Advanced Facilitation Strategies

Tools & Techniques To Master Difficult Situations With Cd Rom

BY INGRID BENS
This book includes techniques for dealing with common and major dilemmas in facilitation, Bens outlines six common problems and offers tips on how advanced facilitators can resolve them - such as how to maintain neutrality & work effectively with group leaders. She suggests other ways to get group conflicts resolved and back on track, and ideas on how to design, contract, implement, and follow-up resolutions afterwards to maximize effectiveness. Comes with a CD-Rom toolkit of customizable instruments, charts, tools, checklists, references, and guides for all practitioners.

Jossey Bass 2005 248 PP. Paper

$50.00 (in stock)

Creative Listening

Quaker Dialogue

BY CLAREMONT MONTHLY MEETING
Suggestions for leaders aiming to deepen interpersonal relations and spiritual life among members of a religious body through the sharing of meaningful experiences in fellowship groups.

Claremont MM 1991 18 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment

The Sacred Art Of Finding Your Way

BY NANCY BIEBER
Quaker Nancy Bieber writes on the practice of spiritual discernment . Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a psychologist and fifteen years of experience as a spiritual director she presents three essential aspects of Spirit-led decision-making: Willingness - being open to God's wisdom and love; Attentiveness - noticing what is true, discerning the path right for us; Responsiveness - taking steps forward as the way becomes clear

Skylight Paths 2010 195 PP. Paper

$16.99 (in stock)

The Empowerment Manual

A Guide For Collaborative Groups

BY STARHAWK
"The Empowerment Manual "is a comprehensive manual for groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability, and responsibility. This desperately needed toolkit provides keys to Understanding group dynamics, Facilitating communication and collective decision-making, Dealing effectively with difficult people. Drawing on four decades of experience, Starhawk shows how collaborative groups can generate the cooperation, efficacy, and commitment critical to success.

New Society Press 2011 285 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Expectant Listening

Finding God's Thread Of Guidance - Php 388

BY MICHAEL WAJDA
Out of a great hunger for God's love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of "Expectant Listening." He encourages individuals to notice the variety of ways in which God comes to them in their lives, revealing God's "deep, long thread of guidance."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Grounded In God - Listening Hearts

Discernment For Group Deliberations

BY SUZANNE FARNHAM, ET AL
Powerful, prayerful and practical guide from the authors of Listening Hearts. Teaches groups to incorporate silence, imagination, intuition, attentive listening, scripture and prayer into meetings, working retreats, and decision making.

Morehouse 1996 94 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Group Spiritual Nurture

The Wisdom Of Spiritual Listening - Php 373

BY DAPHNE CLEMENT
Coming together to share and listen within a Spiritual Nurture Group, members connect on a deep level of the Spirit. The silence of Quaker worship is at the heart of the process. This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of such groups, is both an introduction to this kind of spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a group.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Hearing With The Heart

A Gentle Guide To Discerning God's Will For Your Life

BY DEBRA FARRINGTON
"Everyone from the most conservative Christian to the most spiritual-but-not-religious folks will find her tools for discernment useful. They include the Quaker practice of settling into silence and waiting on God as well as Lectio Divina, a method for meditating on scripture. Farrington's final section invites readers to go through the process of discernment, but one need not be at a crossroads to appreciate this book." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Jossey-Bass 2003 232 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Holy Listening

The Art Of Spiritual Direction

BY MARGARET GUENTHER
"Guenther has produced a primer for people who are attracted to the ministry of spiritual direction either as directors or as directees. Drawing on her own experience through anecdotal narratives and generalized reflections, she elucidates common problems and suggests a variety of specific responses." - Sewanee Theological Review

Cowley 1992 146 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

How Do I Know It's A Leading?

BY RUTH HYDE-PAINE
This pamphlet gets us to think about how to discern whether we are "on the right track" in our efforts to seek and act on advice and counsel. Includes discussion and reflection on what "waiting on the Lord" has meant to each of us.

SEYM 1992 19 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

How Does Societal Transformation Happen?

Values Development, Collective Wisdom, And Decision Making For The Common Good

BY LEONARD JOY
This study by Leonard Joy, a veteran of international economic and social development work, is aimed directly at the kind of societal transformation we need. His insights are both necessary and timely. With increasing recognition and implementation, they might also be sufficient.

