Building Ethical Confidence
Date: November 3, 2007
Instructor: Sam McKeeman
Type of Course: Lecture/Discussion
Length of Course: 9am - 3pm
Location: Saco Lodge, Saco, ME
Registration Fee: $35.00
Course Description:
This course will initially explore why ethical considerations may be a necessary part of any decision making process. The group will examine the importance of not only knowing what our core values are but which core value trumps others.
The group will learn a way of categorizing dilemmas that can contribute to understanding the multiple sides of what could appear to be a clear choice. Once categorized, the group will learn how to resolve dilemmas with either clearly wrong choices (but we choose to do it anyway) or where both choices are right (that is, both have moral ground to stand on). At this point, the group will learn what typically has to be within us to make the really difficult, even courageous, decisions.
The group will experience cases, examples and scenarios where they have group discussions, make individual decisions, or defend thinking processes in plenary. Groups will defend positions if different from other groups' decisions. Participants will also practice identifying the possible actors in the dilemma and how the discussion changes based on which actor is seen as the principal one. This session will be interactive as people participate in discussions and exercises of an ethical nature.
Course Preparation :
Course registrants will receive a short (3 page) course preparation handout electronically in PDF Format.
Course Instructor:
Sam McKeeman is currently the Director of Organization Development for the Maine Department of Transportation. He previously worked part-time as a trainer and facilitator for Maine’s Bureau of Human Resources. Concurrently, he consulted for several public and non-profit agencies in several states and Bosnia, doing both training and leading organizational change. Previously, Sam worked in various capacities for the state of Delaware, including three and a half years as a special assistant to Governor Mike Castle, working on policy development for the justice system. During his time in Delaware, he founded and directed a non-profit agency that bridged community information on unsolved felonies with police detectives in a position to solve these crimes. Sam has also worked for the state of Pennsylvania, taught school in several Pennsylvania school districts and New South Wales Australia, and done a variety of short term jobs that added to his experiential base. Sam likes to travel, backpack in the arctic, read, and challenge assumptions. He is married with one son and lives in Camden, Maine.
When this course was first presented in March of 2006, participants gave Mr. McKeeman the highest marks of that college year. Come and see what the excitement is all about!
Registration:
You can register for this class in one of three ways:
Our cancellation policies are here.
Important Note
The Maine Masonic College complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act. If any conference participant is in need of reasonable accommodation, please forward a written request to the College Secretary for consideration at least one month prior to the activity.
The opinions expressed by Instructors and Regents of the Maine Masonic College do not represent an 'official' position of Freemasonry or of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Maine. No one person speaks for Freemasonry. Only the Grand Master can speak for Freemasonry within his own jurisdiction and then, only during his term of office.
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