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Project
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of Global
Education
Department of Integrated
Ecology
Akamai University
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P. O. Box 1605,
Friday
Harbor, WA 98250 PHONE:
360-378-6313
EMAIL: nature@interisland.net
Founder/Director Michael
J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Site Synopsis:
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Nature-Connected Education, Counseling and
Healing: Non-Corrupt Degrees, Courses, CEU Training, Grants
and
Financial Assistance
"A
roaring brook refreshed me. I have been cheered by the song of a thrush
and renewed by the sea breeze. A wildflower's fragrance brought me joy.
Each experience was a purifying, self-evident moment when nature's dance as me connected to its dance around me.
This program enables me, at will, to make the renewing powers of such
moments available at work or play, for myself and others."
Learn from self-evidence the
Organic Psychology of creating restorative connections, backyard or backcountry,
that
let Earth teach us what we need to know to come into personal and
global balance.
This accredited, sensory tool for building mutually supportive relationships helps
us remedy our individual, social and
environmental disorders.
Our
unique, no-nonsense, ecotherapy techniques directly enlist nature's
correcting and purifying powers. They enable us to heal our ill-treated body, mind
and spirit as nature heals itself, in and around us.
We
offer a low cost, hands-on process that contributes nature's
mind-recycling
benefits when added to any therapy, profession or healing practice.
- Project NatureConnect presents cooperative participation, competency-based, courses,
careers and Applied
Ecopsychology degree programs
that increase local and global well-being ...distance
education ...accredited ...hands-on ...exploratory
...interactive ...organic ...guaranteed effective ...Ecotherapy
...Integral Ecology.
- AFFORDABLE TUITION: We are a subsidized online learning community of all ages: only $6,000 B.S
.... $6,000 M.S....$7,800 Ph.D.
- Learn how to consistently
think and feel with the peak fact, unadulterated
clarity and happiness that you have
already enjoyed in attractive natural areas.
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- Enable others to use and teach the
astonishing science and peace of this uncorrupted mental health stress
reduction
process.
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- Empower
yourself to benefit from purifying time and energy spent in natural
areas, garden to wilderness.
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- Build a scientific structure
in your
psyche that registers, values and sustains forever the deep sensory
enrichment truths you find in nature.
We
hold these truths to be self-evident.
- OBTAIN SELF-ENHANCING CAREER CREDENTIALS.
- Strengthen your
livelihood. Include Eco-Art Therapy certification as an
optional part of it.
- Accredit
and increasingly green
your prior training and life experience.
- Gain the peak performance expertise
to bring about reasonable change that improves all of life as it
improves your life.
- WE ARE BORN AS PART OF
NATURE'S BALANCED FUNCTIONS. However, we suffer many disorders due to
the fact that, on average:
- Over
99 percent of how we think and feel is disconnected from
nature's self-correcting and restorative way of the eons.
- More
than 95 percent of our time on Earth is spent indoors, boxed in and away from nature's
paradise. Learn how to think and feel outside the box.
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We are unbalanced because the intelligence of our inherent natural
psyche is stressed and abandoned like a fish out of water.
Nature's dance in our spirit is homeless.
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Project NatureConnect provides you with award winning sensory
activities to achieve whole-life
thoughts, feelings and relationships. They help you reasonably utilize
nature's renewing energies to remedy the destructive estrangement of
our spirit and soul from
the natural. A purifying antidote for corruption, they give you the
ability to increase health and wellness.
Anybody who invented a pill with the balanced healing powers of nature
would
become a billionaire overnight because its side effects, rather than
being destructive, would improve
the wellness of society and the
environment, too.
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- If you find
that the synopsis, above, includes your interests or goals, select here now
to realize them quickly through our Program Catalog Organization and
Application pages at www.ProjectNatureConnect.org.
Otherwise, like safely discovering the beautiful
wilds and gifts of a natural area, continue by scrolling
down to further find and explore your attractions in this
unique and critically important website. To
benefit from the depth of its wholeness,
simply
enjoy and value each interest you find on our pages, then follow
additional interests and links that present themselves, or start the program now. Learn it
by doing it. Experience is the best teacher.
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not miss anything, visit our total site index
containing annotated links to our key pages. Note that you can begin
complete explorations of our website
from there.
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begin a free, 1-3 credit,
transferable CEU course based on your explorations of this
website and what you find
of value in it. Select
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Educating,
Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN)
Practical, green,
online, low-cost,
uncorrupted degree
programs,
courses and holistic career training based on the art of Natural
Attraction Ecology
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Dear Visitor,
A
hearty welcome to you and many thanks for visiting our website.
Are
you aware that individuals who have enjoyed a quiet
visit in a natural area report that their contact with nature's
balance and beauty increased
their joy and well-being. They say that the connection renewed
their aliveness,
cleared
their mind and
energized their spirit. By helping us consciously tap into this power
of nature and its benefits, in lasting ways, the process of Educating, Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN) enables
anyone, at anytime, to increase personal, social and environmental
wellness, and help others do the
same.
ECHN
students learn how to let authentic nature's self-correcting dance
genuinely connect with
their heart, mind and essence. This empowers them, along with their
clients and friends, to increase well being anywhere. Grants are
available for learning how to think, feel and relate like
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If
you value or honor your good experiences with nature, you may:
- Benefit from adding
a balanced
thinking and
relationships career, job or hobby to your life.
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- Learn the science of genuinely
connecting our
psyche to the grace and corrective energies of nature.
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- Renew your living earth bonds.
Strengthen global life sustainability.
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- Stop fraud. In cooperative community, be renewed by
the joyful aliveness dance of nature's regenerative
ways and spirit,
in and around you.
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- Strengthen
your cause or livelihood. Obtain an inexpensive Ph.D., M.S.
CEU's, Certifications or other supportive
credentials, by adding Applied Ecopsychology to what you want to do.
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- You can make Project
NatureConnect be an
income-producing, online, degree or training program that is part of
your job, school or company.
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- Help
people lastingly sustain the good experiences they enjoy
in nature. Learn
to use, teach
and profit
from sensory
nature-connecting activities.
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- Improve
your life and
all of life. Add the phenomenal balancing and purifying powers of
nature's restorative attributes to how you think and feel.
- Discover
how to recycle and correct
Industrial Society's great
underlying disorder while you remedy its hurtful
symptoms.
- Join and
support Project NatureConnect's New
Copernican Revolution
Your First Step: Our Online Orientation
Course (enroll
here)
A simple allegory conveys the heart of our lasting dilemmas:
We
are conceived as children of Mother Nature to suckle the loving breast
of her purifying health, balance and beauty. However, at our birth into
Industrial Society it is as if we are socialized to suck a nipple on a
bottle
of
whiskey. For the remainder of our lives we suffer the corrupting
effects of our whiskey attachment until we connect with nature's
power to help us overcome this addiction.
Our nipple addiction explains
why we can't change when we want to and we are insensitive to nature's
welfare, why too often "life sucks"
and "just say no" is not enough.
"The
short-term stress-reduction effects of a quiet
walk
in the park clearly demonstrate that most
people have an inherent sensory healing attraction to nature. However,
long-term, it usually
escapes the way they are trained to think.
If they search for it for a thousand years, they may first find its
peace.
With
this program, I learn how to walk out my back door
and immediately connect my thoughts and feelings with the colorful
purity of a
rainbow...with the intelligent life-dance of the trees, the grass, the
song of the
wind...the
clouds. This is an undeniable fact and experience, not my
imagination, so it is
lasting. My reasoning senses my natural attraction and I respect
nature's
renewing
balance and beauty.
I
love how these ecopsychology activities help nature's vitality consciously flow through me at will. Connecting
my natural senses with the enchanting wisdom of our living
Planet increases my
honesty, clears my head and opens
my heart.
The perk of my
livelihood is that I am paid to
teach others the science of this beautiful, eco-intelligent path to
well-being."
- Anonymous ECHN Participant
Online Orientation
Course (enroll
here )
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Project
NatureConnect (PNC)
Department
of Integrated
Ecology, Institute of Global Education
in cooperation with
Akamai
University, Institute of Applied Ecopsychology
Portland State University Extended Studies
San
Juan Island: P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 360-378-6313
Email: nature@interisland.net
CONTACTS, COURSES AND DEGREE
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Mission Statement:
We dedicate ourselves to help any individual learn how to create authentic sensory Ecotherapy moments that let Earth teach. To
this end we offer holistic methods and materials that
remedy our destructive
disconnection from nature and help the United Nations meet its manifesto for sustainable personal and global peace, environmentally sound
education and
social justice.
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"Here is the great secret that you really
need to know"
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Education, Counseling and
Healing With Nature, (ECHN)
A
POTENT SENSORY TOOL HELPS
US IDENTIFY AND REMEDY THE DISJOINTED POINT SOURCE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT
AIL US.
Although
we are part of nature, we live excessively indoor lives. The duality of our enormous
separation from the natural world interferes with our body, mind and
spirit applying and benefiting from the self-correcting way nature
works to
sustain our planet's health, balance and purity, around and in us.
Because Industrial Society's indoor learning process teaches us how to
think and feel in excessively
nature-disconnected ways, our
separation from nature's restorative recycling powers
creates addictive mind pollution in our psyche. This
contamination warps our
thoughts and feelings. Its fraud causes us to create and suffer
personal, social and environmental problems that are seldom found in
unadulterated nature or in nature-connected people(s).
In
Industrial Society, twists
in our mentality and the disorders they produce have a corrupt point source of origin.
For a peaceful world in balance and wellness, we must each identify and
correct this detrimental point source. Project NatureConnect
gives any
interested person the tools to accomplish this crucial feat.
The
point source of our troubles is our denial.
We deny that our natural
senses and sensitivities
are excessively stressed due to our disconnectedness from nature.
We
seldom recognize that we traumatize our senses because our society's
prejudice to conquer
nature makes these sensibilities endure unbalanced, disturbing,
nature-disconnected fulfillments.
The profound loss of nature's purifying and healing powers to our body,
mind and spirit causes us to
continually want
and when we want there is never
enough.
The
torment of our emotional wanting is a form of mind pollution. It
produces a
wounded sensory imbalance, a painful short circuit in our psyche that
warps our intelligence, thoughts and feelings. It
results in our injurious stress, greed, disorders and dysfunctions,
locally and globally.
Our incessant wanting
goads us into yearly
using 150 percent more "natural resources" than our planet produces,
even while we are fully aware that this is a dangerous and unreasonable
relationship. It makes us feel stupid or inadequate, so we
further want. No matter how
rich or poor we are, most
of us feel we need 15 percent more money.
The
remedy for our mind polluting wants is the science of Educating,
Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN).
Its holistic methods and materials are
sensory contact tools. Backyard or backcountry, they let nature's
momentous self-correcting and balancing powers
reasonably satisfy us in uncorrupt ways and help us improve well-being
at every level.
There is hope if we use and teach ECHN. It's organic antidote and
preventative for our disorders provides us with a unique sensory art and technology, Natural Attraction Ecology. This
potent application of Ecopsychology enables us to remedy
our polluted thoughts and feelings.
ECHN works
because it lets the dance
of nature's ways help our intelligence
compost the fraud and duality of our harmful
industrial addictions and recycle them into constructive relationships.
ECHN
starts with a subsidized, online Orientation
Course. It offers nature-connecting methods and materials that one
can immediately apply to their life and livelihood.
Additional
course work enables you to master the ECHN process under professional
guidance, so that you can teach it, or use it to enhance your career or
hobby.
As part of the ECHN process
you may attain Certification, or a subsidized
Master's or Ph.D. degree
in Applied Ecopsychology.
ECHN provides us with the organic sensory tools that
we critically need, but that are seldom provided, to solve our
problems.
ECHN helps us, locally or globally, walk
hand in hand while enveloped in the real-life beauty and cooperation
of nature's amazing grace. You can start doing this right now. Begin here.
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"Being immersed in this
class and learning how to actively ask
Nature to teach me what I needed to know and
to help me understand it and grow has been a godsend. Contact with
nature has shown me
how to find peace in the midst of absolute chaos, healing and balance
in the midst of total melt-downs."
- ECHN Course Participant
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How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding,
careers, degrees, activities and research.
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SPECIAL NOTE:
This website gives
your
interests and values the opportunity to fully explore the process of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
(ECHN).
If questions arise here that are not answered on
our companion
website, ProjectNatureConnect.org, we encourage you to telephone us so we may answer them. We are dedicated to help you customize ECHN to
meet your needs, goals and budget. 360-378-6313 SKYPE: mjcohen6313
Your
phone or Skype call
is the most powerful and practical way to obtain the details
of how to achieve important life and
livelihood desires via ECHN. It makes this subsidized, inexpensive
program become a self-designed enabling, online tool and credential for
you to increase personal, social
and
environmental health.
- At your request, we will be happy to
call (USA)
or Skype you.
- You
will find it very worthwhile to explore the Annotated Index and Links to the
50 most important web pages on this site as well as be familiar with
our organized steps to excellence.
- ATTENTION: START LEARNING NOW. You can immediately begin a free, 1-3 credit, transferable CEU
course based on your explorations of this website and what you
find of value in it. Select Here.
- Like safely visiting the beautiful wilds and
gifts of a natural area, continue by scrolling down to
further explore our web pages. To benefit from the depth of
their wholeness, simply enjoy and value each
interest you find and then follow additional interests and links
that present themselves.
- Read the illuminating
interview with Mike Cohen,
then call him at 360-378-6313.
SKYPE: mjcohen6313
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ECHN provides a revolutionary, yet
practical,
antidote and preventative for the
detrimental ways that we learn to think and act in Industrial Society.
It is an antidote for fraud, a pure eco-intelligence that helps you to experience and
trust first-hand, a
wide range of significant true-to-life information we often learn to
overlook.
Our students
come from many religions and philosophies or from no religious
background. By energizing into consciousness our excessively
subdued 53 natural senses and sensibilities, the program supports and
strengthens connections between nature, reason and spirit at every
level.
