Facilitation Resources
While our publications below provide some background theory and rationale for exploratory discussion, they mostly focus on and provide more of the practical, “nuts and bolts,” or “how-to” guidance on facilitating, especially, but also planning, organizing, participating in, and following-up on exploratory discussions. All of these publications, except the book “Let’s Talk Politics,” are downloadable in PDF format at no charge.
Note: References to either “Public Discussions” or “Citizen Discussions” are what we now refer to as “Community Conversations.”
Title | Pages /File Size or format |
Facilitation Guidebook for Small Group Citizen Discussions (2nd edition, 2009) a guide for facilitating Public Discussions | 89 pages / 535 KB |
IF Workshop Materials for facilitated small-group discussions (2017): |
2 pages/ 60 KB 1 page/ 22 KB |
Tips for Planning an IF Discussion (for public discussions) | 2 pages/ 201 KB |
Tips for Facilitating an IF Discussion (for public discussions) | 4 pages/ 212 KB |
Facilitation Guidebook (1st edition, 2005) a guide for facilitating Project Discussions | 132 pages / 505 KB |
Support Materials for the IF Discussion Process (1st edition, 2009) a guide for participants in a Project Discussion | 90 pages / 463 KB |
Let’s Talk Politics (Gundersen and Goodney Lea, 2013) | approximately 130 pages; available in printed form from both Amazon and CreateSpace, and now available for download in e-book form as well |
Facilitation Basics – roles, goals, and pacing | 1 page/ 191 KB |
Some Alternative Discussion Strategies | 1 page/ 180 KB |