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Facilitation is an applied practice—building capacity to navigate difficult topics by creating a supportive environment, encouraging mindful reflection, respecting all voices, nurturing open dialogue, discerning the needs of multiple parties, promoting engagement, empowering individuals, and inspiring collaboration. Facilitative leaders guide individuals to discover they are capable of transforming different perspectives and challenges into possibilities.
To support the development of facilitative leadership, Britt and Napoli introduce a four-phase framework of skills: (1) practicing self-awareness, (2) setting intention, (3) fostering a growth mindset, (4) enacting responsive behaviors. These habits build capacity to listen, to communicate respectfully through dialogue, and to facilitate connections. Twelve contributed chapters are case studies for developing a facilitative leadership approach to community participation in public problem-solving. Committing to facilitative leadership helps to ensure that people with different perspectives can talk and think together, explore their individual and collective perspectives, identify hopes and concerns, and chart a way forward grounded in collective wisdom.
1. The Emergence of Facilitative Leadership as a Concept
2. Introducing a Four-Phase Framework of Facilitative Leadership
Section I: FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP
3. The Emotion Work of Facilitative Leadership: How Dialogue Facilitators Experience and Manage Emotions during Difficult Moments (Laura W. Black and Sheyla Finkelshteyn)
4. Facilitative Leadership: On Power and Embodied Difference (Carmen Henne-Ochoa and Nikeetha Farfan D’Souza)
5. The Challenge of Embracing Our Relational Nature in a Divided World (Tzofnat Peleg-Baker)
Section II: DEVELOPING FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
6. Hope Amidst Protracted Conflict: Deconstructing Our Stories (Renee Guarriello Heath and Jennifer L. Borda)
7. Facilitative Leadership in Higher Education and Beyond: The Experiences of Students in the Wabash Democracy and Public Discourse Initiative (Chris Anderson, Sara A. Mehltretter, and Rowdy Dale Farmer with Richard Ballentine, Alejandro Cruz, and Henry Young)
8. Facilitating Civic Renewal: How Indiana University’s PACE Program Enables Democratic Practice Through Deliberative Dialogue (Mark Fraley and Joa’Quinn Griffin)
9. Youth Civic Action Program: Facilitative Leadership in the High Classroom (Sabrina Slagowski-Tipton and Tamanda Chabvuta)
Section III: THE POTENTIAL OF ADDRESSING COMMUNITY DIVIDES WITH FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP
10. Using Facilitative Leadership to Enact Effective Neighborhood Deliberation: The Citizenship for Health Project (Nina E. Kelly, Pradeep Sapory, and Marc W. Kruman)
11. Intentional Collaboration: A Case Study of Public Deliberation and Community Engagement in Brookings, South Dakota (Rebecca A. Kuehl and Sara A. Mehltretter)
12. The Hillsboro Civic Leadership Academy: A Model for Facilitative Leadership in Local Governance (Kristen Wright, Prabhas Pokharel, Nujhat Ahmed, and Rebecca McLain)
13. Intentional Facilitative Leadership in Action: A Spotlight on the Homelessness-Fire Safety Crisis in Contra Costa County (April Chatham-Carpenter, Charles Heckscher, Steven E. Saltwick, and Mary Thomas-Vallens)
14. The Power of Facilitative Leadership for Addressing Societal Divides (Rosalma Zubizarreta-Ada)
15. Revisiting the Framework of Facilitative Leadership
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