Books in My Library
Facilitation and Public Engagement
- The Art of the Focused Conversation. Brian Stanfield
- The Art of the Focused Conversation for Schools. Brian Stanfield
- 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus. Bruce Williams
- The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action. Brian Stanfield
- Making Questions Work: A guide to what and how to ask for facilitators, consultants, managers, coaches and educators. Dorothy Strachan
- The Circle Gathering Guide. Nuccia Morelli
- Make Light Work in Groups, 10 Tools to Transform Meetings, Companies and Communities. Kate Sutherland
- Process Design: Making it Work. Dorothy Strachan
- The Skilled Facilitator and Fieldbook. Roger Schwarz
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
- Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision Making. Sam Kaner
- Facilitating with Ease. Ingrid Bens
- On Dialogue, David Bohm
- The World Café: Shaping our Future through Conversations that Matter. Juanita Brown with David Isaacs
- The Facilitative Way: Leadership that Makes a Difference. Priscilla Wilson
- Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking Listening and Creating New Realities. Adam Kahane
- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A powerful guide to positive change. Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten- Bloom
- Creating a Culture of Collaboration. International Association of Facilitators
- The Wisdom of Teams. Jon Katzenback and Douglas Smith
- Standing in the Fire: Leading high heat meetings with clarity, calm and courage. Larry Dressler
- Speak Out: The Step by Step Guide to Speak Outs and Community Workshops. Wendy Sarkissian
- Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Public Engagement with Sustainability. Wendy Sarkissian
- Sitting in the Fire: Large group transformation using conflict and diversity. Arnold Mindell
- Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs Them. Shakil Choudhury
- Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict. Roger Fisher
- Getting To Yes and Getting Together. Roger Fisher
- The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. Jonathan Haidt
Delve Deeper to Understand People and Organizations
- Managing Transitions: Making the most of change. William Bridges
- How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
- Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure. Robert Fritz
- The Magic of Conflict. Thomas Crum
- The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. Peter Senge
- Leadership and the New Science. Margaret Wheatley
- Leadership is an Art. Max DePree
- Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. Margaret Wheatley
- The Art of Possibility. Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
- Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society. Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
- Dialogic Organizational Development. Gervais Bushe and Robert Marshak
- Immunity to Change: How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
- Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in a knowledge economy. Amy Edmondson
- Mistakes were made but not by me: Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions and hurtful acts. Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Building Community
- Community Conversations: Mobilizing the ideas, skills and passion of community. Paul Born
- The Impossible Will Take a Little While, A citizens guide to hope in a time of fear. Paul Rogat Loeb
- Community: The structure of belonging. Peter Block