We are developing a series of seven Facilitation manuals. The first, Principles of Facilitation, includes 40 basic principles, organized around the four flows of activity that a facilitator needs to manage any group process:

• The flow of attention and intention
• The flow of energy and motivation
• The flow of information and communication
• The flow of operations and decisions

Best Practices for Facilitation, the second in The Grove’s Facilitation Guide Series, is a user-friendly manual of 176 field-tested group practices keyed to the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model. It should prove invaluable to facilitators, managers, team leaders and consultants looking for facilitation alternatives including virtual team work, graphic templates, agenda design and group decision making.

Graphic Facilitation, the third book in The Grove's Facilitation Series, David Sibbet summarizes his 30 years of experience as a Graphic Facilitator. He presents a comprehensive guide to using interactive visual displays and mapping as an integral tool for guiding group process.

[Keep checking back for availability of the other 4 books in this facilitation series.]

Other meeting facilitation books include:

Meeting Magic Graphic facilitators Katherine Woods and Ingrid Uden have trained hundreds of business managers and facilitated thousands of meetings for large organisations across Europe. With the emphasis on practical and proven methods, Meeting Magic is an invaluable guide for anyone who leads meetings. Each chapter is based around a common problem faced in meetings, providing easy-to-follow tools and techniques from preventing the problems arising or dealing with them when they do.

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making This new guide shows how to build full participation, promote mutual understanding and help groups reach inclusive, sustainable agreements. The book presents more than 200 valuable tools and skills, and places them in the context of a lucid, realistic model of the dynamics of group decision-making.

Facilitating Community Change This practical guide can be used by community members and leaders to implement new community initiatives. It also can be used in a number of ways to enhance existing change efforts. It offers a highly flexible approach to harnessing the values, assets and aspirations of a community.

The Grove had a series of manuals that support the development of graphic facilitation skills:

Fundamentals of Graphic Language David Sibbet has designed graduated exercises starting with simple strokes and building through lettering and "seed" shapes to collections of pictographs. Shows stroke order for all graphics and reinforces the approach used in the Fundamentals of Group Graphics Workshop to unlock natural graphic abilities.

I See What You Mean This visual guide orients users to the fundamentals of using graphic language with groups. Written by David Sibbet in 1980, this book contains orientation material, tips for getting started, basics of graphic language, the Group Graphics Keyboard of display formats, meeting planning frameworks, case studies and tips for documentation and expansion into other media.

Pocket Pics Over 100 hand-drawn icons for some of the most difficult-to-draw concepts you will run across in business. A quick-reference guide for pictures of complex ideas as well as a way of expanding your drawing capabilities.

Visual Thinking Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can't draw and move into the dynamic world of visual thinking. The authors have compiled a "symbolary" of easy-to-draw iconographs that can be used to enrich your next facilitation gig. Originally created for the classroom, you will find over 400 icons for many everyday concepts as well as numerous "Mindscape Templates."