Use these pages to discover
how, for survival in balance, humanity and nature inherently support
each other and how, for
excessive financial profit and to
our loss, we are
socialized to
deteriorate our vital relationship with nature. Use our Sitemap
to help you locate specific information
As you visit these pages, collect
what you find is attractive, makes sense, and is of value to you.
Then
make it happen for yourself. Call
360-378-6313. If
you email us we'll
send you special links and enrollment information. At your request, we
will call (USA)
or Skype you.
Note
that all our programs start with our practical,
self-empowering Orientation
Course. We invite you to read an
article about its value and effects.
"This is the course that every
civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our
runaway disorders."
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Raymond Sierra, Counselor
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Synopsis
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Michael J. Cohen
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Humans
have spent 99.9 per
cent of their evolutionary history in natural environments. In this
light,
getting
back to nature is a psychological and physiological homecoming.
Our
good experiences in nature, along with our love of nature, demonstrate
that all
living things, including our planet and us, enjoy attractive optimums
of
life,
cooperation, diversity and health when they are nurtured by the
streaming and replenishing cycles of nature's dance. If
your consciousness recognizes and appreciates this truth, it is rare,
remarkable
and much needed. It/you deserve support in all possible ways. We are
dedicated to empower you with methods, materials and financial
assistance that help you get to where you want to go while helping
others do the same.
Nature
purifies and
renews itself, and us as part of it. Its life and intelligence achieve
balance
and beauty without producing garbage or our abusive and
destructive effects.
The
dance of nature's
cycles and their restorative ways are attracted to flow
through,
in and around us. We inherit at least 53
natural senses that register
our need of,
and attractions to, nature's purifying cyclic flow.
Our
genuine connection with nature's flow satisfies our natural senses.
Consider, for example, the water
cycle and our natural senses of thirst
and excretion.
The latter are felt-sense attractions to water that we experience
and they are
fulfilled by
its flow
in, through and out of
us. The same thing is true for over 50
additional inherent natural senses that
enable us to register and relate to the world in balanced ways. They
include our senses
of place,
community, trust, belonging and consciousness, of sight, scent,
reasoning, intuition and support.
The natural fulfillment of our
natural senses attractively
conveys
to us that we are on the path to survival in balance. For
example: water satisfies our sense of thirst;
urination satisfies our sense of excretion. These
satisfactions, plus 51 others,
sensibly make us feel more content, happy and relieved.
Part of our
satisfaction is that we
know our natural personal sensory fulfillments also nurture and satisfy
the functions of the water cycle as well as the
needs of the global life community. Our excrements feed the web-of-life
and its flow through us, and vice versa.
The balanced process, above, holds
true for each and all our natural senses,
sensitivities
and sensibilities when we
quietly visit a natural area. Most of us have had good experiences in
nature that demonstrate this. To our loss, as part of our
conquest of nature, we
learn to deny the significance and value of our nature-connected
experiences, of our love of nature and its enchanting powers.
We
produce our personal, social and environmental problems because,
motivated by monetary profit, we
excessively and irrationally bond/addict our natural senses to less
adequate and often harmful
artificial substitutes for
their nurturing origins in nature. These substitutes are created by the
bias of
Industrial Society's nature-exploitive thinking. It attaches our
mentality
to corruption from misguided technologies, places and relationships.
"The
unreasonable bias of Industrial Society rejects that our
planet acts like an attractive living organism and that we are
like a cell in it. We
don't think we need to 'Do onto Earth and nature as
we
would have them do onto us.' However, the deteriorating state of life
on Earth tells us otherwise."
-
Michael J. Cohen
The
prejudice in our thinking foolishly leads us to reward ourselves for
separating ourselves from the balancing powers of nature's
renewing purity,
streaming
and satisfactions. The time to correct this malfunction is sometimes
referred to as the age of Aquarius
The result of our unbalanced
nature-disconnected thoughts,
feelings
and spirit is that we
become Eco Zombies,
suffer too many
disorders and we can seldom
correct
them.
"The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift."
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Our
disconnection of our thoughts and feelings from our life-giving
contact
with nature triggers our natural senses to register a disturbance. This
disturbance alerts us that we have been disconnected from our support
by the wisdom of Organism
Earth and its integrity. For example, over
time, a lack of contact with
water
energizes one of our natural sensory attractions to water, our sense of
thirst,
into our awareness. We reasonably respond to this feeling
by drinking
water. Our
appropriate action satisfies us. We feel fulfilled and happy from
it. Again, the
same thing is true for over 50
additional natural senses that
enable us to register and eco-intelligently
relate to the world.
As
demonstrated by a quiet walk in a natural area, the grace of
nature's flow not only corrects, restores and balances life in the
natural area. While in contact with it, it also does the same
with our corrupted thoughts,
feelings and spirit.
We
suffer most or our personal, social and environmental disorders because
Industrial Society has indoctrinated us to live extremely
nature-disconnected lives.
When
we don't have nurturing contact with nature's
powerful recycling and renewing properties, the imperfections of our
substitutes
for them
leave our natural senses feeling unfulfilled. This creates in us a
natural sensation of wanting.
Again,
wanting signals that
our psyche is aware that the balanced and healing wholeness of
life is missing and that it needs it. Inherently, our psyche craves the
sanity and survival values of nature's fulfilling
equilibrium.
When
we want there is never
enough.
We come to feel that we are not
enough
because we
can't make
ourselves feel full, complete, happy and giving. Our loss of our
natural
sensory sanity makes us become greedy,
stressed and unbalanced. These disorders deteriorate
our well-being.
"Until mankind can extend the
circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never,
himself, know peace."
-Albert
Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize, l950
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The
paragraphs, above, explain why even a short quiet walk in the park
helps us feel renewed. The visit is a healing re-creation and
reconnection of our psyche with its origins in nature.
It is not
just "recreation," or "an escape," or "a break from real life".
Rather, it is an authentic sensor connection to our natural
essence.
As we habitually live, work and play in
excessively separated
ways
from nature's regenerative natural attraction flow in natural areas, we
remove our
thinking and feeling from the whole-life wisdom of Mother Earth.
To decrease our injurious dualistic separation, backyard
or backcountry, the accredited
Ecopsychology
science
of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN), enables our
thinking to, at will, make genuine, conscious, sensory
connections with nature's restorative flow through
and around us. Like a new Copernican revolution, the connections give
our psyche nature's powers; they
beneficially help us think, feel and relate like nature's balanced
perfection works.
The
ability to apply ECHN is an important and
teachable part of our daily lives. It helps us increase the integral
health and welfare of all, including the nature of our living
planet. ENROLL
NOW
"If
a child in its mother's womb received an injection that addicted
it to attack its mother, the lethal effects to mother and child
would be obvious.
Similarly, as adults, our destructive addictions to exploiting
and conquering mother nature, in and around us, make us attack and
deteriorate the dance of our mother
planet, Earth, and ourselves as part of it.
Identifying
this problem is not enough. We must also learn
how to make genuine sensory contact with nature's
corrective powers. They best
enable us
to recycle and transform
our corrupt addictions into mutually supportive
relationships with Earth and each other.
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We
are born with the natural ability to
sense
and feel how nature's global flow supports the purity of life in
balance, in and around us.
At
birth and thereafter, Industrial
Society places tinted and warped, nature-conquering glasses over our
eyes. To our
loss, they hurtfully taint our perceptions and thinking about how
nature works and benefits us. This distortion twists our thinking and
deteriorates our
well-being. In turn, we deteriorate our society and the environment.
The
mission of this ECHN website is to empower
each visitor to help nature remove the duality produced by the
distorted tinting and warp
in our glasses. ECHN enables us to see and act from the clear
truth of how we have been deceived and how nature's ways maintain
our
health and welfare. In addition, it gives us the ability to use
nature's wellness and recycling powers to correct our misguided
thoughts, feelings and spirituality.
"All chidren are born
geniuses. 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swifly, inadvertently,
degeniused by grown ups."
-Buckminster
Fuller
Nature
is wise, but seldom literate. Unlike us, plants, animals and minerals
neither hear, read, write nor tell stories with words and other
symbols. In authentic nature, books, telephones and television are
unknown.
Our
words and stories are
abstracts. They are shortcuts we use to know/label/identify the real
natural world. For example, the word "tree" and a real Tree
are two entirely
different things. The
word "tree," as it appears on this
screen, is a representation. It does not need air, water,
food, soil and supportive
relationships to exist and it does not provide them for others. In
contrast, a real tree cannot
exist without these relationships. Similarly, we can't eat the
written word
"apple" and have it satisfy or nourish us. We also can't breathe a
dollar
bill.
We
can consciously feel and respond to the intelligence of our natural
sensation of thirst without
knowing how to read, write or spell it.
"My fake flowers died because in my imagination I forgot to water them."
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Anonymous
Although
only 10 percent of our mentality registers and relates to the world in
literate-abstract ways, we
are trained to think
and feel mostly through the
words and symbols of literacy. This is un-whole and detrimental.
Literacy
simply describes, but also omits,
the natural attraction ability of nature to work its restorative magic
in non-literate ways.
To
our loss, our words are
usually imaginary, exploitive
or
half-truth stories about the natural world. They are media, not reality. They seldom
nurture our psyche
with authentic nature's renewing powers because they are just words and
stories. They are not
nature's natural attraction eons of life-supportive ways and
self-correcting essence.
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Sensory
vs Story Ways of Knowing and
Relating |
Nature
designed almost 90
percent of our mentality to
register and relate to the
world through non-literate natural attraction sensitivities,
as do
all other members of the nature's plant, animal and mineral
communities. Our
sensory way of knowing is one that we biologically inherit. It is our
unadulterated mind, a
seamless continuum of nature's regenerative and purifying
intelligence. This sensate-feeling way of knowing is
sometimes referred to as our "Mammalian" or "Horse" Brain," or the "Old
Brain." It is the attraction/love that a dog or cat experiences, how
they know and relate to the world, including us.
In
contrast, only 10 percent of our natural mentality can know and think
with
abstract word and number stories or images. This is sometimes called
our
"Neocortex" or
"New Brain."
Some
individuals define our New Brain literate thinking functions as
"intelligence."
This
suggests that the beauty of the natural attraction, pre-literate,
balanced and
self-corrective life ways of the global
web-of-life community and its eons is non-intelligent or
"stupid." Is it really? If so, how does it produce its purity, paradise
and
unique perfection? To date, our intelligence can't even produce
milk.
Our
nature-disconnected, abstract, New Brain stories seldom
gratify or inform us
in lasting and healing connectedness, as does
the authentic Old Brain natural
attraction way
that
nature works.
"I
thank God for beginning this world with the seed of natural attraction
and trusting the seed's self-organizing desire to grow attractive
relationships."
- Project NatureConnect Student
(edited)
The
essence of nature is the attraction flow of its conscious, satisfying
and nurturing, non-literate,
natural wisdom.
Wordlessly,
the flow attractively supports, balances, and
restores vigor and aliveness everywhere in every moment, as it has over
the eons. This is super-intelligent behavior if life in balance
is important.
We
often attach labels to
nature's purifying flow:
"Reiki," "Chi," "Love," "Tao," "Natural Attraction," "God." However,
it is the authentic restorative powers
of nature's flow
through our mind, body and psyche, not
just our labels and stories, that
renew, recycle
and heal what ails us.
Life
supports itself through wordless
attraction relationships, not
arguments or theories about these relationships. ENROLL
NOW
My
client had been in a motor vehicle accident and had multiple injuries
that prevented her from getting out and about. She was in chronic
pain and was having severe anxiety attacks.
There
was a nice potted plant in her living room (I think it was a
Dieffenbachia, but I'm not sure). I described how we are in a
mutually-supportive
role with plants -- they provide us with oxygen and we provide them
with CO2. I suggested that when she was feeling anxious she
should breathe with the plant, exchanging gasses and and recognize that
they
were being mutually supportive. As she did so, I could see
her visibly relaxing. Within a few minutes she reported that her
anxiety was gone and her pain was somewhat reduced.
Over
the next few weeks she successfully used this technique whenever she
was anxious. As her physical abilities improved she began
spending time in the garden and then began gardening from her
wheelchair. Her anxiety was completely controlled without
medication.
I
don't know what she bonded to, but she developed a sense that the plant
(and later her garden) was her friend and that they were in a mutually
supportive relationship. This feeling was able to help her
overcome her anxiety."
John Scull, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist
"Through ECHN, the
fictional,
but balanced and restorative "Pandora-Na'vi" way of relating, as
portrayed in James
Cameron's AVATAR
film, is
aproachable in
reality."
Anonymous Program
Participant
It
is
worth repeating that the immediate ways of nature's renewing
natural attraction flow produce
nature's optimums of
life, diversity and balance.
It is
worth repeating that the
flow accomplishes this feat
without
producing garbage or pollution or our abusiveness, disorders,
isolation
and war.
We endure and produce great problems
because, in early childhood, we
addictively bond our natural attraction senses and thinking to the bias
of our
society's
nature-conquering stories. At home and school
we disconnect our psyche from the
healing powers of nature's
flow. Our thinking becomes
addicted to
distortions and we produce many problems.
We seldom learn, and often resist, how
to let nature genuinely touch,
no
less embrace
or
recycle, the nature-disconnected, wounded, destructive and
polluted ways that we often learn to think and feel.
REMEDY
THIS DISCONNECTION
The
natural attraction process of Educating, Counseling and Healing with
Nature (ECHN) helps
us remedy our loss of nature's renewing grace in our senses, thinking
and feeling. It enables us to scientifically discover, sense and feel
who
we are with
respect to the whole of life and its wellness.
ECHN
empowers us, moment
by moment,
to let conscious sensory contact
with
nature's purifying flow satisfy and
strengthen our body, mind and spirit. It is an integral ecology, a
natural attraction-based
psychology that helps us enjoy our
satisfactions in ways that satisfy and sustain all of the natural
world while reversing fraud or corruption. It helps
us increase our happiness reasonably, in a good way, meaning, "To the
benefit of
all."
