COMPASSIONATE CONVERSATIONS

Join us as Diane and Gabriel present the fundamental principles of having compassionate and successful conversations is our ability to see that every perspective is both true and is partial. While we might have this capacity, we often get mired down in familiar preferences, habits, and grooves in our thinking. Jung asserts that we have access to different parts of ourselves, different viewpoints, that we can easily access and explore. For example, we all have been victims, and at the same time, we have all injured others. This evening will be an exploration of different perspectives and the common humanity that underlies these points of view.

DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills. Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her latest book is Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.

GABRIEL MENEGALE WILSON is a leadership coach, organizational change consultant, and peace-builder with a specialty in diversity and inclusion efforts. His work takes us to the intersection of social justice and purpose driven enterprises, design thinking, human psychology and group dynamics. He is a certified integral facilitator and an associate for Delta Developmental, a leadership and organizational development consultancy. He is a practitioner of meditation in the Zen lineage at Two Arrows Zen.