Chantal Nève-Hanquet - Facilitating Collective Intelligence: A Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders

Combining insight and practice, this will be an indispensable text for all practitioners in the field.

Regina Moreno, Co-Founder of Bay Area Moreno Institute, Berkeley, California, USA

An excellent guide filled with practical ideas for facilitators in organisational settings who seek to augment synergy and creativity in groups. The world sorely needs more collective intelligence in all spheres, and action-oriented methods offer a prime way to move in this direction.

Rene Emunah, Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS); author of Acting for Real

The use of action methods for working teams is one example of the inclusion of role playing as a very useful contribution among the various workplace tools.

Adam Blatner, editor of Action Explorations: Applications of Role Playing Methods

This is an essential read for everyone involved in any form of group engagement and organisational change management. A very practical, pragmatic and much needed addition to the tool box for a facilitator. You will get plenty of ideas to work with!

Vinay Kumar, Vice Chair of International Association of Facilitators and Director at C2C Organizational Development

Chantal Nve-Hanquet and Agathe Crespel provide an accessible and ground-breaking guide to genuinely effective group work, sharing excellent hands-on assistance for coaches and facilitators. Offering a unique selection of guidelines and illustrations for group work, the authors demonstrate the benefits of using creative action methods in practice, helping leaders discover new ways to achieve dynamic group sessions and endowing their work with new vigour, as well as pleasure.

Facilitating Collective Intelligence brings together a wealth of knowledge and techniques from psychodrama and Jungian and systemic analysis to inform group facilitation. Throughout the books four parts, key inner attitudes, questions and action techniques are explored to help facilitators nourish open and flexible forms of communication within groups, stimulate collective intelligence and foster creative approaches to collective problem-solving. With the help of numerous sensitively related case studies, the book guides the reader through the process of achieving more dynamism in group work, fostering creativity, encouraging agility and developing co-construction within groups. It contains more than thirty practical reference sheets which provide an instant aid for implementing the methods and models in the book. Nve-Hanquet and Crespels approach advocates the use of action methods, specifically the ARC model, to encourage out of the box thinking and develop new paths and strategies in working with teams and organisations.

Facilitating Collective Intelligence is an invaluable and essential tool in cultivating effective group dynamics for all coaches, coach supervisors and consultants, both experienced and in training. Due to its clear and practical structure, it will also be useful for counsellors, coaching psychologists and other professionals who work with groups, as well as students and academics of coaching and coaching psychology.

Chantal Nve-Hanquets international career in psychology has encompassed psychodrama, Jungian analysis and family therapy. During fifty years working with groups, she has significantly contributed to the spread of action methods. She is a member of several international associations, including IAGP and EFTA, and a founding member and treasurer of the Belgian-based FEPTO which promotes action methods throughout Europe.

Agathe Crespel trained as a psychologist and practitioner of action methods in Belgium and France. Over the past fifteen years she has facilitated groups in various professional settings, making extensive use of action methods for supervision, coaching and the enhancement of creativity.

The authors, both members of the Brussels-based Centre for Psychosociological Training and Intervention (CFIP), have extended their practice to Italy, France, Bulgaria, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey and the United States through numerous congresses and workshops.

Translated by Kathleen Llanwarne

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nve-Hanquet, Chantal, author. | Crespel, Agathe, author.

Title: Facilitating collective intelligence : a handbook for trainers, coaches, consultants and leaders / Chantal Neve-Hanquet and Agathe Crespel.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019015406 (print) | LCCN 2019017298 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429264504 (Master eBook) | ISBN 9780429555053 (Adobe Reader) | ISBN 9780429563997 (Mobipocket) | ISBN 9780429559525 (ePub) | ISBN 9780367209667 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367209674 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Group facilitation. | Swarm intelligence. | Small groups.

Classification: LCC HM751 (ebook) | LCC HM751 .N48 2019 (print) | DDC 302.2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019015406

ISBN: 978-0-367-20966-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-20967-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-26450-4 (ebk)

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To Kathleen, our translator: you entered into our approach through the doors of your own lived experience and found ways of deepening the connections that came to light; you employed the art of questioning to prompt clarification of our ideas and how they were given shape in our book; you found your own path to adopting our approach and, through your finely tuned exercise of the art of translation, viewed our text from a new angle and endowed the book with new life. Your work is akin to the ARC procedure here proposed: to expand, through experience shared with others, the field of our representations, and to move, on this basis, along a path that will lead to change.

Thank you.

If you want to obtain unprecedented results, try using unprecedented methods.

Peter Senge

In the summer of 2018, I attended an international congress in Malm, Sweden. Walking up some steps on my way to the next workshop, I noticed Chantal Nve-Hanquet above me on the staircase, heading in the same direction. I called out to her enthusiastically. Chantal stopped, turned around, extended her hand towards me, and exclaimed, Ah, Daniela, come here, I have something important for you .