[Oe List ...] published on Amazon.com!

[Joyce Bonafield]

             We ordered one -- it looks great!

Joyce & Lewie

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:30 AM W. J. via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Colleagues and friends, I am so pleased to announce that Jim Campbell's
> new book, *Facilitating Authentic Participation*, has just been published
> on Amazon.com!
>
> It's 8.5 x 11 inches, 164 pages, and packed with insights and wisdom from
> a lifetime of teaching and practicing group facilitation skills, including
> the Technology of Participation*©*.
>
> Before his recent retirement Jim taught college courses on how to engage
> in 'The Cycle of Facilitation'. This book captures his core insights from
> his teaching career and his practice of facilitation on four continents.
>
> This is Jim's capstone contribution to the field of professional
> facilitation. It offers the most comprehensive approach to facilitating
> group decision-making, including details of every step of the process of
> preparation, delivery, and followup.
>
> Jim is offering a *not-for-profit* *preview* price of just *$5.00* per
> copy until *May 31*, after which the list price of *$19.95* will take
> effect.
>
> *Click on this link to Amazon.com
> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541220854/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Facilitating+Authentic&qid=1557641046&s=gateway&sr=8-4> now* to
> take advantage of this special offer!
>
> Please order your copy before the discount expires and post your *review* on
> Amazon.com. This price is available to Jim's colleagues, students, and
> friends who appreciate the value of his contribution to the field of
> facilitation.
>
> And if we get more than *fifty reviews* on Amazon.com, they will pay more
> attention to Jim's book!
>
> It's a *must-have* for all who aspire to sharpen, broaden, and deepen
> their facilitation skills and increase the value of their engagement with
> clients!
>
> Plus *all* who want to be more effective in *managing conflicts in groups* will
> want to use Jim's *non-confrontational* methods of *releasing group
> creativity* and *creating consensus*.
>
>
> *A comprehensive and invaluable resource, highly recommended!*
>
>
> —*Martin Gilbraith*
>
> *It is really about what it means to fully love the whole journey of *
> *enabling the creativity that is released in the short time of actually *
> *being ‘on stage’. *
>                                                       *—**Jack Gilles*
>
> *A comprehensive context for facilitation**, plus great practical tools *
> *for every stage of the facilitator’s work, grounded with stories of *
> *experience at every stage. Anyone planning to become certified **as *
> *a facilitator—or just to become a highly competent facilitator—**will *
> *benefit from Jim’s experience.        *                              *—Jo
> Nelson*
>
>
> Scroll down to read more about *Facilitating Authentic Participation*.
>
> --Wayne Marshall Jones, editor
>
> [image: Inline image]
>
> About Facilitating Authentic Participation
>
>
> *All too often, asking any group to work together without effective *
> *facilitation **is a shortcut to disaster. *            *—James M.
> Campbell*
>
>
> In this revealing step-by-step guide, master group process facilitator
> James M. Campbell takes you behind the scenes of the usually hidden
> planning and diagnostic process leading up to the “magic” of guiding a
> group process that allows the group’s deepest wisdom to be shared in a
> feasible action plan that everyone is motivated to accomplish.
>
> What may look simple, effortless, and easy to accomplish is the
> culmination of an intensive series of consultative stages of preparation
> requiring the listening, analytical, and collaborative skills of a master
> facilitator.
>
> This is the text that shares the process that the author taught in
> university-level courses in Europe after a lifetime of innovative process
> work with groups on four continents.
>
> Jim has written elsewhere:
>
> *...people know that participating in creating their destiny is an
> essential *
> *part of their humanity... The process whereby people are enabled to
> experience *
> *this combination of the freeing of their humanity and the ownership
> which *
> *generates commitment and motivation is truly transformative. *
> *By the force of **their own experience people realise that they can
> participate in *
> *creating their **future and the future of their organisation or
> community. *
> *Thus people experience themselves as responsible for their destiny, and
> so *
> *resignation and despair are transformed into hope and belief-in-self. *
> *People’s anger and frustration at their disenfranchisement is
> transformed *
> *into energy invested in creating their destiny.*
>
> This conviction—that authentic participation is transformative—has been
> the foundation of Jim’s work as a facilitator.
>
> Praise for Facilitating Authentic Participation
> *Not just driving the process or holding the space, responsible
> facilitation requires skillful care and attention to the whole of the
> facilitation cycle. In this book Jim Campbell, a pioneer of our profession,
> draws on fifty years of diverse experience in the field to share practical
> examples and models, tools and tips to empower you, your clients and your
> groups—not least, as you navigate the too-often-overlooked early phases of
> the facilitator's role, before the process is designed or the space is
> opened. A comprehensive and invaluable resource, highly recommended!*
>
> —Martin Gilbraith, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator; former Chair
> of the International Association of Facilitators; former President of the
> Institute of Cultural Affairs International.
>
> *Just as the students in All Hallows College found Jim Campbell’s