Quaker Institute for the Future 2011 85 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

Language Process Notes

Using Words To Get Beyond Words

BY HARBERT RICE
Harbert Rice, former Clerk of Reno Meeting and a practitioner of Nonviolent Communication, has facilitated AVP workshops in Nevada prisons. He has also led "Experiment with Light" groups and is familiar with Gendlin's Focusing that Rex Ambler found so influential in forming Light Groups. Here he brings all these practices and insights together to show how each group uses an experiential language process, and that we can gain a further understanding of personal change and transformation by the cross fertilization of these practices that "use words (or their Absence) to get beyond words." Quaker experience, especially related to George Fox, is a major part of the book.

Focusing Institute 2008 118 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Leading And Being Led

Php 264

BY PAUL LACEY
A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Leadings

BY JIM CORBETT
Author of Goatwalking and a founding member of the Sanctuary Movement, Jim Corbett offers insights into the joys of spiritual guidance and of following leadings.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1995 30 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Limits To The Leadings Of The Light

1993 Weed Lecture

BY HUGH BARBOUR
"After talking about leadings, and about the validity of intuition, I go on to put leadings into the larger setting of ideas on ethics, then to discuss our sense that God is the source of our leadings, and finally to look more carefully at three major limits to leadings of the Light." "The three major limits or confounding factors in discernment which he explores are (A) the limits of our culture and times, (B) 'the ambiguity of the ego,' and (C) the tensions that arise from our calling to be perfect, when we know we are imperfect. Hugh's reflections on these matters are careful, acute, realistic, and challenging." - Brian Drayton

Beacon Hill Friends House 2006 23 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Listening Hearts

Discerning Call In Community

BY SUZANNE FARNHAM, ET AL
This important book draws on classic Christian literature and "the silence of prayerful listening" to show how to recognize and define God's call. The authors emphasize the importance of faith community as a source of spiritual and practical support. Designed for use in prayer and meditation and as the basis for group discussion. It provides suggestions on forming discernment groups and ministries and questions to raise in discerning call.

Morehouse 1991 143 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Listening Spirituality, Volume 1

Personal Spiritual Practices Among Friends

BY PATRICIA LORING
This is an essential Quaker spiritual formation text, which grew out of workshops that Pat Loring led for Friends for years. In this volume, Loring explores many personal practices which can help to sharpen one's perception of God. She suggests setting aside time each day for spiritual refreshment, "'a time of retirement' from outward concerns and activities, to attend exclusively to the movement of the Spirit." She explores many possible practices and offers ingredients for Friends to make time for the holy in one's daily life. She offers a feast from which we can discover a rich daily meal.

Openings 1997 208 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Listening Spirituality, Volume 2

Corporate Spiritual Practice Among Friends

BY PATRICIA LORING
Reprinted by a new publisher -hence the steep rise in price-"This volume examines the ways in which our communal practice in meeting and other gatherings is a spiritually formative influence on us, both as individuals and as a corporate body. Our communal practice is also an expression of the transformed life we seek to lead together. This volume is devoted to major ways in which Friends have sought to enter as a body into the presence, guidance and service of God." - Pat Loring, from her introduction

Lulu for Openings Press 2009 320 PP. Paper

$35.00 (in stock)

Living Into The Answers

A Workbook For Personal Spiritual Discernment

BY VALERIE ISENHOWER, JUDITH TODD
Written by Baptist and Presbyterian ministers this is a workbook that aims to introduce, to readers who have not come across them before, some tools and practices for decision-making and discernment processes. The processes has long been used by Quakers, but here are all the basics written in an easy introductory manner and though not a heavy tome there is real depth and it covers the use of artwork, storytelling and many other developments as well as the traditional "core".

Upper Room Books 2008 123 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

More Than Equals

Spiritual Friendships - Php 345

BY TRISH ROBERTS
A guide for developing strong, nurturing relationships which strengthen the Spirit.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Nudged By The Spirit

Stories Of People Responding To The Still, Small Voice Of God

BY CHARLOTTE FARDELMANN
Discernment is the spiritual practice among Quakers that empowers their service in the world. This anthology shares the stories of persons who have experienced a sense of call to ministry and how they moved forward into that work with support from their monthly meetings. Includes the stories of Will and Fran Taber, Lucy McIver, John Calvi, Elaine Bishop and Kathryn Damiano.

