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The ECHN Challenge Examination:
Ecopsychology with Attitude
Applied Ecopsychology: the
science of increasing personal, social and environmental well-being
The ECHN Challenge Exam: Ecopsychology with Attitude The dialog, below, is a conversation that continues the Challenge Exam description at http://www.ecopsych.com/eco700.html It will help you further understand the "challenge" in Challenge Exams as they apply to the NAE educating, counseling and healing with nature process. STUDENT: I've read through and understand eco700.html Can you send me more specific instructions for what I need to complete my exam? FACULTY: As a reader of your challenge exam I am one of the individuals who will determine how many credits for how many hours of learning will be awarded to you life and professional experience and training in the 700 series of courses. Your challenge is to convince me that you have achieved them and deserve the credit. Please, kindly, consider me to be the "authority" in this setting. Any strategies that you might use in designing other petitions to other authorities may work here, with me, as well. (Google "how to write a petition," if you think it will help you.) The challenge exam rests almost entirely on you persuasive abilities and their development. They produce your argument for credit, in a petition, that shows that you deserve credit for adding NSTP to specific experiences, classes, etc. The validity and persuasiveness of that arguement about what we use to determine the viability of your request for equivalence credit. If and when we request them, you can submit physical copies of documentations, when they are available. What we need from you is mini email petitions, that you design, to convince me that you have at least 45 hours/credit of a learning, or well-being contribution experience in some appropriate area. This would be an area were you believe you could have helped improve by adding NSTP/NAE/Organic Psychology to it (or that you did, in fact, accomplish this.) Your petitions will demonstrate that you would have accomplished this this if: 1) at the time, if you had the NAE training you now have, 2) that you now know how and could do it and 3) in the future you will further know how and will do it more in areas where you develop influence. The more you document this, or can convince me you can document that the above is true, the stronger is your petition. You need to petition for the credits you need to fill the ECO 700 series of courses described at http://www.ecopsych.com/eco700.html Each successful mini- petition will become part of your portfolio of petitions for each broad 700 course topic. Your challenge is to erase doubts in my/our mind that you have not done the above for the number of hours you say you have done it. That enables me to agree that you've done it and certify to the Cooperating University that you have done it. If you do your job well, I'll do the same when I, in turn, "petition" the University with your transcript and its documentation. This is obviously mostly a game since I already trust that you have done what you say you have done and far more. Otherwise where would you have gotten the unique consciousness and wisdom to choose to study and achieve in the remote but critically important field of Natural Attraction Ecology (described in detail at http://www.naturalattractionecology.com and its links.) In addition I know that you can do all this because I and others have read all your course work from day one and daily interacted with you over these years, and we are leading experts in this discipline. (Not to forget that we may also be the only experts in it at this point.) In addition, you have been working on, or completed you comprehensive exam (at http://www.ecopsych.com/eco800.html so you/we know you comprehend the parameters of ECHN ) This logical and rational petitioning process, above, is the way the free world and academia works to make reasonable change (This is especially true if you are willing to ignore the unfair bribery, establishment dogma and deceitful power struggle manipulation that too often accompanies this procedure. Although we don't, we probably should encourage you to engage in this impropriety here. It would serve to further acquaint you with reality in Industrial Society so we both know you have the full scale of skills needed to succeed <grin>. ) We can have phone conversations to conclude this process when you've completed the challenge petitions. You'll find that your dissertation will be, fact by fact, based on the petition process, above, except there you may mainly use scholarly scientific studies to substantiate your arguments.. Have fun, be creative, develop strategies and logically scheme like crazy so you can be confronting if necessary. We've got to peacefully stop our stupid, undeclared war against nature in places and humanity. This is one opportunity to help make that happen. STUDENT: Thank you. I will study this and get it done soon. 752 and 753 are field studies and case studies, respectively and 791 will be written up for the workshops I've done, the articles I've written, and the promotion of ECHN in my community. FACULTY: If you can, send me just one part of one petition to cover a few hours of "life experience" as a sample of how you may submit the others....so I can add to it if possible and you can consider using what I might add or request, to the remainder of what you will do. For each course, the university wants Portfolios containing persuasive challenge exam results that I approve. The petition route is most effective for this as others have to override your documentation and arguments as well as my considered acceptance of them in my authority as Program Director. That's the smooth transition and agreement with the university. I will do my best to help you override my forthcoming critique of your past experiences, I will attempt to outfox myself on your behalf. STUDENT: Here is my first part for one Petition for 752, please add, change, whatever needed to complete. You may cut and paste, Thanks a BUNCH! (The student submitted an excellent broad overview of his work, intentions, process and effects as an opening) FACULTY: These are called challenge exams because, usually, the faculty sets forth a challenging list of potent questions about a certain subject, and the student either passes or fails by answering them correctly and thereby meeting the challenge. The challenge exam that is appropriate for our process is to challenge the student to design and present a petition that makes it reasonable for the faculty to grant the credits. Try and keep that posture in the back of your mind. The goal would be to provide evidence and rationale to validate the hours being requested, ie to convert all the work into learning hours. It's strongest if you put a Topic or Subject title for each paragraph or objective that you offer so they are easy to "add up" and difficult to question or get behind. Be as authoritative as you can because your real challenge is to be convincing. (This will be good practice for you because its the same thing you must accomplish in your dissertation for defending your project) Although you might not want to describe your