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Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics

Group Tools To Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot
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Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics by Ron Kraybill offers practical techniques to facilitate productive discussions when emotions run high. It guides groups on how to listen actively, stay issue-focused rather than personal, and use specific tools like interviews and role-reversal presentations to foster understanding. The book aims to help groups reach decisions everyone can support, based on the authorโ€™s extensive conflict resolution experience, including work during South Africa's political transition.
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This book is ideal for facilitators, mediators, team leaders, and anyone involved in managing challenging group discussions or decision-making in tense environments.

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With the right tools, no decision is too difficult to make. Author Kraybill, who helped to with the South African political transformation away from apartheid, shares anecdotes and practical how-to for any tension-filled decision making process. Some subjects seem too hot for a group to discuss sanely. Not necessarily. The Little Book of "Cool Too

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Some subjects seem too hot for a group to discuss sanely. Not necessarily. The Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics -- Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot shows how to help people hear each other when they feel like shouting; how to focus on the issues at stake rather than having a war of personalities; how to employ actual practices for better understanding (interviews, small-group discussions, role-reversal presentations); and how to move a group toward making a decision that all can honestly support.

Lead author Ron Kraybill is a professor of Conflict Studies in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. During the years of the South African political transition, he trained local, regional, and national leadership in negotiation and mediation skills and served as a training advisor to the National Peace Accord.

Cool Tools is rich in anecdotes and practical how-to for any group faced with tension-filled decision-making.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781561485437

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 January 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Good Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 96

About the Author


Ron Kraybill has been a mediator, group facilitator, and trainer in peacebuilding skills since 1979. He was founding director of the Mennonite Conciliation Service from 1979 to 1988. From 1989 to 1995 he was dirctor of training at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, and he was appointed by the South African political parties as training advisor to the National Peace Accord during the national negotiations.

He taught in th Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University from 1996 to 2006, including courses on group facilitation and on religion and conflict. In 2004 he established Riverhouse ePress, a Web and print publsher of conflict resolution materials located at www.RiverhouseEpress.com.

In recent years Kraybill has served as a consultant and trainer for peace initiatives for the United Nations, the World Bank, USAID, and other organizations in Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Guyana, and elsewhere.

His Masters of Divinity is from Harvard Divinity School, and his Ph.D. in Religious Studies is from Uth University of Cape Town.

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