Workshops
Workshops

ESICE workshops are designed to enhance the skills of individuals and organizations to address issues of importance in our increasingly complex world. This capacity-building approach is central to our collaborations with community, academic, and agency partners. At the fundamental level, these workshops link the resources of academic, community, and agency partners.

Consulting: ESICE has consulted or is consulting in a number of projects that are responsible for building the capacity of organizations to effectively respond to change and to work across cultural boundaries. These include corporate, academic, governmental and nonprofit organizations.

The Eastern Sierra Education Forum brings together academics, K-12 educators, and researchers to explore educational opportunities in a region rich in natural resources. The results have led to two major initiatives that address the need to improve science education.

In other arenas ESICE has joined with university and natural resource agency organizations, to host gatherings that explore topics critical to land and resource management.

    * The five-day short course in Fluvial Geomorphology, explores the river channel processes which alter the landscape. The workshop brings together professionals interested in building skills to address complex resource issues as they relate to geomorphology.
    * The Environmental Ethics workshop models an approach to addressing the imbalance in the environmental sciences between technological expertise and broad ethical and philosophical training.
    * Much of our current work focuses on effective use of diverse perspectives in decision-making. The approach challenges us to examine underlying assumptions using cognitive developmental models. From this foundation we address the question "What is the value of Diversity?" We call this work Preparing for Engagement.