The 7 Best Books For Facilitators
Channel: AJ&Smart
Date: 2022-03-10

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These are our 7 favourite books about facilitation and workshopping (in no particular order 😉). 
They are packed with facilitation techniques and frameworks, workshop exercises and workshop recipes and design thinking principles. In other words, everything you'd need to facilitate any workshop or session confidently. 

In this video AJ&Smart CEO and Workshop Facilitator, Jonathan Courtney, shares a list of what we consider the best books for facilitators. These 7 books have had a great influence in the way we facilitate our own workshops and we hope they can help you in your own facilitation career.  

🤔 Have you read any of these books? What's your favourite facilitation and workshopping book? Share your answer in the comments below 👇

⏰ Video timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:44 Book 1 - Visual Thinking
1:38 Book 2 - Creative Confidence
2:28 Book 3 - The Workshopper Playbook
3:09 Book 4 - Gamestorming
4:02 Book 5 - Sprint
5:07 Book 6 - The Surprising Power Of Liberating Structures
6:25 Book 7 - The Secrets Of Facilitation
9:21 The rotten paint story

📚 Links to the books mentioned in the video:

1️⃣ Visual Thinking by Willemien Brand
https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-Empowering-Organizations-Collaboration/dp/9063694539

2️⃣ Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley, David M. Kelley
https://www.creativeconfidence.com/

3️⃣ The Workshopper Playbook by Jonathan Courtney
https://www.workshopperplaybook.com

4️⃣ Gamestorming by James Macanufo, Sunni Brown, Dave Gray
https://gamestorming.com/

5️⃣ Sprint by Jake Knapp 
https://www.thesprintbook.com/

6️⃣ The Surprising Power Of Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless
https://www.liberatingstructures.com/bookstore

7️⃣ The Secrets Of Facilitation by Michael Wilkinson
https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Facilitation-Getting-Results-Groups/dp/1118206134


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