ECO 500
Elements of Global Citizenship:
The Science of Connecting
With the Web of Life
The Art of Thinking With Nature
(Portions of this page are repeated
from the Project NatureConnect website.)
About the Natural System
Thinking Process
Thank you for choosing to vist our site
and your interest in sustaining personal and global balace.
Have you ever spent quality time
in nature, moments when you loved the grandeur of a mountain,
a wonderous tree or the freedom of the wind?
Have the spectacle of fall colors,
sunlit clouds or a blanket of stars ever brought you joy?
The captivating enchantment in these perfect moments is our
Earth bequeathed inheritance. Without directions from a teacher,
class or book, the spellbinding connections themselves make us
feel more wonderfully, wholly alive.
Connecting with nature plugs us back into our sensory origins
in nature. We feelingly experience nature's seamless continuum,
balance and beauty within and around us. Safely, it nurtures
and energizes into our consciousness our suppressed inner selves,
our inner nature.
By reconnecting, we enjoy the
vibrance of life and our life in its natural state. We love ourselves
and Earth as of old. When validated and sought, this restored
love has shown to profoundly improve our thinking, wellness and
relationships.
Do you recognize that conscious sensory
contact with nature pyschologically rejuvenates us? If so, our research shows you have
the skills to make a significant improvement in your life, the
environment and the lives of many other people.
You may walk nature's path to a fulfilling livelihood, personal
growth and environmental responsibility. You may find greater
satisfaction, support and balance for yourself and those you
love.
Sadly, although we are part of nature, we spend, on average,
less than .00002% of our lives in conscious sensory contact with
nature. The stress and hurt of our extreme disconnection from
nature's womb of life underlies much of our destructive thinking
and relationships.
Through this course, learn, enjoy and teach the Natural
Systems Thinking Process (NSTP,) a potent, nature
reconnecting psychology. The Process scientifically enables us
to keep the wise energies and joys of nature continually alive
in us.
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
-Aurelius
NSTP consists of 124 unique nature connecting sensory activities.
Backyard or backcountry, they empower our thinking to embrace
nature's ways, balance and beauty. This therapeutically energizes
our 53 inherent natural senses. It reduces stress and increases
self-esteem, wellness and spirit. It empowers us to build supportive
relationships and reverse environmental deterioration.
You may design for yourself a part time
or full time position in public relations and/or as a facilitator,
intern, student or administrator in the program.
You may enter our Ph.D. or Masters online
Degree or Certificate Program and add a nature connected component
to you personal or professional life.
You may become a personal coach or guide
for those who need your assistance
No previous training is necessary because contact with Nature
does much of the teaching and healing. Enjoy this unique, Earth
based way of knowing that improves our lives and all of life.
It is not a new age way of thinking, rather it is an age old
process.
NSTP is a rewarding education
and counseling breakthrough. It makes a strong contribution to
self and global improvement through heightened natural sensory
awareness. By learning simple techniques that strengthen conscious
sensory contact with nature, people can begin to contact, think
and relate through the intelligent process that produces Earth's
beauty, health and balance. Visit the Project NatureConnect web site to learn more about
the activities and programs that teach the Process
Background:
Based on 38 years of research in natural areas, ecopsychologist
Dr.
Michael J. Cohen in 1990 introduced a means for the public
to make conscious sensory contact with nature and to integrate
what is learned from that connection into daily reasoning. The
use of his Natural Systems Thinking Process has been shown to
help reverse and prevent personal and environmental problems.
Dr. Cohen believes the reconnecting with nature process is
a missing link in the way we learn to think. He says, "Since
its ancient beginnings, the global life community has operated
like a superorganism that biologically supports, and is supported
by, all its members - including humanity. To our loss, industrial
society has physically and mentally separated us from that organism.
Our destructive effects show that our thinking is missing input
from the organism's intelligence, balance and beauty..."
Project NatureConnect is Dr. Cohen's gift to nature, his way
of giving back something to the source of life itself. On July
29, 1994. The Board of Directors of the Institute of Global Education,
a United Nations Non-Governmental Organization, announced that
World Peace University Professor Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. was
the recipient of the 1994 Distinguished
World Citizen Award . This award honors his extraordinary
35 years as a founder of nature-connected education and mental
health programs. His applied ecopsychology methods and materials
help us produce greater global awareness and personal, social,
and environmental responsibility.
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
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