The Art of Facilitation by Dr Dale Hunter Published by Random House NZ, April 2007 The Art of Facilitation (Fully Revised) NZ$37.00, US$29.50, €19.50, AU$33. Will post anywhere in the world. To go to the order form click here.

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About the Book

This fully revised and updated edition of The Art of Facilitation has been written by Dale Hunter, with contributions from Stephen Thorpe, Hamish Brown and Anne Bailey. This is a user-friendly book for aspiring and experienced facilitators, team leaders, managers, coaches and others who are called on to facilitate groups and want a thorough understanding of the field of facilitation. It incorporates new models and research and is well referenced to other key texts in the field. Yet it retains the freshness and clarity that have made the original book so relevant and loved.

The first three chapters of Part 1 are new and describe the development of group facilitation as a profession, the role of the facilitator and a conceptual framework for facilitation. The following chapters in Part 1, addressing key elements of facilitation, have all been revised. Of Part 2, all but the first chapter are completely new. The six new chapters explore facilitation in organisations, facilitation and ethics, sustainability, therapeutic group work, and online facilitation using the medium of the Internet and computing technology. Chapter 7, 'Mapping the field of facilitation', covers some of the wide variety of approaches and methods that have now emerged in the field of facilitation.

Part 3 offers a training programme that can be used by a group of aspiring facilitators as a peer learning framework. A variety of processes and some useful design frameworks add to this section. The chapter notes and bibliography provide a thorough list of references that many readers will find useful. The interviews that formed part of the original book have not been included in this new edition.

The first edition of The Art of Facilitation, published in 1994, was a leader in the field of facilitation writing, a consistently favoured facilitation text, and a long term top-10 bestseller on Amazon in the categories of facilitation and facilitation of groups.

The book will be released by Random House New Zealand on 6 April 2007.
ISBN: 978 1 86941 817 5

Reviewer Comments

Having used the original version of the book for a number of years, I found this latest version to be a practical and relevant resource for both new and 'veteran' facilitators alike. Packed full of useful information, research and thinking, an invaluable resource to add to any facilitator's toolbox. It certainly made me pause, breathe and re-think about some of my own facilitation practice; I would recommend this book to anyone in the field of professional facilitation.

- Gary Austin, Senior Consultant Facilitator, Circle Indigo, UK

Reading and using this completely updated edition of The Art of Facilitation is, for me, an experience of pure joy, meaning and hope... It is grounded in clear values and ethics, and a philosophy of co-operacy and caring; and its practical wisdom and tips for effectiveness are profoundly informed by lifetimes of working at the cutting edge of facilitation and change..All who work in the challenging and exciting borderlands of transformation and progressive change will certainly benefit from reading and using this 'best book on the topic by far'.

- Professor Stuart B. Hill, Foundation Chair of Social Ecology, School of Education, University of Western Sydney

Professional facilitation has one of its most prolific, holistic and integral proponents in Dr. Dale hunter. This latest version of her popular must-read introduction to facilitation is filled with new examples, new models and new techniques from this rapidly growing profession that will be useful to students and professionals alike.

Dales long trajectory in professional facilitation, ranging from her landmark work with the Zenergy Group in New Zealand to the Global Vice-Presidency of the International Association of Facilitators, gives her an unique perspective that transends ethnic and geographic boundaries... I whole-heartedly and unconditionally recommend this book as I have to hundreds of my facilitation students throught Latin America...

- Dr. Gilbert Brenson-Lazán, Presidente Ejecutivo, Amauta International LLC, Bogotá, Colombia

This comprehensive and richly detailed account of group interactions and processes asks and answers all the right questions. The author translates her knowledge and experience into a clear and practical distillation of the power and effectiveness of good facilitation.

- Catherine Lane West-Newman, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Book Reviews

Click here to download a review of the The Art of Facilitation by Glyn Thomas in the Dec 2007 issue of the International Association of Facilitators Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal (90 kb pdf).

Click here to download a review of the The Art of Facilitation by Ruth Le Pla in the May issue of New Zealand Management Magazine (121 kb pdf).

Click here for a review by Mary Simpson from the the Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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ISBN: 978 1 86941 817 5

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