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KEY: Online Information Guide for Application and Admission
Project NatureConnect
2005 Grant-Loan-Scholarship Application Form
for Organic Psychology Education, Counseling, Self-Help, Social Work and Healing
ARE YOU ELIBIBLE FOR FUNDING TO HELP YOU FULFILL YOUR PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL HOPES AND IDEALS?
Something to consider:
Have you every had a good experience in nature, backyard or back country, with your pet or garden, or with the wind, hills or stars? If so, at that time, perhaps without realizing it, you connected with an important antidote for many of our personal, social and environmental ills. Think about it. Didn't that connection with nature increase you sense of well being?
You may improve your livelihood and relationships by personally or professionally learning to strengthen and offer nature-connect antidotes. You may also help others do the same and improve personal, social and environmental relationships.
"The human need for nature is linked not just to the material exploitation of the environment but also to the influence of the natural world on our emotional, cognitive, aesthetic and even spiritual development"
- Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University Pulitzer Prize Recipient in an address to the American Psychological Association
"To truly increase our health, peace and sanity we must use a readily available enabling tool to genuinely reconnect our psyche with nature's balance and restorative powers. This tool helps us let the nature's grace, well being and cooperation enter our mind and heart and improve our thinking and relationships."
- Michael J. Cohen, author of The Web of Life Imperative.
"Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well."
- Henry David Thoreau
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1. First read "Is this Grant Loan or Scholarship for you?" a short overview that familiarizes you with the nature-connected benefits of this funding program. Also familiarize yourself with our homepage.
2. Highlight copy and paste this form, below, and your responses to it in an email to our office.
PROJECT NATURECONNECT (PNC)
Grant or Loan Application Form
REMINDER: First read "Is this Grant or Loan for you?"
PURPOSE: This page offers full or partial financial assistance to help caring people meet their tuition fees while increasing personal and environmental well being through online PNC training courses or certification or degree programs
PART ONE:
Please acquaint yourself with this total Funding Application Form and some of the Introductory and other material on the website using the left side bar or the Site Map. The application process is designed to simultaneously provide education that helps the applicant better understand people and the program.Please be aware that this Grant Application concludes with the following statement :
"The information supplied on my application is true and accurate. I give permission for the degree program and the IGE Graduate Student Cooperative to verify and confirm any aspect of the information provided on this form and on supporting materials. All work submitted on this application is my own, except where clearly stated to the contrary. I understand and accept that if at any time it is demonstrated that I have misrepresented myself or my work, I may be dismissed from the degree program and IGE Graduate Student Cooperative with no refund of fees paid, and any degree(s) awarded may be rescinded. I give permission for my application material to be shared with others anonymously to help further their knowledge and I acknowledge that this application is void after six months unless it is extended with permission."
This Grant Application is for
( ) Orientation Course
( ) Certification Program (Level One)
( ) Certification Program (Levels One through Three)
( ) M.S. Degree Program
( ) Ph.D. Degree Program
( ) Postgraduate Program
( ) Paid Ambassador (phone office)(Select here to obtain an application for any of the above programs)
Grant Applicant's Name
Address
Telephone
Web Page, if any
FAX
Degrees, Diplomas or Certificates held (if any), the school and year obtained and your approximate grade point average.
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PART TWO:
Call Mike Cohen, Ed.D. to explore the most suitable way to have the program and grant meet your goals 360-378-6313
NOTE: Save a copy of your responses to the PARTS below as they can be modified for use in the program later
PART THREE:
By way of introduction, please share a few paragraphs with us, less than 400 words, about an attractive or heartfelt experience that you have had with nature as a child or adult. Please express what you think, feel and sense about that good experience and its importance to you, if any.
PART FOUR:
Survey Do the whole survey but for Sections 4, 5, 6,7. of the survey, copy and submit to us as part of this application what you feel to be the two most important or significant statements for you in each of the four sections. http://www.ecopsych.com/survey.html. (Save this work as you may use it to enter the Orientation Course
PART FIVE:
Your responses to A-E below serve to help you and us determine if this program and grant are appropriate for goals and interests that we can help each other with.NOTE: What may appear to be low scores by you on some questions may be identified by us as areas where we know that the program will help you grow and enjoy greater success in this work. Therefore, the lower your score on some questions, the greater are you chances to obtain funding. The key is for your responses to be honest.
