. HELP-WANTED. Nature-Connected Learning and Healing Online: degrees, jobs and accredited training courses enhance your personal and professional goals. Our grant-funded, organic methods and materials help you safely tap into and benefit from the grace, balance and restorative powers of natural systems, backyard or backcountry. Use the hands-on application of ecopsychology to strengthen your effectiveness and friendships. Help reduce stress and increase well-being in people and the environment. Add the supportive sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your relationships. Visit our Homepage for complete information   Part or full-time sustainable adolescent and development online jobs careers or courses in nature-connected education counseling and organic healing. Degree scholarships available.,     INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council . Project NatureConnect: accredited holistic environmental and social science courses, organic learning degrees and alternatives for sustainable education career training and distance learning jobs.   ....................                                               .........................................................................................   New: Organic Psychology for sustainable adolescent and development work addresses the source of many personal and environmental disorders to increase well-being.   Funding for sustainable adolescent and development jobs, careers and training online connects human sensibilities to the intelligence, spirit and restorative powers of Nature. Increase your personal grounding by consciously connecting with nature's self-correcting benefits. Receive credit for your life experiences and increase their value.   A Course Participant's report: I went for a walk with my dog, Ronnie, to Green Lake which is a block away from my house. There are docks all along the Lake shore and where I was there is a little peninsula that sticks out into the water. The dock I walked out on is parallel to the little island peninsula. As soon as I stepped onto the dock I did the activity that helps me obtain permission from the lake to visit it. It said yes! I was literally greeted by swallows, red winged black birds. As I looked to the left in the tall cattails I saw a very large 3 foot by 3 foot nest. (It was a swans nest. ) I could see that two of there eggs had been rolled off the nest. apparently these did not hatch. I looked out on the water and saw Mr. & Mrs. Swan were out on the water with their new little family of four signets bobbing gracefully along. I decided to sit on the dock and just watch them for awhile when I heard a noise to the left of us. It was a little muskrat swimming out of the cattails. He looked at us and just went about his business. Then another surprise was the 3 sets of Canadian geese and 2 sets of their babies came down to the waters edge along with a set of domestic farm ducks that have taken up residence there with the Canadian geese. These domestic ducks are a little larger than the Canadian geese and they don't seem to care .They all hang out together.... it is amazing. The strongest sensory attraction was the swans. I have always admired them. I also related to them since I was a little girl because of the story That Hans Christian Anderson wrote...( The Ugly Duckling), because I always felt like one. I am attracted to the swans because I can feel their power, beauty, elegance and dedication to family. I love the swans because their feathers are white and this reminds me of the purity and strength of heart they possess. Then, as instructed, I applied my natural attractions to my own nature. This helped me discover that I like myself because I can feel my power, beauty, elegance and dedication to family and I like myself because I can feel my purity and strength of heart. This makes me feel incredible. It has taken me 50 years to learn to like my self. My adolescent self-esteem was as low as the butt of a snail. It has been a long haul but I think I can safely say that I have at last found the power, beauty, strength, elegance, the purity of heart of my true nature. I have always had dedication to family. I never learned to look inside myself very much to see what beauty lies there in my natural self. I see beauty in so many other people and in nature, but I have negated what I now know I carry in my own soul. This was a real eye opening exercise!! It enhanced my self worth ALOT!!! It taught me to look at my insides a little more and appreciate the gifts that nature has given me. Nature boosts your self-esteem. When your self-esteem is healthy and you know you are a part of the greater whole through connecting with nature you are much more at peace with yourself and the world around you. Now, I teach my adolescent students to look at what they are attracted to in nature and how to find it in themselves. It's always there, it's the part of themselves that finds and values their connections with nature. . Act now. Learn Organic Psychology by doing it. Explore it from our homepage Learn the how and why of Organic Psychology: Explore the natural values of educating, counseling and healing; learn the science of creating moments that let Earth teach. Application Form                                                           INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Nature-Connected sustainable adolescent and development jobs and careers use Organic Psychology to improve thinking, expand consciousness and increase personal and environmental well-being . P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC, ACCREDITED, APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email   All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the books The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature .