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Seminar for Military and Intelligence Trainers and Instructors

Through this training program, you will learn to:



  • Better use critical thinking as a set of tools for thinking deeply through the questions, issues, and challenges that you, your students, and your colleagues face.

  • Learn the art of intelligent, strategic decision-making using critical thinking concepts.

  • Understand the long-term implications and benefits of building a critical thinking culture throughout your department, institution, or educational program.

  • Internalize the skills, abilities, and traits of reasonable, logical persons who think critically through all manners of questions and problems.

  • Come to understand and more effectively deal with the barriers to cultivating critical thinking within military and intelligence programs.


A primary aim of this seminar and course is to help you understand the fundamentals of critical thinking, and to better bring them into your coursework, routinely and systematically. Through this training, you will come to recognize explicitly that critical thinking is not something to add to what you already do, but is rather a way of dealing with all significant military and intelligence problems. Working with a robust conception of critical thinking over time, your students and trainees will come to recognize the essential relationship between critical thinking and these fundamental skills and characteristics:



  • Skilled reasoning within all areas of work and life.

  • Skilled decision-making and problem-solving in the military and intelligence community.

  • Skilled analysis and evaluation of one’s emotions and values (which affect one’s decisions, communication skills, and ability to reason through complex problems).

  • Intelligent choices in human relationships in the work setting.

  • Skilled reading, writing, speaking, and listening.


This seminar and course is designed to empower you to help your students and trainees:



  • Understand the importance of developing critical thinking skills, abilities, and traits in order to reason well through complex issues.

  • Understand critical thinking as the key to high-quality reasoning within any domain of thought or work.

  • Understand how to analyze thinking by focusing on its parts or elements, and how to use the elements of reasoning in working through decisions and problems.

  • Understand the importance of universal intellectual standards in thinking and how to apply these standards in reasoning through significant decisions.

  • Understand the fundamental barriers to critical thinking.

  • Understand the relationships between thinking, emotions, and desires, as well as how this understanding relates to their abilities to function at a high level.

  • See their development in critical thinking as unfolding in stages over time through intellectual discipline.

$1,299.00



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Additional Information About:
Seminar for Military and Intelligence Trainers and Instructors

The seminar and course will begin with three days of interactive workshops that will enhance your understanding of critical thinking and how to best foster it in your courses and training programs. The  seminar will be followed by a one-hour webinar on Tuesday, April 9th , which will be followed by a second one-hour webinar on Tuesday, April 16th . The follow-up webinars are designed to help you continue advancing in critical thinking by learning to develop your own practice activities and processes under the direction of our critical thinking experts. Certificates of Completion will be available at the end of the process. 

The seminar will be held in a retreat setting in beautiful Northwest Arkansas, near world-renowned Crystal Bridges Museum and world-class biking trails. Participants will stay in local hotels and rentals of their choosing.





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CRITICAL THINKING IS AT RISK.

Here are some of the big reasons why:

  1. Many people believe that critical thinking should be free and that scholars qualified to teach critical thinking should do so for free. Accordingly, they do not think they should have to pay for critical thinking textbooks, courses, or other resources when there is "so much free material online" - despite how erroneous that material may be.
  2. There are many misguided academicians, and some outright charlatans, pushing forth and capitalizing on a pseudo-, partial, or otherwise impoverished concept of critical thinking.
  3. Little to no funding is designated for critical thinking professional development in schools, colleges, or universities, despite the lip service widely given to critical thinking (as is frequently found in mission statements).
  4. Most people, including faculty, think they already know what critical thinking is, despite how few have studied it to any significant degree, and despite how few can articulate a coherent, accurate, and sufficiently deep explanation of it.
  5. People rarely exhibit the necessary level of discipline to study and use critical thinking for reaching higher levels of self-actualization. In part, this is due to wasting intellectual and emotional energy on fruitless electronic entertainment designed to be addictive and profitable rather than educational and uplifting.
  6. On the whole, fairminded critical thinking is neither understood, fostered, nor valued in educational institutions or societies.
  7. People are increasingly able to cluster themselves with others of like mind through alluring internet platforms that enable them to validate one another's thinking - even when their reasoning is nonsensical, lopsided, prejudiced, or even dangerous.
  8. Critical thinking does not yet hold an independent place in academia. Instead, "critical thinking" is continually being "defined" and redefined according to any academic area or instructor that, claiming (frequently unsupported) expertise, steps forward to teach it.

As you see, increasingly powerful trends against the teaching, learning, and practice of critical thinking entail extraordinary challenges to our mission. To continue our work, we must now rely upon your financial support. If critical thinking matters to you, please click here to contribute what you can today.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE OUR WORK.

Thank you for your support of ethical critical thinking.