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Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
CEU Courses at Portland State University.

Integrated Sensory Ecology in Action: The PSA courses  on this page are also part of Project NatureConnect online degrees, career and training programs that enhance your personal and professional goals. Our grant-funded methods and materials help you safely tap into the beneficial grace, balance and restorative powers of natural systems, backyard or backcountry.

Use our hands-on Applied Ecopsychology science to strengthen your effectiveness and reduce stress and disorders. Add the supportive sunlight, beauty and spirit of the natural world to your relationships.

Please first visit our Homepage for complete information or call us at 360-378-6313. Email us your telephone number if you want us to call you.  

 


Project NatureConnect
www.ecopsych.com
Practical distance learning that increases energy, expertise and spirit.

.Holistic Education Counseling and Healing

 

Portland State University/Project NatureConnect
Continuing Education (CEU) Online Cooperative Program

 

Portland State University Extended Studies
in cooperation with
Project NatureConnect

offers

HOLISTIC CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT (CEU) TRANSFERABLE COURSES ONLINE :

- for CEU or Academic Credit or Clock Hours.
(
NOTE: One Academic Course Credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)

- for use or transfer to meet academic or professional licensing requirements in Education, Counseling or Human Resources.

-for designing your own, funded, interdisciplinary or independent study degree program at a university of your choice.

-for obtaining certification to teach Organic Psychology and the Natural Systems Thinking Process

For registration 
call or email Dr. Michael Cohen
360-378-6313,
email nature@interisland.net
or visit the online registration instructions
 

 

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY (PSU) NATURE-CONNECTED, DISTANCE LEARNING , TRAINING, DEGREE AND CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT (CEU ) COURSES

NOTE: These courses may be taken for no PSU credit and used in degree programs associated with Project NatureConnect or other universities and training programs. Call 360-378-6313 for details.

 

The Portland State University CEU courses online listed below parallel Education or Counseling Courses of University Degree Programs in many fields. They may be transferred into any accredited or non-accredited degree program or be Continuing Education Units or clock-hours (CEU) for licensing in Education or Counseling.

The credit for these courses is recorded and transferred through a USA accredited transcript from Portland State University Extend Education at $55/credit. The courses are optionally funded when they are taken as part of a certification or degree program at Project NatureConnect

 

An Overview Description of PSU/PNC Courses
From the Fall, 2008 PSU Extended Studies Catalog Description of PSU/PNC courses:

Educating Counseling and Healing with Nature Courses for Educators, Counselors and Human Service Workers.
1-46 academic or professional training credits available total.

Online, master organic learning remedies for nature deficits that undermine learning, counseling and personal growth. Help students and leaders benefit from thinking and feeling with the grace balance and restorative powers of natural systems. Improve global citizenship through shared experience, hands-on, sensory nature-connecting activities and environmental materials. Enjoy friendship-based, stress-releasing email courses, training and degrees that strengthen most subjects. Offered cooperatively by PSU and Project NatureConnect.

For registration 
call or email Dr. Michael Cohen
360-378-6313,
email nature@interisland.net
or visit the online registration instructions

 

ACCREDITED COURSES AND DESCRIPTIONS

Core Course Sequence. You may take one or all of these online courses in this prerequisite order:

1. Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship 1-4 credits Course One (below) (ECO 500)

2. Introduction to Educating and Counseling With Nature 1-4 credits COURSE ONE (below) (ECO 501)

3. Educating and Counseling With Nature, Part One COURSE FIVE (below) 1-5 credits (ECO 502A)

4. Educating and Counseling With Nature, Part Two COURSE SIX (below) 1-6 credits (ECO 502B)


You may take one or all of these online courses individually and in any sequence.


A. Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship 1-4 credits COURSE 1 (below) (ECO 500)

B. Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity 1 Credit (ECO 508). COURSE TWO (below)

C. Explore Nature's Wisdom 1 Credit COURSE THREE 


D. Counseling With Natural Attractions
1 Credit COURSE FOUR (below)
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E. Principles of Organic Psychology: Educating, Counseling, and Healing with Nature 1-3 Credits FREE COURSE COURSE FOUR-A (below)


F.
Introduction to Eco-Art Therapy: Reconnecting with Nature through Art 3 Credits
COURSE FOUR-B (below)



SECTION 1. CEU graduate or undergraduate college courses without prerequisite requirements

Best Choice: PSU COURSE ONE

Part 1  500A
Explore Nature's Wisdom


Part 2 500B
Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship:
An Overview Orientation Course

THIS IS THE BEST GENERAL ENTRY CEU COURSE CHOICE FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

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A PRACTICAL, TRANSFERABLE, INTERACTIVE NATURE SENSITIVITY COURSE ONLINE

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 408/808
COURSE#98CB

Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature
(This is the Project NatureConnect required "Orientation Course")

Call 360-378-6313

PSU DATE AND COURSE NUMBER
1-6 Quarterly Credits
(*1). 10-60 clock hours. $55/credit (optional) plus course cost ($150 includes books ($75))
(One academic Credit = 1CEU or 10 Clock Hours)

  • The science of communicating with and relating to natural systems within and around us.
  • The art of thinking and co-creating with nature

The strongest way to learn and teach nature-connected psychology, counseling and education is to engage in it through this classic, short, online course. Visit its full description

NOTE: This course is a prerequisite for Project NatureConnect admission to cooperative education programs and for financial assistance and online certification and MS and PhD degree program courses at Project NatureConnect. All courses listed on this page may be used in the this program.

"This is the course that every civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."

