Organizational consultant Sam Kaner and his fellow authors have an entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit that permeates this comprehensive resource to teach the nuts and bolts of facilitating...

Organizational consultant Craig Freshley offers his years of experience and expertise in this slim volume of wisdom designed to reduce conflict and enhance communal decision-making. The...

Described as a workbook, this source offers its models as active processes, rather than giving answers or telling one how to think. Readers are encouraged to copy or modify the models, so they...

This book on discernment is one-of-a-kind in that it offers solid instruction on effective principles of discernment and it provides several case studies to illustrate the discernment process....

“To engage more effectively in mission and ministry, congregational leaders need to teach listening skills and nurture an environment that affirms listening” (p. 157). Based on a review of research...

Veteran pastor and Circle Way practitioner, Ivy Thomas, has written this small book to explain The Circle Way process and its application in congregational settings. The Circle Way is a modern-day...

Business models and business leaders don’t necessarily make strong spiritual leaders for the church, according to Ruth Haley Barton. Barton contends that congregations are called to a different...

What if decision-makers stopped voting, and instead, practiced discernment and became prayerful “seekers”? This is the goal of the “Spiritual Discovery Method,” a model for decision-making offered...

“C-I-R-C-L-E: it means something; it is a way to get somewhere else than where we are.” So say The Circle Way trainers, cofounders of {{PeerSpirit, Inc. | http://peerspirit.com/}}, and authors...

A remarkable amount of practical information about facilitating, what it looks like and how to do it is contained in this small but authoritative resource by consultant, educator, and Certified...