.me/Gj4LBwUR
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https://tricycle.org/magazine/transforming-conflict/?utm_source=Tricycle&utm_campaign=2b05c8092e-Daily_Dharma_01_2… https://fb.me/INAPcFwd
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My friends at One World in Dialogue have created a special offering to open the holiday season. Please consider… http://fb.me/GFLEFjwi
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Here is a recent interview with Tami Simon from Sounds True. We are exploring Mindful Communication, as well as… http://fb.me/5IFL5pQay
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Here is a recent interview with Tami Simon from Sounds True. We are exploring Mindful Communication, as well as… http://fb.me/12s38T4zB
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