Ethics Boot Camp 101

           

 

We all believe we are competent to discuss ethical issues, after all, we make ethical decisions all the time. We know what we should do!  Furthermore, we typically believe that our ethics is “right” and at least as good as or even better than someone else’s.  Regrettably this can be false thinking.

Our competency in discussing ethics is exceedingly limited without a strong grasp of the concepts and language of ethics. When, where, and how do most of us acquire this knowledge?  Not having this knowledge our ability to communicate our views on ethical issues usually devolves to discussions of personal feeling and preference -“I know what is right,” or “my conscience is my guide.” 

Another part of the limitation in discussing ethical issues lies in our not working with the tension that exists between understanding our moral obligations and finding the moral courage to actually deliver on those obligations.  We have all come face to face with this dilemma.  

Ethics is a discipline in its own right.  It includes concepts, ideas and a language that delineates its field of inquiry.  Ethics is also a discipline that is alive!  Ethics is always searching, inquiring, and pursuing new ends.  The ethical life is one filled with vitality!

             

The Ethics Boot Camp is intended to bring Ethics alive to you and your world.  During this intensive one day together we will have an opportunity to explore what ethics means in a broad sense, what it means in a more personal and narrow sense, and how we can most meaningfully integrate ethics into our collaboration with one another and across our communities. 

Friday

8:00am                            Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:30am                            Welcome and Goals of the Seminar

 

8:45am                            Stages of Moral Development

 

9:30am                            Introduction to Concepts & Language of Ethics I         

 

10:15am                          Break

 

10:30am                          Introduction to Concepts & Language of Ethics II

 

11:15am                          “The Matrix”

 

12:00pm                          Lunch

 

12:45pm                          Introduction to Moral Reasoning

 

2:00pm                            “Ethics Bowl”

 

3:45pm                            Discussion & Summing Up

 

4:30pm                            Farewell

 

Seminar Take-Aways:

 Cost of Seminar

• The cost of the one day seminar is $195.00 per person. (discounted cost for 2 or more from the same organization) 
• All meals are provided.
• A Certificate of Completion is provided at the close of seminar.