Make Your Meetings Work
Our favorite facilitation books, trainings and resources.
With all the facilitation resources and information out there, it can be hard to know where to begin. To help make getting started a bit easier, we’ve collected all of our favorite trainings, books, communities and more.
If you have experience and are looking for more ways to expand and improve your toolkit, check out some of the specialized resources and method libraries or consider an accreditation program.
This Meeting Sucks Podcast
Listen to our podcast on a mission to un-suck meetings. We provide free and accessible training on meeting skills in 10 episode seasons.
MeetingMakers Academy
Attend our annual live training to learn to lead engaging and productive meetings. Registration for Summer 2025 is open now.
Read more on our blog
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Training and Certification
Basic Facilitation
Georgetown Certificate in Facilitation (DC)
Leadership Strategies
Voltage Control
Workshopper (AJ & Smart)
XPLANE
Specialized Training
Grove Strategic Visioning
LUMA Institute Human-Centered Design
Art of Hosting
Tech Host Academy
Facilitation Certification Program
International Association of Facilitators
INIFAC
Technology of Participation
Ten Directions
Voltage Control
Books
Facilitation
Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done by Dick and Emily Axelrod
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Best Practices for Facilitation by David Sibbet
Facilitating Breakthrough by Adam Kahane
Reading the Room by David Kantor
Tools and Methods
Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute
Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen
The World Cafe by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
Design a Better Business by Justin Lokitz and Lisa Kay Salomon
Future Search by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
Visual Meeting by David Sibbet
Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo
Online and Hybrid Meetings
Planning Hybrid Meetings for Facilitators eBook by Lauren Green
Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings by Brian Tarallo
Websites, Blogs and Podcasts
🍦 = Icebreaker/Energizer Resource
Methods Libraries
SessionLab Library 🍦
Liberating Structures 🍦
LUMA Workplace
Open Practice Library 🍦
Connection Activities Database (Jan Keck) 🍦
Design a Better Business
IAF Library
XPLANE worksheets
Blogs
Podcasts
Workshops Work
Facilitation Lab
Facilitating on Purpose
Facilitation Stories
First Time Facilitator
Open Practice Library
Community & Networking
Formal Memberships
Mid-Atlantic Facilitator’s Network
Southeast Association of Facilitators
Australasian Facilitators Network
Latin American Association of Facilitators
Networking Groups
The Flipchart Facebook Group
The MIC Circles Community
Facilitation Lab Circles Community
SessionLab Circles Community
Conferences
Software