The
more that the unifying touch of nature helps us think and feel in
balance, the more the world enjoys the peace
of well-being."
-
Michael J. Cohen
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HELP
THE WISDOM OF NATURE'S POWERS REVERSE OUR DISORDERS
Personally
or globally, we can't change for the better if our thinking does not
know how to
release the emotional and sensory bonds that lastingly attach us to our
nature-disconnected stories and the disturbing relationships they
produce.
Enable
yourself
to establish balance, improve health and increase happiness by reducing
our destructive attachments. Help nature help you remedy
our wide range of personal, social and
environmental
disorders.
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.Rewards
from Reconnection |
The
Sensory ECHN Science of Organic, Whole
Life Psychology Makes Sense
Our natural sense of taste
is part of nature's old-brain wisdom. It is a natural attraction to eat
certain foods. In congress with our 52
other natural senses,
including our sense of reason,
taste
intelligently conveys what and when something may be
permissible to eat.
August
6, 2007: Researchers gave a
group of 3-5 year old
children two identical
servings of many different kinds of food. The only difference between
the two servings was that one was
wrapped in a
McDonald's wrapper, the other in a plain wrapper.
Overwhelmingly,
the children said the identical food placed in the McDonalds' wrapper
tasted
better. Their psyche had been misled and corrupted. At this
early age, their
natural senses and
sensibilities had already been prejudicially
socialized by the money-making story and images
conveyed on
the McDonalds' wrapper.
That story, along with its questionable values and effects,
had distorted and stressed the childrens' natural ability to think and
feel appropriately with respect to their natural sense of
taste.
Their healthy natural attachment to healthy food had been
polluted and disturbed.
They were partly delusional. They had been robbed of part of
their
vital natural intelligence and
its joy. One of their life attachments to the life of Organism Earth
had been "McBurgered."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem. BEGIN
HERE
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.SUMMARY: The Dance of Natural Intelligence
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“I
believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different
expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with
each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. … The whole is in all
its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me so intensely in earnest, that
I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.”
-Robinson Jeffers
We
are born as part of nature's organic grace and purifying flow.
Each
of us are part of the non-literate attraction dance of nature. Each of
us are the
self-correcting and nurturing ways of the dance manifesting itself
as
us.
As previously mentioned, natural
Attraction, Love, Chi,
Spirit, Reiki, Quantum, Qigong and Tao
are synonymous.
Each is a different label for the same essence of
nature's way.
For our survival in balance,
the uncorrupt natural
attraction energies of nature -the
binding forces of the eons that hold the world together- continually
flow through
and
about us.
They
register in us as 53
natural attraction senses. Each
sense helps keep us alive and well by helping our thinking to find
healthy natural
fulfillment through natural attractions that we register. Each
may be a continuum of the ancient
Big Bang and its Higgs
Boson natural attraction essence to grow into the Universe, moment
by moment.
As
mentioned above, one
of our 53 natural attraction senses is our sense of taste. Another
is our
sense
of language, our literacy/story
way of knowing the world. Our
additional 53 natural senses also include our natural attractions to
reason,
trust,
water (thirst), place, community, color, beauty, consciousness, music,
temperature, cooperation and love.
At any
given moment, nature and we naturally consist of its eons of
balanced and beautiful natural attraction optimums of life,
diversity and cooperation. Our 53
natural senses, when
healthy,
are attracted to, and register in our consciousness, the wide variety
of
mutually supportive natural attraction relationships that contribute to
the universal welfare and richness of life in each moment. These
qualities are an
essence of natural areas, not of, for example, an automobile engine.
Too often, we learn to forget that natural attraction is the essence of
love and our ability to love.
"Nature is the unseen
intelligence that loved us into being."
-Elbert
Hubbard
When
our natural attraction senses are injured, distorted or missing, we
can't
register, be aware, or make good sense of the truth of the world and
ourselves. We sense, instead, that we hurt, or that we are insecure and
that we may be at
risk.
It
is the nature-disconnected, irrational and manipulative parts of our
industrial-story way of knowing, along with its excessive conquest of
nature
in and around us, that causes us to produce many troubles.
The misleading or unwhole
parts of our story world "McBurger" the
wisdom of our natural
dance and the ages. As previously mentioned, this does not just happen
only with our sense of
taste. Our other 52
natural senses also habitually learn to attach
to, and support, Industrial Society's excessive drumbeat of profit,
power and the conquest of nature and the
natural. For this reason we suffer the all too common
garbage/pollution,
abusiveness, illness,
excessiveness and
disorders in and from Industrial Society.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
BEGIN HERE
NOTE: Genuinely
nature-connected people(s) seldom cause or
display our disorders.
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Our wide range of personal and
global problems result from our misguided socialization
by Industrial
Society. The unreasonable distortions in its nature-disconnecting and
exploitive stories too often McBurger how
we think, feel and sense.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Motivated
by prestige, conquest and monetary rewards, the contemporary world
conditions us to separate
from and excessively supervise nature throughout our lifetime. We are
not encouraged to applaud our natural
attractions to nature's intelligence, no less revere it or let it
express its
love for our natural selves.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
We have built our
lives into a vicious cycle. Industrial Society's impact on our psyche
erodes our thinking as it captures our natural senses and attaches them to
nature conquering
stories, artifacts and technologies.
This
removes our psyche from nature's restorative qualities. We become
dependent on Industrial Society, the source of many problems, to heal
them. Do you
think this is sensible or sane?
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
We
experience the corruption of McLove, not naturally supportive, global
life community love.
With many of our natural
senses and sensibilities missing, our thinking is
unable
to sensibly
deal with our most challenging personal, social and
environmental dilemmas.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Our
problems are often non-sense. They result
from the excessive disconnection from nature of our natural ability to
make sense.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Our
major problem is that our nature-inaccurate and nature-conquering
stories secretly remove nature's restorative grace from our daily
lives, thoughts and feelings.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Without
realizing it, we often feel depressed or unworthy because the unifying
dance of
our natural
vitality, integrity and sensibility has been reduced or incapacitated.
We have
excessively separated from nature's flowing intelligence and
vitality.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Our
greatest troubles result from us being in denial.
Industrial
Society denys that, for profit, it encourages us to
excessively
and destructively
conquer or
exploit
nature, in and around us, including our 53 natural attraction senses.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Instead
of helping us
remedy our irresponsible disconnection from nature, Industrial Society
encourages us to view our nature-separated lives as
"Normal,"
"Progress," "Economic Growth," "Winning" or "Excellence,"
etc. This is
non-sense with respect to living in mutually supportive balance with
people and places of the whole of the world. It is not
attractive. It is not how nature works. It deteriorates life in balance.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
The
immense loss of nature's beneficial ways and joy in our
lives leaves us wanting, stressed and helpless. This turns us to
destructive "fixes." To try to correct this, almost 80
percent of us
are in
some kind of therapy.
However, almost 100 percent of the therapy available to us is
disconnected from nature. Do you think this makes sense?
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
In
the "McDonald's Wrapper Study," cited above, a minority of 25
percent of the
children retained their ability
to clearly register that the food samples were identical.
In
such clear-thinking individuals there is hope.
Project
NatureConnect applied
ecopsychology empowers any
clear-thinking individual who recognizes, rather than
denies, the destructiveness of our excessive
nature-disconnection dilemma. It helps these individuals
reverse their, and our,
disorders by learning, using and teaching
the renewing and
substance-free
process of Educating,
Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN).
Backyard
or backcountry, ECHN enables caring individuals to beneficially
enlist the assistance of nature's corrective and curative
attractions and their powers, rather than continue to unreasonably
disconnect from or
conquer them. To
this end, ECHN provides
online training, degrees and financial support. BEGIN HERE
ECHN
helps you green any discipline,
talent or profession and give it
added value.
"Whenever
we omit ECHN from our daily lives, we dangerously strengthen the root
of our disorders. We must now learn how to help nature help us heal our
psyche. That will enable us to think, feel and
relate like
the natural attraction beauty of nature's peace works."
You may,
online, attain a low cost ECHN certificate or degree. It is subsidized
to
you for your sensible desire to make a contribution to
well-being by
adding the organic application
of nature-connecting psychology (ECHN Applied Ecopsychology) to your
livelihood or hobby.
"Due
to brain injury in a cycling accident, Bart, a writer, could no longer
write due to head pain. For years he suffered constant hurt that that
did not respond to repeated surgical, chemical, psychological
and
meditation treatment.
Bart sought alternatives on the
Internet,
discovered ECHN and took an online
ECHN class.
He did the course's required nature connecting activities with a group
of trees that attracted him in the center of his town. This heightened
his natural 53-sense relationship with them, and with his online
classmates, too. The ECHN experiences that they all shared by email
enhanced the good
feelings he experienced.
Through these interactions, nature's
recuperative powers
enabled Bart to renew many natural senses and energies, recycle his
mental
contaminates, and overcome his pain so that he could write again. He
said the pain "had reduced and it had also transformed into pleasure."
Later, when
the trees were to be removed for a development, Bart reasonably and
passionately rallied the town to protest the tree's forthcoming demise.
The
townspeople saved the trees and became involved with ECHN." (see
many similar results and outcomes)
"I go to nature to be soothed
and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
- John
Burroughs
"Applied
Ecopsychology
reverses our
disconnectedness by utilizing proven medical procedures. For example,
good medical thinking and research have created surgical techniques
that reattach an amputated arm back to the body. If reconnected
properly, the arm will, in time, function normally. Part of this art is
the surgical technology our clear thinking has devised to bring the arm
back in proper contact with the body.
The remainder of the procedure, above, is
trusting that once this reconnection is made, nature itself has the
wisdom to heal the rupture and rejoin the arm and body as one
integrated organism. We don't know how to do that healing, however
nature does it continuously via its natural attraction ecological
processes at sub-atomic and global levels. That is nature's way. Good
medical thinking respects that nature has this extraordinary
regenerative power. It taps into it. It surgically provides the proper
environment and time for nature to heal, as only nature can. Applied
Ecopsychology offers Organic Psychology activities that help us
accomplish this with respect to our
extremely nature-separated psyche, thinking and feeling, along with the
disorders they create."
-
Akamai
University Catalog
To
our great loss, we deny that the nature-disconnected way we learn to
think deteriorates our personal, social and
environmental
well-being.
We deny
that nature is the fountainhead of authority
about how it works and the well-being of life in balance.
We deny
that our thinking has
been prejudiciously McBurgered to excessively separate from, and
conquer, nature and its regenerative, natural attraction ways in and
around us.
No
matter
our occupation or beliefs, the faster we admit
that we are bonded to a harmful and unsatisfying natural attraction
disconnection from nature, the faster we may
learn and teach ECHN.
It is a remedy
for our destructive
bonding and for our denial of our detrimental
estrangement from the
natural.
Until proven otherwise,
since the beginning of time, all things, sub-atomics to the universe,
including humanity's body, mind and spirit, have been held together and
unified in pure, balanced integrity by nature's natural attraction dance. This means:
- Everything is a dancer.
.
- Whenever we excessively separate our thoughts, feelings or actions from the
dance, we disrupt it and ourselves. This corruptive disconnection produces problems that the dance and we can't solve.
.
- Natural Attraction Ecology (NAE) is the art and science of creating point source moments
that let the authentic dance reconnect us to itself.
.
- No surprise,
solutions that don't do what NAE helps us do produce additional personal,
social and environmental problems.
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No
offense intended, but if you reject the Conclusion,
above, is it because it is incorrect, or is it because your
multiple sensibilities and tastes have been
McBurgered? Can you, or we, afford to practice the non-sense of our
excessively nature-separated thinking and feeling just because it
is considered "normal," "accepted" or "fundable" and gets us "good
grades?"
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN
HERE
What
McBurgering is your life dancing to? Does the influence of
fashion, fame, fortune, religion, commercialized music, high marks,
prestige etc., leave you feeling
unsatisfied, unreasonable or dependent? Does it seem like lasting, wise
and
supportive naturally attractive rewards
are missing from your life or from the life of your community?
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Do
you sense that you feel dependent on flawed authorities and deceptive
information?
Does
your solution for a problem usually produce a new problem?
Do
you sometimes feel that you are more of a "cultural object" rather
than your true self?
Not
to worry. You
are neither inept nor crazy.
These
results are to be expected when we excessively remove nature's sanity
from our psyche. It is natural to
suffer these
symptoms. They painfully convey to us our profound loss of
nature-contact and
balance. They try to attract us to discover and follow new
restorative attractions in
nature, natural attractions whose energies help our psyche recycle
itself and heal so we may think, relate and trust more
reasonably.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you achieve this end.
BEGIN
HERE
FOR
THE RECORD: in
Industrial Society, on
average, less
than twelve hours of our entire lifetime
is
spent consciously thinking, feeling or building relationships while we
are in tune with the gratifying and sensory wisdom of nature's
balance and beauty.
Many
studies demonstrate that we suffer our troubles because,
during 99.9% of our life, our thoughts and feelings are disconnected
from nature's naturally
attractive, self-correcting and purifying ways.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
We
usually suffer from natural sensory
deprivation.
It prevents us from fully making sense. We render ourselves unable to
think
like the "higher power" of nature's balanced perfection works even
though we inherit this
natural attraction ability at
birth. Our nature deficit disorders
undermine our life and the quality of life in balance as exemplified by
our annihiliation of wolves.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
"To enjoy the powers and
delights of the sense of sight is naturally attractive. If
a person temporarily loses their sense of sight, nature strengthens
their many other natural senses to compensate for this loss. This helps
the blind individual
continue to think and relate sensibly. In addition, when
possible, and sometimes
when medically supported, nature
heals and restores
the blind individual's sense of sight. ECHN
enables us to help nature engage in this natural attraction restorative
process for all
our senses, to do so on our and
its behalf. It invites nature to enter our thinking and do
what it does best."