SUGGESTED INVENTORIES
Instructions: Either
1. Do the A-E inventories below as indicated
or
2. Browse the inventories, do a few, and write a statement of less than 400 words indicating you are sure you understand the range of the program, that it fits within your skills and belief systems and that it is appropriate for you to participate
or
3. Sign up, pay for and complete the Orientation Course as part of your program ($130 with books or $150 including $100 program application fee). Upon successful completion of the course you will be grant eligible: simply apply for the grant funds you need. The Orientation Course is required once you enter the program so you gain valuable information and meet that course requirement now as well as assure yourself that you are eligible for the funding of a program you know is right for you.
A. Conceptual Overview: Complete the Secrets of Nature Attraction Trail
http://www.ecopsych.com/trailattract.htmland/or read and do the
Stairway to Wellness article
http://www.ecopsych.com/wholeness2.htmlWe have found that applicants who are attracted to the materials, activities and results of these activities and articles are very successful in our programs and in meeting their goals.
B. Eligibility Inventory Please place here [ ................] your total Degree and Eligibility score from The Eligibility Inventory located at http://www.ecopsych.com/iupseligible.html
The remaining inventories, below, are optional.
They will, however, help you further your understanding of Organic Psychology.
If you feel you now have suffecient information about Organic Psychology, you may apply for the program and funding by using the Application Form or requesting one by email
C. Optional Personal Inventory Please place below your A-Z scores and total score
from the Personal Inventory located at http://www.ecopsych.com/2004introverview.htmlScores:
D. Optional Confidence Inventory Please place, below, your average score (sum of all scores divided by 38, the total number of questions) from the Confidence Inventory located at http://www.ecopsych.com/2005grantconfidence.html
E. Optional Program Overview Please place, below, your average score (sum of all scores divided by 36, the total number of questions) from the Program Overview Question Reactions located at http://www.ecopsych.com/insightgrant.html
My Average Reactions Score is:
PART SIX:
In 400 words or less please share with us by email your thoughts and feelings in relation to having completed Part Five and Part Six, above, including:
- Why you want to participate in a course or the program
- Your background and experiences
- Your personal goals
- Your professional goals
- Other factors to consider.
PART SEVEN
Please add here any statements or questions to this Grant application process that you feel will be helpful in sustaining or improving it, or helping us better understand and assist you with your goals. Please mention any contacts or relationships you may have that might help promote or support the program or your participation in it.
PART EIGHT
Please state how much personal or other funding, if any, you can budget and commit now or over time as a contribution towards your completion of the program you selected (above) for financial assistance.$--------------------------
NOTE: because of the continual survival rewards and gratifications money buys for us, we become bonded or addicted to money and its value. For this reason, the contribution of money usually indicates the extent of a person's value or commitment to a program. In addition, the financial contribution often, to their benefit, strengthens a person's ability to honor their commitment to themselves and the program.
Our records show that applicants that don't make some financial contribution to their program seldom complete the program. This wastes the grant funds and energies spent in their behalf and in support of the program's goals.
Financial contributions to the program also serve to help replenish the grant fund so others may benefit from its purposes. The greater the number people in the program, the more support each individual gains from all towards their own, and the program's goals.
When you receive a grant or scholarship, some individual or group has contributed funds to help you further your education as well as to further the benefits of Organic Psychology to you and the public. Please make your application with the intent to honor your best thinking, the contributors and the program goals.
You may help yourself reach you goals here by letting aquaintainces know why you are involved with this program and asking them if they would help you by making a contribution towards your tuition or the grant fund.
You may use our funding program as a challenge grant which will match by us funds you obtain from another source.
The information supplied on my application is true and accurate. I give permission for the degree program and the IGE Graduate Student Cooperative to verify and confirm any aspect of the information provided on this form and on supporting materials. All work submitted on this application is my own, except where clearly stated to the contrary. I understand and accept that if at any time it is demonstrated that I have misrepresented myself or my work, I may be dismissed from the degree program and IGE Graduate Student Cooperative with no refund of fees paid, and any degree(s) awarded may be rescinded. I give permission for my application material to be shared with others anonymously to help further their knowledge and I acknowledge that this application is void after six months unless it is extended with permission."
Signed:
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Name appearing here is equivalent to signature
Project NatureConnect,
P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
nature@interisland.net
360-378-6313
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, online, natural science tools
for the health of person, planet and spiritP.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com
ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.
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