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Compassionate Conversations offer reflections and dialogue on individual, social, and ecological challenges, and on actions and practices that embody mindfulness and compassionate community.
These essays are written by Robertson Work, a nonfiction author and social-ecological activist. For over fifty years in over fifty countries, he was UNDP principal policy advisor on decentralized governance, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service professor of innovative leadership for sustainable development, and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) country and regional director conducting community, organizational, and leadership initiatives.
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