Facilitation Theory and Practice

Balmforth, K., & Gardner, D. (2006). Con?ict and facilitation between work and family: Realizing the outcomes for organizations. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 35(2), 69-76.

Beaven, T., Hauck, M., Comas-Quinn, A., Lewis, T., & de los Arcos, B. (2014). MOOCs: Striking the right balance between facilitation and self-determination. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 10(1), 31.

• This Guide has several parts. The first part gives the background on the CooperaTiVa project so that you have the bigger picture when viewing the program. In the second part, we discuss facilitation and the skills needed to facilitate an interactive workshop on sensitive issues with a particular focus on the Socratic Method of asking questions. We recommend reading through both these parts before moving on to part three in which we explore the issue of stereotypes.

Facilitation and conflict resolution: Councillor workbook. Local Government Association.

• In practical terms, the document will take around two to three hours to work through. You do not need to complete it all in one session and may prefer to work through the material at your own pace. The key requirement is to think about the issues presented and how the material relates to your local situation, the people you serve and the council you represent.

• The facilitator tool kit is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to tools, methods and techniques for assisting groups with planning and improvement projects and interactive meetings. Its clear, simple
  explanations and directions lead the reader through the selection and application of practical tools that have been tested with university groups.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Butler, A. B. (2005). The impact of job characteristics on work-to-family facilitation: Testing a theory and distinguishing a construct. Journal of occupational health psychology, 10(2), 97-109.

• For many organizations, meetings are a way of life. Clearly, making these meetings as productive as possible goes a long way toward increasing organizationalproductivity. This guidebook provides the basic techniques used by professionals for meeting planning and facilitation, and while facilitation is as much an art as a science, familiarity with these concepts can help even novice facilitators plan and bring about more effective meetings.

• This dossier focuses on the role of and potentialities for mediation and facilitation in peace processes in violent inter-group conflicts in countries such as Sudan, Nepal, Columbia, Mozambique, Angola, DR Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia and Burma to name but a few. It does not focus solely on track one intergovernmental mediation of peace agreements, but rather aims at a wider assessment of “mediations” and “facilitations” in peace processes, focusing on the multi-actor (IGOs, goverments, NGOs, internal and external actors), multi-phase (pre-negotiation, negotiation and implementation) and multi-topic (governance, justice, security, society and economy) dimension of today’s complex processes. The dossier’s focus is broader than pure track one mediation, yet narrower than peacebuilding and conflict resolution in general.

• The guide is organised into three parts:Principles, Methods and Tools.

Phillips, L., & Phillips, M. (1993). Faciliated Work Groups: Theory and Practice. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 44(6), 533-549. doi:10.2307/2584511

• Combat Poverty’s objective for this new version of Developing Facilitation Skills is to support and strengthen the capacity of people working in community-based or anti-poverty contexts to be involved in articulating, creating and contributing to social change in favour of people living in poverty. Facilitation skills are an important tool of empowerment towards this objective and towards giving expression to the voice of the excluded.

Rotondo, D. M., & Kincaid, J. F. (2008). Conflict, facilitation, and individual coping styles across the work and family domains. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23(5), 484-506. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/10.1108/02683940810884504

Roy, B., & Burdick, J. (2015). Struggling in the street and at the table. Negotiation Journal, 31(2), 155-170. doi:10.1111/nejo.12087

Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American psychologist, 55(1), 68.