> facilitation courses to be life- and career-enhancing, so too will the
> readers of this manual find much food for thought as they prepare to
> facilitate groups. In this new, so-called ‘post-truth’ age the facilitator
> who appreciates the need for responsible and ethical facilitation will find
> this manual extremely useful.*
>
> —Margarita Synnott MTh, facilitator in adult education (retired), All
> Hallows College, Dublin.
>
> *This is a book about being a disciplined facilitator. It is step by step
> guide to embracing the task of caring; for a client, the task, the process,
> the group, and oneself. It is really about what it means to fully love the
> whole journey of enabling the creativity that is released in the short time
> of actually being ‘on stage’. It is a serious advanced book for those who
> are learning the art of facilitation. Jim has taken his years of diverse
> experiences and distilled it into the essence of facilitation Mastery.*
>
> —Jack Gilles has been doing Strategic Planning and Leadership Development
> for over 35 years, 22 of which were in India. He has also done work in
> the USA, Canada, Mexico, Zambia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Indonesia. Most of
> his work has been with the Private Sector. He resides in Mexico.
>
> *A comprehensive context for facilitation**, plus great practical tools
> for every stage of the facilitator’s work, grounded with stories of
> experience at every stage. Anyone planning to become certified as a
> facilitator—or just to become a highly competent facilitator—will benefit
> from Jim’s experience.*
>
> —Jo Nelson, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator; ICA Certified ToP
> Facilitator; founding member of the International Association of
> Facilitators (IAF); ICA Associates, Inc., Toronto.
>
> *Learning the facilitation cycle and its corresponding processes has given
> me a set of transferable skills that I will carry through my personal and
> professional life.*
>
> —Elizabeth McBride MSc, Personal and Leadership Coach and Facilitator,
> Dublin.
>
> From the Author
>
> There are many people and groups who have made it possible for me to do
> what I have done as a facilitator. I learned the basics of facilitation
> working with my colleagues in The Ecumenical Institute (EI) and the
> Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Every group I ever worked with taught
> me more about being a facilitator, always challenging me and keeping me
> searching for how I could do better with the next group. The hundreds of
> people who trusted me in training sessions asked probing questions and
> pushed me to understand more deeply and more clearly the task of being a
> facilitator. Strangers on trains and airplanes asked me what I did and
> then: What does a facilitator do? While checking my passport, a U.S.A.
> Immigration officer asked me what I did, and when I told him I was a Group
> Process Consultant asked me what that involved, resulting in a ten-minute
> conversation. This book is dedicated to all of them, for they all shaped me
> and enabled me to learn and grow as a facilitator.
>
> About the Author
>
>    -
>
>    As one of the pioneers who helped define and develop the professional
>    field of process facilitation, James M. Campbell has practiced and taught
>    facilitation skills at the university level since 2004. He has designed and
>    facilitated group process work in North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin
>    America for local community groups, international corporations, United
>    Nations agencies, and in the NGO sector, including groups such as CARE
>    International in the Balkans. He was a planning consultant with the
>    administration of ICTY (the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal
>    for the Former Yugoslavia).
>    -
>
>    Jim’s undergraduate teaching and his writing of this book based on his
>    university courses is the capstone of a lifetime of work in the
>    developing field of facilitation across four continents around the world.
>    -
>
>    Jim extended the International Association of Facilitators’ outreach
>    in Europe and Middle East region starting in 1996. He has served on the
>    IAF’s Global Board and was the European Regional Representative during the
>    four years when the IAF’s European membership grew from around seventy-five
>    to almost five hundred. He has contributed to IAF’s publications.
>    -
>
>    As a staff member of The Ecumenical Institute and the Institute of
>    Cultural Affairs, Jim was instrumental in facilitating EI/ICA’s work
>    with local community leadership in comprehensive socioeconomic
>    reformulation, beginning with the Fifth City Human Development Project on
>    Chicago’s West Side and extending the Fifth City Model to work with rural
>    and urban communities in Kenya and Brazil.
>    -
>
>    Jim is a key contributor in developing the Technology of Participation
>    (ToP)®, ICA’s proprietary structured facilitation methods for group
>    work that draws upon more than a half century of experience in facilitating
>    group processes, forging community consensus, developing locally based
>    community organizations, and teaching imaginal education and group process
>    methods in fifty nations around the world.
>    -
>
>    A native of western Pennsylvania, USA, Jim is a graduate of
>    Pennsylvania’s Edinboro University. He joined the staff of The Ecumenical
>    Institute after teaching high school in Iquique, Chile for three years.
>    After his recent retirement as the director of the ICA’s Brussels office,
>    Jim returned to Latin America where he lives with a Columbian family and
>    pursues writing, consulting, training, and teaching. His memoir, A
>    Journey of Beginnings, is forthcoming from Amazon.
>
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