Facilitation:
A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflecting
Author: James Cain, Michelle Cummings, and Jennifer Stanchfield
Description: If you need to know “what comes after the teambuilding activity?” this book is for you! Within the pages of this book you’ll find a variety of techniques for processing, debriefing, reviewing and reflecting with groups, plus valuable information about sequencing, planning and presenting activities that will leave a lasting impression with your groups, long after your educational trainings have ended.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Author: James Cain, Michelle Cummings, and Jennifer Stanchfield
Description: If you need to know “what comes after the teambuilding activity?” this book is for you! Within the pages of this book you’ll find a variety of techniques for processing, debriefing, reviewing and reflecting with groups, plus valuable information about sequencing, planning and presenting activities that will leave a lasting impression with your groups, long after your educational trainings have ended.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Essential Elements of Facilitation
Author: Simon Priest, Michael A. Gass, and Lee Gillis
Description: Most organizations find that implementing change can be very difficult. Only 10% of learning from training and development experiences is actually applied in the workplace. This book is intended to help enhance those odds by improving employee participation in the process of managing tasks and relationships, thereby increasing the overall success of the corporation. The Essential Elements of Facilitation is a book for anyone who wants to help organizations make constructive changes.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Author: Simon Priest, Michael A. Gass, and Lee Gillis
Description: Most organizations find that implementing change can be very difficult. Only 10% of learning from training and development experiences is actually applied in the workplace. This book is intended to help enhance those odds by improving employee participation in the process of managing tasks and relationships, thereby increasing the overall success of the corporation. The Essential Elements of Facilitation is a book for anyone who wants to help organizations make constructive changes.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Quantum Teaching
Author: Bobbi DePorter, Mark Reardon, Sarah Singer-Norrie
Description: This book was written for traditional teachers and has been developed from a great camp program (Super Camp) The book contains lots of information about facilitation basics and presentation and public speaking skills. It is required reading for the Experiential Learning (PRM 352) class at NAU.
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
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Author: Bobbi DePorter, Mark Reardon, Sarah Singer-Norrie
Description: This book was written for traditional teachers and has been developed from a great camp program (Super Camp) The book contains lots of information about facilitation basics and presentation and public speaking skills. It is required reading for the Experiential Learning (PRM 352) class at NAU.
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
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Tips & Tools: Group Facilitation Techniques for Everyone
Author: Jennifer Stanchfield, MS, CTRS
Description: Tips and Tools explores the facilitator role in experiential groups of all kinds and offers tools and activities to enhance group sessions. The author reflects on aspects of effective facilitating, including personal facilitating style and a firm understanding of group backgrounds. Strategies offered intend to increase participant involvement and growth through efficient sequencing and reflection. Tips and Tools serves as a guide, an inspiration, and a tool to group facilitators who constantly seek new materials to help spark creativity, provide new insight, and encourage success.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Author: Jennifer Stanchfield, MS, CTRS
Description: Tips and Tools explores the facilitator role in experiential groups of all kinds and offers tools and activities to enhance group sessions. The author reflects on aspects of effective facilitating, including personal facilitating style and a firm understanding of group backgrounds. Strategies offered intend to increase participant involvement and growth through efficient sequencing and reflection. Tips and Tools serves as a guide, an inspiration, and a tool to group facilitators who constantly seek new materials to help spark creativity, provide new insight, and encourage success.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Tips And Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation
Author: Jennifer Stanchfield
Description: Tips and Tools explores the facilitator role in experiential groups of all kinds and offers tools and activities to enhance group sessions. The author reflects on aspects of effective facilitating, including personal facilitating style and a firm understanding of group backgrounds. Strategies offered intend to increase participant involvement and growth through efficient sequencing and reflection. Tips and Tools serves as a guide, an inspiration, and a tool to group facilitators who constantly seek new materials to help spark creativity, provide new insight, and encourage success.
Publisher: Woods N Barnes
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Author: Jennifer Stanchfield
Description: Tips and Tools explores the facilitator role in experiential groups of all kinds and offers tools and activities to enhance group sessions. The author reflects on aspects of effective facilitating, including personal facilitating style and a firm understanding of group backgrounds. Strategies offered intend to increase participant involvement and growth through efficient sequencing and reflection. Tips and Tools serves as a guide, an inspiration, and a tool to group facilitators who constantly seek new materials to help spark creativity, provide new insight, and encourage success.
