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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Project NatureConnect
Michael J.Cohen, Ed.D. Director
For complete program information visit www.ecopsych.com

The IGE Graduate Student Cooperative Become an instrument for personal and environmenal wellness locally and globally. Honor and enhance your prior training and life experiences. Reduce degree program costs and time through shared learning, teaching and administration.   HANDS-ON..EDUCATING AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE Psychologically responsible, environmentally connected, learning and degrees help you increase your marketability, credibility and effectiveness. AN OVERVIEW: Dear Visitor Welcome. Thank you for caring to help people live more responsibly through an environmentally sound educational tool. It enhances personal and global integrity and reduces our destructive needs and wants. Relationships, be they sub-atomic, human, or weather systems, are formed and held together by natural attractions. In the name of objectivity, contemporary thinking and science dismiss most of the attraction sensitivities that natural systems and people, as part of them, hold in common. We view these senses as subjective or immeasureable. This demeans their integrity and value for they are as factual and vital as any other aspect of our Planet. Attraction senses like thirst or community are as important and real as water or family, even though we do not include them in the "five senses." The loss of natural attraction senses and sensitivities from our thinking leaves us to conclude that life systems operate by the laws of chance and are without purpose. However, any thoughtful person may observe that, locally or globally, a life system does have a purpose. It's purpose is to survive, to follow its attraction to be alive and support life. It is attracted to cooperatively help sustain life's integrity, to help life grow in harmony. Throughout nature this purpose is accomplished by seeking and pursuing immediate natural attractions. We are part of nature; natural attractions operate our bodies and organ functions. At least 53 natural attractions also register in our consciousness as felt senses that enable us to better guide our thinking when we are aware of them. Today, as over the eons, we can use them to help us establish mutually supportive relationships, an individual, interpersonal and global equilibrium. The separation of our thinking from the natural attraction process in nature results in our greatest troubles. Research by a group of graduate students and faculty studying nature-connected psychology shows that people using an attraction- sensitive nature reconnecting process can help their thinking produce sustainable personal and environmental wellness and peace. The group's Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) enables people to find and follow attraction sensitivities in nature. This dissolves many psychological dependencies upon destructive materials and relationships and replaces them with constructive participation. Can you afford not to incorporate the Natural Systems Thinking Process in your life and work? Our graduate student group has formed a subsidized cooperative, online, M.S. and Ph.D degree program at Greenwich University and other affiliated Universities. The program enables them to add a certified and academically accredited NSTP component to their personal and professional lives. It helps them incorporate prior training and work experiences. It offers degree equivilence waivers to those who qualify and dramatically reduces M.S. and Ph.D. costs and time (see below). This makes the benefits of an accredited degree available to deserving people, especially mid-career professionals. The cooperative is free and open to all. It operates through the Institute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Is this learning and degree opportunity of interest to you? Are there others you know who would benefit by becoming aware of the Co-op and its benefits? They are described below. For Global Sanity, Michael J. Cohen, Director .     The Graduate Student Cooperative - Ph.D. and M.S. Online Degree Programs and Courses in Nature-Connected Education and Counseling. - Post Doctoral Training and Research Opportunities - Certification of Core Course Training     Gain Ecopsychology expertise. Reduce degree costs, time and travel: Includes your prior experience and training. Offers financial assistance. Adds an environmentally and socially responsible component to your career and personal growth Important personal and environmental wellness questions: ( .) yes ...I enjoy and appreciate nature and the environment. I ...,,,,,,,,, want to include their welfare in my personal and ...,,,,,,,,, professional life ( .) yes ...I am interested in education, counseling, restoring ............wholeness to our thinking and the rejuvenation of spirit. ( .) yes ...I want whatever I do to help people enjoy responsible ...,,,,,,,,, personal social and environmental relationships.. If you can check "yes" to the above statements please continue.   