1st Edition

Action Learning Facilitation and Coaching

Edited By Peter Cauwelier, George Boak Copyright 2025
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

People undertake action learning work in small groups to tackle organisational and social problems and to learn from their experience of working together to bring about change. Having a dedicated facilitator or a coach for a group can make the process more effective and rewarding. This book provides examples and analyses of effective behaviours of action learning facilitators and coaches.... Read more

Introduction: The facilitator/coach in action learning
Peter Cauwelier and George Boak

1. Mindsets of experienced action learning coaches and their impact on the practice of coaching action learning groups
Michael Marquardt

2. The pedagogy of action learning facilitation – a critique of the role of the facilitator in an organisational leadership programme
Chandana Sanyal

3. Humanistic person-centred set facilitation
Gary Shepherd

4. Facilitating action learning & virtual action learning for leadership development: experiences and insights from a UK Masters programme
Jean-Anne Stewart

5. What a difference a coach makes!
Verieux Mourillon

6. Successful scaling of action learning principles through self-facilitated peer coaching groups
Shannon Banks

7. Action learning: from strict sessions to other applications
Nidhipon Tritiptawin

8. Developing skills of action learning facilitators
Fiona Scrase and George Boak

9. Illuminating the unseen: an action learning coach’s journey
Paulina Chu

10. Developing a learning mindset with action learning
Bea Carson

11. Action learning within the Dutch public sector: tools for facilitators
Robert P. Groen

Biography

Peter Cauwelier, Chief Team Connector, TEAM.AS.ONE, Bangkok, Thailand.

George Boak, Associate Professor in Leadership and Innovation, York St John University, York, UK.