-
Anonymous Program Evaluation
ECHN
makes space for us to enjoy and benefit
from conscious sensory
contact with nature's flow, backyard
or
backcountry. Engaging our thoughts in its process empowers us
to
lastingly heal our McBurgered senses and stories. This results in us
naturally thinking, feeling and relating in wellness and cooperation
with
others and the environment.
This is
how and why educating, counseling and healing with nature helps you
remedy personal, social and environmental problems.
BEGIN HERE
You
can easily strengthen and improve your professional and personal
life. If the synopsis, above,
makes sense to you, you are
eligible, now, to
save much
time and money. Simply respect your natural sensibilities and
attractions. Learn and benefit from lessons
and techniques that
lastingly connect you and your psyche to nature's restorative flow
rather than continue to remove you from it.
If
you have ever had even one uplifting, attractive experience in nature,
such as a
quiet, renewing walk in the park, you know that connecting
with
nature works. Have you learned to simply take this for
granted
and thereby ignore its potential to help you improve your life,
your
livelihood and our society's sustainability?
Take advantage of PNC career
opportunities and
subsidies. They help people revive
their natural sensibilities and balance. Your best immediate route is
to make
an exploratory call to us at 360-378-6313. Then take our
online, University accredited Orientation
Course. Experience
the demonstrated
benefits
of
ECHN
for yourself.
After completing it, you may choose to continue in our online
training and degree program.
Note that your successful completion of the Orientation Course is the only requirement for you to
continue in the program.
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our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from
first hand experience that uses the
process to teach the process.
For further information: call 360-378-6313 or visit
these links, below, or scroll
down this page or
go to the website Table
of Contents.
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"I
loved this course! It brought me to a place I'd never been before and I
go there again and again. I am always amazed at the
awe-inspiring sensibility from
being engaged with nature in the way these activities help us be. I am so grateful for these natural
attraction interactions. The means for being happy and
feeling love that I discovered have stayed with me."
Our online
Orientation
Course offers
you experiences
that
help you:
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-Discover how to
increase your success and happiness by strengthening personal, social
and environmental well being.
-Honor your prior
training and life
experience; we provide financial assistance and equivalence credit for
it.
-Recognize that, due to a misguided way that
we learn to think in
Industrial Society, we and nature's global life community suffer the
fraud and corrupt thinking found in many
disorders.
-Address the loss of well-being that results
from our thinking's excessive
exploitation of natural systems and attraction energies, in and around
us.
-Realize that the origin of our runaway
disorders
is Industrial Society's refusal to admit that it is unreasonably
disconnected from nature.
-Note how our
excessive conquering and exploitive relationship with nature's healing powers,
in and
around us, makes us dysfunctional
and produces many disorders.
-Make a potent contribution to
person and planet well-being. Be
paid to learn and teach a green
remedy for
our destructive prejudice against nature
and its hurtful effects.
-Gives
you a simple problem solving tool that helps you connect your thinking
and feeling with
nature's wisdom.
-Explore how nature's web-of-life
community has the
attractive self-correcting ability to restore itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or our stressed
psyche.
-Observe
how nature can't help us
correct our disorders
when our thinking is prejudicially socialized to disconnect us from
nature's
ability to help us.
-Become more aware that we
are naturally born into, and part of, the global ecosystem life
community, that our body,
mind and soul are designed to be in natural attraction tune
with, and
nurtured by, the living
earth
throughout our lives...and vice-versa.
-Validate
that to be part of
any system, one has to
be in communication with it and
that
to this end,
we
inherit from
nature more than
50
natural senses.. For example,
when in a natural area,
our
natural attraction sensations/senses of thirst,
motion, trust, belonging, color, place, taste, music, temperature,
beauty, consciousness and community are all
natural system connections and communications that
we
beneficially experience.
-Know that we are naturally
designed to
consciously register our
53 natural senses |
and thoughtfully balance
our lives with nature
through them.
-Be thankful
that each natural sense
helps us make greater sense; that each is an attraction to
support life...a deep,
inherent love of nature...a natural feeling and spirit.
-See that,
to
our loss,
we
learn to dismiss
rather
than to validate, honor and think with our natural senses, moment by
moment.
-Be
conscious that we
suffer our greatest
troubles because, on average, our society's unwarranted prejudice
against nature has "McBurgured"
and
habituated us to disconnect
over
98
percent of our time,
thinking
and senses from
nature's renewing
ways.
This profound
loss leaves us
wanting.
-Note that
when we want,
there is never
enough. This makes us
feel that we are not enough.
Our wanting spawns our
greed, stress and lack
of self-worth along with our excessiveness, abusiveness and fraudulence.
-Register that our
denial of our prejudice against, and excessive
disconnection from, nature's self-correcting web of life is our
underlying problem.
-Reduce our
destructive bias. We must reasonably learn
and teach
how to genuinely reconnect our thinking with the web of life. We must
increase and strengthen our familiar, attractive, mutually-supportive connections with
nature's restorative powers, in and around us, backyard or backcountry.
-Experience the beneficial outcomes of
activities that help you genuinely connect with nature.
-Reduce
our disconnection from nature's
benefits. This program enables you,
moment by moment, to authentically reconnect to our natural
origins, to
increasingly
think, feel and relate in balance and beauty, like the dance of
nature's perfection
works, called by some the time of Aquarius
-Know
how to prove that we need to reconnect. Any
good experience we have already had in nature -like a quiet "walk
on the beach"- is the proof. Keep in mind that life
in balance is the undeniable evidence and proof of
itself.
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"The
orientation course was a validation
of trust and stability. I can still look out and see the paths
taken, the wisdom to reach nature's center and ground
ourselves in its energies. I appreciate the natural attraction
freedom to form the journeys that
were taken. The smiles remain on the surface. Thank you for this!"
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Project
NatureConnect
scientifically and spiritually empowers you to make your life and
interests increase
well-being by reducing
our unreasonable
bias against, and disconnection from, nature.
Help
your occupation further increase health and wellness. Add
peace, enjoyment and income to your work.
No
need to wait. Heighten personal and
professional satisfaction. Call us at
360-378-6313
Benefit
from online, Natural Attraction Ecology nature-connected courses, jobs, funding and degree
programs.
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How to most effectively use
this web site for
educating, counseling and healing with nature jobs, training, funding,
careers, degrees and activities:
For
best results: whenever you are ready, call
360-378-6313 to learn how you may participate independently
or through our self-help grant program (if you email us your phone
number, we'll call you).
Then, BEGIN
HERE to learn and apply all of
our website information. You will learn it from the best possible
teacher, from
first hand experience that uses the
process to teach the process.
The art and science on this
web site is like an
affectionate and tender supermarket of relevant and timely knowledge.
On
these supportive web pages, as explained further below, you simply
identify and
select what is attractive, makes sense, and is of value to you. Then
you
place it in a "remember to
explore this further" section of your mind,
an imaginary "this truly makes sense" shopping
cart. Better
still, write it down.
This
web site immerses you in a wide range of real life information about
human ecology and the organic application of ecopsychology and
ecotherapy. If you use the site fully it will bring you to where you
may feel excited, and perhaps a bit lost, due to the profound
newness and benefits of this nature-connected way of knowing and
relating. When this happens, congratulations! Not to worry. This means you
have used the site correctly and to its fullest.
Additional Procedure:
1.
First bookmark
and
read through this
homepage, then follow its
links of interest.
Always
return to this page
to find additional information and links when you desire them.
2. Explore
and collect
attractive information from
these pages, information that supports your
personal and
professional needs. Place that information in that imaginary
"supermarket shopping cart," in your mind, or your notepad.
3. Contact
Mike Cohen, Ph.D., a
qualified, often fun, adviser who will help you, without pressure, to customize the information
you gather here so that you may best meet your professional,
academic training, personal or
financial goals. 360-378-6313
or Leslie (831) 402-2497 (Pacific Time Zone, USA.), email
them.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: our Orientation
Course
page
is the page to explore for application
and participation in our online
training courses and degree programs. Then call 360-378-6313 to benefit from distance
learning and applying the program within the means of your time and
budget.
This
site's purpose and procedure is to help us help you benefit from online
training experiences, jobs, accredited course work, certification or
degree programs that enhance your personal or professional life via
nature-connected experiential education. This helps you to become a
more supportive citizen of the global web of life
community and Industrial Society. BEGIN
HERE
Use
this homepage to add skills and rewarding benefits to your present
interests, prior training and/or life experience.
Questions?
Comments? Participation? Contact Mike Cohen, 360-378-6313.
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"Change will not come if we
wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we
seek."
- Barack Obama (Help him use ECHN to accomplish this
goal)
Below is a suggested
sequence to follow for this page and its
prime
links. Better still, you can scroll down the page to explore its entire
contents in
sequence.
NOTE: Don't
get lost. Bookmark this page, or use "back" on
your
browser to return to these Contents.
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courses online for
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Enrollment
and Participation Page: BEGIN
HERE
Participate
in Courses and Degree
Programs
online. This link involves you in natural area and online
nature-contacts. They help you experience, first hand, most of the
concepts presented on this homepage and its links.
Gain
the expertise to reach your greatest
potential. Master our core Psychological
Elements of Global
Citizenship online Orientation
Course.
Special
Training Grant
Available: a
$1000 stipend is paid to appropriate professionals for completing this
short online course so they may help increase the well being of their
clientele and the environment Call 360-378-6313.
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Topics
Ecopsychology
in Action:
News, Degrees, Holistic Community Training Courses, Jobs
Books
and Grants for Organic
and Gaia Psychology, Ecotherapy
and Therapists, Nature
Deficit
Disorder, Interdisciplinary Earth Wisdom Study, Peace Corps, Graduate Schools
Environmental
and Human
Services CEU, Holistic Outdoor Counseling, The Secret Natural Law of
Attraction, Green Spirituality, War on Terrorism
Climate
Change Answers, Sustainable Soul Coaching, Stress
Relief
Management and Meditation, Natural
Health and Wellness
Inner
and Global Peace,
Alternative Education Grants, Debt Solution Money, Global Warming
Remedies, Who are You?
Stress
Management, Dream
work, Native American Studies, Home Schooling, Organic Leadership
Consciousness.
Read and/or re-publish reviewed articles: Journal of
Organic Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology
We use Trust
Based Learning and
Funding: you
schedule and pay for your program courses
and/or degree only what you can afford and on a time schedule that fits
your
needs.
Overview
FOUND: A critical missing component
in industrial society
At
home school or work enjoy
and teach the natural attraction, healing, nature-sensitivity online
process of Organic
Psychology. Help reverse our destructive prejudice against the web
of life community. We are part of this community, not
superior to it.
Benefit
from motivational
psychology, the self-correcting and purifying ways of natural
systems within and around
us.
Add
holistic sustainability
and resilience to your personal and professional life.
OUTCOMES:
Boost your energy and joy.
Think and feel like nature's perfection works. Advance your
professional and outdoor life.
Activate
the 53 natural
senses you inherit from nature to become more
- thoughtful, sensitive and likable,
- trustable, friendly and secure,
- helpful, confident and peaceful with people, places and things.
BENEFITS: Increase pleasure. Reduce
depression. Transform the pollution of natural attraction in
contemporary thinking into the
happiness of constructive balanced relationships and meditation with
the whole web of life.
Correct the falsehoods that
painfully injure the wholesome attraction sensitivities of the natural
within and around us.
Empower yourself with
nature-connected community and conflict resolution techniques.
OBJECTIVE:::To
provide and fund tools
for open minded, multiple-intelligence thinking and feeling that help
us reduce the detrimental effects of our excessive separation from, and
exploitation of, nature's web of life.
MISSION:
The mission of Project NatureConnect is to help the world increase
personal, social and environmental well-being. We dedicate ourselves to
teach our civilization how to create sensory nature-contact moments
that enable individuals to think and feel with their hidden, but
inherent, 53-sense earth wisdom. To this end we research and
offer the art of applying scientific activities and degree programs
that help us make
genuine, conscious, sensory contact with nature's essence, in and
around us.
Our vision is to offer an educating, counseling and healing
with nature process that awakens nature's purifying, natural attraction
powers in the human
psyche. As people discover and connect with nature's amazing
grace, unified, hand in hand, we walk our planet's organic path to
wellness, balance and peace.
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objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for
yourself and have your questions answered. You then start by mastering our online Orientation Course.
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This web site
contains portions of the
books: Reconnecting
With Nature, The
Web of Life Imperative, and Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature by Michael
J. Cohen, Ph.D.
The books are
texts for Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship,
our online Orientation
Course that
is rooted in 47 years of living and learning with people and the
equality of balanced relationships learned from direct sensory contact
with natural areas.
Our courses can
be used as self-designed accredited electives for any degree program as
well as to fulfill CEU or professional certification (clock hour)
requirements for counselors or teachers. They
include trust-based
funding: you
schedule and pay for
your program courses and/or degree only what you can afford on a time
table that fits your needs.
Please inquire about
being paid
for published reviews of our books, courses or this
website. We welcome financial or other types of donations.
BEGIN
HERE
and learn all this
information from the best teacher...experience
The program
of Project NatureConnect is subsidized
and strengthens any endeavor or discipline. The major requirement for participation is
your caring intention to learn how to increase personal, social and
environmental well-being.
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NEW/FREE:
- - For Valentines
Day, or any day, give the online gift of a
nature-connection
love activity that
helps strengthen our love safely.
- - Sign
a Petition
for the United Nations to internationally increase personal, social and
environmental well-being via natural attraction educating, counseling
and healing with
nature.
- - Journal of
Organic Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology: Read and/or
re-publish reviewed articles that demonstrate the value of educating,
counseling and healing with nature.
- - The free,
45 minute, online DVD: Naturally
Attracted: Connecting With Michael J. Cohen captures
Project NatureConnect and its participants in action at workshops,
lectures and in the field as it documents the program. It is also reviewed and available by
donation online.
It is included, along with two books, in the materials for the Orientation
Course Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship.
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Obtain a free nature-connection
button that
helps you build
sensible relationships and increase friendships and cooperation.
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You can discover the green essence of personal and global sanity in less
than ten minutes: visit Who Am I?
