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The Masters of the Environment Graduate Program offers a series of workshops, seminars, and field trips to students throughout the year at no additional cost. These programs are meant to complement the classroom curriculum and help give students applied, hands-on experiences both on- and off-campus.

Workshops and seminars can range from technical to professional in scope, are often facilitated by leading practitioners and professionals in their respective industries.

Sampling of Past Workshops:

Becoming an Effective Meeting Facilitator: In this workshop, students will learn the basics of facilitation in order to assist organizations, teams and communities to agree on decisions, projects and initiatives. Participants will gain information on how to structure both in-person and virtual meetings in order to create engagement and build consensus. Strategies will be discussed to help prepare agendas, determine activities and exercises, and manage difficult situations.

• Define the role of a facilitator
• Learn five key preparation steps for facilitation
• Gain tips in developing agendas and managing time during facilitation 
• Learn basic methodologies and facilitation formats to engage groups and build consensus both in-person and virtually
• Learn tips, strategies and activities to create participant engagement
• Understand best practices of managing group conversations
• Gain strategies in how to manage disruptions and difficult situations
• Get practice using the facilitation skills with your classmates

Communicating with Impact: Presence is a set of skills and qualities that instill confidence, and create strong connections with any audience, anytime, anywhere. It is the ability to build powerful relationships, credibility and trust by virtue of how you “show up.” Presence is crucial to credibility. Your opportunities, reputation, ability to be seen and heard as a leader - are all linked directly to your “presence.”

This session provides a model, tools, and strategies to enhance your presence, to be seen as a more credible, confident, and effective leader.  Specifically, participants will be provided targeted practice and coaching to: (1) Balance competence and connection behaviors; and (2) Recognize his/her/their own presence strengths and gaps.

Crafting Your Resume: Join Rachel Bigby, MENV's resident Career Advisor for an interactive workshop on how to craft a resume that gets noticed. This virtual workshop will cover topics such as: types of resumes, key elements of a resume, do's and don'ts, how to write strong bullets, an