Would you like to: Include environmentally-connected psychology (Applied Ecopsychology) in your present or future work? . Enhance your professional and personal life through environmentally and socially responsible skill development and research? . Save money and study time while obtaining the benefits of an advanced degree? . Help implement United Nations' directives for environmentally responsible person growth and social justice? Add Post Doctoral ecopsychology training and research to your field of expertise Be Certified to show you have completed the core coursework and know how to integrate it in your work? . How are the above accomplished? You complete a short, online Orientation Course and learn how to reduce by 50% the costs and time of our online Masters or Doctoral program that is normally: MASTERS: 18 months, $6,000 total. (Present Average Tuition $3,600.) DOCTORATE: 2-3 years $10,500 total. (Present Average Tuition $5,850.) You document your previous or ongoing appropriate work experiences, hobbies and academic training and incorporate them in your program. . You share your skills cooperatively with other students and faculty as part of our cooperative learning degree program. . You become a guide for and with classmates and teach as you learn. You apply for available grants, work/study and financial assistance when needed. On an optimum need basis, the cooperative process enables you to obtain an MS degree in as little as 12 months ($3,500) or Ph.D. in 18 months ($5,500) or less. . The benefits: You will: Not pay the costly overhead expenses of maintaining a campus, classrooms, administrators and unnecessary academic requirements. . Not pay the costs for transportation and living away from home. Have the opportunity to show that your prior professional or academic training experiences are equivilent to a Masters or other degree, obtain a waiver for this degree, and enter the Doctoral or Master's program directly. . Avoid being dominated by personalities or judged by how you look, your accent, clothes, financial status, religion., sorority, etc. . Participate by email where your experiences, deeper thoughts and feelings are what counts. . Be able to continue working and earning while learning. . Gain an excellent advanced degree through hands-on learning by doing, teaching and interning in your local area. . Enjoy the honor and privileges of recognition as an expert in environmentally and socially responsible psychology and education. . Enjoy cooperative, supportive relationships that enhance work-study experiences and financial assistance, accredited internships and grant writing that are part the degree program. . Have access to inexpensive courses online that you can transfer into degree programs or professional credit at most schools. Avoid the inconvenience of scheduling your life around classes. Enjoy your education rather than have it be a chore. . Enjoy the option of attending on-site classes and workshops. The purpose of the cooperative is to learn and offer an ecologically connected psychology that help meet the United Nations' manifest for environmentally sound peace, personal growth and social justice. The cooperative operates in association with Greenwich University, IUPS, NEEF and other learning institutions under the auspices of Project Natureconnect at the Institute of Global Education (IEE). The Institute is a special, non-profit, NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.   Of what use is a worthwhile purpose or idea if you don't have a process that impliments it? Of what use is a worthwhile process if you do not have people who value it and want to use it? How do you help people who want to use a valueable process that is unavailable to them? Because Earth and contemporary society are at risk, the IGE Cooperative addresses these important questions. The program researches, develops, and makes readily available, a nature-connected psychology: the Natural Systems Thinking Process. The Process scientifically enables its participants to create moments that let Earth teach through thoughtful, sensory, psychological, attraction contacts in natural areas, backyard to backcountry. Benefits in education, counseling and recovery result along with increased environmental responsibility. Through the cooperative's outreach training programs, via the internet, any student individually, or a class or department at a school or university, may learn and teach the Natural Systems Thinking Process. The best way to become familiar with the Process is to engage in it by taking the Institute's short, online Orientation Course. Select here to obtain an application to join the Cooperative. There is no fee.   "This wide ranging program adds an important component to an individual's personal and professional goals," said Dr. Michael Cohen, the program's founder. "Participants learn to effectively address the often neglected emotional roots of our problems."