Who Are
You? Who
Are We?
- - Visit/Join our Facebook Page
for a Social Networking
Gaia Holistic Nature Community Love-In. See Press Release
- - Online, get the
unbiased facts that can help you reverse our
society's destructive disconnection from nature, in and around us.
Learn
about Natural
Attraction Ecology: The Practical Application of Art, Science and
Spirit in Balance
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The most complete and
verified
description of
the PNC program, its
science, rationale, validity and history is
the refereed, free
e-book or hard
copy
Natural
Attraction Ecology: Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature and its associated
free course.
- - Educate yourself. There are 27 Free Online
Articles you
can read, quote or republish. Discover
our greatest challenge and how to cope with it
- - Questions? Would you like
to customize the PNC program for yourself? Email nature@interisland.net or,
better still, call
360-378-6313
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INTRODUCTION
"This
is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us
resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans
rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
-
Barack Obama
(Help him use ECHN to accomplish this goal)
A word to the naturally
wise.....
Welcome,
and thank you for your strong interest in advancing the well-being of
all of life on Earth, including humanity.
Thank
you, too, for recognizing that our individual and collective well being
has deteriorated due to industrial society's insensitive and excessive
conquest of nature, within and around us.
We have
been socialized to
think that we are superior to the the web of life when we are simply an
equal part of it, and vice versa. Our thinking has learned to be
unreasonably biased
against nature and we seldom
acknowledge this. This trespass underlies most of our disorders, great
or small.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
On
personal and
political levels, our sense of reason demands that we make responsible
changes to
remedy this situation.
Any
individual who has enjoyed a good experience with nature -- in
backcountry forest or backyard garden...or at the beach...or on a park
walk...or with their pet,...or in contact with the wind, sea or stars --
recognizes that, without the use of books, teachers or lessons, sensory
attractions in nature renew us.
We
inherently enjoy and benefit from their ability to help us think and
feel better.
They
momentarily increase our bliss and wellness, our abiity to reason with
greater
clarity. We more fully enjoy our true biological and psychological
self in natural community, as did many Native Americans.
To
our profound loss, our "natural attraction
self" usually lies
buried and
frustrated in us due to our excessive, nature-exploitive, socialization
and disconnection from nature. This
stresses us. We are wanting, competitive and angry, seldom
compassionate, when our
natural senses are unfulfilled or aggravated.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
In the present tense, try
to remember, for a few minutes, a
good experience you have had in
nature, one you would be attracted to repeat again because
it was
attractive.
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Can you sense natural colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors
that were part of the experience?
- Do you feel comforting
motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place?
- Do you feel enchanted, is this experience
self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing?
- It it supportive,
peaceful or both? Does it reduce your stress?
- Does it help you feel that
you are part of a greater whole?
The above are
some of the
results that people have reported from remembering their attractive
experiences in natural areas. Their direct contact with the web of life
helped them escape their "industrial story-world" for a few moments and
sense and
feel the
true natural being that they were born. They could drink-up and think
with that
truth. They
became aware how
their natural self and their dreams had been excessively stressed
by Industrial Society's exploitation of nature within and around them.
It helped them more completely answer the question "Who am
I ?"
If you have ever had such experiences,
or you would like to have them, you are eligible to enter and benefit
from the program of
Project NatureConnect.
You may want to keep in mind that nature-centered
people and societies seldom display or cause the problems of our
nature-conquering "civilization."
State of consciousness...
Are
you aware that the contact of your psyche with the web of life
increases
well-being? Even bringing the, above, nature-connected memories to mind
for a few minutes
temporarily reduces your blood pressure. By helping you continually
make conscious sensory contact with natural systems within and around
you, the life long science of Organic Psychology enables you to
continually reap the rewards
of an
environmentally
supportive form of stress management and ecotherapy.
Too
often we take our gratifying nature-connection gift and its wonderful
powers for granted. We call it an escape from real life: recreation,
not re-creation. However, biologically and
spiritually, this gift is a momentous part of the person and community
each of us is
naturally born to be.
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"Nature
is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, Nature is but
another name for health."
"What we call wildness is a
civilization other than our own."
"Heaven is under our feet as
well as over our heads."
-Henry David Thoreau
Remember: we
are born as part of nature's global life community and its purity yet,
on
average, over 98 percent of
our time, thinking and feeling is out of touch with the self-correcting
grace, balance
and restorative powers of nature and the natural, in and around us.
This
monumental disconnection of our psyche from our nurturing origins is
similar to walking
around with our head in a bucket of sand for all but
ten hours of our entire life, on average.
Consider
the state of the world. The destructive madness and disorders resulting
from how our McBurgered "head in a bucket" makes us think, feel and
relate, speaks
for itself. We have reached a point where those who try to
correct this insanity and its discontents are seen as
"environmentalists" or "nature freaks"
or "fuzzy thinkers" of some kind, rather than individuals whose
thoughts and feelings struggle to remain reasonable and balanced.
We
endure our troubles because most of us learn to accept that the way we
suffer from this disconnection is "real life."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
To
our cost, in our industrial society, we are educated to believe it is
"normal" for our thinking and feeling to be estranged from the benefits
of nature's beauty
and equilibrium.
The
benefits of thinking while in hands-on, conscious, sensory contact with
natural areas
demonstrate that we bear our isolation and disorders because we are
"bucketheads" and because we expertly train and elect "bucketheads."
Our
lives are
missing the powerful essence of whole life reasoning, natural sanity
and peace of mind.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Organic
Psychology works because it enables those of us who are wise enough to
understand our situation to learn how to genuinely
reconnect our thinking to nature and teach others how to engage in this
healing process. We personally and professionally help all members of
Industrial Society connect to the worldwide purifying and
supportive natural
attraction ways
of the web
of life, backyard or backcountry. This produces beneficial
outcomes that
increase personal, social and environmental
well-being. As seen by their history
since
Josh Lieberman's 1931 Creative
Camping book and
program, the benefits have long been
verified and improved.
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objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for
yourself and have your questions answered. You then start by mastering our online Orientation Course.
Phone: 360-378-6313 . <nature@interisland.net>
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Unwittingly,
due to a dangerous prejudicial falsehood that it promotes, industrial
society socializes or otherwise indoctrinates us
into
excessive,
nature-exploitive habits and attitudes.
Prej-u-dice n.
an unreasonable pre-judging
attitude or story
that is, due to bonding,
unusually resistant to rational influence.
We seldom
change our
destructive ways because, by age seven, we
become bonded (McBurgered) to our nature-disconnected artificial
materials and
stories. They usually remain with us through adulthood, even though we
can see
that their side effects are often detrimental and erode well being in
us and
other natural beings.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
Truly
reasonable individuals thoughtfully recognize that we are McBurgered
and educated to become
prejudiced
against nature as well as not to admit that we are. This secret bias
underlies most disorders within and around
us.
Just as we once
prejudicially gave no legal rights to slaves, we still give no
legal rights to nature, including
the web of life's inalienable right to its life and happiness. Its
life includes our
natural self, the
attraction flow
of natural systems and the happy fulfillment of their expression in and
around
us. We prejudicially demean them and their balancing
wisdom. Is it any wonder that we suffer problems that we
can seldom solve?
As
an integral part
of the web of life, is it surprising that we stress ourselves as we
stress the web?
Online, at Project
NatureConnect, social workers, counselors, teachers,
parents, therapists and students together learn and teach
nature-connecting
activities that help us
transform our
into sustainable, balanced,
constructive,
environmentally
sound relationships.
Results from omitting conscious sensory
contact
with nature
Sadly,
we endure our greed, depression and dysfunctions
because the progression of our excessively nature-separated lives
demeans and disconnects our mentality and our loving from the web of
life.
We lose the support of
our inherent biological and spiritual wholeness.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
BEGIN HERE
We
are missing the
mysterious illumination and kind humility that we share with our
natural instincts, values and origins in the global life community and
its genius. This profound loss causes our psyche to want, and when want
there is never enough.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
BEGIN HERE
We
fail to recognize that the most trustable truth of our life is what we
experience in each immediate moment of our life, in the "now" of life.
However, we spend less than .0001 percent of the "now" with our
thoughts and feelings consciously in contact with the innate way the
web of life
produces and sustains its balanced perfection in and around us,
including within the life of our psyche. To counteract this loss,
Project
NatureConnect provides the means for us to,
at will, effectively include nature, the real thing, backyard or
backcountry, in the now of our life.
Normally,
from infancy on, we learn to detach our
sensual psyche and soul from the self-correcting life-spirit and support of
natural systems and their flow. This rupture stops the
streaming cycles of
earth's natural systems and their regenerative powers through the life
of our psyche. It breaks their vital circuit. The removal of their
nurturance and vigor weakens our natural intelligence. It desensitizes
how we think and feel, our self-esteem is reduced, our dreams frighten
us, we become vulnerable. In turn, our best thinking unwillingly
injures the world and its
people.
Our
lack of respect and reverence for the
consistent and giving pulse of the web of life community underlies our
discontents. This
helps to explain our "crazy world," why it often feels like we are
stressfully rolling down hill like a snowball that's heading for hell.
With respect to our balanced origins and nature, including global
warming, our thinking has become blocked and bewildered ("wilderness
separated"). We seldom recognize that "wild," "natural
life"
and "god" are related and may be synonymous.
"I believe in God but I spell
it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
This
website and it origins
present nature-connecting social
technologies, studies and biology adventures. From them you
may learn and teach how to overcome the estrangement of our
mind from natural systems, and the nature deficit disorders that result.
The
removal of our thinking and feeling from nature's (Gaia's)
self-correcting, whole (holy/sacred/divine) ways of community
self-government and
self-organization reduces our sanity, our humor, our fun and fitness.
Our loss of contact with great spirit (the force) creates the quandary
of our predicaments and our inability to fulfill our fondest dreams.
- The Web of Life Imperative
Life
is evidence of itself. The scientific process of Project
NatureConnect uses the self-evident truths of
phenomenological experience in natural places as a means to produce
practical solutions
for our dilemmas. It works because it connects our thoughts and
feelings with nature itself, the fountainhead
of authority with respect to living in peaceful balance
and purity on Earth.
Patient
and persistent, we, together, in natural areas, learn how to invite
nature to safely reconnect our thoughts and feelings back to their
non-polluting perfection in the web of life. We honor this
authoritative and decisive act of ours as the tipping or turning point
that makes
a difference.
"Our
imaginative passion for reconnecting with nature helps us create sober
character, fortitude and courage. We build for ourselves and the world
a reliable, ecologically sound, personal and social security."
- Reconnecting With Nature
In Project NatureConnect, our
classroom
consists of creating moments that let Earth teach, moments that bring
out its knowledge in us that we inherit but learn to suppress. Then, by
email, we share that sensory understanding with classmates and
counselors via the internet and we learn more, by email, from their
nature-connected experiences that they email to us.
"Through
these PNC courses I am beginning to sense many of the intelligences,
truths and conscious knowings demonstrated by and through
nature. PNC is guiding me into registering a deeper
connection and understanding of the natural attractions within our
living planet and the depth and breathe of how truly
interconnected and interdependent these attractions are, in and around me."
-Project NatureConnect Participant
Read Additional Testimonials
Guaranteed:
If you appreciate the results described in
testimonials on this website, we will fund you to use and teach the powerful
process
that produced them.
Benefit from a powerful
humanitarian tool....
Engage
in extraordinary
online
friendships, exciting training and sensible, whole life Organic
Psychology degree programs that our society usually omits. Based on
trust, these community-based programs help you improve your personal
and professional
life via an economical and accredited sensory
distance learning process in organized or
homeschooling and counseling situations.
"Focusing
your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.
It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your
wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true
potential."
- Barack Obama
(Help
him use ECHN to help us accomplish this goal)
Project
NatureConnect's visionary funding program
financially assists deserving individuals who are conscious of the history of
our society's great
discord and
want to master the organic remedy for it that
this web site offers. You simply add our Organic Psychology process to
your present and prior life-experiences and/or training. It is a
nature-connected application of ecopsychology.
Our
program is subsidized because the unique art and science it offers is
essential for increasing the well-being of individual and planet. After
completing our online Orientation
Course, you
pay for your courses and/or degree only
what you can afford on a time table that fits your needs. A
special $1000 training grant is available to appropriate professionals
for completing this
short online course so
that they may
help increase the well being of their
clientele and the environment. Call 360-378-6313.
Learn
our quantum nature-connected education and counseling techniques that
help you increase personal, social and environmental health.
Please
inquire as to how we can help your personal
and professional life strengthen well-being within and about you.
360-378-6313 email
For
Peace,
Michael J.
Cohen, Ph.D.
Email
"Project
NatureConnect presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely
powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we
suffer."
- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino
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objective is to have you telephone us, customize the program for
yourself and have your questions answered. You then start by mastering our online Orientation Course.
Phone: 360-378-6313 . <nature@interisland.net>
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APPLICATION OF THE
PROGRAM:
The Advantages of
Alternative, Holistic and Sustainable
Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature
Applied
Ecopsychology
Environmental Jobs, Careers
and Degree Programs in Action
Organic
Psychology and the Natural
Systems Thinking Process
Online
antidotes for Natural
System Dysfunction.
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- Empower
yourself by engaging in the
gentle
interactive art and science of pollution free,
 nature-connected
Organic
Psychology.
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Towards
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"This
nature-connecting activity helped me become aware of my attraction to
the crescent moon as it hung over two hills near my home. Soon, its
mellow glow, framed by peaks and trees, embraced me in a wordless,
ancient primordial scene. Timeless power, peace and unity swept me up.
I just wanted to stay in that state of awe, I felt in balance with all
of reality. I was simply "BEING." No tension, no pressing goal, just
truly belonging to the global life community. This natural attraction
captured my stress laden pulse and seduced it to the rhythms of Earth.
The sleeping disorder I have battled all my adult life dissolved in
this restorative power. For the first time in decades, I gently fell
asleep after dark and arose shortly after dawn. With elation, I
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exploit or
conquer nature. Nature includes the self-correcting and purifying ways
of natural systems, of "Gaia," our living planet and community that
flows around and
through us.
