Koshin Paley Ellison
New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
New York City, NY
Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and ACPE Certified Chaplaincy Educator. Koshin began his Zen training with John Daido Loori, received jukai from Pat Enkyo O’Hara, and dharma transmission from Dorothy Dai En Friedman. Koshin co-founded and is a Guiding Teacher, with his husband Robert Chodo Campbell, the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which serves through contemplative approaches to care through education, direct service, and Zen practice. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School’s Center for Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Medicine Fellowship. He is the author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019) as well as the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016).