Rosa Zubizarreta is a consultant, author, and Ph.D. candidate at Fielding Graduate University. She is the author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A Manual for Dynamic Facilitation, and leads workshops internationally on helping groups work on complex issues. Rosa collaborated with Tom Atlee on The Tao of Democracy, which fueled her interest in democratic innovations. In addition to academic and professional work in organization development, her background includes a Master’s degree in multicultural education, work with constructivist approaches to social-emotional learning, and a Master of Social Work and clinical experience in community mental health. As an activist, she has worked on indigenous rights and environmental issues.
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