Follow Up Resources
Facilitation Skills: Creating Powerful and Purposeful Meetings
These resources can be used to support further applications of skills, knowledge, and tools presented at the workshop. Please check our website for more workshops for more learning opportunities. Please respect any fair use and copyright for any of the resources below.
- Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Guide
- What's In Your Facilitator Toolkit?
- Consensus Decisionmaking from Seeds for Change
- Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder Feedback
- Designing the Alliance
- Dabbling in the Data: A Hands-On Guide to Participatory Data Analysis
- Gamestorming: a toolkit for innovators, rulebreakers and changemakers
- Language Justice Toolkit from Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE)
- Social Transformation Project has a robust collection of facilitation resources
- Great list of possible activities from Seeds For Change (see some simple ways to encourage participation on pages 11-12)
- Consensus Decision Making from Students for Cooperation
- Democratic Self-Directed Organizations: Meetings and Decision Making from the Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Liberating Structures (a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices in engaging people)
- Developing Facilitation Skills: A Handbook for Group Facilitators by Patricia Prendiville (from Combat Poverty Agency)
- Decision making/ways to move through consensus by Autumn Brown
Additional Resources
- Land Acknowledgement Map
- Zuri Murphy and Social Impact Research (where we got our North Star analogy)
- AORTA (who we got the definition of facilitator from)
- The Role of Rhythm in Strategy from Norma Wong (Move to End Violence)
Platforms for Facilitating Virtually
Further Reading (books, articles, and videos)
- The Power Manual by Cyndi Suarez
- Confronting Class in the Classroom (from Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and Feminist Theory from Margin to Center) by bell hooks
- The New Rules of Gathering by Priya Parker
- The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the discourse of 'white privilege' by Zues Leonardo
- Targeted Universalism: Policy and Practice by john a. powell, Stephen Menendian, and Wendy Ake
- The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Shaping Worlds by adrienne maree brown
- Advanced Facilitation Strategies: Tools and Techniques to Master Difficult Situations by Ingrid Bens
- Facilitating With Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers by Ingrid Bens
- The Facilitator Excellence Handbook by Fran Rees
- Exploring Influence Without Authority (from CompassPoint's blog) by Kad Smith
- How to Recognize Your White Privilege and Use it to Fight Inequality by Peggy McIntosh
- The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
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