Course: COMMUNICATION AND FACILITATION SKILLS FOR CONSERVATION MANAGERS Dates: April 8-12, 2019 Description: The IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group, in partnership with other leading international conservation organizations, will be delivering a professional training course designed to enable conservation managers, scientists and students to manage group decision-making processes more effectively. In today's world many of the conservation problems we solve, decisions we take and plans we develop involve collaboration with other people and organizations. Such collaboration is difficult to achieve and requires a certain set of interpersonal and process skills to be most effective. This course is designed to achieve this, building your competencies around listening, conflict resolution, team development, problem-solving and collective group decision-making. By the end of the course you should feel better equipped to manage internal meetings, difficult inter-personal discussions and design multi-stakeholder planning workshops.
The Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, is a partnership between George Mason University and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI). All courses are currently either 1- or 2-week intensive residential courses hosted in our sustainably-built Volgenau Academic Center on the grounds of SCBI in Front Royal Virginia. All courses offer continuing education credits (CEUs) and some can be taken for graduate credit as well. Limited scholarships are available for eligible applicants for some programs. Visit our website (http://SMConservation.gmu.edu) for more details about each course, course costs, and credits earned. ADDITIONAL UPCOMING COURSES Statistics for Ecology and Conservation Biology March 11-22, 2019 ( a few seats remain, must apply now!) Practical Zoo Nutrition Management May 6-10, 2019 Camera Trapping Study Design and Data Analysis for Occupancy and Density Estimation June 10-21, 2019 Estimating Animal Abundance and Occupancy (July 8-19, 2019) applications will open soon. Managing Ecological Data in R: Introduction to data science and the art of wrangling for ecologists August 5-9, 2019 Essentials of Spatial Ecology: GIS Analysis in R, QGIS and Google Earth Engine September 16-20, 2019
