Rosa Zubizarreta

As founder of DiaPraxis, Rosa supports leaders and groups to work creatively with divergent perspectives. Her calling is developing our societal capacity to transform friction into useful energy and greater insight. Author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration, a manual on Dynamic Facilitation, she teaches this collaborative sense-making process internationally.

In addition to consulting and coaching work with organizations, Rosa enjoys conducting participatory research. She earned a Ph.D. from Fielding Graduate University, where she wrote a dissertation on the facilitation of collaborative meaning-making within the Citizens' Councils in Austria. Currently, she is a Democracy Visiting Fellow for AY2023-2024 at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Rosa has been actively collaborating with Tom Atlee since 1998. In 2002, she midwived The Tao of Democracy while completing an M.A. in Psychology through the Organization Development program at Sonoma State University. Rosa’s professional background also includes an M.S.W. and an M.A. in Multicultural and International Education. In addition to consulting work, she has worked as a translator, curriculum materials developer, and clinical social work practitioner. A common thread in all of these has been the development of voice and narrative.

With a life-long passion for social change, Rosa explores the intersection of group facilitation and social transformation in her occasional blog The Listening Arts.