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Robert Atkinson, PhD is an award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist whose work bridges storytelling, transformation, and the evolution of consciousness. His latest book, The Way of Unity: Essential Principles and Preconditions for Peace (2025) invites readers to embrace the unitive wisdom guiding our collective evolution. He is a 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award winner as co-editor of Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future, a 2023 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family, and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness. He is also the author or co-editor of nine other books including, Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012), The Life Story Interview (1998) and The Gift of Stories (1995). His PhD is in cross-cultural human development from the University of Pennsylvania, with a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Chicago. He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal myth-making and soul-making, director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle with a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader from the Visioneers International Network.

Website: https://www.robertatkinson.net/

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