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A nature
connected ecotherapy process increases therapists' expertise
and helps them offer greater assistance to their clients while
supporting the environment and peace.
Association
for Natural
Systems
Thinking
Online
ecotherapy training, degrees, courses, books and links
www.ecopsych.com
A living cell of the
universe
Wholeness, Ecotherapy
and Nature: genuine connections
to natural systems tap purifying energies that improve healing,
recovery and insight.
PART ONE
In well documented
training books, courses and research that address the ecotherapy
properties of Nature, Dr. Michael J. Cohen and his professionally
established Doctoral students at the Institute of Global Education
(IGE) have identified a destructive yet seldom visible attribute
of contemporary life (8). The negative effects of this attribute
produce our alarming headlines yet it goes unnoticed simply because
it is normal.
The IGE group's research into a nature connecting social technology,
the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP), shows that ecotherapists
who incorporate NSTP as part of the practice they offer dramatically
prevent and counteract our society's destructive effects. They
report increased benefits for their clients and for ecotherapy
processes. (5). More and more people seek NSTP because they recognize
its unique legitimacy as a profound science of what we learn
to take for granted (9). It enables us to consciously recycle
and purify the contaminated hidden emotions that stressfully
erode our lives and all of life.
Cohen and his workers note in natural systems and nature connected
people(s) an absence of the destructive stress, conflict and
environmental pollution that undermines industrial society (3).
They report that the need for ecotherapy flourishes in our society
because the discipline dedicates itself to helping people deal
with the adverse effects of contemporary corruption and destructiveness
(10) . They show that ecotherapy practioners who offer a nature
connected component in their practice further help themselves
and others deal with these adverse effects(13).
Natural Systems
Thinking research finds that, on average, as contemporary people
we live over 95% of our lives indoors. Over 99.9% of our thinking
is not in tune with natural systems and their balanced, regenerative
perfection. This is destructively significant because we are
born biologically and psychologically part of natural systems
and they part of us (6).
Unlike nature-connected people(s), our dismemberment from
our inherent nurturing origins in Nature leaves us unwhole, subconsciously
hurt and wanting. To satisfy this discontent we seek immediate
rewards and their gratification. We bond to, and become emotionally
dependent on these rewards, and thereby vulnerable to destructive
people and things that provide them. This psychological addiction
so powerfully disconnects our thinking from Nature that we believe
genuinely reconnecting with authentic Nature is neither possible,
beneficial nor acceptable (17). Instead, we continue to repeat
the disconnected thinking processes that produce our troubles(15).
For example, to our loss, we usually take for granted the non-polluting,
rejuvenating, head-clearing power of a short walk in an attractive
natural area. To our benefit, NSTP helps awaken us to the walk's
significance and value.
The Natural Systems Thinking Process contributes to ecotherapy
in that it enables the therapist and client to genuinely reconnect
to Nature, to learn activities that enable people to think in
authentic conjunction with Nature's purifying balance and beauty,
backyard or back country(12). The documented results of several
thousand connections with Nature made by IGE participants shows
a consistent increase in feelings of wellness, energy, and belonging,
and a decrease in stress, dependencies and depression (16).
The NSTP component enables ecotherapist and client to identify
and unite with
the critical attribute in natural systems that prevents our destructiveness
from occurring in Nature (14). This unification empowers ecotherapist
and client alike to help the natural systems within them restore
their natural integrity and regenerative qualities (1). It is
these qualities that produce Nature's perfection. No surprise,
they prove therapeutic to disconnected people, and that's most
of us (6).
The Natural Systems Thinking Process empowers an ecotherapist
to help a client transform their destructive attraction bonds
into the constructive relationships that help sustain natural
systems in people and places (18). Cohen demonstrates that this
is how Nature works to produce the integrity of its unpolluted
relationships and cooperative diversity(4). In this sense, Nature
is ecotherapy in action.
Although the information below has proven helpful in further
defining the facts, value and appropriateness of NSTP for ecotherapy,
the best way to learn how NSTP works is to put it to work, to
engage yourself in the process. You may accomplish this via a
short, online, Orientation Course. It teaches through experiencing
first hand the art and science of connecting with nature(7).
"This easily accessible 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.
PART ONE REFERENCES:
1.
Can You Validate a Personal Nature Connecting Experience?. naturelov30thank.html
2. Fact
or Fiction? Questions and responses from reviewed articles, research
and field experience..references2.html INT
3. Reconnecting
With Nature: self-guiding books to help you master NSTP books.html WEB
4. The
Secrets of Connecting with Nature ...ttrailattract.html PWE
5.
The Results
of Connecting with Nature...survey.html
6. Putting
Knowledge into Practice...
7. The
Best Way to Learn: an online practicum in connecting with Nature...
8. Acting
Sensibly About a Critical Disconnection ..
9.
Have You
Retained Your Ecosensory IQ; do you use it?...
10.
The
Results of Nature Disconnected Consciousness ...
11.
A Free Introductory
Course You Can Take Online...
12.
Nature Connected
Degree Programs and Courses...
13.
Applying
Ecopsychology to Deal with our Denial zt
14. Global
Wellness and Unity: obtaining conscious consent to belongzt
15. Stairway
to Sanity: energies in Nature help us produce responsible personal,
social and environmental relationships.
16. Journal
Entries: Nature and The Natural Systems Thinking Process
17. Psychiatric
Validation of Reconnecting to our Subconscious Origins
18. Nature
Connected Component Improves the Benefits of Meditation
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The best way to learn and teach how to
enjoy balanced relationships:
THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS
ORIENTATION COURSE: Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship
The
Science of Connecting With the Web of Life
The Art of Thinking With Nature
An exciting, accredited, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared,
online activity, information and
training to become Natural Attraction literate. Learn
by doing. Become a practitioner anywhere. This is a free course if it meets your needs, a
transferable prerequisite for additional courses, degrees
and participation. The course is the best, most complete and
useful way to help nature restore the good nature of humanity
in contemporary society. It opens new vistas in academics, counseling,
careers, spirit and wellness, vistas that recycle and purify
destructive thinking. Optional Credit $42.00
READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR
APATHY
Einstein's
World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and
Sanity A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course.
It helps you reverse nature disconnection disorders from your
home. You can take it, teach it and be paid, too. Book $15.00,
Course $20.00. Optional Credit $42.00
EXPLORE THE PROCESS
FREE:
Our
Exploratory
Course online enables you to sample
the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn, first hand, its
thrust and benefits.
Our Free
Activity online helps you sample the process used in
NSTP coursework
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Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant United
Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available online
tools for the health and peace of
person, planet and spirit
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313
www.ecopsych.com
APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN NATURAL AREAS
The Natural Systems Thinking
Process
Dr.
Michael J. Cohen, Director
send email
nature@interisland.net
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