Facilitating Group Learning (PDF)

Praise for Facilitating Group Learning

"In this engaging and accessible book, George Lakey draws on alifetime's experience to provide a highly practical resource toanyone seeking to understand and respond to the complexities ofgroup work. The book will be invaluable to anyone trying to effectsocial change through groups while striving to stay simultaneouslysane and employed."--Stephen D. Brookfield, DistinguishedUniversity Professor, University of St. Thomas

"I've been working with forms of direct education for manydecades, and I found new ideas and inspirations in every chapter.For anyone involved in teaching, training, sharing skills, orleading groups, this book is an invaluableresource!"--Starhawk, author, The Earth Path, Dreaming theDark, and Webs of Power

"George Lakey has inspired our union to engage in education in away that challenges us to redefine social justice and equality innew and exciting ways. This book helps us to continue our journeyto touch the souls of union members."--Denis Lemelin, nationalpresident, Canadian Union of Postal Workers

"Facilitating Group Learning will ease the way of all whoventure into the white waters of facilitation. George clarifies themost basic, complex, and nagging challenges of facilitation, whilehonoring the realities of individual and social power dynamics andproviding real-life examples from the path of continued growth andmastery. A rare gift!"--Niyonu D. Spann, founding president,TRV Consulting and Beyond Diversity 101

"This book is a must-read for people who teach adults of anyage, no matter what the subject, and care about doing it in waysthat yield deep and abiding learning. Wonderfully well-written andrich with psychological and spiritual insights as well as practicalstrategies, it represents the fruits of a lifetime oftransformational teaching and learning by one of the foremost adulteducators of our time."--Parker J. Palmer, author, The Courageto Teach, Let Your Life Speak, and The Heart of HigherEducation