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