John Heron, well known for his previous books, The Facilitator's
Handbook (1989) and Group Facilitation (1993), both of which have
become standard reading on the subject, now integrates, builds on and
updates those works to provide this comprehensive guide to making a
success of facilitation. The key to the new book lies in the way in
which it helps facilitators to understand and develop a personal style
to their work. Analytical in approach and highly structured, it offers
strong theoretical content on the fundamental thinking underlying
facilitation (which includes exploration of its dimensions and modes,
whole person learning, and a comprehensive group dynamic theory) but
combines this with a wide repertoire for practical action designed to
enable facilitators to build up their skills effectively. John Heron's
distinctive merit here is his demonstration of the benefit to be derived
when such skills not only suit facilitator's own personality but can
also be matched to whatever situation facilitators encounter. This
publication makes John Heron's seminal work newly accessible - for it is
now available for the first time in paperback - to a new generation of
facilitators in both training and education.
