Beyond Robert’s Rules

by Nelle Moffett with Richard D. Bowers

Beyond Robert’s Rules: An Overview of Group Communication Models Including Appreciative Inquiry, Restorative Justice, Dynamic Facilitation, NVC Mediation, Intergroup Dialogue, Circles of Trust, World Cafe and More… By Nelle Moffett with Richard D. Bowers

Intended Audience: Organizational Development professionals; Consultants; Change Agents; Business leaders (CEO,Executive leadership,meeting facilitators, team leaders, managers, supervisors); University leaders (President, Provost, managers, Faculty); Human Resources; Global government leaders; Community Action leaders; Non-Profit Social Service leaders; Environmental Activists; Social Justice activists; NGO leaders.
Available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0991111729 and other bookstores. ISBN 978-0-9911117-2-5.

This book identifies communication patterns which limit group interactions and provides examples of some alternative communication models that can open up more possibilities. This book is not an academic treatise. It is designed as a quick reference guide for professionals who want to increase their repertoire of group process models. The first part of the book presents a discussion of the power of communication models to support creativity, collaboration, and conflict resolution. Without a group process repertoire and vocabulary, people tend to remain bound by a limited set of options that produce a limited set of outcomes.

The second part of the book provides references to a collection of group process models, from basic circle models to self-organizing models such as Open Space Technology for large groups. Each model is presented with a brief overview, applications, benefits, and a reference to a source for more detailed information.

Effective group process models give voice to multiple perspectives, alternative ideas, or new directions and expand individual participation, responsibility, enthusiasm, creativity, and well-being in the workplace and other settings. The examples of group processes provided in this book can show you a variety of ways to change old, limiting, or ineffective patterns of communication.

“Beyond Robert’s Rules provides us with a succinct well written overview of methods that can be used in organizations of all kinds to have different conversations.This informative book is organized for ease to the reader in selecting methods for facilitating conversations. Well written, well organized, and a valuable asset for the many people who are looking for a way for groups of people to break out of old life depleting patterns and into life nurturing patterns for humanity and the planet to thrive.” Birgitt Williams

“I have been reading your book this morning, and can think of lots of people who would love to know about it. Thanks so much for putting all of this together!” Beatrice Blake

“I am SO happy to read Nelle’s very clear, accessible, and inspiring writing, as I feel it is a significant contribution toward spreading a message of possibility and hope: yes, human beings CAN work together in creative and empowering ways!” Rosa Zubizarreta

“Just the kind of overview that has been needed!” Carolyn Altrock

“If the you of five years ago doesn’t consider the you of today a heretic, then you are not growing spiritually.” Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

“Let me be Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or Sufi; I care not what my religion, my race, my creed, or my color be, if only I can win my way to Thee! But let me be none of these, if it enmesh me in labyrinthine ways of religious formalities. Let me travel the royal road of realization which leads to Thee.” Paramhansa Yogananda

Yogananda

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”
H.H. the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

“Throw off all thought of imaginary things and stand firm in that which you are.” Kabir

Kabir

“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.” St. Bartholomew

St. Bartholomew

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton

Merton

“We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.”
The Talmud

Talmud

“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person… we are participating in something sacred.” Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers

Everything in your story is constantly changing, including the story you tell about who you are.

Don Miguel Ruiz

May my focus on the light within be as dedicated as the attention my dog gives to his tennis ball. Unknown

Dog Devotion

“When the Buddha taught, he … taught that there is a kind of innocent misunderstanding that we all share, something that can be turned around, corrected, and seen through, as if we were in a dark room and someone showed us where the light switch was. It isn’t a sin that we are in the dark room. It’s just an innocent situation, but how fortunate that someone shows us where the light switch is.” Pema Chodron

Chodron

Truth, or awakening, is simply the recognition of what is already perfectly in place. It is not a doctrine and it is not a creation. It is the most profound and joyous discovery a human being will make. Mooji

Mooji

“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Rumi

Rumi

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow

Prayer of all healers and lightworkers:
“I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.” ACIM

A Course of Miracles

“The power of the words I AM can change how you see yourself and how you see others. We have been conditioned to believe that who we are is ordinary—that who we are is what we have, what we do, what people think of us, what we own, and none of this is who we really are. Who we are is infinite light divine creation, and that creation is within all of us.” Wayne Dyer

Dyer

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