Rev. John Daigan Widell

Rev. Daigan Johny Widell is a Zen priest in the White Plum lineage. He has spent a total of four years in residential practice at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Middlebury, Vermont. He spent a summer as a resident priest at San Francisco Zen Center and completed chaplaincy training (CPE) with the San Francisco Night Ministry.

Before entering residential Zen practice, Daigan spent thirty years as a federal trial and appellate attorney. He now works in harm reduction and overdose prevention outreach in rural Vermont and serves as a community chaplain, providing spiritual care to unhoused people, people who use drugs, and others living on the margins of society.