Publisher: Woods N Barnes
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Activities:
A Small Book about Large Group Games
Author: Karl Rohnke
Description: Games and Activities geared toward larger groups.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Author: Karl Rohnke
Description: Games and Activities geared toward larger groups.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Affordable Portables
Author: Chris Cavert
Description: Affordable Portables is an essential tool for counselors, educators, trainers, and others interested in beginning or boosting an experiential challenge program at minimal cost. Activity descriptions include instructions on course and activity construction, tips on group facilitating, and suggested discussion questions for processing. Games/demonstration focus on enhancing inventiveness, resourcefulness, problem-solving techniques, and pro-social skills.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes Publishing & Distribution
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Author: Chris Cavert
Description: Affordable Portables is an essential tool for counselors, educators, trainers, and others interested in beginning or boosting an experiential challenge program at minimal cost. Activity descriptions include instructions on course and activity construction, tips on group facilitating, and suggested discussion questions for processing. Games/demonstration focus on enhancing inventiveness, resourcefulness, problem-solving techniques, and pro-social skills.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes Publishing & Distribution
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Games (& other stuff) for Group, Book 1: Revised & Expanded Activities to Initiate Group Discussion
Author: Chris Cavert MS & Friends
Description: hirty-seven different 10- to 20-minute activities focus on topics that crucially affect experiences throughout life, including understanding gender issues, rumors, adn their effects, creativity, communication, and expression of emotions and frustrations. This practical guide to experience and activity-based counseling is easily implemented for ages 12 to adult, and adaptable for younger audiences as well. Activities include "What Would it Be Like...?" and "Are You More Like...?" questions, Teaching Tales, Minute Mysteries, and assorted games.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Author: Chris Cavert MS & Friends
Description: hirty-seven different 10- to 20-minute activities focus on topics that crucially affect experiences throughout life, including understanding gender issues, rumors, adn their effects, creativity, communication, and expression of emotions and frustrations. This practical guide to experience and activity-based counseling is easily implemented for ages 12 to adult, and adaptable for younger audiences as well. Activities include "What Would it Be Like...?" and "Are You More Like...?" questions, Teaching Tales, Minute Mysteries, and assorted games.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Experiential Education:
Adventure Education: Theory and Applications
Author: Prouty, Panicucci and Collinson
Description: Adventure Education: Theory and Applications allows students to * get a broad view of adventure education and programming; * explore the role of games, low- and high-element courses, and outdoor pursuits in adventure education; * use key concepts, student activities, and Web-based research to enhance the learning process; * employ real-world examples to explore strategies for adventure education in a variety of settings; and * learn core skills for effective facilitation and leadership preparation in adventure programming.
Publisher: Collinson
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Author: Prouty, Panicucci and Collinson
Description: Adventure Education: Theory and Applications allows students to * get a broad view of adventure education and programming; * explore the role of games, low- and high-element courses, and outdoor pursuits in adventure education; * use key concepts, student activities, and Web-based research to enhance the learning process; * employ real-world examples to explore strategies for adventure education in a variety of settings; and * learn core skills for effective facilitation and leadership preparation in adventure programming.
Publisher: Collinson
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Changing the Message: A Handbook for Experiential Prevention
Author: Jeff Albin
Description: Fun, entertaining activities that demonstrate the importance of a safe and healthy lifestyle—from communication and trust in relationships to healthy methods of coping with conflict and hardship—build a prevention curriculum that excites participants to engage themselves in the process of learning about and living a disease-free lifestyle. Changing the Message favors prevention, offers healing processes, and directs youth toward strong life choices.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Author: Jeff Albin
Description: Fun, entertaining activities that demonstrate the importance of a safe and healthy lifestyle—from communication and trust in relationships to healthy methods of coping with conflict and hardship—build a prevention curriculum that excites participants to engage themselves in the process of learning about and living a disease-free lifestyle. Changing the Message favors prevention, offers healing processes, and directs youth toward strong life choices.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes
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Open To Outcome: A Practical Guide For Facilitating & Teaching Experiential Reflection
Author: Jacobson and Mari Ruddy
Description: Open to Outcome presents a learning cycle model built around five questions designed to take experience in a group setting and to connect and apply experiential learning to real life. The 5 Question Model effortlessly applies to groups of varying ages and skill levels and can easily be used to encourage leadership and mentoring roles among peers.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (October 30, 2004)
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Author: Jacobson and Mari Ruddy
