Our Team
All of our trainers and staff are highly accomplished professionals with a specific skill set, teaching ability, and unique perspective. We are diverse in terms of our racial and gender identities, as well as professional roles, personal passions, worldviews, and political preferences. We are unified in our commitment to human flourishing, growth, and realizing our individual and collective potential.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Diane Musho Hamilton
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Diane is the founder and lead trainer of the Real LIFE Programs. She is an award-winning mediator and a teacher of Zen meditation. She received dharma transmission from Genpo Merzel Roshi in 2006. Diane served as the Director of Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994 - 1999, mediating many kinds of matters from simple neighborhood disputes to complex, multi-party negotiations. She was most recognized for her skills in facilitating difficult conversations related to race, gender, and religion in Utah. She began working with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in 2004 and for fifteen years has held transformative containers for many people interested in their own development. She is the author of three books on conflict resolution, relationships, and communications. Her next book is Waking Up and Growing Up: Spiritual Cross-Training for an Evolving World, co-authored with Gabriel Wilson (Shambhala Publications, June 2025.)
Faith Graham
PORTLAND, OREGON
Rodrigo Shogaku Martinez
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Ro Shogaku is a coach, facilitator, Two Arrows Zen assistant administrator, and Real LIFE Programs coordinator. He has experience in business, transformational training, and existential psychology. In 2016, he decided to devote himself to studying and practicing Zen. Rodrigo is ordained in the Zen tradition and facilitates a weekly study group called "Love of the Dharma." He is committed to facilitating groups imbued with warmth, connection and full of heart. Ro was born and lives in Mexico City.
Julia Sati
TEASDALE, UTAH
Julia is the administrator for Two Arrows Zen and financial director for the Real LIFE Programs. She has been with Two Arrows Zen since 2012 where she has created the infrastructure to support retreats, online courses, workshops, and programs in Utah and at other locations throughout the world. Her early career was in social policy research and pharmaceutical marketing and development. She is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, and her delight is to feed people well, and to see that everything just works.
TRAINERS
Cindy Lou Golin
LOUTH, UK
Cindy Lou is senior trainer in the Real LIFE Programs. She is a transformational coach, facilitator, and consultant with a passion for translating learning into practice and supporting people in experiencing sustainable change. She has a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as degrees in clinical psychology and soul-centered leadership. She values the role of visioning in coaching, and has a special skill for helping people to realize their imagined futures. She can help you unwind the limiting egoic knots and support you in experiencing more of who you already are.
Rob McNamara
BOULDER, COLORADO
As senior trainer in the Real LIFE Programs, Rob McNamara is known as a profoundly trustable guide and loyal mentor. He is a founder and consultant with Delta Developmental, and he brings exceptional skills to help leaders realize their potential, as he supports the development of enduring teams and relationships in organizations. Rob was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and he is passionate about ethical forms of organizational learning, leadership development, and catalyzing human flourishing. He is a devoted meditation practitioner.
GRAD RESOURCE TEAM
Angella Okawa
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
I work with individuals and organizations to build capacity to practice deep belonging and being with difference. My background is in tech, startups, and design thinking. I also work with trauma, culture and identity, bringing a unique perspective. I am a certified Integral Coach, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a 20-year meditation practitioner. I’m trained in The Hakomi Method and Re-Creation of the Self. I love to visit friends and family in Japan, learn Japanese, play in the garden with my 3-year-old nephew, hike, and read books with a warm beverage. My favorite word is Liminality.
Kirk Eklund
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
I am the founder and lead designer of Inkfish Ideas, working at the intersection of Innovation and Belonging since 2014. I specialize in using Design Thinking to help teams and organizations reimagine how they tackle complex problems and use the same methodology for leadership development and program design. Combining my work as an executive coach at Stanford’s d.school with my learning in National Equity Project’s leadership program, and the Real LIFE Facilitation Program, I provide an energetic and unique approach in support of equitable innovation.
Valerie Joseph
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
I am the AEMES (Achieving Excellence in Math Engineering and Science) Mentoring Administrative Director at Smith College. I have a Ph.D. in anthropology and graduate degrees in Movement Therapy and Social Justice Education. I am the founder of Grounded Space Consulting, an organization that convenes public conversations by marginalized people and about marginalized topics. I love to bring people's truths to conversations with the loving intention of growth and healing. I fervently believe in the power of "both/and."
Brian Lim
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
I completed an MA and LMFT, and I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher, Re-Creation of the Self (RCS) facilitator, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am in private practice serving adults and couples. My work weaves together multiple therapeutic approaches, including Neuro-affective Touch, Recreation of the Self (RCS), EDMR, Trauma-to-Dharma, Somatica, and a lens of cross-cultural awareness throughout my practice.