Helping groups to self-facilitate

In many large group processes I use, small groups are asked to facilitate some of the process.   Recently, on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation mailing list, there was a call for easy guides to help people facilitate these kinds of groups.   Turns out that there is lots out there, including:

• 37 guides collected on NCDD’s own website
• Some resources from a climate dialogue project in Seattle
• The Conversation Cafe guidelines
• Bare bones version of the Let’s Talk America guidelines
• More detailed issue guides from the Everyday Democracy project

And a few more that I use:

• Hosting in a hurry, the guide I put together for the Art of Hosting community
• PeerSpirit Circle Guidelines
• The Art of the Powerful Question

The idea here is resources that help conversations become deeper, more focused and more engaging.