John HeronJohn Heron was the founder and director of the Human Potential Research group at the University of Surrey until recently. He was also a training consultant.

Combining a strong theoretical content, including a comprehensive group dynamic theory, with a repertoire for practical action this guide provides the foundations for building effective and successful skills to suit the facilitator's personality and closely match situations encountered.

• Dimensions and modes of facilitation; authority, autonomy and holism; whole person learning; the group dynamic; the planning dimension; the meaning dimension; co-operative inquiry; peer review audit; peer support groups; the confronting dimension; the feeling dimension; charismatic education and training; the structuring dimension; varieties of the experiental learning cycle; the valuing dimension; learning to be a whole person; approaches to social change; the creation of a facilitative style. Appendix: the manager as facilitator.

John HeronJohn Heron was the founder and director of the Human Potential Research group at the University of Surrey until recently. He was also a training consultant.

Combining a strong theoretical content, including a comprehensive group dynamic theory, with a repertoire for practical action this guide provides the foundations for building effective and successful skills to suit the facilitator's personality and closely match situations encountered.

• Dimensions and modes of facilitation; authority, autonomy and holism; whole person learning; the group dynamic; the planning dimension; the meaning dimension; co-operative inquiry; peer review audit; peer support groups; the confronting dimension; the feeling dimension; charismatic education and training; the structuring dimension; varieties of the experiental learning cycle; the valuing dimension; learning to be a whole person; approaches to social change; the creation of a facilitative style. Appendix: the manager as facilitator.