Description: Open to Outcome presents a learning cycle model built around five questions designed to take experience in a group setting and to connect and apply experiential learning to real life. The 5 Question Model effortlessly applies to groups of varying ages and skill levels and can easily be used to encourage leadership and mentoring roles among peers.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (October 30, 2004)
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The Processing Pinnacle
Author: Steven Simpson , Dan Miller , Buzz Bocher
Description: Experiential education focuses mainly on the idea that there are two components to experience: the action and reflection. The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove these roadblocks.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (July 30, 2006)
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Author: Steven Simpson , Dan Miller , Buzz Bocher
Description: Experiential education focuses mainly on the idea that there are two components to experience: the action and reflection. The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove these roadblocks.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (July 30, 2006)
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Team Building General:
The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
Author: M. Scott Peck
Description: In his newest book psychiatrist Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled ( LJ 9/15/78), explores the nature of community, which can be recognized, he suggests, by the vulnerability, honesty, and theological cultural inclusiveness of its participants. Born of a yearning for world peace, this draws exciting analogies between the ways communities emerge and the dynamics of individual spiritual development. A moving work that achieves a rich integration of social/psychological insights and a contemplative stance. EC Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Publisher: Touchstone (January 2, 1998)
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Author: M. Scott Peck
Description: In his newest book psychiatrist Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled ( LJ 9/15/78), explores the nature of community, which can be recognized, he suggests, by the vulnerability, honesty, and theological cultural inclusiveness of its participants. Born of a yearning for world peace, this draws exciting analogies between the ways communities emerge and the dynamics of individual spiritual development. A moving work that achieves a rich integration of social/psychological insights and a contemplative stance. EC Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Publisher: Touchstone (January 2, 1998)
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Leadership:
The Leader Who is Hardly Known
Author: Steven Simpson
Description: Taoist philosophy and text can have deep meaning for experiential educators because of its focus on natural spontaneity and unself-conscious learning and teaching. The Leader Who is Hardly Known compiles a series of essays that begin with a brief story focusing on the experiences and lessons of a teacher called the Leader Who is Hardly Known. Following the story, the essay shares Taoist quotes and the author s thought that relate back to the story.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (September 22, 2003)
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Author: Steven Simpson
Description: Taoist philosophy and text can have deep meaning for experiential educators because of its focus on natural spontaneity and unself-conscious learning and teaching. The Leader Who is Hardly Known compiles a series of essays that begin with a brief story focusing on the experiences and lessons of a teacher called the Leader Who is Hardly Known. Following the story, the essay shares Taoist quotes and the author s thought that relate back to the story.
Publisher: Wood N Barnes (September 22, 2003)
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The Tao of Leadership
Author: John Heider
Description: The principles within this program are for anyone who aspires to leadership, whether in business, politics, government, school, church or family. Through a combination of excerpts from the Tao Te Ching, juxtaposed with contemporary examples that illuminate the quotations, The Tao of Leadership instructs listeners in the art of governing through the skillful management of human resources.
Publisher: Bantam (April 1, 1986)
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Author: John Heider
Description: The principles within this program are for anyone who aspires to leadership, whether in business, politics, government, school, church or family. Through a combination of excerpts from the Tao Te Ching, juxtaposed with contemporary examples that illuminate the quotations, The Tao of Leadership instructs listeners in the art of governing through the skillful management of human resources.
Publisher: Bantam (April 1, 1986)
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Public Speaking:
Conflict Resolution:
Miscellaneous:
Rational Behavior Therapy
Author: Maxie C., Jr. Maultsby
Description: Rational Behavior Therapy describes the only comprehensive, short-term, cognitive-behavioral method of psychotherapy and counseling that produces long-term results. How? In two important ways: 1) It lets the professional and the C/P (client or patient) quickly discover and therapeutically deal directly with the C/Ps' unsuspected, yet problem creating mental, emotional and physical behaviors. 2) It describes research proven, therapeutic emotional self-help concepts and techniques that enable C/Ps progress in therapy or counseling at their own pace, which almost always is as fast as possible.
Publisher: Seaton Foundation (September 1990)
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Author: Maxie C., Jr. Maultsby
Description: Rational Behavior Therapy describes the only comprehensive, short-term, cognitive-behavioral method of psychotherapy and counseling that produces long-term results. How? In two important ways: 1) It lets the professional and the C/P (client or patient) quickly discover and therapeutically deal directly with the C/Ps' unsuspected, yet problem creating mental, emotional and physical behaviors. 2) It describes research proven, therapeutic emotional self-help concepts and techniques that enable C/Ps progress in therapy or counseling at their own pace, which almost always is as fast as possible.
Publisher: Seaton Foundation (September 1990)
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