UMaine Hutchinson Center to offer workshop on critical thinking
In partnership with the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer an introductory workshop in a new professional development program, “Improving Personal and Business Effectiveness through Critical Thinking,” 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Nov. 1.
The workshop is particularly pertinent for nonprofit leaders, business leaders, educators, municipal officials, and others interested in critical thinking and how to improve their personal and business effectiveness.
Participants will learn about critical thinking and the role of assumptions. They will increase understanding of how their assumptions operate, learn and practice ways of surfacing assumptions in themselves and others, gain greater freedom to choose and revise their assumptions, and improve communications through mindfulness of assumptions.
The program fee is $150 per person, and includes a continental breakfast and catered lunch. Need-based scholarships are available. Certificates for seven contact hours will be awarded at the end of the workshop. Applications for continuing education units (.7) will be available.
For more information, or to request a reasonable accommodation or scholarship application, contact Michelle Patten, 207.338.8002; michelle.patten@maine.edu.