CONTENTS
Preface
A Little History
Guidance for the Reader
Acknowledgements
1 Dimensions and Modes of Facilitation
Background
The Facilitator and the Experiential Group
The Modern Revolution in Learning
The Parameters of Experiential Learning
The Six Dimensions of Facilitation
The Facilitative Question
The Three Modes of Facilitation: the Politics of Learning
The Use of the Modes: Stages and Presumptions
Participation in Educational Decision-making: the Classic Dilemma
The Many Forms of Autonomy
Task and Process in Experiential Learning
The Concept of Facilitator Style
One-to-one, One-to-some and One-to-all Interventions
Education and Training
The 18 Basic Options
Criteria of Validity
2 Authority, Autonomy and Holism
Three Kinds of Facilitator Authority
Authority and Authoritarianism
Traditional Confusion of Three Kinds of Authority
Need for Authority
Learning as Autonomous and Holistic Paradox of Facilitator Authority
Authority as a Means of Initiation
Tutelary Authority as Initiation
Tutelary Procedures
Political Authority as Initiation: the Three Decision-modes
The Four Decision-mode Levels
Empowerment through Mastery of Decision-mode Levels
Unilateral Direction on Principle at Level3
The Importance of Advertising Non-negotiable Values
A Full-blown Level3 Course
Charismatic Authority as Initiation
3 Whole Person Learning
Distinctions within the Field
Holistic Learning and Experiential Learning
The Generally Acceptable Model of a Whole Person
Avant-garde Models of the Whole Person
Feeling as the Ground of Personhood
The Up-hierarchy Model of the Whole Person
The Self and the Whole Person
Open Self and Whole Person Learning
Closed Self Learning
4 The Group Dynamic
Stages of the Group Dynamic
Positive Forms of the Group Dynamic
Negative Forms of the Group Dynamic
Cultural Oppression
Educational Alienation
Psychological Defensiveness
The Role of the Facilitator
Extensions of Group Dynamic Theory
Transpersonal Influences on the Group Dynamic
5 The Planning Dimension
Planning Overview
Levels of Decision-making
Refining the Decision-modes
Autonomy: Delegated or Seized
A Decision-mode and a Decision-procedure
Apollonian and Dionysian Planning
The Planning Dimension: Hierarchical Mode The Planning Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Planning Dimension: Autonomous Mode
6 The Meaning Dimension
Four Forms of Understanding
Areas of Understanding
The Meaning Dimension: Hierarchical Mode
The Meaning Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Meaning Dimension: Autonomous Mode
7 Co-operative Inquiry
Definition of Co-operative Inquiry
Participation and Inquiry
Outcomes of Co-operative Inquiry
Topics of Co-operative Inquiry
An Outline of Inquiry Stages
Extended Epistemology and the Inquiry Cycle
Special Inquiry Skills
Validity Procedures
Three-stranded Initiation of a Co-operative Inquiry
8 Peer Review Audit
Autonomous Meaning of Work
Commitment to Excellence
Education for the Professions
Peer Assessment
Practice and Outcomes
Stage 1. Select an Area of Practice to Assess
Stage 2. Agree Criteria of Competent Practice for the Selected Area
Stage 3. Devise a Self-assessment Method for Practice On-the-job
Stage 4. Assessment of Practice On-the-job
Stage 5. Peer Review: Self-assessment Presentations
Stage 6. Review of Audit Procedures
Stage 7. Planning the Second Cycle
Stage 8. The Second Cycle of On-the-job Self-assessment
Peer Review Audit and the Experiential Learning Cycle
Further Issues
9 Peer Support Groups
The Concept of a Peer Support Group
Running a Peer Support Group
Helpful Ground-rules for a Peer Support Group
Peer Supervision: Critical Incident Focus
Peer Supervision: Good News Analysis
Peer Supervision: Actual Practice
Peer Supervision: Veridical Report
Peer Supervision: Projected Rehearsal
Peer Supervision: Confession Dinner
Peer Supervision: the Personal/Professional Interface
Peer Unfoldment: Life-style Enhancement
