Musho Diane Hamilton, Salt Lake City, Utah

Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi is a mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 35 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, a successor of Genpo Merzel.

As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. Her accolades include the Utah Judicial Administration Award, The Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award, The Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for contributions to the area of alternative dispute resolution, and the Brigham Young University Center for Conflict Resolution Peacemaker Award.

Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed by Genpo Merzel 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. In 2012 she co-founded Integral Facilitator® offered by Ten Directions, certifying practitioners in a developmental approach to group facilitation.

She is the author of Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Shambhala Publications, 2013). Her newest book is The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone (Shambhala Publications, 2017).

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