<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book on facilitation
Review: A very good book on one of the most difficult arts that of drawing together a group through facilitation.
Rating: 
Summary: We've just published a sequel
Review: I am one of the et al authors of this book, Bill Taylor. Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey and myself have just written another book on facilitation called The Essence of Facilitation, published at present only by our New Zealand publishers, Tandem, but also to be published in the near future by Fisher in the US. I was thrilled to read the review from Alaska which seems a whole world away from New Zealand. Fisher has also published our first book, The Zen of Groups, and our third, Co-operacy.
Rating:
Summary: Great resource for enhancing facilitation!
Review: I found The Art of Facilitation to be an easy-to-read, complete guide in helping to better understand facilitation. I suggest that every beginner facilitator should read this. The authors wrote it specifically outlined and detailed, yet not too complicated. It is a good book to keep close by as a quick reference source. The breakdown of the book allows it to be a wonderful training guide complete with a toolkit to assist your every need of facilitation.
Rating:
Summary: Great resource for enhancing facilitation!
Review: I found The Art of Facilitation to be an easy-to-read, complete guide in helping to better understand facilitation. I suggest that every beginner facilitator should read this. The authors wrote it specifically outlined and detailed, yet not too complicated. It is a good book to keep close by as a quick reference source. The breakdown of the book allows it to be a wonderful training guide complete with a toolkit to assist your every need of facilitation.
Rating:
Summary: A great guide for "first time" facilitators!
Review: I have found this book a great resource to augment the training of first time facilitators and coaches. It provides many practical exercises, with numerous tips that help to demystify facilitation and increase the first time facilitator's success.
Rating:
Summary: New Facilitators must read!
Review: The Art of Facilitation is a must read for new facilitators or trainers. It is easy to read and offers practical advice and activities for newcomers to the field of facilitation. This is one of the few facilitation books to offer a chapter on facilitating yourself. Not as advanced as other facilitation books (Masterful Facilitation or Facilitator's Guide to Particiapatory Decision Making) but recommend this as part of any facilitator's library of resources.
Rating: 
Summary: Distinguishing Facilitation Powerfully and Simply
Review: The Art of Facilitation is written in simple language. It cuts through the academic tendency to complicate this domain, and in doing so displays the authors mastery of it. The Art of Facilitation elucidates what it takes to facilitate groups powerfully and provides pathways, tools and processes for this. This book will provide people new to facilitation with an intellectual analysis of it and old hands clear pathways to doing complex things simply. I use it all the time as a resource in my pratice as a professional facilitator and it is the required text in facilitator training courses which I lead for Zenergy. I would also recommend Hunter et al's other books: Co-operacy, The Zen of Groups, The Essence of Facilitation.
Rating:
Summary: Distinguishing Facilitation Powerfully and Simply
Review: The Art of Facilitation is written in simple language. It cuts through the academic tendency to complicate this domain, and in doing so displays the authors mastery of it. The Art of Facilitation elucidates what it takes to facilitate groups powerfully and provides pathways, tools and processes for this. This book will provide people new to facilitation with an intellectual analysis of it and old hands clear pathways to doing complex things simply. I use it all the time as a resource in my pratice as a professional facilitator and it is the required text in facilitator training courses which I lead for Zenergy. I would also recommend Hunter et al's other books: Co-operacy, The Zen of Groups, The Essence of Facilitation.
<< 1 >>
| 
