Do No Harm: Mindful Engagement for a World in Crisis by Wendy Wood and Thais Mazur

This inspiring, practical book reveals how “do no harm” shows up in the work and thinking of very diverse social change agents. Discovering this moral ethic is alive and well beyond its traditional medical setting, Wendy Wood and Thaïs Mazur share the results of their search for highly effective and culturally-diverse change agents. They explain the qualities our world in crisis needs as so many more people suffer environmental and economic disasters in addition to too-common social traumas.

In-depth conversations with 17 change-makers led to the discovery that do no harm underlies each of the qualities each individual finds crucial when they help those traumatized by events in family, community, bioregion, or country.

Wood and Mazur explore the coherent set of core qualities they found in those mature, deeply reflective people active in social and environmental justice, health, education, and peace and reconciliation. Giving each one a rich treatment, the authors illustrate how the qualities look “up close” so change agents everywhere have concrete ideas and actions to develop higher levels of mindful engagement in their own work. Wood and Mazur say these qualities can vital “when learning about social change, interpersonal relationships, the power of story, environmental stewardship, leadership, and applying mindful engagement through action.”

Dr. Thaïs Mazur and Dr. Wendy Wood are professors and veteran researchers who have worked extensively in human rights, social justice and conflict resolution.

Do No Harm: Mindful Engagement for a World in Crisis

By Thaïs Mazur, Ph.D. and Wendy Wood, Ph.D.

Publication Date: February 2016, Integral Publishers

Paperback: 178 pages, $17.95;

ISBN: 978-1495187698

Kindle version coming soon!