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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

Project NatureConnect offers a nature-centered distant learning mentoring opportunity that enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting research, methods and credentials to your degree program and/or your skills, interests and hobbies

We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent education credit for it.

You may take accredited or professional online CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal interests in solving problems. A partial subject list is located at the bottom of this page.

    * Improve your income and satisfaction through new independent, interdisciplinary or integrated study and Ecopsychology security activities.
    * Help people connect their heart, thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing powers of nature to remedy addiction and media attachments.
    * Increase personal social and environmental community well being.
    * Add the self-correcting sunlight beauty and spirit of the Organism Earth's natural world and to your life, job and community.

"Forming a community online and understanding our belonging within that community is part of that space of transformation and one of the huge parts of this course. If I were to have sat and done all of these activities on my own and then wrote in my journal about my experiences I don’t think I would have gained half as much validation, insight, confirmation, and better understanding of myself if we were not part of this journey together. Being inspired by each one of your posts and the reactions and comments that you gave me made the sense of belonging within a larger community a huge part of the transformation process."

"One of the best parts about this program and its insights is to naturally bring about an internal shift to live in a community way where others have the space to transform and have a similar shift. Spreading the gift of wholeness is a life long pursuit of being in the present moment so as to create a deepening connection to life that is happening now for others to share."

...."Through natural attraction sensations and feelings that were energized into consciousness through sensory contacts in natural areas, young or old, students and staff alike learned to respect the web-of-life community and themselves. Nature taught them to enjoy, validate and incorporate the self-correcting wisdom of the web in their thinking and feeling.

The National Audubon Society identified this program as the most revolutionary school in America and selected it to be an Audubon program out of 116 programs that were considered for sponsorship. In the Trailside/Audubon programs:

....Chemical dependencies, including alcohol and tobacco, disappeared as did destructive social relationships.
....Personality and eating disorders subsided; violence, crime and prejudice were unknown.
....Academics improved because they were applicable, hands-on and fun.
....Loneliness, hostility and depression subsided. Group interactions encouraged stress release and management; each day was fulfilling and relatively peaceful.
....Participants using meditation found they could enhance it, or not need it, as they helped build their nature-connected community.
....Participants knew each other better than they knew their families or best friends. They felt safe and developed the resilience to express and act from their deeper thoughts and feelings. A profound sense of social and environmental responsibility guided their decisions.
....When vacation periods arrived, neither staff nor student wanted to go home. Each person had enjoyably worked to build this supportive, balanced living and learning group. They were home."

- Cohen, Michael J. Integrated Ecology: The Process of Counseling With Nature, American Psychological Association, The Humanistic Psychologist Vol 21, August 1993

"Contains a strong sense of commitment to bed rock values and to the human spirit...a willingness to live out beliefs, to experience life...a system of thinking that can be very very useful for many people who have never given much thought to their place in the cosmic order... a way to feel connected to the universe and strengthen a sense of personal identity."

"I appreciate this program from the bottom of my heart. It helps me bridge the love of nature and life itself that has cradled me since birth with my work as a therapist. And it provides a workable translation of Indigenous healing that my elders taught, to my clients and students. It is accessible and doable for everyone! I love the way the program itself is an organism that is whole, alive, gentle and kind. Thanks for being here, everyone."

- L.O.W.

"I have noticed since co-facilitating three courses and doing my own course work, plus contact on the cooperative community groups, that PNC creates a startlingly, overwhelmingly positive and happy group of people! I don't think I have ever - in all my years as a therapist, trainer, teacher of supposedly peace enhancing and happiness producing endeavors - seen this much happiness, peace, delight, kindness, good will and NNIAL - especially NNIAL and in a very accessible form - dancing around the pages and lives of this many people. Thanks!!!!"

- L.W.

"The investment to my degree(s) is definitely an enormous benefit not only in the incalculable personal knowledge and growth it provided but professionally as well. Now that I have an active psychotherapy practice it has become an enormous professional advantage.

1. I am much better equipped to help my clients by using NSTP principles and the primary underpinning for my work.

2. I am more confident and assured as a therapist so I enjoy my work now immensely. I always look forward to seeing my clients. Clearly these first two are directly related.

3. The world is infinitely more receptive to me as a PhD applied ecopsychologist. Even though I am not a “licensed” psychologist, and never claim to be, just the word and the three little letters open doors and provide credibility that my Applied Ecopsychology ability alone can never attain. This is perhaps not at is should be per se, but it is certainly a marvelous asset."

- S.J.E.

Description of the Participation Process:

"After reading the homepage and links of interest there, I called Dr. Cohen and Barbara Huning returned my call. By phone the three of us designed a program plan that met my special goal. To more powerfully help people, I wanted to add Organic Psychology to my skills as a registered nurse. It was great to find that my life experience and training made me eligible to get an MS equivalence so I could consider doing either an MS or a PhD program, or I could just take courses and offer Organic Psychology to my clients by being Certified in it. Organic Psychology is one of several names that have, over the past half century, been used to describe this program. Others include Natural Systems Thinking Process, Natural Attraction Ecology and Applied Ecopsychology.

