warner founded stone creek zen center in 1996 and has continued to teach there since then. in 2014 two teachers joined her in leading the growing sangha community, dojin sarah emerson and korin charlie pokorny, as part of a highly successful generational succession of temple leadership. warner has given shiho to three successors: the late joko dave haselwood, who had earlier been a notable publisher of beat and san francisco renaissance poets in the 1960s; anette joay lille, a hospice chaplain; and toan irene flynn, who teaches zen in st. augustine, florida.