The Complete Facilitator's Handbook

John Heron was Founder and Director of the Human Potential Research Project from 1970 to 1977, and Assistant Director to the British Postgraduate Medical Federation from 1977 to 1985, out of which the British Holistic Medical Association was formed. He was Director of the International Centre for Co-operative Inquiry, Volterra, from 1990 to 2000, and is co-director of the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, Auckland, New Zealand. John Heron was a group facilitator and trainer in the fields of co-counselling; co-operative inquiry and new paradigm research; educational and staff development; group facilitation and interactive skills; management development; personal and transpersonal development; professional development in medicine, psychotherapy and the helping professions, as well as a research and author

Dimensions and modes of facilitation; authority, autonomy and holism; whole person learning; the group dynamic; the planning dimension; the meaning dimension; co-operative inquiry; peer review audit; peer support groups; the confronting dimension; the feeling dimension; charismatic education and training; the structuring dimension; varieties of the experiental learning cycle; the valuing dimension; learning to be a whole person; approaches to social change; the creation of a facilitative style. Appendix: the manager as facilitator.