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The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
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Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process.
Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques:
- Offer new ways to engage people and energize groups
- Get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making
- Encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives
- Increase collaboration and build cohesive teams
- Keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issues
Derived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
User Guide
Acknowledgments
The Authors
Introduction
ch. 1 Circle of Voices
ch. 2 Chalk Talk
ch. 3 Circular Response
ch. 4 Newsprint Dialogue
ch. 5 Today’sMeet
ch. 6 Giving Appreciation: The Appreciative Pause–Sticky Note Plaudit
ch. 7 Rotating Stations
ch. 8 Snowballing
ch. 9 Conversational Moves
ch. 10 Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)
ch. 11 Strategic Questioning
ch. 12 Open-ended Questions
ch. 13 Nominating Questions
ch. 14 If You Could Only Ask One Question
ch. 15 On-the-Spot Questions and Topics
ch. 16 What Do You Think?
ch. 17 Clearness Committee
ch. 18 Team Modeling
ch. 19 Question Brainstorm
ch. 20 Narrative Listening and Questioning
ch. 21 Participation Rubric
ch. 22 Critical Conversation Protocol
ch. 23 What Are You Hearing?
ch. 24 Understanding Check
ch. 25 StandWhere You Stand
ch. 26 Think-Pair-Share
ch. 27 Drawing Discussion
ch. 28 Musicalizing Discussion
ch. 29 Structured Silence
ch. 30 Writing Discussion
ch. 31 QuickWrites
ch. 32 Cocktail Party
ch. 33 Bohmian Dialogue
ch. 34 Methodological Belief
ch. 35 Justifiable Pressure
ch. 36 Hatful of Quotes
ch. 37 Quotes to Affirm and Challenge
ch. 38 Jigsaw
ch. 39 Titling the Text
ch. 40 Critical Debate
ch. 41 SingleWord Sum-Ups
ch. 42 Setting Ground Rules
ch. 43 Canvassing for Common Ground
ch. 44 Dramatizing Discussion
ch. 45 Deliberative Polling
ch. 46 Participatory Decision Making
ch. 47 Mutual Invitation
ch. 48 The Three-Person Rule
ch. 49 Conversational Roles
ch. 50 Facilitator Summary
Bibliography
Index
Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process.
Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques:
- Offer new ways to engage people and energize groups
- Get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making
- Encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives
- Increase collaboration and build cohesive teams
- Keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issues
Derived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Preface
User Guide
Acknowledgments
The Authors
Introduction
ch. 1 Circle of Voices
ch. 2 Chalk Talk
ch. 3 Circular Response
ch. 4 Newsprint Dialogue
ch. 5 Today’sMeet
ch. 6 Giving Appreciation: The Appreciative Pause–Sticky Note Plaudit
ch. 7 Rotating Stations
ch. 8 Snowballing
ch. 9 Conversational Moves
ch. 10 Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)
ch. 11 Strategic Questioning
ch. 12 Open-ended Questions
ch. 13 Nominating Questions
ch. 14 If You Could Only Ask One Question
ch. 15 On-the-Spot Questions and Topics
ch. 16 What Do You Think?
ch. 17 Clearness Committee
ch. 18 Team Modeling
ch. 19 Question Brainstorm
ch. 20 Narrative Listening and Questioning
ch. 21 Participation Rubric
ch. 22 Critical Conversation Protocol
ch. 23 What Are You Hearing?
ch. 24 Understanding Check
ch. 25 StandWhere You Stand
ch. 26 Think-Pair-Share
ch. 27 Drawing Discussion
ch. 28 Musicalizing Discussion
ch. 29 Structured Silence
ch. 30 Writing Discussion
ch. 31 QuickWrites
ch. 32 Cocktail Party
ch. 33 Bohmian Dialogue
ch. 34 Methodological Belief
ch. 35 Justifiable Pressure
ch. 36 Hatful of Quotes
ch. 37 Quotes to Affirm and Challenge
ch. 38 Jigsaw
ch. 39 Titling the Text
ch. 40 Critical Debate
ch. 41 SingleWord Sum-Ups
ch. 42 Setting Ground Rules
ch. 43 Canvassing for Common Ground
ch. 44 Dramatizing Discussion
ch. 45 Deliberative Polling
ch. 46 Participatory Decision Making
ch. 47 Mutual Invitation
ch. 48 The Three-Person Rule
ch. 49 Conversational Roles
ch. 50 Facilitator Summary
Bibliography
Index