The pressures on people and organizations to make effective, durable choices are increasing. Institutional restructuring, more complexity, rapid change, increased liability for flawed decisions, and demands to involve diverse stake-holders all challenge us to make good professional and personal decisions.

This workshop provides a practical approach for making effective, values-based decisions. We
present a clear road map that enables participants to integrate ethical and other important values into professional and personal situations which require carefully crafted decisions. The map integrates ethical content with insights from the decision sciences (cognitive psychology and behavioral economics) on predictable patterns of flawed reasoning and judgment. Learning methods will be interactive and offer participants immediate opportunities to apply concepts to realistic case studies.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Decision makers in profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations. Licensed professionals and advisors, e.g. lawyers, physicians, nurses, psychotherapists, clergy, financial planners, and others who assist people with important decisions.

LEARNER BENEFITS

    • Identify and apply key values in organizational decision-making processes?
    • Provide constructive forums for dealing with ethical issues?
    • Develop a common language for effective organizational decision-making?
    • Increase your ability to reflect upon and articulate personal values, organizational values,
      and mission?
    • Gain insights about diverse, cultural dimensions of decision-making?
    • Enhance your capacity to model and teach the skills of ethical decision-making to others?
    • Add value to organizational decisions by avoiding common traps in reasoning and
       analysis?
    • Involve stakeholders productively in consultation

I regularly offer courses sponsored by organizations to introduce the Mediation Process for a variety of applications. In the past, these courses have been sponsored by The Solutions Group, a major employee assistance program provider, Sandia National Laboratories, The Realtors Association of New Mexico, Santa Fe Community College Intercultural Leadership Program, New Mexico Department of Education, Special Education, New Mexico State University, and others. A basic
skills course is usually 32-40 hours. I also periodically offer an open enrollment course for interested participants. Contact me about scheduled events in your area.

The practice of mediation is an art. After initial training, most learners who are seriously interested
in developing their skills pursue additional training. Advanced level training is more demanding and asks the mediators to look deeply within at their existing skill set, gaps, and motivations to be a mediator. This training is offered publicly and through sponsoring organizations. Past sponsors include the University of New Mexico School of Law, Federal Executive Board, Metropolitan Court Mediation Program, Sandia National Labs, and others. Contact me about scheduled events in your area.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama

This workshop is under development and will be offered in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe area in late 2008 or early 2009. It will probably be three days, supported by a follow up group meeting monthly or quarterly. Cost will be on a sliding scale to make the workshop available to everyone who is interested. We live in times where division, polarization, and conflict are common. We face serious social, political, economic, and environmental challenges, locally and globally. I believe that it is incumbent on everyone to see themselves, where they work and live, as a peacemaker. This learning experience will call upon the four human dimensions of thinking, feeling, doing, and being. You
will receive clear,practical guidance about the art of peacemaking and be empowered to find greater peace within in order to become an agent of peace in your family, workplace, church, and community. Contact me to be on a mailing list for this workshop.