Books marked with * are especially pertinent to meetings to articulate a local spirit. See AmericanSpirit.osu.edu for example of a summary meeting agenda, a “behind the scenes” worksheet for facilitators that illustrates how detailed preparation can help, and a guide for co-facilitators.
ADAMS, Tammy, Janet A. MEANS, and Michael SPIVEY (2007) The Project Meeting Facilitator: Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
BENS, Ingrid (2017) Facilitating with Ease!: Core Skills for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Members, Managers, Consultants, and Trainers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
*CARPENTER, Susan & W.J.D. KENNEDY (2001) Managing Public Disputes: A Practical Guide for Government, Business and Citizens’ Groups. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
DOYLE, Michael, and David STRAUS (1993) How to Make Meetings Work! New York: Berkley Books.
*GHAIS, Suzanne (2005) Extreme Facilitation: Guiding Groups Through Controversy and Complexity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS (2006) Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Publications.
*HERZOG, Maggie, and Laura CHASIN (2006) Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations Project. Watertown, MA: Public Conversations Project, https://www.whatisessential.org/practitioner/maggie-herzig.
HOFFMAN, Kevin M. (2018) Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone. Brooklyn, NY: Two Waves Books. KANER, Sam (2007) Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-making, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
KAYSER, Thomas A. (1995) Mining Group Gold: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brain Power of a Group (2d ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
KELSEY, Dee, Pam PLUMB, and Beth BRAGANCA (2004) Great Meetings! Great Results. Portland, ME: Great Meetings.
KILLERMAN, Sam, and Meg BOLGER (2016) Unlocking the Magic of Facilitation: 11 Key Concepts You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know. Austin, TX: Impetus Books
MARKMAN, Art (2017) “Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong,” Harv. Bus. Rev., https://hbr. org/2017/05/your-team-is-brainstorming-all-wrong
NELSON, Jo (2003) Facilitation: A Tool for Evoking and Creating Wisdom
PARKER, Glenn M., and Robert HOFFMAN (2006) Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*ROURKE, Brad (2014). Developing Materials for Deliberative Forums. Dayton, OH: The Kettering Foundation. http://kettering.org/ wp-content/uploads/Developing-Materials-guide.pdf
*ROURKE, Brad. (2011). “Framing Issues for Public Deliberation,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahqj-MTcQi8
*SCHUMAN, Sandy ed. (2005) The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
SCHWARZ, Roger (2007) The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Coaches and Trainers (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
SCHWARZ, Roger, Anne DAVIDSON, Peg CARLSON, and Sue MCKINNEY (2005) The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook: Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
*STRAUS, David A. (1999) “Managing Meetings to Build Consensus,” in Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer eds., The Consensus Building Handbook 287. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
TUECKE, Patricia (2005) “The Architecture of Participation,” in Sandy Schulman ed., The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
VICK, Wayne J. (2015) Process-Based Facilitation: Facilitating for Meeting Leaders, Constituents, and Group Facilitators. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse.
WILKINSON, Michael (2004) The Secrets of Facilitation: The S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Getting Results with Groups. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.