overall strategy, part of your challenge could be to design a convincing presentation strategy that you could follow and LABEL such as Title: ECO 7xx A petition for _______ number of credits for _______ hours of equivalent education and training. Purpose: Objective: Materials/Places/Individuals involved: Inclusive dates Approximate hours of learning Approximate hours of practice Geographic location Type of location (school, business, natural area) Trainer, if any, and their background Books or other resources used, give a few examples. Procedure: Evidence: Discussion: Contribution Made: Skills or Competencies achieved or strengthened. Hours Involved: Helpful Background Information. Further Contacts Available (When possible: Who to contact for further validation if required....and/or documents that support that the work was done...) STUDENT: Is the below in the right direction? FACULTY: Good start. TO Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D. Program Director, Akamai Institute of Applied Ecopsychology COURSE ECO 753 Case Studies in Applied Ecopsychology SUBJECT: Please accept this petition from me for me to be awarded 3 credits of coursework in ECO 753 by my completing 3 equivalence case study challenge exams for 50 hours each. FACULTY: You should add an abstract here of up to 200 words that contain the thrust and synopsis of this petition ECO 753 PORTFOLIO TOPICS: These are the procedures and results of three challenge exams with three (or more) individual case studies GENERAL INFORMATION FOR ALL 3 EXAMS: TOTAL HOURS OF LEARNING: More than 210 learning hours in 3 challenge exams @ 70 hours/challenge exam credit BREAKDOWN OF HOURS 2 hours per day, per activity 1.5 hrs per day journaling time (4 days, and sometimes one extra day per week) DATES February 2009- Sept 2009 Jan 2010- April 2 2010 Aug 2010- Dec 15, 210 Feb 20100- present GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION Primarily Holualoa, Kona, Hawaii, TYPE OF LOCATION Natural and domesticated area of two acres and surrounding path ways, woodlands, fields, water ways, and surrounding coffee farms, Imin Center location (local community park area) of classroom area, and it's surrounding gardens and pathways. TRAINER: Charles Samuels, PhD. candidate. Christyna's background is as school mental health contract worker (Hawaii Behavioral Health) , free lance writer, undergraduate degree in Educational psychology, Certification in Mental Health, Certified Hypnotherapist, third year candidate with PNC RESOURCES AND MATERIALS: Materials: Books: Private Notebooks, natural landmarks, trees, grasses, natural surroundings, etc, Many Books similar to The joy of Nature author Biophillia/ EO Wilson Coming to our senses/ Jon Kabat Zinn The Future of Life author Cradle to Cradle author PNC texts: Web of Life Imperative Connecting with Nature Re connecting with Nature Einstein's World STUDY PURPOSE : To introduce, teach, and interact with others with NSTP, ECHN, NAE, NIAL, Sensory/reasoning combination thinking (nine legged thinking) While participating with these lessons to also practically advance level of production and challenges to Mauka Mocha (coffee farm) to enhance the mastering techniques as laid out in all previous graduate courses with PNC, and to document mastery of such STUDY OBJECTIVE: Teaching farm hands and organic workers the Natural Systems Thinking Process to allow my husband and I myself, to not only improve the quality and productivity of our farm, but to give valuable tools to others concerning how nature, their own senses, and their own inner wisdom is utilized for optimum results while utilizing practical solutions achieved, and add potential material of use to the field of Ecopsychology. PROCEDURE TRAINER SAMPLE ACTIVITY ETC Petition for 752 Advanced Field Studies in Ecopsychology The following paragraphs SUPPORT MY REQUEST FOR CREDIT WITH REFERENCE TO field studies in NSTP, ECHN, and NAE THAT I HAVE done with Project Nature Connect. FACULTY: Although you only need 150 (actually 135 hours) total, you should assign what you believe to the best of your ability, were the actual number of hours spent in determining the parameters.....they don't have to be all at once.....a few hours here teaches you one thing, a few hours a week later teaches you something else....and you can include what was learned or better still, the outcomes of these hours about this "parameters" topic. You probably have way more than the total you need.... that just strengthens the petition that you at least deserve the three credits although you may have earned seven. Now then, you can either submit all the hours here in 753 as field studies, or can take some of them and frame them as "case studies" (for example, the relationship with folks you mention could be seen as "case studies" of them,) so if you don't need the hours for them here, place them in your 753 portfolio. For each of these little scenarios that you come up with for your "portfolio" for each course, add where possible as many as the things listed as "Your learning portfolio" at http://www.ecopsych.com/eco700.html challenge exam. If there are additional proofs or evidence that will or would substantiate each scenario, add them. If you can see how a scenario adds or added to the topic of 791, (participation in the goals of the webstring cooperative in mentoring others, doing public relations)...even if they are about your program if they also introduced folks or helped folks with PNC or ECHN, use, and defend the use, if necessary, of that scenario for the 791 course, especially if you are already overloaded with credits in any particular course. A few things come to my mind that may be helpful to your thinking and your strategies on interpreting/converting your pre PNC and PNC experiences into course learning hours. *** "I came into the program knowing nothing about it and I learned about it. All that learning (including hours on the website) is/was to help me learn how to enable myself and others make direct contact with NNIAL to help me increase personal, social and environmental well-being ("improve the human condition" in University terms). I deserve credit for every minute of it, all I've got to do is convincingly convey that it I did the hours, and then some." ***"I say that from my experience there are 600 million stars in the sky...I've told you how and why I've concluded this.....if you don't believe me, count them yourself." ***"I've been trustable throughout the program, I've been my word. There is no need or reason not to suddenly not trust me now since my NNIAL relationships and goals remains consistent and are stronger." ***"You, as a leader and facilitator have had good experiences in nature that have shown you how nature works, so you know exactly what I'm talking about and should give me credit for my time and learning from the truth of my nature experience." So what you have to do is present me with undeniable petitions for experience credits for the 700 courses and how can I say "No. You simply add a 5-leg interpretation to your 4-leg experiences and the truth of NNIAL should prevail. Now go do the same with your life experiences, as well. Call me for details or questions... it works better than email.
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