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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CIVILITY: Building
skills for respectful
disagreement
Continued from page 3
is a good thing to do… We
hope people will come out
for a cup of soup and be forti-
fied to stay and connect with
Dr. Walker’s ideas on how to
have respectful disagreements
and move forward.”
Walker’s 90-minute
workshop will offer effec-
tive strategies to safely and
respectfully communicate and
respond to disagreement and
even constructively negoti-
ate with others for changes in
behavior.
In addition, a bonus
follow-up 90-minute skill-
building session is planned
for Thursday morning start-
ing at 9 a.m., also at the Fire
Hall. The Thursday session
will take an even closer look
at how to address particularly
challenging interactions or sit-
uations. Attendees will learn
a variety of facilitation tech-
niques to add to the skills they
learned during Wednesday’s
session. Both sessions will be
participatory and emphasize
active learning.
Walker is a professor of
Communication at Oregon
State University where he is
also an adjunct professor in
the environmental sciences,
forestry, geosciences, and
public policy programs. On
campus, he teaches courses
in conflict management,
negotiation, mediation, inter-
national negotiation, envi-
ronmental conflict resolu-
tion, science communication,
sustainable development and
argumentation.
Off campus, Professor
Walker conducts training
programs on conflict manage-
ment, designs collaborative
public participation processes,
facilitates collaborative learn-
ing community workshops
about natural resource and
environmental policy issues,
and researches community-
level collaboration efforts.
Before coming to OSU
30 years ago, Walker taught
at University of Kansas,
Willamette University, and
University of Utah. A native
of Minnesota, Walker did
his undergraduate studies at
the University of Minnesota,
earning B.A. and B.S.
degrees and teaching creden-
tials. He had three majors
– Communication, History,
and Sociology. After teach-
ing high school for five years
in Idaho, Walker went to
University of Kansas where
he earned M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in communication.
Walker has served as a
Fullbright Senior Specialist
in the fields of Peace and
Conflict Resolution. He is
an advisor to the National
Collaboration Cadre of the
USDA-Forest Service and
on the roster of the U. S.
Institute for Environmental
Conflict Resolution. He also
is involved in a number of
other national and interna-
tional mediation and commu-
nication projects and work-
ing groups. In these roles he
attends most of the United
Nations climate change nego-
tiation meetings and conducts
related research on those
negotiations.
Walker is returning just
Possible new
evidence in
Cooper case
PHOTO PROVIDED
Professor Gregg Walker.
this week from Bangladesh
where he participated in a cli-
mate change conference.
This Sisters Country
Civility Project event is being
offered free of charge. All are
invited. RSVPs are encour-
aged by no later than January
20 at citizens4community@
gmail.com. When RSVPing,
indicate if you also are inter-
ested in attending Thursday
morning’s skill-building
event.
SEATTLE (AP) —
Amateur scientists chosen by
the Seattle FBI to search for
clues in the case of the sky-
jacker known as D.B. Cooper
may have found new evidence.
KING-TV reports a team
has been analyzing particles
taken from a tie left by Cooper
after he hijacked a passenger
jet in 1971 and then vanished
out the back wearing a para-
chute, and carrying $200,000.
An electron microscope
located particles including
Cerium, Strontium Sulfide
and pure titanium. Researcher
Tom Kaye says the elements
could have been found in the
manufacturing of Boeing’s
Super sonic transport plane.
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