Diane Musho Hamilton: The Evolutionary Power of Mindful Communication

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Diane Musho Hamilton is a spiritual teacher, mediator, and group facilitator who has been studying mindfulness for more than 30 years. She is a featured presenter for A Year of Mindfulness, Sounds True's yearlong online meditation program. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Diane discuss how her experience with mindfulness has helped her to become an effective group mediator. Diane speaks on how mindfulness skills transfer to interpersonal communication and skillful relationship—especially when it comes to being able to take on someone else's perspective. Finally, Tami and Diane talk about the importance of relating to others with different views than us and how we can foster a better, more open engagement with the entirety of the world. (69 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.0	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.0	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Diane Musho Hamilton.
0:44.7	Diane is an exceptionally gifted mediator, group facilitator,
0:49.4	and a contemporary spiritual teacher. She's been a practitioner of meditation for almost 30 years.
0:55.3	Diane began her studies at Nuropa University in 1983 with Jogim Trimperimpeche and then became a Zen student of Gumpo Roeshies in 1997.
1:07.0	Diane facilitates big mind, big heart, a process developed by Gumppo Roshi, to help elicit the insights of Zen and Western audiences.
1:18.2	She has also worked with Ken Wilbur and the Integral Institute since 2004.
1:24.0	With sounds true, Diane Muccheel Hamilton is a featured presenter in our Year of Mindfulness
1:30.0	series, a digital membership program that brings participants together online from all over
1:36.0	the world to receive guidance from a diverse group of leading mindfulness teachers, including
1:41.8	John Cabot Zen, Jack Cornfield, Tara Brock, Kristen Neff,
1:46.9	Sharon Salzburg, and yes, Diane Musho Hamilton.
1:51.0	Each month participants are introduced to a new technique and approach that helps
1:56.4	them bring mindfulness into each and every area of their life.
2:00.9	For more information about a year of mindfulness, please visit us at sounds true.com.
2:07.0	In this episode of Insights of the Edge, Diane and I spoke about how the skills of sitting meditation transfer into mindful communication,
2:17.4	and also how they're not sufficient, and what other skills we need to learn to listen and speak with mindfulness.
2:26.0	We also talked about how Diane became a professional mediator.
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