Generation Impact, Updated and Expanded Edition

APPENDIX DDiscussion Guide

How to Use This Guide

This guide is designed to help you reflect more deeply on the themes, stories, and implications found in Generation Impact. Each section gives a short summary and background on a specific part of the book, followed by discussion questions for each chapter. For the three main parts of the book, the guide also offers “Next Steps Exercises” to help you begin to act on what you've learned so you can make practical progress on suggestions or themes discussed in these chapters. Consider trying any or all of these action steps and then share your experiences with others.

For Use within Discussion Groups

Discussing the book within groups can reveal different viewpoints and interpretations, and hopefully, inspire people to act together to make the most of this Golden Age of Giving.

Tips for Group Members This guide was designed to accommodate informal self-led groups, formal leader-led groups, and groups that rotate the leadership role. This guide can also support a typical book discussion session running one hour or more, or shorter sessions—such as a 30-minute lunchtime group—as well as online groups that meet virtually.

• Two essentials to having a meaningful and lively group discussion are: 1) everyone reads the material in advance, and 2) everyone participates in the discussion.
• It is as important to listen as it is to contribute to the conversation. Listen actively, be yourself when you share, and remember, there are no “wrong ...