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WAKING UP & GROWING UP ONLINE COURSE
Event Details
11-Week Online Study & Practice Course
With Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Kaigen Wilson
Saturdays, 9:00 – 10:30 am MT
11 Classes: September 13 – November 22, 2025
(8 PT; 11 ET; 5 CET)
Via Zoom
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.
$399 TAZ Member and Other Zen Center Admission
$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.
- Exclusive live conversation with Ken Wilber
- Eleven live 90-minute sessions via Zoom
- Recordings of all sessions (video + audio)
- Supplemental materials
- Optional practice groups for deeper integration
Below is the outline of the schedule that we will explore and practice.
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