Subject: Group Dynamics Last modified: March 1, 2004
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See also the Anarres essays index, especially the essay on Structure in Collectives by John Englart.

Bufe, Charles and DeNunzio, Dale
Exercises for Individual and Group Development
See Sharp Press 76pp ISBN: 1-884365-15-9 $10.00
A valuable resource for group facilitators, offering a range of physical and verbal exercises. There are icebreakers, trust building, intimacy developing, awareness building and other group building exercises.

Center for Conflict Resolution
A Manual for Group Facilitators
FIC 89pp ISBN: 0-9602714-7-3 $32.00
This is an informal outline detailing useful and effective techniques to help groups work well. Includes: planning a workshop; sample agendas; how to get a meeting started on the right track; useful information about group process, communication and dynamics, crisis intervention, creative problem solving and much more.

Center for Conflict Resolution (Ed)
Building United Judgment. A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making
FIC 124pp ISBN: 0-9602714-6-5 $32.00
Building United Judgment describes the techniques and skills which groups can apply to make the principles of consensus work effectively. Whether you are new to consensus or a practiced hand; whether your group uses consensus in the classic form or wants to apply consensus principles to your own decision making structure, this book provides a thorough review of practical methods that can make your efforts work.

Gastil, John
Democracy in Small Groups
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-274-3 $17.95
Drawing from years of experience and study, John Gastil offers a variety of solutions to the problems commonly faced by small, democratic groups. He thoroughly explores the dynamics of practicing democracy, including the relationship between speaking rights and listening responsibilities; the importance of full access to information and agenda setting; and ways to practice democracy in personal, family and neighborhood life.

Green, Tova & Woodrow, Peter
Insight & Action: How to Nurture, Support & Sustain Commitments
NSP 128pp ISBN: 0-86571-296-4 $15.95
Insight and Action is an excellent manual for groups working to create and sustain their commitments to personal and social change. Insight and Action addresses such issues as developing trust-filled relationships, time management, overcoming hopelessness, burnout, interpersonal conflict, procrastination, "stuckness," priority setting, and confronting sexism, racism, classism and homophobia within groups. A compassionate how-to manual, Insight and Action helps individuals and groups reach decisions effectively by tapping their most precious resources: their family, friends and co-workers.

Kaner, Sam et al
The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making
NSP 272pp ISBN: 0-86571-347-2 $36.95
A great book for understanding the role of facilitator and the process of participatory decision making. The book is well laid out and structured with lots of diagrams, points and graphics. Highly useful for all groups using a participatory or consensus decision making structure.

Lakey, Lakey, Napier et al
Grassroots & Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-328-6 $19.95
Drawing on the experience of a variety of effective organizational development professionals, community organizers and leaders of nonprofit organizations, this book teaches a proactive approach to organizational life including how to anticipate tensions, make the most of crises, and lead with balance and shared power. It features an amazing array of specific suggestions for dealing with such issues as diversity, inactive or over-active boards of directors, staff burn-out, outreach, boring meetings, power struggles, rapid turnover, low morale, sharing the "big picture", strategic planning, and more. It also provides useful context for its advice commenting helpfully on the environment in which change organizations work, on the nature of power and leadership, and on the stages of social movements.

Pax Christi
Winners All: Cooperative Games for all Ages
33pp ISBN: MS-05 $2.50
A series of games and activities that can be used for children and adults. They are all fun activities, avoiding any sense of competition or exclusion due to ability. Many of them are useful for working in groups, either as icebreakers, to break tension in a group or to help build a sense of group belonging.

Shields, Katrina
In the Tigers Mouth: An Empowerment Guide for Social Action
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-287-5 $24.95
A well prepared how to do manual for skills in running meetings, small group skills, running campaigns, and being effective in social action. Katrina is an Australian activist, active in northern NSW. A useful resource book for anyone interested in social action.