Waking Up & Growing Up
ONLINE COURSE
With Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Kaigen Wilson
NEW SCHEDULE!
Saturdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am MT
11 Classes: September 13 - November 22, 2025
$449 General Admission
Discover a fresh approach to spiritual practice and adult development. Our new online course, Waking Up and Growing Up, bridges traditional wisdom with contemporary challenges, offering you practical tools for meaningful personal growth and spiritual awakening .
In a world filled with digital distractions, social division, and constant crisis, this course provides something different—a space to develop genuine presence and emotional maturity grounded in the rich tradition of Zen.
WHAT MAKES THIS JOURNEY UNIQUE
Led by Diane Musho Hamilton, Zen teacher and professional mediator, and her senior student, Gabriel Wilson, Zen monk and executive team coach, this course doesn't ask you to escape modern life—it teaches you to thrive within it. We blend traditional meditation practices with cutting-edge insights from Integral psychology, neurophysiology, trauma research, and adult development theory.
Through weekly explorations of the text, you'll develop:
- Enhanced interpersonal communication that transforms your relationships
- Support for a sustained meditation practice
- Cultivating whole-hearted presence in difficult life circumstances
- Emotional development that includes and transforms emotional experiences
- Spiritual practice that integrates seamlessly with your everyday reality
This isn't about escaping to a mountaintop, monastery, or cave —it's about becoming more effective, compassionate, and awake right where you are.
Registration
NEW SCHEDULE!
Saturdays, 9:00 am - 10:30 am MT
September 13 - November 22, 2025
$449 General Admission
Waking Up and Growing Up will be our guide. The book presents a compelling, traditional view of Zen practice and provides a contemporary approach to spiritual development that is meaningful and actionable within the complexities of modern life. Grounded deeply in the tradition of Zen, we will read chapters in the book weekly and explore practices, exercises, and reflections in each chapter. The book offers an accessible, insightful approach to becoming more personally effective, compassionate, and spiritually awake.
REQUIRED READING
“A pioneering work that brilliantly unites two essential human journeys: the mystical path of ‘Waking Up’ to enlightened consciousness and the developmental stages of ‘Growing Up’ through life’s natural progression. Diane Roshi’s unique integration of Zen wisdom and psychological insight, combined with Gabriel’s lived experience as her senior student, offers a complete roadmap to transformation.”
- Ken Wilber, author of Finding Radical Wholeness
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SCHEDULE / COMMITMENT
Week 1, September 13
Waking Up and Growing Up —
a Live Conversation with Ken Wilber
Week 2, September 20
Chapter 6 — Inspired to Practice
Chapter 9 — True Identity
Week 3, September 27
Chapter 1 — Zen and Growing Up
Week 4, October 4
Chapter 2 — Embodied Skills for Relationships
Chapter 13 — Beloved Community
Week 5, October 11
Chapter 8 — Just Sitting
Week 6, October 18
Chapter 3 — Emotional Maturity
Week 7, October 25
Chapter 10 — The Student-Teacher Relationship
Week 8, November 1
Chapter 4 — Shadow
Week 9, November 8
Chapter 11 — Ritual and Ceremony
Week 10, November 15
Chapter 15 — A Lineage Tradition
Week 11, November 22
Chapter 16 — Commitment to Practice
The Waking Up & Growing Up Online Course is sponsored and administered by Two Arrows Zen
Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She is the cofounder of Two Arrows Zen and founder of Real LIFE programs in Utah. She is the author of Everything Is Workable, The Zen of You and Me, and Compassionate Conversations.
Gabriel Kaigen Wilson is a conflict mediator and team coach, trainer for the Real LIFE programs, and senior practitioner in the Two Arrows Zen practice. He is a coauthor of Compassionate Conversations.