The
quote conclusively demonstrates this extraordinary fact: the action of
conscious sensory connection with natural systems helped the writer
reduce his sleep disorder, increase his satisfaction and self-worth as
well as deepen his respect for nature.
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"By interlacing our mind with
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The
Present Source of our Disorders: A Profound Distortion
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"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
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Albert
Einstein
"Any
thoughtful feeling of attraction to nature that we experience while in
a natural area is a truth of the ages."
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The
Web of Life Imperative
"Over
80 percent of our social and medical problems result from excessive stress. In
addition, stress erodes our personal and environmental relationships.
This reduces our hope and self-worth."
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"Most
people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"
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Reconnecting With Nature
Today,
we unnecessarily suffer dysfunction and pain because contemporary educators
psychologists and health professionals unknowingly teach us
an extremely dangerous distortion that disconnects us from nature's
supportive and healing ways.
As
children, from the time we first begin to talk we obtain adoring
rewards (social approval, food, shelter, water, air, light, love,
community, place, trust) that inextricably socialize us - that is,
emotionally bond us during childhood- to destructively
excessive parts of industrial society and its leaders.
At
an early age, like a bad habit,
whenever we think or feel, what first
comes to our mind is the McBurgered, conditioned,
nature-disconnected, "exploit and profit"
warp we have learned that shapes our thinking. We learn to register our
excessive tendencies as being normal, progress and economic
growth.
As
if we are looking through distorted eyeglasses, our leaders' distortion
makes us perceive in ways that produce much stress and conflict. Their
falsehood says that we live on
the surface of Planet Earth while, from
direct sensory experience, the wisdom of our deeper sensory selves
instinctively knows full well that we don't.
Troubles
arise when we learn to discount the truth and value of our personal
senses and experience. In this case, our natural senses of color,
motion,
distance,
consciousness, gravity, light, direction, texture and reason register
that we
live in the Earth, 300
miles below its atmosphere,
beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow, tree tops and flying creatures
above our
head. Isn't this
experience true for you? If so, why does it usually feel uneasy,
foreign or strange to say "I live in the Earth" or
"We/humanity live in, not on, the Earth? We are Earthlings."
We
think and feel conflicted because, moment by moment, our false story
separates our mind and heart from what we sense to be true. We learn to
deny the truth we experience from direct, sensory contact with our
nurturing origins in the grace
and balance of the web of life and its renewing powers.
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How can we
truly know who we are in our natural
relationship with life if the McBurgering bias
of our story of who
we are
gently, but powerfully,
misleads and exploits us?
Our
industrial lives are dancing to the tune of a malicious fiddler. We can
see and feel how the dance hurts Earth and us. Our thinking has been
unable to change this situation because our mentality and psyche remain
bonded to misguided information from the fiddler.
"Well-being
always increases when our stories tell us the whole truth."
- Anonymous
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When
we learn to prejudicially think stories about life that undermine
the attractive reality that we register when we experience nature's
balance and beauty,
our
psyche becomes conflicted and misled. This conflict excessively
stresses and harms us. We become
disturbed. Worst of all, we may learn to think that this disturbance is
a normal
part
of life, something like "God places us in our conflicts so that we can
learn from
the
experience."
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
The
momentous question that rocks us is this: do we simply
live on
the
Earth, or is our mind, body and spirit in and part of Earth's web
of life community?
This
is monumental.
Earth
is the biological origin and nurturing source of life as we
know it here. Our
Planet's nature is an
essential
unifying root of our thoughts, feelings and survival.
We
become
troubled and we create trouble when, from birth on, we are conflicted
or misled about this
relationship:
It makes our thoughts and
feelings lose contact with who
we really are and what and where we really are.
It makes us
dependent upon the nature-disconnected
and
exploitive "McBurger" stories of Industrial Society
that often cause, rather than resolve, problems.
Our
discord about life, and our life, stresses the depth of our natural
senses of place, trust,
community and belonging
as well as 49 additional
natural
senses. In Industrial Society, most of these senses may only express
themselves
in the safety of social work,
counseling or therapy.
Our
stressed natural senses
undermine the delight and joy of our intact mind body and spirit.
Stress erodes the integrity of whole social and environmental
relationships.
It produces the
discomforts of anxiety, depression and panic.
We feel ungrounded,
uncentered vulnerable or abandoned.
We lose our natural
negotiating
skills and can't enjoy our true ecopsychological self.
Too
often, this is how we "normally" experience ourselves.
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The
person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It
troubles our natural senses and they deteriorate. Confused
and disoriented, we take
this discord for granted because we see it all around us most of the
time.
To
reverse our troubles, from our
place in the cosmos we need
familiarity,
strength and support, not
stress.
To
feel grounded, we need contact
with the healing
purity of
nature's regenerative ways to help us solve the cancer of our runaway
problems.
Our
major problem is that due to our learned prejudice
against nature, we deny that contemporary thinking and our
teachers are almost entirely disconnected from the self-correcting
power of nature's
renewing energies.
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Ecology and the Biosphere.
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The
scientific fact of Ecology is that we are embedded in and nurtured by
Earth's biosphere, a 20 mile band of life that
sits above and below the land and ocean. We are as much a part of the
biosphere as is any leaf, molecule or atom, any plant, animal, mineral
or weather system.
The
discovery of the biosphere in 1929, makes as great a contribution
for good as did the finding by Copernicus, in 1536, that the
Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
For
the past 75 years science and society have recognized the biosphere and
its cyclic systems as the central pulsating life community and ecology
of Planet Earth.
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"Life
prepares its own environment"
- John
Storer,
The
Web of Life (1953)
.
The
biosphere is a community. It consists of creation's
self-organizing, cooperative integration of atmosphere,
sunshine, ocean, soil, plants, animals, minerals and energy, a web of life attraction
symbiosis
that supports all of life (Gaia),
including human life. It nurtures us as we nurture it. For this reason,
for example, we are born as cat, dog and pet lovers, we are not trained
through hypnotherapy or any other process to naturally love animals or
life.
It
is natural attraction, the
love of life, that energizes and organizes how nature works.
The
essence of the biosphere and Earth is the pulsating flow of
natural systems. They are driven by natural
attractions to support life.
Wherever
or whenever that flow of ecology is stopped, life as we know it
deteriorates or dies.
Many
folks generalize the biosphere as being "star energies" or the
"Universe." This "answer" can remove their thinking from the benefits
and
destiny they might otherwise enjoy by making conscious sensory contact
with natural life and its web of life natural
attractions, the
real thing, backyard or
backcountry.
"I
did the activity that directs you to visit a natural area and
thoughtfully learn to sense it and the natural attraction flow of its
systems. You then
try to determine where nature ends and you begin. I was surprised and
grateful because in 20 minutes I discovered a new depth of who I really
am and what has happened to me."
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"This
home schooling
activity helped me realize
that even if I'm in a natural area but I'm thinking or talking about
some rock band or the problems that face me in the classroom or with my
boss or my
girlfriend, I'm not fully connecting with my natural attractions and
nature."
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Natural systems
and their
flow are self-correcting
and purifying. They recycle and renew the natural deterioration of
themselves and every molecule on earth. For this reason, nature rarely
creates abuse. It seldom produces garbage, pollution or the destructive
stress and pain of our aggravated relationships.
Moment by moment,
the pulse
of natural systems and
their natural attraction power flows through all of life. This includes
the life of our
mind and spirit, of our thoughts feelings and perceptions.
Natural
attractions are a
prime
commonality and
unifier that we share with all people, places and things, past and
present. Perhaps originating in the Higgs
Boson, this commonality includes what we hold in common
with
spiritual leaders like Moses, Jesus,
Mohammad
and Buddha.
Most artificial substitutes
for natural systems
exclude the natural unifying energies and organic healing ways of
natural attractions. This
omission leaves our thinking to unknowingly produce our
conflicts, discomforts, moods or deterioration, sooner or later.
Our whole life health and
happiness ultimately
depend upon the streaming pulse of natural systems through us. But
because of the prejudicial
distortion in our leaders'
biosphere-detached thinking, in the name of "progress" "profit" or
"economic growth" our socialization teaches us to excessively separate
ourselves from, exploit and conquer nature and its attractions, as if
they
are harmful.
What we do
to nature, we do
to ourselves as part of nature. We become stressed consumers
instead of responsible and happy life-community citizens.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this
problem.
REMINDER:
To our loss, on
average, throughout our
lives we learn to disconnect 98 percent of our time, thinking and
feeling from conscious sensory attraction contact with nature and its
systems.
Our
extreme exploitation of
and disconnection from
natural systems stops their beneficial flow through our psyche. The
loss of their natural attraction vibrancy wounds our psyche. It numbs
our thinking and
feeling. It erodes our trust and our sense that we naturally belong or
have value.
Our
pain and numbing
desensitization results in
the excessive disagreements, violence, abuse, stress, hurt, disorders
wants and addictions that mark our lives.
We
are troubled because
something is missing.
We
don't know or relate to the ways of nature, in and around us, as
balanced attraction-love
life relationships, as do other natural beings.
We
seldom embrace natural
things as relatives,
attractions, loves or spirit kinships. For example, the organism that
we call a "tree," "board-feet" or "potential profit," nature-centered
people(s) might call "treeing," "tree spirit," "friend" or "relation."
Natural
folks are
socialized to validate their innate attractions to Earth, to trust
Mother Earth
as a true mother, not as a dead third rock from the sun. We can't
afford to overlook that these folks seldom cause the troubles we
produce.
Many of them have no word in their language for pollution,
garbage or waste. Everything belongs.
"At root, ecology is an
erotic attitude of closeness, relatedness and care. We have made it
into a rational/activist project and lost sight of its heart."
- Thomas Moore
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Disjointed
Origins of
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To
be part of a system, a
thing must somehow be in
communication with that system, otherwise it unknowingly trespasses it.
We
are part of nature and
its systems. Our
excessive disconnection from them prevents them from registering in our
thinking so, to our loss, we trespass them within and around us.
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We
may best begin to address
our natural attraction disconnection
troubles by understanding their origins:
The
fossil record
demonstrates that creation, biologically, culturally and
spiritually evolved humanity in
the tropical environment of Africa.
In that naturally attractive "Eden like" womb of the biosphere, warmth
and food were
consistently available because seasonal changes were minimal.
Natural
People:
As
ancient humanity migrated into areas with dramatically changing
seasons, most cultures socialized themselves with stories that said:
"We must seek, register and respect the attractive and ever changing
sensory signals from this place and our love for it. We must respect
how its signals help us feel and think in a good way. The Great Spirit
of Mother Nature will help us survive by sensuously
communicating her fluctuations to us so that we may act appropriately
and supportively."
Natural
survival depended
upon expertly sustaining
emotional sensitivity
and gratitude
to
life-supportive sensory-emotive communications from natural
attraction and the
flow of natural
systems. For example: when a certain flower turned blue it attracted a
natural person's sense of color and signaled this was the time the
salmon were running, that food was available or that seeds should be
planted.
Tropicmakers: The
ancient groups that originated contemporary culture socialized
themselves to a different story. It said: "To survive throughout the
seasons, we must create artificial tropic-simulating 'closets.' By
living in these imitations of the tropics, we may protect ourselves
from nature's changes and enjoy a constant warmth and food supply, as
if we were in
a tropical area.
Our survival does not depend upon thinking that includes attraction
signals from
our natural senses and feelings while in contact with nature. Rather,
it depends upon our leaders' creativity and intelligence to develop
'tropic-making' techniques/technologies."
Our
society programs our natural
attractions, thinking
and perceptions
to be prejudiced against
nature and,
to be attracted to
artificial tropic-like substitutes.
We
learn to use natural
sensitivities and systems in people and places as resources. We learn
to love and
support our leaders and their ability to produce imitations of tropical
life. They can artificially and creatively replace the tropic's natural
warmth, food supply, medicine,
food storage, entertainment, recreation and transportation that we need
for
our survival and happiness."
Today,
we are increasingly
disconnected from the
beneficial sensory pulse and resonations of natural systems. The
tropicmaking thinking of contemporary people has fixated or addicted us
to excessive sensory rewards from nature-exploitive stories,
technologies, profit, power and prestige that often act as a form of
terrorism against natural systems.
Tropicmaking
also addicts us
to
tranquilizing the emotionally-abusive discomfort created by these
nature-disconnected substitutes and their adverse side-effects on us,
as
well as on the environment.
It
is reasonable to
recognize that we seldom
improve personal or global peace and well being because we are secretly
socialized to fight an undeclared war against nature within and about
us. To destroy our own life-support system is a form of insanity.
It underlies the stress and madness of contemporary life.
Insight
from our 53 natural attraction senses and
feelings have
little value in our tropical-imitation indoor world. We learn to
train, subdue or conquer them rather than support them. Too often, to
produce a profit, we learn to think and feel like we are cultural
objects rather than as contributing sensitive members of Earth's life
community.
As
tropicmakers, constant
blessings from imaginative
distant-God stories and/or technologies often replace the joy and other
supportive rewards we would ordinarily receive from the recuperative
flow of natural systems in our immediate environment. We also lose the
value of expressing our inborn, community-building gratitude to nature
and our natural
attraction love
for the natural
life-spirit
that we find in people,
places and things.
Tropicmakers
often
experience the natural to be
"flaky, fuzzy, environmentalism, fearful, emotional, unscientific or
taboo."
The
key to contemporary
survival has become
nature-disconnected thinking and its controlling stories that often
stress our senses and loves. That process deteriorates well-being.
Unfortunately,
as our
fixation to these stories supports excessive
technologies, profits and industrial growth, they increase our
disorders. This occurs because disconnected stories further deteriorate
our natural systems and the common natural
attraction sense
they give us.
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Delusion:
During the first six years of childhood we socialize (McBurger)
youngsters to
change from their birth as natural beings into fledgling tropicmakers.
