Teambuilding Books

Building unity, community, connection
and teamwork through active learningsm

The fastest method for obtaining copies of Jim's teambuilding books is directly from the publishers and sources listed here. As an alternative, you can also use the ISBN to obtain these books from your local bookstore. Finally, Training Wheels Inc. carries all of these books at trainingwheelsgear.com.

	Connection Without Contact by: Jim Cain A comprehensive collection of group activities and best practices for future real-world in-person gatherings. From summer camps to conferences, workshops, training events, and classrooms, Connection Without Contact shares some of the world’s best cutting-edge ideas, resources, activities, and recommendations for creating connection with audiences of all kinds, while minimizing risk. This book includes content from camp directors, youth development specialists, medical professionals and others working hard to serve their communities even while a global pandemic rages around them. Can you actually build unity, community, and connection with participants while maintaining appropriate physical distancing? ABSOLUTELY, and this book will show you how. A must-have collection of activities and best practices for anyone working (or playing) in groups. Publisher: Healthy Learning ISBN: 978-1606795200
	The Learning Curve Editor: Jim Cain A one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who is looking for advice and guidelines on how to effectively navigate the transition from facilitating in the real world to facilitating in a virtual one. Featuring members of the Virtual Facilitation Practice Group, The Learning Curve offers information, ideas, and insights that can enhance the efforts to effectively facilitate in a virtual setting. Publisher: Healthy Learning ISBN: 978-1606795019
	Teamwork & Teamplay by: Jim Cain, Barry Jollif A Guide to cooperative, challenge and adventure activities that build confidence, cooperation, teamwork, creativity, trust, decision making, conflict resolution, resource management, communication, effective feedback and problem solving skills Publisher: Kendall Hunt ISBN: 0-7872-4532-1
	The Book of Raccoon Circles by Dr. Jim Cain, Dr. Tom Smith You may have heard of Raccoon Circles before. This is "The Book" that contains the official information. It is complete with pictures, illustrations, processing information, history, references, and even success stories using the circles. Publisher: Kendall Hunt ISBN: 0-9646541-6-4
	Teambuilding Puzzles by: Jim Cain, Mike Anderson, Chris Cavert, Tom Heck 100 Puzzles and activities for creating teachable moments in creative problem solving, consensus building, leadership, exploring diversity, group decision making, goal setting, active learning, communication & teamwork. Publisher: Kendall Hunt ISBN: 0-9746442-0-X
	A Teachable Moment by: Jim Cain, Michelle Cummings, Jennifer Stanchfield A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflecting Publisher: Kendall Hunt ISBN: 0-7575-1782-X
	The Book of Raccoon Circles in Japanese Thanks to our partnership with the National Camping Association of Japan, LABO and the Japanese Girl Guides, Raccoon Circle activities are available in this new book. 152 pages of the best Raccoon Circle activities, stories, references and information. For more information, or to purchase this book in Japan, contact: raccoon-circles@labo-party.jp.
	Teamwork & Teamplay International Edition by: Jim Cain In this ground-breaking new book, Dr. Jim Cain shares his favorite and most powerful team and community building activities from around the world and presents each activity in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Thai, Mongolian, Greek, Danish and Portuguese. Purchase: Training Wheels Tel: 888-553-0147
	The Big Books of Low-Cost Training Games by: Jim Cain, Mary Scannell Big Book of Low-Cost Training Games: Quick, Effective Activities that Explore Communication, Goal Setting, Character Development, Teambuilding, and More Whether you’re a trainer or facilitator, a group leader or manager, you’ll find the games in this book are excellent tools for building trust, exploring character, fostering collaboration, and demonstrating more effective communication techniques. Purchase directly from Amazon.com Publisher: McGraw Hill ISBN: 978-0-07-177437-6

	The Dutchman's Rope by: Jim Cain The Dutchman’s Rope offers a simple, but unique, way to maintain physical distancing during actual in-person gatherings. A Dutchman’s Rope is a length of rope, tied into a circle, with knots tied every seven feet. Group members locate themselves at each of these knot positions, which are a visual reminder to help them maintain appropriate physical distancing. The Dutchman’s Rope also features more than two dozen connection-building activities that are active, engaging, memorable, effective, and fun, while minimizing risk to anyone involved in the activity. Employing the Dutchman’s Rope, each of these physically distanced activities is appropriate anywhere and anytime kids gather to play and have fun. Publisher: Healthy Learning ISBN: 978-1606795194
	Rise Again by: Jim Cain Jim's first fiction. A novel based on the lyrics of Canadian Folk Legend Stan Rogers epic song, the Mary Ellen Carter. Set in Atlantic Canada and filled with hardship, friendship, tragedy, triumph, music, love, and most of all ... hope! Publisher: Jim Cain ISBN: 978-0988204645
	Teambuilding with Index Cards The World's best icebreakers and so much more! 180 outstanding activities, from icebreakers to team challenges, to puzzles & games, to inspired teaching activities, to unique debriefing and reviewing activities and more. 250+ 8.5 x 11 inch pages filled with the best index and playing card activities on the planet, including over two hundred photographs and illustrations. More than 1/3 of these activities (70+) have never been published by Jim Cain before! With this book and a few hundred index cards, you can become a better teacher, trainer, facilitator and group leader and make your next event memorable, effective, engaging, valuable and fun! Publisher: Kendall Hunt
	Building Unity, Community & Connection The World's best icebreakers and so much more! One of the most comprehensive books written by teambuilding guru Dr. Jim Cain. This collection of 100+ activities is designed to help your groups connect in some very powerful (and painless) ways. From easy to facilitate icebreakers and get acquainted activities to powerful team challenges that build unity and community, to simple debriefing and reviewing techniques, this book has it al. This is the first book written by Jim Cain specifically for the American Camp Association Book Store, managed by Healthy Learning. Purchase from the ACA Bookstore
	Teamwork & Teamplay Cards by: Jim Cain The ultimate resource with no less than 17 activities in each deck, the Teamwork & Teamplay Cards is a versatile training resource for building community with groups of any size. Purchase: Training Wheels Tel: 888-553-0147
	Rope Games by: Jim Cain Rope Games is the latest Teamwork & Teamplay publication, with over 130 group activities using rope, string, webbing and other forms of cordage. This is the second book in Jim's Easy as 1-2-3 Series. Purchase: Training Wheels Tel: 888-553-0147 ISBN: 978-0-9882046-1-4
	Find Something To Do! by: Jim Cain The newest addition to the Teamwork & Teamplay collection of books is Jim's no prop book, Find Something To Do! Filled with more than 123 activities that require no equipment. This is the first in the Easy as 1-2-3 Series from Teamwork & Teamplay. Purchase: Training Wheels or 888-553-0147 ISBN: 978-0-9882046-0-7
	Essential Staff Training Activities by Dr. Jim Cain, Clare-Marie Hannon, David Knobbe With foreword by Michael Brandwein (Author of SuperStaff SuperVision) Publisher: Kendall Hunt ISBN: 978-1-7575-6167-2