Rather than including every available
site, these links have been selected for offering access to
substantive information or resources.
Consensus Resources: Includes manuals available online, descriptions of consensus in use at various organizations, and more.
Facilitation and General Group
Process Resources: Includes classes in a variety of facilitation methods, other websites with lots more resources, etc.
Resource List (PDF): the quickie version, 2 pages of top picks.
Group Works: A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings. How is it that some meetings bring life to your soul, while others make you wish you'd never stepped in the room? What happens at the best group sessions that makes them productive, fulfilling, sometimes even magic? This beautiful, coherent, evocative card deck is the result of a multiyear collaboration among facilitators from diverse organizational backgrounds. It can be used for learning, planning, debriefing, and in the moment of a meeting for extra support. Amazing new resource.
Sample
Policies—learn from other communities
in writing or revising your group's policies:
Book List on facilitation and cooperative decision-making.
Want to read more but not sure where to start? This set of Book Reviews includes brief descriptions of eight books on consensus
and facilitation. (Published in 2000, does not include newer books.)