Our tropicmaking socialization leads us to believe that the
disconnection of our thinking and feeling from its attraction to
nature's grace and
restorative powers is progress, that it is benign and that it does not
underlie the discomforting falsehoods, emotional imbalance, psychic
wounds and
isolated lifestyles that stress us.
It
is not possible to
amputate away the loves or
ecstasy of an organism and not have that organism suffer and want. The
organism senses that something valuable about it is missing. It never
has enough. Without the tranquilization of its discomfort, it always
wants more, if nothing else, more tranquilizers.
This
is especially
true when the organism we amputate is us and what we amputate away is
our
inherent natural love of life and our planet.
Our
tropicmaking mentality
today is like a
computer that has foolishly unplugged itself from its energy sources.
Without its sources, the computer is stupid. It is unable to discover
what's wrong or compute how to re-plug itself. Our excessive
disconnection of our thinking from nature's balanced natural
attraction ways
is doing the
same thing to our psyche.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
Restoration: Once
we recognize the tropicmaking source of our dysfunctions, the story of
how to remedy them becomes apparent: "Learn to use a tool that helps
you replace what's missing. The tool helps you genuinely plug your
thinking and feeling into the natural attraction vibrancy
and wisdom of natural systems.
Restore their attractive flow in and through your body mind and spirit.
Enjoy the safe, lasting satisfaction and renewal this provides. If you
don't do this, your psyche will more severely express its hurt and
wanting sooner or later, for it builds up."
"We are dysfunctional
socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from
the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore (edited)
Vice President, USA
Author, Earth in the Balance
The
positive process along with the specific outcomes and general
outcomes of
genuinely reconnecting
our thinking with natural systems speak
for themselves.
Some people consider the
process and its results to
be a contemporary form of Shamanism
or Pantheism.
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We seldom have the ability
to change our
socialization by industrial society for it is an accepted form of
addiction or brainwashing. We can, however,
sensibly choose to bypass
its limits and trespasses and increase well being by using tools that
connect our thinking with the transformative and recycling powers
of natural
attractions and
systems. Over time, this new habit we develop helps how we
think and feel change for the better.
The
Natural System Thinking
Process in Organic
Psychology says:
"Make
sense by learning how
to respect and
resonate with the flow of nature's natural
attraction pulse
rather than by excessively
controlling it or fortressing yourself from it.
Delight
in the rewards that
come from direct
sensory connections with the energetic spirit and love of life in
natural systems and areas, rather than from stagnant indoor substitutes
for it
that have harmful side effects.
As
part of family, dating or
singles life, learn
to connect directly with nature's life-spirit in natural areas,
backyard or backcountry. It sustainably helps you convert the stress
that erodes your well-being, into good feelings. This results because
sensory connections to nature trigger the release of chemicals like
Dopamine and Oxytocin as well
as help you develop supportive personal and environmental
relationships you trust and enjoy. You sense and feel that you and
others belong
to something worthwhile because
you do.
Recognize
that tropicmaking
science limits our
thinking by omitting the validity of natural sensory knowing. For
example, tropicmaking does not include the natural attraction sense of thirst
as a fact that is as real as water or as part of the global water
system, of the water cycle, or as one of the "five senses." Omissions
like this disconnect our thinking about thirst from
the purifying water cycle, from nature's sensory grace, balance and
recuperative ways.
Thirst
is an intelligent
sensory attraction. It
informs us when we need water so we bring water into us and benefit.
Our thirst also turns off to signal us that we have enough water.
Similarly, our sense of excretion tells us to
contribute our excessive water as food and water for the welfare of
other members of the global life community. At least 51 additional
natural sensory
attraction-loves serve this same supportive
purpose with regard to personal and global well being. This includes
sensations of fear, pain, anxiety, depression, death, dying and grief.
They signal that something important is missing and that we must seek
it.
We
excessively suffer
because the way we learn to
think, feel and relate is too often non-sense. We use only 10% of the
natural
sensory wisdom we inherit as part of nature. This leads us to foolishly
applaud our excessive conquest of natural systems, in and around us.
Learning
to
genuinely reconnect
with nature,
the
real thing, helps us reverse this dilemma. For example, it helps us
with dieting and weight loss as we satisfy ourselves with sensory
fulfilling food instead of excessive eating.
"Personal
transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent
of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who
enlivens its magic cycles."
- Philip Sutton Chard
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Overcoming Personal, Social
and Environmental Disorders
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As
described above, Organic
Psychology helps us
reverse our tropicmaking disorders by giving us the tools to help
natural systems and their fulfilling benefits once again flow through
and register in our psyche. It is a process that enables us to preempt
or bypass the false and destructive aspects of our socialization and
our learned prejudice
against nature.
It empowers us to directly
reconnect our disconnected and wounded thoughts and
feelings with
the essence of our
origins in natural systems and their healing ways. This re-connection
gives us the ability to:
Override
or transform
hurtful nature-disconnecting ways
and childhood distortions that we learn in industrial society.
Become
more intelligent as
we benefit from
first-hand contact with the truth and regenerative powers of natural
systems and the eons.
Build
relationships based on
immediate trustable
attractions to natural systems in and around us that we hold in common,
rather than to
stories that divide us.
Increase
personal and
environmental well-being by
thinking and feeling with nature rather than against it.
The
core of our troubles is
that, since Aristotle
and before, our most powerful leaders, thinkers and teachers have been
rewarded while they are/were victims of our culture's nature-conquering
ways. As
a result, while we are infants, our leaders prejudicially bond us to
the same
disconnecting half-truth labels and stories that they have been
conditioned to believe. As if brainwashed, we emotionally attach to a
way of thinking and relating that restricts, distorts and demeans
natural systems. It estranges us from them and the flow of their
beneficial pulse.
Out
of habit, our ingrained
life science story
rejects the supportive attraction flow of natural systems in our
psyche. Our
biased thinking stops that beneficial
flow.
The
deteriorating state of
natural systems
suggests that we learn to fight a prejudiced undeclared war against
them. How else can we explain that at the same time that the biosphere
and its natural systems were discovered 75 years ago, so were Scotch
tape, the jet engine, the EEG, the condom and Monopoly? Why, other than
prejudice, have the latter thrived while the health of natural systems
has dangerously declined.
Don't
we suffer because we
conquer and exploit,
rather than think, feel and relate in support of natural attractions
and
their gifts for well-being? Have we not become ecozombies or
"bucket heads" to a
greater or lesser extent?
Organic
Psychology gives us
a trustworthy antidote and preventative
for
our nature-disconnection problem. We can use its activities to make
thoughtful sensory contact with the transformative powers of natural
attractions and experience an elation and wisdom that our socialized
thinking ordinarily omits. We can add this process to our personal and
professional lives. Its benefits
speak for themselves.
.
"It's
great. Mike Cohen is
right to make the
responsibility for living on good terms with Gaia a personal one."
- Dr. James Lovelock,
Author, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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John
Dewey noted, "We only
begin to think when
confronted by a problem." Confront yourself. Confront our leaders. Most
of them have learned to become ecozombies. If they don't correct their
biosphere and natural attraction lies and support nature-connected
learning and healing, refuse
to support them until they do. If you don't confront them, who will
make them think further? We must stop supporting leaders who
don't know what to do about an essence of our problems.
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counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this situation.
"Illegitimus
non carborundum"
- Joe Stillwell,
Four-Star American General
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. Our
Challenge for Sustainable Well-Being
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Consider
the two significant 20th century observations that, among
many others, help us improve our personal and global wellness.
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"Human
behavior is rooted
most deeply in nature's
intentions and desire. The rhythms of nature underlie all of human
interaction: religious traditions, economic systems, cultural and
political organization. When these human forms betray the natural
psychic pulse, people and societies get sick, nature is exploited and
entire species are threatened."
-Stephen Aizenstat
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"Scientific
research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is
determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action
of people."
- Albert
Einstein
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Industrial
society's greatest problem is that its logic often teaches us to betray
the natural psychic pulse, the pulsating natural
attraction
wave and flow of our
life-spirit.
Educating,
counseling and healing with nature helps you remedy this problem.
We
are
born as part of nature's perfection and integrity. But, as previously
mentioned, we learn to spend over 98% of our lives and thinking
separated from nature's ongoing support of our mind, psyche and spirit.
That support is readily available in natural areas, backyard or
backcountry, whenever we use Organic Psychology sensory tools to help
us
access it.
We
suffer our dysfunctions because our immediate material and economic
rewards habituate us to a cultural and spiritual bias against nature
and the natural.
Today
we are additionally stressed by our uncontrolled
stupidity. We exploit and conquer natural systems while fully aware
that they are key to our survival and to our recovery
from disorders.
This way of thinking and acting is nonsense. Fortunately, the antidote
for it, Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature, is readily
available and is
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. Summary:
The Effects of Psychic Pain
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Nature's
absence in our lives leaves a wanting, hurting hole in our psyche, and when
we want, there is never enough. For example, in our
society, no
matter how rich or poor a person is, it is normal for them to
feel they need about 15 percent more money. To feel good about
themselves they must out-compete, or win, over others, over natural
systems and their flow in and around us..
Our
induced, insatiable wants produce our vulnerability to detrimental
temptations and weakened resilience. This destructively stresses us. It
has become a national epidemic. As mentioned, 75-90 percent of our
primary care medical advice and treatment is related to stress disorders.
We
can't resist society's
unwhole and taxing demands and lures. These include the salary we
receive for excessively doing unhappy jobs directed by leaders who massage us to
exploit natural systems and their flow.
Disconnected
from the natural peace and satisfactions provided by the ways of natural
attractions,
our
thoughts and feelings often lose their inherent life wisdom. Then they
cannot adequately help us address the detrimental expectations placed
on us by others or by
misguided parts of our thinking. As we discover this it often produces
"mid life crisis."
Too
often we forget that
nature has the profound
ability to heal itself, be
the injury a bulldozed landscape, a scraped knee or an emotional hurt. However, nature
seldom helps us correct our dysfunctions or improve our wellness
when we disconnect our time, thinking and feeling from nature's ability
to do this.
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Sadly,
in our excessively nature-separated society, we are often taught to
believe that our strong attraction to nature's perfection, its
enchanting peace, nurturing, beauty, cooperation and sanity indicates
that something is wrong with us. We learn to think that we are
escapists, strange or different "hippie," "environmentalist" "earth
muffin" "flakes." This is hurtful and false. Our attractions to nature
are actually intact remains of natural systems within our
consciousness.
Natural
attractions that we
experience are often fortuitous
fitness residues that have struggled
to
survive our
excessive exploitation of nature.
The
surviving natural parts of ourselves may be stressed, but they are
resilient and trustable. They refuse to be converted, to be further
separated from nature, to be conquered or undermined. They will not
submit to the competitive madness of our society and its detrimental
ways. Instead, at risk, the hurt in these natural
attractions
trys to teach
us to find nature's peace. They emotionally signal our consciousness to
protect, seek and promote contact with the nurturing and restorative
powers of our biological and spiritual origins in natural systems. This
includes the natural powers and integrity that remains alive in our
family, neighbors
and other supportive individuals.
Project
NatureConnect dedicates itself to providing financial and technical
education assistance that helps frustrated natural attractions and
systems in us
reconnect with their nurturing origins. To this end, PNC provides an online activity or two to help you become
more aware of natural
attractions and natural systems'
flow.
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On
this web site you will find many teachable Organic Psychology self-help
and other tools that assist us to meet our nature-disconnected
challenges in a good way ("good" meaning supportive of the whole). They
have value because Organic Psychology enables generations of us to
personally and professionally benefit through co-creation with natural
systems in any area of
endeavor, rather than through additional exploitation of
these systems.
"This
program helps us plant the last Truffula seed from the Lorax
in the fields of education, psychology and health."
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Organic
Psychology is for those of us who are naturally wise enough to neither
trust nor depend upon the nature-disconnected processes of industrial
society that cause our problems, to help us remedy these same problems.
For us, it makes sense to confront this detrimental way of thinking and
transform it with recuperative assistance from natural systems. We
enable ourselves to make destructive parts of our personal and
collective lives subside.
Over
85 percent of industrial society seeks help, or uses self-help, for
their natural attraction discontents on some level. However, therapies
and
education we use that are not organic seldom solve our problems.
Instead, they move our problems to another time place and context where
we, our neighbors or our children will face them in even more
destructive forms because we have reinforced them, rather than recycled
them into cooperative relationships and well-being. By using
nature-connected education counseling and healing, any ardent person
can easily break this habit.
"A
solid approach that applies the same consistent attitudes to living
with people as it does to living with nature."
-
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. Society
and Individuals in Denial
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Our
core challenge for improving our well-being is to recognize that our
thinking is often in denial:
- We
deny that the biosphere-detached way we learn to think produces
personal, social and environmental dysfunctions, including global warming and
prejudice against nature and the natural.
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- We
deny that we psychologically condition or addict to familiar stories,
technologies and relationships. We won't admit that they habitually
separate our mind and spirit from thoughtful connections to nature's
balance, peace and sane
renewing energies.
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- We
deny that beneficial sensory tools are readily
available to help our thinking and psyche more fully tap into
nature's energizing beauty and healing ways.
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problem. BEGIN HERE
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- We
deny that connecting
our consciousness with authentic natural attractions and systems helps
us change our
discontents into constructive relationships.
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problem. BEGIN HERE
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- We
deny that our natural reasoning, senses and feelings, like plants and
animals or
the wind hills and stars, are natural
attractions in
action.
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problem. BEGIN HERE
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- We
deny that the life-sustaining sensitivities of natural
attractions
are all
that we hold in common with each other and the plant, animal and
mineral kingdoms...that the loss of these sensitivities in our thinking
produces our greatest troubles.
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- We
deny that we personally need assistance in dealing with our loss of
nature, that this is all fine and good for "others," but not ourselves,
that
Industrial society did not influence our natural ability to make sense
in a good way.
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"Any
clear-thinking person can profit
from today's most important and rewarding jobs, careers and training.
