The Complete Facilitator's Handbook

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Comprehensive guide to making a success of facilitation

John Heron, well known for his previous books, The Facilitator's Handbook (1989) andGroup Facilitation (1993), both of which have become standard reading on the subject, now integrates, builds on and updates those works to provide this comprehensive guide to making a success of facilitation. The key to the new book lies in the way in which it helps facilitators to understand and develop a personal style to their work. Analytical in approach and highly structured, it offers strong theoretical content on the fundamental thinking underlying facilitation (which includes exploration of its dimensions and modes, whole person learning, and a comprehensive group dynamic theory) but combines this with a wide repertoire for practical action designed to enable facilitators to build up their skills effectively. John Heron's distinctive merit here is his demonstration of the benefit to be derived when such skills not only suit facilitator's own personality but can also be matched to whatever situation facilitators encounter. This publication makes John Heron's seminal work newly accessible - for it is now available for the first time in paperback - to a new generation of facilitators in both training and education.

John Heron

Founder and Director of the Human Potential Research Project, University of Surrey, 1970 - 1977; Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London, 1977 - 1985, in charge of an innovative programme of personal and professional development for hospital doctors and GPs, out of which the British Holistic Medical Association was formed.

Director, International Centre for Co-operative Inquiry, Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, 1990-2000. Co-director, South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000-present. Group facilitator and trainer in the fields of: co-counselling; co-operative inquiry and new paradigm research; educational and staff development; group facilitation and interactive skills; management development; personal and transpersonal development; professional development in medicine, psychotherapy and the helping professions. Researcher and author.

Group facilitator in UK TV programmes: medical stress (ITV, 1981), racism (BBC2, 1985), AIDS (Channel 4, 1987), Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses (BBC2, 1990), divorce (BBC2, 1991), parents and teenagers (BBC1, 1994).

One of the founders in the UK of each of the following: Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners, Co-counselling International, Institute for the Development of Human Potential, New Paradigm Research Group, Research Council for Complementary Medicine. Books include Feeling and Personhood, Sage, 1992; Co-operative Inquiry, Sage,1996; Sacred Science, PCCS Books,1998; The Complete Facilitator's Handbook, Kogan Page, 1999; Helping the Client, Sage, 2001; Participatory Spirituality, Lulu, 2006. For a complete list of publications see www.human-inquiry.com/jhcvpubl.htm