Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal - Issue #12 Released
Channel: stephenjthorpe
Date: 18/08/2013

The latest issue of the Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal is now hot off the press!

Visit the IAF website to download your IAF member's copy of the Journal today.  

This issue has a broad and fascinating selection of articles including Talk-in-Interaction in Facilitated and Training Workshops in Organizations by the journal's very own Dr. Sascha Rixon. 

We have an article on Group Facilitation as Hermeneutic Practice by Dr. Kenneth D. Walsh and Dr. Patrea Andersen. 

Julie Marcy brings us It's a Jungle Out There: The Biology of Facilitation and we have Forumspil: Transforming Minds and Hearts within Group Processes by Dr. Warren Linds and Marie Delgado Ebbesen introducing a popular Swedish group forum method. 

Dr. Ross Brinkert brings us The Ways of One and Many: Exploring the Integration of Conflict Coaching and Dialogue-Facilitation and Dr. Per Eisele presents Validation of the Team Diagnostic Survey and a Field Experiment to Examine the Effects of an Intervention to Increase Team Effectiveness. An article that looks at the effectiveness of a Swedish version or Richard Hackman's Team Diagnostic Survey. 

There are two books reviewed in this issue; Essentials of Intentional Interviewing: Counseling in a Multicultural World (2nd edition, 2012) and Leading Effective Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Distance to Achieve Exceptional Results (2012). Both great book reviews that will give you a facilitator's perspective on the deeper value within these two books.
 
So Visit the IAF website today to download your IAF member's copy of the Journal today.  

While there are many publications, both popular and scientific, that discuss group facilitation, organizational development, and group leadership, the Group Facilitation Journal is the only one targeted primarily at providing information to the professional group facilitator. It focuses on examining the 'science' side of the 'art and science of facilitation' in a format that is useful to both practicing facilitators and to academics. 

As facilitators continue to investigate and explore the emerging and contemporary questions facing them, the Group Facilitation Journal will continue to fulfill its role in the sharing and development of facilitation knowledge.

So if you are involved in some group facilitation research then maybe the group journal is a venue to publish your work, or potentially you might like to join the editorial team or become a reviewer of articles -- feel free to get in touch via the IAF's website.