ABOUT KIM
About Kim
Kim Milone is a writer, meditation and mindfulness teacher, and speaker, and the author of the forthcoming Meditation with Mercy. She teaches people to settle, see, soften, and return, and to practice with fidelity, agency, and conscious choice instead of rigid rules and obligation.
A life shaped by practice
Kim’s practice began more than forty years ago in the Zen tradition. Over time, she has also studied and practiced secular mindfulness, Tibetan Buddhism, Christian contemplative practices, and integrative mindfulness. She is certified to teach meditation through Susan Piver’s Meditation Instructor training program and through Ralph De La Rosa’s ten-month trauma-informed Amplify Meditation Teacher training program.
These streams have become a practice quilt, informing how she listens, writes, teaches, and returns to what is here.
Professional life
Kim has practiced law since 1997, primarily in the highly regulated world of global food and beverage law. She is also a mediator and arbitrator. She has also held executive leadership roles in a company from startup through two sales within a private equity portfolio. Her professional work gives her a close view of what people carry after demanding days and in difficult rooms.
Visit Kim’s legal and ADR practice, opens in a new tabWhat she teaches
Kim teaches meditation and mindfulness to individuals online and in person in small, curated groups. She also teaches professionals in continuing education courses for lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, social workers, and other helping professionals. Her work focuses on mindfulness, ethical presence, conflict, self-compassion, nervous-system awareness, and practical ways to remain steady under pressure.
Beginning in 2027, she also leads the Meditation with Mercy Book Club, with three live online courses each year.
Books
Meditation with Mercy: A Beginner's Guide to Practicing with Fidelity, Agency, and Conscious Choice and its companion Practice Journal are the first books in the At the Tables of Life series (Batture House Books). A second book, making the fuller case for mercy from the Buddhist and Christian traditions, will follow, along with secular mindfulness field guides for social workers (2027), and for lawyers and conflict resolution professionals (2028).