Diane is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and a Zen meditation teacher. She combines decades of work in in conflict resolution with a depth of experience in sitting meditation. 

Diane often says that “mediate” and “meditate” share the same purpose: to bring what is divided or in dispute into harmony. With extraordinary warmth, depth and insight, she encourages us to work with our differences, while discovering our fundamental unity.

As the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen in Utah, USA, Diane offers meditation training, as well as programs oriented to personal development and facilitator skills. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004 and has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 35 years, and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition. 

Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her newest book, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart is co-authored with Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Kimberly Myosai Loh (Shambhala, July 2020).