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Institute of Global Education Part 8 Orientation Course Instructions |
PROJECT NATURECONNECTSECTION 6: RESPONDING TO ATTRACTIONS
If the course is largely self-organizing, what holds it
together?
Attractions. You will find it attractive and rewarding to read
all the email and respond to what in it attracts you. Because
of the number of participants, please keep your messages brief,
when possible......a few paragraphs. Share thoughts feelings
and reactions that are important to you, especially if you want
input on them or want somebody else to know them. If you appreciate
that somebody is sharing themselves with you, somehow let them
know that if its attractive or important to you. If it feels
attractive, honestly thank them if you have learned something
worthwhile from their shared experiences and thinking.
If you want to help others by facilitating this course later,
or are in a degree program or course for credit, it is important
to save the postings of the course to use as a reference in your
future thinking, work and papers.
SECTION 8: SUSTAINING TRUST
Since Nature is uneducated and non-literate why should I trust
what I learn from it on the course? This course is trustable
because it uses words to connect the language-reason (5-leg)
part of your mentality to the non-verbal (4-leg) rest of the
web of life that is part of nature in yourself, others and the
natural world. However, the words in the email and training manuals,
along with the people who produce them, are only trustable if
the words accurately convey what is happening, or will happen,
or has happened.
How can I help the course be trustable?
In our world of words it is our responsibility to accurately
and honestly convey our actual experiences, senses and feelings,
-if we are to know the joy and rewards of trust and community.
Help build trust. Please make an effort to have the words you
share here honestly report what attractions you sense, think
and feel while doing the activities and responding to email.
In this regard, the course helps us learn to be our word.
Does the course produce unsafe dependencies upon its members?
Hopefully, people will not be dropping out of the sessions once
they start. Again note that others are depending on you and your
shared experiences in order for them to learn and to complete
the course. We are on this course because we have each consented
to be on it, and, in the process, consented to let others on
it share our experiences with us. We are each part of nature
and deserve the respect given to attraction relationships with
nature in the environment and each other.
Please proceed to Part Nine
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