Peer Unfoldment: Celebration, Affirmation and Visualization
Peer Unfoldment: Projected Rehearsal
Peer Unfoldment: Healing the Memories
Peer Unfoldment: Invoking the Empowering Future
10 The Confronting Dimension
Sources of Rigidity
Elements and Purposes of Confrontation The Process of Confrontation
Confronting and Meaning
Cycles of Expansion and Contraction
One-to-group and One-to-one
The Confronting Dimension: Hierarchical Mode
The Confronting Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Confronting Dimension: Autonomous Mode
11 The Feeling Dimension
Positive Emotional Processes
Negative Emotional Processes
The Role of Pathology
Emotion and the Group Dynamic
Feeling and the Group Dynamic
The Feeling Dimension: Hierarchical Mode
The Feeling Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Feeling Dimension: Autonomous Mode
12 Charismatic Education and Training
Charisma, Personal Power and Presence
The Psychophysical Modes of Relating to Others
The Experiential Body and the Physical Body
The Experiential Body in Stasis
The Experiential Body in Presence
From Presence to Personal Power
The Up-hierarchy of Empowerment
Integrated Postural Presence
Pervasive Interpersonal Empathy
Dynamic Interpersonal Geometry
Clock Time and Charismatic Time
Emotional Tone of Voice
Phonetic Command
Command of Language
Command of Content of Speech
Command of Purpose
The Down-hierarchy of Facilitator Principles
Guiding Moral Principles of Facilitation
Training Exercises for the Cultivation of Charisma, Dynamic Presence, Personal Power
13 The Structuring Dimension
Planning and Structuring an Exercise
The Experiential Learning Cycle
Supervision of an Exercise and the Experiential Learning Cycle
The Structuring Dimension: Hierarchical Mode
The Structuring Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Structuring Dimension: Autonomous Mode
14 Varieties of the Experiential Learning Cycle
Primary and Secondary Cycles
The Open Self Primary Cycle
The Open Self Secondary Cycle
Primary and Secondary Cycles in Superlearning
Teacher-managed and Student-managed Learning
The Whole Person Primary Cycle
The Whole Person Secondary Cycle
The Multi-stranded Alternative
15 The Valuing Dimension
The Person
States of Personhood
The Cross and Circle
The Valuing Dimension: Hierarchical Mode
The Valuing Dimension: Co-operative Mode
The Valuing Dimension: Autonomous Mode
16 Learning to be a Whole Person
The Self-creating Person
The Whole Person as a Web of Relations
A Working Definition of a Whole Person
The Agenda for Learning to be a Whole Person
Locations, Domains and Cycles A Self-generating Culture
Whole Person Values
17 Approaches to Social Change
Personal Development and Structural Change
Three Kinds of Structural Theory
Liberation Within and Transfiguration of the Human Condition
Opposition Actions and Fulfilment Actions
Structural Change Options Facilitation for Structural Change
Techniques of Soft Revolution
18 The Creation of a Facilitator Style
The Style is the Person
Personal Values Personal Principles
The Purpose and Composition of the Group
Personal Development
Training
Professional Development
Criteria of Excellence
Research
Social Change
Making a Self-assessment Profile of your Facilitator Style
Appendix: The Manager as Facilitator
Group Room and Workplace Learning
The Organizational Revolution
The Manager, the Team and the Task
Dimensions and Modes of Management
The Six Dimensions of Management
The Three Modes of Management
Task and Process
Eighteen Basic Management Options
Personal Development in the Workplace
Transforming Power
The Team Dynamic
The Structure of the Team
The Tasks of the Team
Motives of Team Members
Distorted Forms of the Team Dynamic
Diagrams of the Distorted Forms
The Organizational Context: Critical Issues
The Social Context: Critical Issues
The Influence of Ideology
The Authority of the Manager
The Vision of the Manager: Holocracy