They can enter or promote
sustainable livelihoods by adding organic psychology education,
counseling or healing with nature activities to them. They help our
polluted thinking get out of the nature-disconnected closet that is
polluting it. This helps us stop global warming, the fever we have
given our living planet.
We
can each make a difference. No surprise, the rewards of most education,
psychologies and therapies in our nature-exploitive society tend to
further exploit nature. In contrast, the rewards of Organic Psychology
increase our well-being and the health of the environment, too. You can
add it to any relationship, therapy or profession."
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This
website's
nature-connected thinking tools
strengthen our ability to benefit from, and to protect, the unifying
ways of natural attractions. Here, we discover how to more fully
belong, to
find the sanity of nature's peace within and about us; we enhance our
intelligence and spirit; this contributes to saner living.
"Our
religion keeps
reminding us that we aren't
just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder and rain
and the seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything
because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all
things."
- Least Heat Moon
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The
flow, swirls and eddies
of a river are part of
and exemplify the streaming of the biosphere. This similarity
challenges
the tropicmaking ways of most science because science gathers its best
evidence under standard laboratory conditions of temperature, pressure,
motion and light. But nature's life-pulse in/of the river constantly
fluctuates. It has no standard conditions, they would stop the river's natural attraction pulse.
Our
addiction to power,
status and money drives us
to pay objective scientists to produce standard conditions and
controls, such as dams and death-producing pollution. They degrade a
river's life-flow. Like a hypnosis that produces global warming, such
science is not objective. It is directed and financed by tropicmaking
goal-setting, greed and values to satisfy our unfulfilled wants. We
must add to it a whole life sensory inquiry
where things like the
biosphere, water and the sensation of thirst are equally regarded as
important natural
attraction facts,
facts of life.
How
and when will we, with
enthusiasm, come to our
senses, our natural attraction senses, our inherent ability think and
feel with
the flow of natural systems, to co-create with nature? Organic
Psychology offers a trustable art and science to
help us achieve this goal and increase well-being.
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PART TWO
SUMMARY
"Our
greatest problems
result from the difference
between the way we think and how nature works"
- Gregory Bateson
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Project NatureConnect:
Confronts
and breaks through our
denial that we are addicted to technologies,
relationships and stories that have stress-producing destructive
effects. It offers us innovative organic tools to help us tap our
thinking into nature's restorative ways.
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Guarantees that the nature-connecting
accredited processes it offers are readily available online to help us,
backyard or backcountry, come into a supportive balance with ourselves,
each other and the environment.
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Shows that we uniquely benefit
from adding this
website's easily learned Organic Psychology method and nature jobs to
our lives and livelihoods.
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Demonstrates that the heart-desired
science of this site's Natural System Thinking Process enables us to
restore our deteriorated natural consciousness and resilience. This
helps us reduce dysfunctions and disorders in ourselves, others and the
environment. We enjoy the ability to increase peaceful and rewarding
well-being, within and around us.
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Documents that what we need for a
healthy sustainable tomorrow is simply for more of us today to learn
how to use and teach accredited outdoor sensory tools, tools that help
us tap into nature's wellness powers. It is our disconnection from
these natural
attraction powers that sustains
our
major problems.
"This
is not a reading experience, it's a hologram. It is communicating
through talking leaves, something of what whales communicate to each
other...you are there."
-
Robin E. Lagemann, Indigenous People's activist.
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The
advantage of Project NatureConnect's distance
learning program
Via
the Internet, Project NatureConnect uses the simplicity and convenience
of rewarding, free nature-reconnecting activities in local
natural areas, backyard or backcountry. It helps us learn how
to inexpensively apply practical, accredited, counseling, education and
self-help healing tools, degree programs and conference
agendas.
- Local
learning relieves us of the excessive time, costs, lodging, risk,
unfamiliarity, rip offs, stress and transportation resources (along
with their adverse environmental impact) to travel elsewhere for
training.
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- In
the online Organic Psychology process, local
success, resources, natural attractions, people
and experiences
remain familiar, friendly
and easily available to us when we need them again.
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- We
daily help sustain local and immediate natural systems within and
around us and others and they, in turn, help us sustain and increase
our well-being.
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- Via
email, we learn and relate more honestly because we are not limited by
concerns about how others think we look, dress or sound or by being
overwhelmed by bullying personalities or insensitivities of others in
our
group. We learn to build relationships by helping the natural systems
in us interact with our attractions to the natural systems in our
online classmates and the natural areas in their location on the
planet, attractions
that we hold in common.
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- Entering
this astonishing program links us, by email, to the support, work and
experience of all the program's participants, graduates and faculty,
locally and internationally. As an online cooperative, we mentor, guide
and support each other when we, by email or phone, request assistance.
In time, we establish this kind of supportive community where we live,
too.
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"Its
impact lies in the fact that the author has lived its wisdom of these
past twenty years... I have learned first had that its theories prove
themselves in the fruition that its education delivers. It offers the
medicine that disillusioned humanity and the endangered environment
needs."
- Herb AlF, Ed.D. President, Environment
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.Sustaining
Holistic Integrity
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Sustaining
holistic personal and global integrity
"I
recently participated in a hurried, almost stressful health and
wellness training program for people whose differences kept them
arguing amongst themselves. They had little interest or time to hear an
explanation from me about the unifying and healing benefits of our
reconnecting with nature process
and they therefore decided to omit it from their agenda. "The trees and
rocks are not the problem, they are not dysfunctional, they don't have
abusive chemical or interpersonal dependencies, they don't commit
crimes or have learning disabilities" they said.
In
the midst of this hubbub, a young bird flew into the meeting room
through the door. It could not find its way outdoors.
Without
a word, the behind-schedule, argumentative meeting screeched to a halt.
Deep natural attraction feelings for life and hope filled each person
for the moment. For ten minutes that frightened, desperate little bird
triggered those seventy people to harmoniously, supportively organize
and unify with each other to safely help it find its way back home,
outdoors. Yet when they accomplished this feat, they cheered their
role, not the role of the bird. They felt like heroes for the moment
and
congratulated their humanity for its wisdom and compassion.
In
their
story of the incident, the role and impact of the bird went unnoticed
while they cheered the human spirit.
The
group returned to the hubbub and conflicts of the meeting, as if
nothing special had happened. They completely overlooked that the bird
had united them while it was there, something they could not do without
its presence. Similarly, we who learn to consciously invite nature into
our lives and embrace us enjoy the grace of its natural
attractions. They
help us overcome our stress and conflicts by
uniting our mind body and spirit with our balanced and restorative
origins in nature's flowing community within and around us. As a
result, we
increase our
appreciation and love for natural attractions and their healing ways.
This natural system
connection motivates us to further support and protect all of life."
From Reconnecting
With Nature
by M. J. Cohen
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"The
activity attracted me to lie in the water beneath that sky of reddish
and orange colors, with the sun rising more powerfully than I've ever
seen it before. And there I was, all alone in the pond, but at the same
time feeling totally held by the outdoor moment. I knew this is where I
belonged. I felt a powerful energy being given to me by everything
around me. I had a feeling in my throat that made me feel like crying
and shouting with joy at the same time; and also a sense of peace, like
everything was telling me "It's all right, it's all good."
My
sense of isolation, this sense of loneliness, of being abandoned, of
having the world against us is a common feeling. But how could a person
be lonely when they could feel as part of a pond or see themselves in a
lovely flower, in the trees and animals, and in other people? Think of
all the lonely people who have no idea that we are so connected to
nature.
We
are truly not alone but only disconnected from our natural state. I
used to be so depressed and now when I feel it come on me I think about
how connected I have become to all things. I am less and less depressed
now. Imagine if everyone could experience this outdoor connection. It
would become a different world."
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What
Harvard University doesn't teach you:
"I
felt the connection the first time that I tried to connect with nature
and it becomes easier each time that I try to reconnect. In 1998, I was
on a humanitarian medical mission to Haiti. I contracted St Louis
Encephalitis during that mission and have suffered from migraine
headaches since that time. Lately after starting my studies, when I get
a headache, I just go outside and connect with nature. I calm down, I
get a feeling of completeness and my headache resolves in minutes."
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"This
program offers an environmentally sound, educational process that
reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills
our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit; it deserves
the attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."
Dr. Robert
Muller
- Assistant
Secretary General Emeritus of the United Nations.
- Recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize for
peace.
- Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations.
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"The
activities work, they move students. I see significant improvement in
their self-esteem and value. They find something outside themselves
that is actually a truth within themselves."
- Mark
Walsh, Director of
Wilderness
Therapy, Hyde Psychiatric Hospital
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"I
wept as I sensed the unity of nature and myself. Honoring my nature
experiences energizes and restores me. It enables me to more
effectively help others recover. As these unique nature activities make
me more whole (holy), my sense of self becomes more alive and active.
The activities feel safe, they stimulate me. They free me to let go, to
be in the moment. As I co-create with nature's rejuvenating processes,
my life becomes more fun, balanced and joy-filled. These learning
moments
enable anybody to touch nature and enjoy its embrace."
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The
challenge that Project NatureConnect addresses:
"Oh,
what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal,
merely personal feeling! This is what is the matter with us: we are
bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the earth and sun
and stars. Love is a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked
it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on
blooming in our civilized vase on the table."
- D.H.
Lawrence
Do
you have or want to have a working knowledge of what "cuts us off" and
how to overcome it?
"Thousands
of tired, nerve shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out
that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a
necessity."
- John
Muir , 1901
A.D.
"The
Web of Life Imperative offers more tools, knowledge and
personal power for good than most therapies and spiritualities. It
enables us to reverse our destructive relationships by empowering us to
make thoughtful sensory connections with genuine nature. This
connection responsibly satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our
psyche that has been produced by our excessive separation from nature,
a hole that leads us astray."
- Susan
Chernak McElroy,
Award winning, N. Y. Times best
selling
author of Animals as Teachers and Healers and Heart
in the Wild.
Do
the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
Act Now:
funded education counseling and healing with nature online
Ecopsychology degrees, internships, courses and jobs. Email for
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Program
Founder and Director:
Recipient
of the 1994 Distinguished
World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J.
Cohen, Ph.D. is a Director of the Institute of Global
Education, where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and
Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State
University and Akamai University. Dr. Cohen has
founded sensory environmental
education outdoor programs independently and for the National
Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the 1985
National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is an
award winning author of The Web of Life Imperative, Reconnecting
With Nature, Einstein's
World, How Nature Works and Educating
Counseling and Healing With Nature He is an
accomplished folk song artist and contra dancer who presents
traditional music programs for the U.S. National Park Service and
Elderhostel on San Juan Island, Washington.
CONTACT:
www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html
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nature@interisland.net
360-378-6313, Pacific Time Zone
See the DVD about Dr.Cohen Naturally
Attracted: Connecting With Michael J. Cohen
Read Dr. Cohen's latest book Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature This Ph.D.
disseration defines and defends Natural Attraction Ecology.
All programs start with the Orientation
Course
contained in the book The
Web of Life Imperative.
Send
for participation instructions
"Mike
Cohen is a crackerjack teacher. What counts is that his words help us
do what we must do to save ourselves and Gaia."
- Pete
Seeger
Do the observations, above,
make sense to you? Are they attractive? Call
360-378-6313. BEGIN HERE
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INDEX
ONE
Course Activity Outcome
Reports From Students
See the reports located in
the middle
section of the pages below
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INDEX TWO
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Website Summary
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Topics |
Professional
Applications |
Resilience,
Self-help, self-improvement,
Self-confidence, self-esteem
Sensitivity activities,
Personal, community and environmental
recovery,
Books,
Careers,
Courses by email,
Certification,
Low cost distance learning degree programs, scholarships and grants,
Internships,
Post doctoral training and research,
Discussion groups,
Workshops,
Online, interactive, discovery trails
Value reinforcement,
Responsible relationship technologies,
Behavioral science,
Newsletters,
Earth day activities,
Globally balanced thinking,
Webstrings,
Non-verbal unity,
Sensory ecology,
Applied Biophilia,
Free courses and activities,
Organic Psychology,
Improved parenting,
Personal and Environmental Wellness,
Natural Systems Thinking Process,
Nature-Connected Pychology,
Assertiveness Training
Body Language
Cosmic Altered State
Higgs Boson |
Nature
Jobs
Teaching & Education
Personal Life Coaching
Social Work
Holistic Leadership
Psychology: Transpersonal, School, Counseling & Therapy
Healing Arts
Environmental Education & Psychology
Outdoor and Wilderness Therapy
Stress Management
Alternative Medicine & Holistic Health
Naturalist, Nature Interpretation
Meditation & Spiritual Counseling
Science: Holistic, Natural, Social.
Creative Writing
Ecotourism & Ecotherapy
Reiki Coaching
Energy Medicine
Conflict Resolution
Burnout Recovery
Chemical Abuse
Addiction Recovery
Ecopsychology
Food disorders
Peace Studies
Midlife Crises Recovery
Hospice Caregiving
Mental Health
Pastoral Counseling
Violence Prevention
Retreat Centers
Aromatherapy
Reinstatement
Child Development
Herbal Remedies
Anger Management |
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SPECIAL
NOTE: Explore the best sequence
of steps to
obtain online training, a certificate or a degree.
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REMINDER:
The purpose of this
website is to help you
explore a wide
range of information about ECHN and NAE Our objective is to encourage you to phone us. The Orientation
Course starts the program. CALL:
360-378-6313 . nature@interisland.net
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State University accredited CEU
courses online for
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WEB
SITE TOPICS ON THIS PAGE, ABOVE:
Nature-connected:
alternative sustainable, holistic, free courses, nature jobs, life coaching,
psychology, environment, social work,
self-improvement, mental health, alternative medicine, therapy,
healing, degree. programs, careers, jobs, scholarships, art therapy,
ecotherapy, counseling, ecopsychology, national parks, teaching,
conflict resolution, outdoor education, learning, multiple
intelligences, friendship building, nature of nature, ethics, career
coaching, nature and nurture, Native American ways.
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