Robert Atkinson
Dr. Robert Atkinson, co-editor of OUR MOMENT OF CHOICE: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future, is an author, speaker, and developmental psychologist. He is a 2017 Nautilus Book Award winner for THE STORY OF OUR TIME: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness. He is also the founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and Story Commons, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal myth making and soul making. His books on life storytelling, THE GIFT OF STORIES: Practical and Spiritual Applications of Autobiography, Life Stories, and Personal Mythmaking, and THE LIFE STORY INTERVIEW, have been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Romanian and are widely used in personal growth and life review settings. He is professor emeritus of cross-cultural human development and religious studies at the University of Southern Maine, and director of Story Commons. He sailed on the maiden voyage of Pete Seeger's CLEARWATER schooner.