Additional information SUGGESTION: If you are interested in entering the program, for best results read entirely through the letter below before visiting its links

INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Project NatureConnect Dear Inquirer, The staff and I are honored that you are interested in the Applied Ecopsychology or Integrated Ecology degree program, certificate of training, or courses that we make available. We dedicate ourselves to helping you discover how we can best assist and support your interests. You may familiarize yourself with our program by reading entirely through this short letter before you visit its many links. Please be aware that a limited number of $1500 Doctoral Compatibility Grants are available for each semester. If this line is written in green, one is available as of today and applicants who recognize the value of our program for their interests, usually get them (as long as they are available.) Semesters start January, April, July and October. The program is a distance learning process that may be completed entirely via the internet and email. It is most completely described on its homepage You will find application procedures there as well. In support of the degree program, please carefully consider our scholarship subsidized Cooperative Support Group and the Master's Waiver Option . Our degree program and courses are not designed for uncaring people. They specifically help the concerned individual become expert in Project NatureConnect's powerful Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) and optionally earn a Degree and/or Certificate while doing so. Because the Process is a science of relating in balance with Earth and its people, it enhances contemporary life. For this reason it will bring greater rewards to your personal and professional interests in most fields and disciplines. The Natural Systems Thinking Process is a missing link in the way we learn to think. It helps build environmentally sound unity, wellness and inner peace, a process often absent from our lives. NSTP not only provides the means to build responsible relationships, it also dissolves the bonds that hold us on our destructive personal, social and environmental paths. We let its process and effectiveness speak for itself through experiences you may enjoy at our website If you have not yet done so, to consider the effects of the process visit our Program Survey. Follow its links and discover what parts of it speak to and for you. To consider the professional and economic potentials of nature connected psychology, visit professional opportunities. If you are interested in taking inexpensive Education and Counseling with Nature Courses online and transferring them into your present degree program visit our course description page. Visit these pages you want to learn about Post Doctoral ecopsychology training or be Certified for learning how to use NSTP in your field of interest. The least expenisve route to a degree is through the Certificate Program where costs/per credit are 50% less for most of the program. The Training Certificate coursework and internship program may be completed and then transferred into M.S. or Ph.D. programs available at the time of completion. This reduces costs and makes a greater number of degree options available. The best way to learn how to build a house is to build one. Similarly, we involve our students in the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn it and its applications. To be sure that this fits how and what you want to learn, we suggest that you take and successfully complete an Orientation Course by email before you complete an application for the degree program, further courses or internships. Please visit the Orientation Course and follow the instructions there. By completing this course you, and we, will have a better idea of the appropriateness of our program for you. This core course becomes part of your degree program transcript. We believe in outcome based education. If you have learned a skill anywhere, or by any means, that applies to your professional competency, at your request, we will give you academic credit and standing in this area towards your degree, or a degree waiver, at little cost. All you need do is document what you have learned from your life experiences or from previous equivalent courses . This option of our degree program enables you to remove much repetitiveness, time and expense. Our degree program centers around holistic experiential learning, independent study and research courses. They include internships, field studies and projects rather than "book learning" alone. Please carefully study our web pages to further learn of the scope and texture of this degree opportunity. Take the tour and visit our library/contents/index page. Our "Frequently Asked Questions" page has proved helpful to many of our applicants. Most of the reading you do on the website will fulfill some requirements of the required Orientation Course. We encourage you to call us, toll free, at 1-888-285-4694 to further explore how our program will enhance your goals and how we may together custom fit it to them. To read introductory material about entering the degree program Select here Again, our congratulations for having the courage in these troubled times to consider making a strong, hands-on contribution to environmentally sound personal growth and social justice. For Unity, Michael J. Cohen Director To obtain an application to join the co-operative Select here. There is no fee involved. You should also send an email inquiring about the possibilitiy of your participation in the program and questions you may have. To obtain an application to enter the degree program, Select here To read introductory material about entering the degree program Select here

Reminder: The best single way to become familiar with the process is through the program's Orientation Course.

LINKS to degree program introductory materials.

LINKS to support and complimentary web sites including IUPS and NEEF

Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor WA 98250
(360) 378-6313
nature@pacificrim.net
www.ecopsych.com

Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
Faculty, Greenwich University
Faculty, Portland State University

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