This catalog of external and internal resources has been collected by the LNO staff and committees and continues to grow each month. Here you’ll find toolkits, references, reports, and videos. It can be filtered by topic, format, and primary audience.

This handbook was developed out of a joint meeting of the LTER graduate student committee and the broadening participation committee and is intended to suggest practices in recruiting and orienting new participants that will improve the reach of the Network and the experience of new researchers.
Creators: LTER Graduate Student and Broadening Participation Committees
Audience(s): manager, program facilitator, scientific organization
Audience(s): manager, program facilitator, scientific organization

Part of being career ready is knowing how to advocate for yourself. Self-advocacy can be
defined as an “action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests.”
Creators: Career Connections Center
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student

Two of the most important leadership skills are self-advocacy and resiliency, and they’re especially crucial for women who aspire to manage and lead.
Creators: Emory University Academic Innovation
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student

The skill of self-advocacy is not only useful for supporting changes that students want to see in their institutions and beyond: It may be the most important foundational skill behind success in college.
Creators: Kathleen A. D’Alessio, Dorothy A. Osterholt
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student

By understanding how to apply self-advocacy in your own life and career, you can put yourself on the path toward accomplishing your big-picture goals and even become a better collaborator.
Creators: Kate Vitasek,
Audience(s): educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): educator, manager, mentor, program facilitator, student

This guide walks you through what it means to advocate for yourself, why it’s essential for your growth, and practical tips to help you go from overlooked to empowered—without losing your authenticity.
Creators: Nikki Pebbles-Perretti
Audience(s): educator, mentor, program facilitator, student
Audience(s): educator, mentor, program facilitator, student

This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. Next, it explains how this science facilitation expertise may be developed through metacognition. Finally, it provides examples of how scientific facilitation could be more widely incorporated…
Creators: Amanda E. Cravens, Megan S. Jones, Courtney Ngai, Jill Zarestky , Hannah B. Love
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, policymaker, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

Now in its eighth edition, Working Through Conflict provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory, research, and practice, covering a range of conflict settings (interpersonal, group, and organizational).
Creators: Joseph P Folger, Marshall Scott Poole, Randall K Stutman
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

Improve your facilitation skills with this handy tool for dealing with disruptive behaviors in the moment.
Creators:
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

This guidebook focuses on the overall event planning process: We outline our PACT framework, which describes four key elements to consider when planning your meeting or event.
Creators: Lou Woodley, Katie Pratt, Jenny East
Audience(s): academic institution, event organizer, manager, program facilitator, scientific organization
Audience(s): academic institution, event organizer, manager, program facilitator, scientific organization

Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide was first published in 2010. For nearly a decade, the Field Guide has served as a valuable resource for scientists participating in or leading a research team.
Creators:
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices.
Creators:
Audience(s): educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator
Audience(s): educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator

This glossary is intended to be used by facilitators, particularly in the scientific arena when replying to queries or in designing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI or D&I) workshops. Included are terms that
come up regularly in our work; this is by no means an exhaustive list.
Creators: Sawsan Khuri, Surshti Patel, Kate Baker, Fridah Mutili, Mark Griffiths, Nakul Puri, Tamsin Kilner
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

This website congregates dozens of facilitation training programs, and allows you to filter by price, duration, and location.
Creators:
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student

A list of available facilitation training programs endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators
Creators:
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student
Audience(s): academic institution, educator, event organizer, manager, mentor, program facilitator, scientific organization, student