I knew the program was right for me as I read through and responded to the survey of participants pages and the many links to them, there, where the participants describe their experiences on the courses.

I received equivalence ratings for several courses whose requirements I had already completed at work and in other training programs. It felt right that this application of Ecopsychology program recognized the important things that I learned elsewhere were worthwhile education that deserved credit. After all, they were credible....In fact, I'm licensed in some of them.

Because Organic Psychology acknowledges that natural systems and attractions in us are trustable and honest in their own way, the program roots itself in natural trust and honesty. Walking its talk, it subsidized me financially because I recognized that nature, in and around us, needs our help. We must learn how to tap into, as well as support, rather than injure, natural systems as part of everything we do if we are to increase personal, social and environmental well being.

I enrolled because I discovered that my friend was meeting the goal of co-creating with nature while he was a Personal Life Coach; he was trained in, and using this Project NatureConnect Applied Ecopsychology online program.

From my visits to the homepage and my phone calls, I was very sure this course would make sense to to me because I looked into the details of its history and results. I accomplished this by obtaining and read the trade published version of its e-book Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature.

I only paid $150 total for the online Orientation Course and that included the books for it ($70), the Application Fee ($100), and eligibility for additional financial assistance and participation through the program's "Learn Now, Pay Later" plan. Financial assistance was based solely on trust and a contract I made to keep a payment schedule I designed that fit my needs. I've only payed what I could when I could. I was privileged to do this because people who encourage the program's goals subsidized the remainder of my tuition and, although I've obtained my degree, I still voluntarily contribute to helping pay for it. Doing this makes additional grant money available to other students and keeps the program going, too. I also still participate in the optional work/study program; I help facilitate the courses online and have run some for outpatients at the hospital.

While on the Orientation Course I joined the student cooperative. That put me on a mailing list with all the rest of the 200 or more students and the faculty. Then I just asked the co-op by email what questions I had or what course(s) I was ready to take next and others joined me in taking them. They provided answers to questions and let me know they would take a course with me or help facilitate it. Via steps 1-15, I just took one course after another and later used them to attain my degree.

After I completed a course, as part of the program I was given the opportunity to co-facilitate another section of the course so I had experience of teaching courses on my own as part of the program.

Half the reading on the courses was the email from other students, on the courses with me, about what they were discovering while doing the nature-connecting activities. Our information came from direct sensory contact with natural areas, backyard or backcountry, all over the world, not from the bias of our nature-estranged society. We learned from natural systems how to think and speak with and for them. Although profound, this was simple and enjoyable because we were/are natural systems. We were simply making contact with parts of ourselves and the world that were missing in our nature-disconnected socialization. And we were assured that we knew and could communicate this because we did it, even by email! I used the experiences of my classmates in this regard, as well as my own, to document some of the ideas I made in my final project and its defense for my degree.

The essential thing we learned was how to use simple nature-connecting sensory activities to create moments that let Earth teach us what we wanted to know. How and why the process works is described at http://www.ecopsych.com/transformation.html

Being accepted to the Orientation Course or the Program is easy once you decide that's what you want to do. Simply read the homepage, optionally read or do the ECHN book then call the office, (360-378-6313) and get your questions answered. They'll email you an easy-to-use copy of the application. Complete it, keeping in mind that once you are on the Orientation Course you can go as far as you want in the program and honestly pay what you can afford when you can afford it.

I am now working on facilitating a program that will be part of Nurses Training here. This will enable people on the hospital staff to add applied ecopsychology to their talents and Organic Psychology. They will be able to obtain a degree in this combination if they want one.

The impact and need to learn and teach this Natural Attraction Ecology process is tremendous. Any civilization worth the name should pay its citizens to master this program, just as any responsible business has in-service training for its employees to achieve excellence in meeting its goals.

Do this fun and easy natural attraction activity. If it makes sense and is attractive to you, you are eligible to take our Organic Psychology Track for a degree or certification in the organic application of ecopsychology to the healing arts. This track honors you life experience and prior training. It saves you the costs and time of 16 credits of graduate work, or two years of undergraduate work. By emulating how nature works, it reduces normal tuition fees by 85 percent.

3. Call or email nature@interisland.net for an application 360-378-6313.
We accept USA invitations from you to call you.

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You can email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net

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Project NatureConnect Institute of Global Education Holistic Professional Mentor Training and Community Contact Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Practical online distance learning to increase whole life wellness.

http://www.ecopsych.com

Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Holistic Professional Mentor Training and Community Contact
Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Practical online distance learning to increase whole life wellness.