Download or read book Moving Beyond Icebreakers written by Stanley Pollack and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Beyond Icebreakers contains 440 pages packed with insight and ideas about building community, engaging students in learning, and making meetings work. It describes an innovative meeting format and documents over 300 interactive exercises (not just "icebreakers") that enable readers to: * Achieve group goals * Build relationships * Resolve group problems * Teach, lead, motivate, and inspire The first 130 pages describe how to use "icebreakers" and other interactive methods to help group members make decisions, create new ideas, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and understand new concepts. In these pages you will find a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group's goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world. Table of contents: * Why use interactive methods? * Working into interaction * Coping with resistance and fear of failure * The interactive meeting format * Interactive exercises (name exercises, warm-up questions, five-minute springboard exercises, fifteen-minute springboard exercises, in-your-chair springboard exercises, tag-style springboard exercises, springboard exercises for groups both large and small, the rest of the springboard exercises, work-station exercises, evaluation exercises).
Download or read book The Art of Gathering written by Priya Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.
Download or read book Getting Past Your Past written by Francine Shapiro and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible user's guide to overcoming trauma from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide. Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by our memories and by experiences we may not remember or fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical techniques that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to take charge of their lives. Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives, and performers. An easy conversational style, humor, and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and how to achieve real change.
Download or read book Breaking Free A facilitator s guide to participatory action research practice written by Timothy Pyrch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking Free is a practical guide to facilitating self-directing educational processes into participatory action research (PAR) enabling average people to contribute what they can as active participants in research projects. As such, it is designed primarily for these participants rather than the academic researcher in order to introduce participants to authentic contributions they can make as activists in knowledge-making processes. At the same time, Breaking Free guides academic researchers towards helpful practices enriching their often times lonely and isolated existence created by a false sense of "objectivity." A hands-on practical yet disciplined approach to facilitating PAR prepares readers to craft their own individual Guide as they prepare for the PAR life. This opens up the world of knowledge-making to people long silenced by forces intent on controlling knowledge for the educated elite. Breaking Free invites people to contribute as they can and be recognized for this contribution.
Download or read book Facilitator s Manual for the Class of Nonviolence written by Susan Ives and published by peaceCENTER. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voice Dialogue Facilitator s Handbook Part 1 written by Miriam Dyak and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook written for learning Voice Dialogue facilitation, a method for working with consciousness created by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, authors of "Embracing Our Selves," "Embracing Each Other," "Embracing Your Inner Critic," and "The Shadow King." This Handbook is designed to make Voice Dialogue facilitation easy and rewarding. Every part of a Voice Dialogue session is described in detail with lots of sample facilitations that explore the energetic dynamics between a facilitator and his/her client.
Download or read book The Effective Facilitator s Handbook written by Cathy A. Toll and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate. Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. The Effective Facilitator's Handbook is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about how to create a welcoming environment, set the right tone, understand the group's dynamics, improve communication, and more. This book walks you through the unique purposes, pitfalls, and needs of specific types of groups, whether it's a professional development workshop, a committee focused on one decision or problem, a team that regularly collaborates for student success, or a study group learning about a specific issue. But Toll also considers the bigger picture and connects the patterns behind different types of facilitation skills that will serve you in a variety of situations and settings. As an effective facilitator, you'll be able to increase the value of group time, foster engagement, and help teachers improve their practice so that they can bring their best to the classroom each day.
Download or read book The Solution Path written by Tasos Sioukas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem solving is one of the most valuable skills for managers, supervisors, and executives. In The Solution Path, Tasos Sioukas combines practical techniques and tools with spirituality, life skills, and an emphasis on relationships and teams. He presents proven methods that enable readers to take action and create solutions. Unlike other books on the subject that leave readers thirsty for inspiration, Sioukas inspires readers to capitalize on positive thinking and their own creative abilities. He assists readers to understand themselves and others so that they can build effective problem-solving teams and enables them to use facilitation, a set of techniques that help team members maximize their time together. The Solution Path supports readers in taking action on a specific challenge. It provides a step-by-step path to solutions, which begins by visualizing ideal outcomes and using creativity exercises to generate as many ideas as possible, continues with synthesizing the ideas into the best workable solution, and ends with designing an action plan to make the solution a reality. The Solution Path maximizes the collective genius of teams while achieving buy-in and commitment for lasting organizational change.
Download or read book Beyond Anger Facilitator s Guide Item 1217 written by and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fearless Facilitation written by Cyndi Maxey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two facilitation gurus, this book shows how to make any learning environment come alive. It outlines proven guidelines any trainer can use to unify groups, inspire creativity, and get audiences, teams, and colleagues to speak up, talk back, participate, and engage in meetings.
Download or read book From the Inside Out Facilitator s Guide Item 1212 written by and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Qualitative Research Evaluation Methods written by Michael Quinn Patton and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 1689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, author Michael Quinn Patton has crafted the most comprehensive and systematic book on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today. Now offering more balance between applied research and evaluation, this Fourth Edition illuminates all aspects of qualitative inquiry through new examples, stories, and cartoons; more than a hundred new summarizing and synthesizing exhibits; and a wide range of new highlight sections/sidebars that elaborate on important and emergent issues. For the first time, full case studies are included to illustrate extended research and evaluation examples. In addition, each chapter features an extended "rumination," written in a voice and style more emphatic and engaging than traditional textbook style, about a core issue of persistent debate and controversy.
Download or read book The Skilled Facilitator written by Roger M. Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was published in 1994, Roger Schwarz's The SkilledFacilitator earned widespread critical acclaim and became alandmark in the field. The book is a classic work for consultants,facilitators, managers, leaders, trainers, and coaches--anyonewhose role is to facilitate and guide groups toward realizing theircreative and problem-solving potential. This thoroughly revisededition provides the essential materials for anyone that workswithin the field of facilitation and includes simple but effectiveground rules for group interaction. Filled with illustrativeexamples, the book contains proven techniques for starting meetingson the right foot and ending them positively and decisively. Thisimportant resource also offers practical methods for handlingemotions when they arise in a group and offers a diagnosticapproach for identifying and solving problems that can underminethe group process.
Download or read book Getting Over Ourselves written by Christina Congleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move beyond empty "life hacks" to connect with your deepest humanity In Getting Over Ourselves: Moving Beyond a Culture of Burnout, Loneliness, and Narcissism, human development specialist and leadership coach Christina Congleton delivers an insightful and urgently needed discussion of how people can break out of the tired cliches of the self-help genre, and move toward new levels of connection, engagement, and capacity in navigating an uncertain world. In the book, you'll explore how modern attitudes of individualism that were once freeing now converge with environmental destruction, inequality, and an alarming uptick in depression, substance abuse, and suicide to significantly damage the potential of people everywhere. You'll also find concrete strategies—rooted in developmental psychology—that show us new ways to approach these challenging times. Getting Over Ourselves offers: Insights into why “life hacks,” productivity seminars, and more "adulting" are not the solutions to the issues faced by people today Frameworks that reject the idea that there is a separate, solitary self in need of constant improvement, and connect you with your deepest humanity Effective techniques for fending off burnout and ways to move beyond the unsatisfactory status quo An essential and timely work, Getting Over Ourselves is the antidote to the skin-deep, ineffective "self-help" material that you've been looking for.
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