The 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator or Flirting with Danger

The 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator: Leading Groups by Transforming Yourself

Author: Jon C Jenkins

What takes place in the head and heart of an effective facilitative leader? How do they find the inner resources to draw upon? What is the source of their powerful effect on people and situations? The 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator examines these questions and explores the self-mastery it takes to become a great facilitator. Written by Jon and Maureen Jenkins, two of the long-term members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), this much-needed resource explains that facilitation is more than a process or a set of techniques for managing groups—facilitation is its own profession with its own set of disciplines that help define the facilitator's role. Throughout the book the authors detail the nine personal disciplines of effective facilitators: Detachment, Engagement, Focus, Awareness, Action, Presence, Interior Council, Intentionality, and a Sense of Wonder.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The context
1	Leadership : a matter of spirit	15
2	Trends in employee participation	45
3	The skills of a facilitative leader	55
4	The future of facilitation	67
Pt. 2	The disciplines
5	Detachment : stepping back	79
6	Engagement : committing to the group	102
7	Focus : willing one thing	127
8	Interior council : choosing advisors wisely	147
9	Intentionality : aligning the will to succeed	170
10	Sense of wonder : maintaining the capacity to be surprised	194
11	Awareness : knowing what is really going on	215
12	Action : effective doing	242
13	Presence : inspiring and evoking spirit in others	262

New interesting book:

Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination

Author: Lynn M Phillips

"Flirting with Danger is well worth the read and is likely to stimulate lively discussion in the classroom. Phillips has a good ear for narrative and a keen sense of the uncertainties and competing forces that shape heterosexual relationships for contemporary young women."
—Psychology of Women Quarterly

"Based on in-depth individual and collective interviews with a racialy and culturally diverse sampe of college-aged women, Flirting with Danger sheds light on the cultural lenses through which young women interpret their sexual encounters and their experiences of male aggression in heterosexual relationships."
—Adolescence

In Flirting with Danger, Lynn M. Phillips explores how young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression, and desire. How do women develop their ideas about sex, love, and domination? Why do they express feminist views condemning male violence in the abstract, but often adamantly refuse to name their own violent and exploitive encounters as abuse, rape, or victimization?

Based on in-depth individual and collective interviews with a racially and culturally diverse sample of college-aged women, Flirting with Danger sheds valuable light on the cultural lenses through which young women interpret their sexual encounters and their experiences of male aggression in heterosexual relationships.

Phillips makes an important contribution to the fields of female and adolescent sexuality, feminist theory, and feminist method. The volume will also be of particular use to advocates seeking to design prevention and interventionprograms which speak to the complex needs of women grappling with questions of sexuality and violence.

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Flirting with Danger is well worth the read and is likely to stimulate lively discussion in the classroom. Phillips has a good ear for narrative and a keen sense of the uncertainties and competing forces that shape heterosexual relationships for contemporary young women.