Workshop Management: Method to Magic

Authors: Dorothy Strachan and Marian Pitters

Professional facilitators spend a great deal of time thinking about what makes workshops successful. One thing we know for sure: great workshop experiences are unlikely without thoughtful session management.

This book is for anyone who is responsible for organizing and implementing a workshop. This includes facilitators and managers, as well as teachers, trainers, community organizers, project leaders, lawyers, physicians, human resources professionals, association executives, mediators, negotiators, social workers and counselors.

Workshop management includes all the decisions made in relation to the diligent administration of a session, e.g., how participants are selected and invited, where a session is held, how presentations are aligned with workshop objectives, how worksheets are used, what food is served, what types of reports are written, what questions are selected to solicit feedback. Decisions about these administrative factors can make a significant contribution to the quality of workshop outcomes and your enjoyment as a facilitator.

What people say about Workshop Management: Method to Magic:

(Book Review)

Dr. Valerie Ala comments in her review in the British Journal of Canadian Studies:

“By contrast (to another book being reviewed), Strachan’s and Pitters’s excellent Workshop Management manual makes no pretence of being academic but is far better research and effective in both scholarly and practical terms. Here is a text, with accompanying CD-ROM, which is genuinely useful for teachers, students and organizers of a wide range of programmes.

In unpretentious, intelligent and accessible language, the authors demonstrate their understanding of the range and nature of workshops and workshop organizers in Canada and internationally. In both illustrations and text, they represent the full range of organizations and people. People with disabilities, Aboriginal people, people of colour, women and men of all walks of life, linguistic and ethnic identities are seen as organizers and participants in every aspect of the organizational and workshop process.”

Valerie Alia

University of Sunderland

British Journal of Canadian Studies

Volume 17, Number 1, 2004

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Mary Parker, Director of Children’s Services, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada:

"Your book is fantastic and will be of great help to my staff who facilitate so many different types of groups."

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