Pendle Hill 2001 288 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Oppose And Propose

Lessons From Movement For A New Society

BY ANDREW CORNELL
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. "Oppose and Propose" is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights.

AK Press 2011 200 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Practicing The Art Of Compassionate Listening

BY ANDREA COHEN WITH LEAH GREEN, SUASN PAERTNOW
This practical "how to" book provides a step-by-step approach to helping you implement the practices of Compassionate Listening into your daily life. Whether you're challenged by self-judgments - or by conflicts in your family, workplace or community, the practices of Compassionate Listening can provide a solid foundation upon which to bring greater peace, understanding and healing into your world. The exercises in this book are based on the core practices of Compassionate Listening as taught in our Basic Intensive training.

Compassionate Listening 2011 84 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Presence In The Midst

Swarthmore Lecture 2009

BY PETER ECCLES
How do we make sense of and respond to our experience of the world around us? How do we discern well together? By considering profound questions such as free will and the place of life in the universe, Peter J. Eccles casts an illuminating and engaging light on a key element of Quaker practice. He emphasizes the profound importance of discernment to Quaker experience. "The quality of the experience when we come together in meeting for worship depends on each one of us. The Presence in the Midst is always with us, ready to sustain and support us. It calls on each of us to rise above our weakness and live out our true self."

Britain Yearly Meeting 2009 156 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Sacred Compass

The Way Of Spiritual Discernment

BY BRENT BILL
A compass makes a good metaphor for our spiritual lives and the work of discerning God's will for them. the divine compass points us the mind and love of God. Our sacred compass operates in our souls and calls us to life with God. The sacred compass leads us on a life of pilgrimage - a hike to wholeness and holiness. Keeping our soul's eyes on the sacred compass leads us to the holy discovery that we can move through life with purpose and promise, even in those times when we may not sense with certainty what that purpose and promise are. "Brent Bill has written one of the finest books on discernment and divine guidance that I have seen in a very long time." -Richard J. Foster

Paraclete 2008 190 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Sacred Compass Participant's Guide

BY BRENT BILL, ROBERT GIBSON
A companion guide to use with the book "Sacred Compass" designed for personal growth or for group use. Contains description of the key concepts together with exercises and scriptural references. In Sacred Compass Brent Bill draws on the quiet beauty of the Quaker path to show how spiritual discernment is more about sensing God's presence than it is about making the right decisions. As you use this book to chart your own spiritual course, you will find yourself led to unexpected places, comforted by the knowledge that God uses all of our experiences to enrich and educate us.

Paraclete Press 2011 27 PP. Paper

$5.99 (in stock)

Silence

The Mystery Of Wholeness

BY ROBERT SARDELLO
A useful and well written meditation on silence and the depths which you can reach by attending to the silence. The authors come at it from a rather "new age" direction and examples are mostly taken from anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology. An abridged more popular version of his earlier book "Silence".

North Atlantic Books 2008 123 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Spiritual Friendships

BY KRISTIN HENDERSON AND MARGERY LARRABEE
A practical guidebook with advice from Quaker practitioners of spiritual friendship.

Larrabee 1998 55 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Support For Our True Selves

Nurturing The Space Where Leadings Flow - The 2007 Backhouse Lecture

BY JENNY SPINKS
Jenny Spinks speaks about nurturing leadings and growing into her individual potential. She argues that if we can be our true selves, open to being led minute by minute by the Spirit, we will live in a way that cares for the earth. Often there is clutter that gets in the way and blocks connection. This lecture looks at ways Quakerism offers to consciously/actively support our true selves and nurture the space where leadings flow and at how the freedom to express emotion in committed spiritual F/friendships helps clear the clutter and nurture leadings. The author contends that the Religious Society of Friends' role is to uphold and support us in nurturing this process.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2007 54 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

There Is A Hunger

Mutual Spiritual Friendship

BY MARGERY LARRABEE
In our highly secular society the quality of human recognition of the other, which is the essence of spiritual friendship, is rare and cannot be taken for granted. The author puts into words what spiritually lonely people may not even know they are looking for!

Larrabee 1994 30 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)