Critical Thinking Skills and Mindfulness

Are you interested in improving your reasoning and communication skills? Learning to unpack assumptions? Advocating for a position more clearly? Critical thinking addresses all these things. Critical thinking is not criticizing other people’s thinking or forcibly “winning” arguments. Instead, it works to gently unpack our habitual thinking processes, gain new tools for effective reasoning, and apply these skills in daily situations. Not an armchair class, this workshop is highly interactive. We will reflect, learn, and practice in every class meeting, working together and having fun as we go. Through a systematic course design, you will build your critical thinking skills with mindful self-reflection and logical skill-building.

Materials will be provided in class.

Terry Porter is professor emerita of business at UMaine Orono, a Fulbright Scholar, and a nationally certified counselor. She finds that critical thinking is a lifelong skill that starts anywhere and never stops growing.