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Required Texts For Groups Registering Before October 2004:

Whitehead, James, and Evelyn Whitehead. The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministry. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, 2000. ISBN# 0595088953.

Required Texts for Groups Registering After October 2004:

Hawkins, Thomas. The Learning Congregation: A New Vision of Leadership. Louisville, KY: Westminter/John Knox, 1997. ISBN # 0664256996.

Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2001. ISBN # 1576751198. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

Whitehead, James, and Evelyn Whitehead. The Promise of Partnership: A Model for Collaborative Ministry. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, 2000. ISBN # 0595088953.


Official Church Documents:

Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium). Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Austin Flannery, O.P. Northport, NY: Costello, 1998. ISBN # 0918344395 and 0918344166. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

General Directory for Catechesis. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1997. Publication # 5-225. (Order by calling 800.235.USCC, or outside the U.S. and Canada 202.722.8716; or by visiting the web site http://www.usccb.org/publishing/adultcat.shtml.) Text is available online at http://www.intratext.com/X/ENG0159.HTM. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Austin Flannery, O.P. Northport, NY: Costello, 1998. ISBN # 0918344395 and 0918344166. Text is available online at http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

U.S. Catholic Bishops. Called and Gifted for the Third Millennium. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995. Publication # 5-002. Order by calling 800.235.USCC, or outside the U.S. and Canada 202.722.8716; or by visiting the web site http://www.usccb.org/publishing/laity.shtml. Text is available online at
http://www.usccb.org/laity/calleden.htm. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Required Text for Course 1, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

---. Everyday Christianity: To Hunger and Thirst for Justice. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1998. Publication # 5-116. Order by calling 800.235.USCC, or outside the U.S. and Canada 202.722.8716; or by visiting the web site http://www.usccb.org/publishing/parish.shtml. Text is available online at http://usccb.org/sdwp/projects/everyday.htm.

---. A Fair and Just Workplace: Principles and Practices for Catholic Health Care. Washington, D.C: United States Catholic Conference, 1999. Text is available online at http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/workplace.htm.

---. Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us: A Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1999. Publication # 5-299. Order by calling 800.235.USCC, or outside the U.S. and Canada 202.722.8716; or by visiting the web site http://www.usccb.org/publishing/adultcat.shtml. Text is available online at http://usccb.org/education/ourhearts.htm.

Additional Sources:

Anderson, Dean, and Anderson, Linda Ackerman. Beyond Change Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. ISBN # 0787956457.

Bridges, William. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN# 0201550733.

Bunker, Barbara Benedit. Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. ISBN# 0787903248.

Dale, Robert D. Leadership for a Changing Church: Charting the Shape of a River. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. ISBN# 0687014859.

Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1991. ISBN# 0140157352.

Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. 25th anniversary ed. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2000. ISBN# 0809105443.

Harrison, Michael. Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and Processes. 2nd ed. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1994. ISBN# 0803956452.

Herrington, Jim, et.al. Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. ISBN# 0787953814.

Holman, Peggy, and Tom Devane, eds. The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1999. ISBN# 1576750582.

Isaacs, William. Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. New York: Doubleday Currency, 1999. ISBN# 0385479999.

Kouzes, James M., and Barry Z. Posner. The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations. 3rd ed. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2003. ISBN# 0787969331.

Mayer, Bernard. The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. ISBN# 078795019x.

Napolitano, Carole S., and Lida J. Henderson. The Leadership Odyssey. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. ISBN# 0787910112.

Quinn, Robert E. A Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. ISBN# 0787902446.

Regan, Jane E. Toward an Adult Church: A Vision of Faith Formation. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 2002. ISBN: 029418067. (Note to diocesan librarians: this text is an Additional Resource for Course 8, so the diocese may have already purchased this text.)

Rojas, Ronald R. Collaborative Leadership: Moving Towards Relational Paradigms in Lay Ministry Development. Bloomington, IN: authorhouse.com, 2004. ISBN # 1414045697.

Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Doubleday, 1990. ISBN# 0385260954.

Senge, Peter et al. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. New York: Currency Doubleday, 1994. ISBN# 0385472560.

Web Sites of Interest:

American Society for Training and Development. http://www.astd.org. The American Society for Training and Development web site offers a variety of resources for leadership development, training, and organizational development. Virtual communities, discussions, a store, and other sites are available through this home page.

The Chaordic Commons. http://www.chaordic.com. The "Chaordic Commons" is a network of people who are supporting "self-organizing systems" and meaningful work connections, largely based on the insights of chaos theory that are being applied by Margaret Wheatley and others.

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. http://www.thataway.org/dialogue. This is the web site for the "Dialogue to Action" initiative, which networks facilitators of intergroup dialogue. Resources and a calendar of events are provided.

Open Space World. http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi. Open Space Technology offers another way of building shared vision among large group. This web site is devoted to sharing insights and ways of implementing this approach. The website describes open space technology as "one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events."

The World Cafe. http://www.theworldcafe.com. An interesting web site that introduces processes for building shared vision among large groups of people. The "World Cafe" is the name of a widely used process in business and among community groups seeking to build consensus and vision.

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