Consensus A New Handbook for Grassroots Social, Political and Environmental Groups

This book is a quick-and-easy guide to consensus decision making. Its clear structure allows it to serve equally well as a how-to manual for those unfamiliar with consensus process, and as a reference for those already familiar with it.

"This is a very timely and handy book indeed. Includes chapters on the consensus process itself, techniques on how to make consensus easier, how to structure a meeting, awareness of group dynamics and how to teach consensus. Includes samples of dialogues with both workable and unworkable consensus processes. This book clears up a lot of misconceptions about consensus procedures by eliminating the errors that so many of us have fallen into. For the longest time, I thought that consensus was very difficult to achieve except in a small group [whose members] knew each other well. I discovered that previous attempts at consensus were full of mistakes that could be fairly easily corrected by the application of the techniques in this book."
-Any Time Now, Spring 2007, #26