- Raymond Sierra, Counselor

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net


PSU Catalog Description:

This entrance level, online, sensory-ecology course in practical, nature-connected education, counseling and healing enables you, backyard or backcountry, to learn and teach the therapeutic science of Applied Ecopsychology. Increase personal, social and environmental well-being by enabling any student, client or leader to create beneficial moments that let Earth teach. This restorative thinking skill helps our 53 natural senses reasonably embrace their nurturing origins in the balanced, self-correcting and renewing ways of natural systems within and around us.

Short and Long Term Effects: see Testimonials


(*1) Associated Additional Courses and Credits
Student Teach 1 credit,
#PSU 1-GLOBALCIT studteach.doc
Mentor 1 credit,
#PSU-1 GLOBALCIT mentor.doc
Organize & Teach 2 credits,
#PSU 1-GLOBALCIT orgteach2.doc
(One academic credit = 1

 

 

PSU COURSE TWO

Additional CEU PSU courses without prerequisite requirements
$85/credit includes course costs

Portland State University
Continuing Education

CI 808/ COURSE NUMBER 98JF

Explore Nature's Wisdom: Nature, Poetry, and Art as a Gateway to Discovering Creative Sensory-Awareness in Nature
No prerequisite
1 Quarterly credits 10-20 clock hours. (*2) Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*2) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
Mentor 1 credit, #PSU-1

(One academic
credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)

 

PSU COURSE THREE

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 808/ COURSE NUMBER 98JH

Counseling with Natural Attractions: A Hands-On Natural Sensory Awareness Trail for Environmental Educators and School Counselors
No prerequisite
1 (*3) Quarterly credits 10-20 clock hours. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect
PSU DATE AND COURSE NUMBER

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*3) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
#Mentor 1 credit, #PSU-1
mardiexploreNat.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)

 

 

PSU COURSE FOUR

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 408/808 COURSE#98CA
K3143EAG K3143EAU

Natural Attractions, Intelligences, and Sanity Einstein's World: how educating and counseling with nature strengthens our natural senses, sensibilities and well being.
1 Quarterly credit (PSU)
See below: A
dditional Associated Courses and Credits Quarterly credits (PSU) (*4)

Discover how to prevent contemporary society's nature-separated thinking from deteriorating personal growth and responsible relationships. Increase your marketability, effectiveness and global citizenship by educating and counseling with a readily accessible natural systems thinking process. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect.

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*4) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
#Mentor 1 credit, #PSU-1
NATATTRACT mentor.doc
Student Teach 1 credit, #PSU 1-NATATTRACT studteach.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)


PSU COURSE FOUR-A

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 408/808 COURSE#10149
1-3 Quarterly credits (PSU)

Principles of Organic Psychology: Educating, Counseling, and Healing with Nature FREE COURSE

This course evaluates empirical methods and materials for holistic Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN), a sensory, applied science for increasing human and environmental well-being. To complete this course you 1) select and copy 125 key ECHN statements from assigned ECHN topics that are located on the Internet and 2) create a unique "true-false" test that includes how you value your selected organic psychology statements personally and professionally. Explore ECHN at http://www.SaneEarth.com.

Fall 2012  |  10149 - 001
Win 2013  |  10149 - 002
Spr 2013  |  10149 - 003

(*4) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
#Mentor 1 credit, #PSU-1
NATATTRACT mentor.doc
Student Teach 1 credit, #PSU 1-NATATTRACT studteach.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)


 

2. CEU college in-sequence courses that have prerequisite course requirements
$110-135/credit includes course costs
...


PSU COURSE FOUR-B

Introduction to Eco-Art Therapy: Reconnecting with Nature through Art 

Portland State University
Continuing Education

COUN 408/808  #10148 -
3 Quarterly credits (PSU)

Fall 2012  |  10148 - 001
Win 2013  |  10148 - 002
Spr 2013  |  10148 - 003
 

This is a fun, experiential course designed to familiarize you with the science of Applied Ecopsychology and introduce you to an innovative blended modality called Eco-Art therapy. You will learn to recognize that you are part of planet Earth's web of life and explore how art can be used in conjunction with sensory nature experiences to enhance the ability of Nature to teach. You do not need to be an "artist" or have any so-called "creative talent" to take this class. It is not an art course, but rather uses the creative process of art-making as a tool for wellness and self-discovery.




  

PSU COURSE FIVE

Portland State University
Continuing Education
HI 408/808 COURSE# 98JL

Educating and Counseling with Nature--Introduction
1-4 Quarterly credits (PSU) (*5)

Prerequisite:Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship [see Orientation Course box above with
1-2 Quarterly credits (PSU)]

Learn to promote social and environmental responsibility by adapting unique nature-reconnecting methods and materials for your personal or professional use. Tangible reconnections with natural systems satisfy deep natural wants: when unsatisfied, these wants disrupt inner peace and fuel runaway disorders. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*5) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
Mentor 2 credit, #PSU-1
INTRODUCT mentor.doc
Student Teach 2 credit, #PSU 1-INTRODUCT studteach.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)

 

 

The preceding course is the prerequisite to

PSU COURSE SIX

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 408/808 COURSE# 98JT

Educating and Counseling with Nature--Part One
1-5 Quarterly credits (PSU) (*6)
Gain an introduction to new nature-connecting methods and materials. Discover how Western Civilization separates and estranges us from nature's integrity, love and spirit within us. Learn thoughtful, natural reconnection activities that help us reverse this dilemma and catalyze responsible relationships. Offered cooperatively by Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect

For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*6) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
Mentor 5 credit, #PSU-1
PART1 mentor.doc
Student Teach 5 credit, #PSU 1-PART1 studteach.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)

 

The preceding course is the prerequisite to

PSU COURSE SEVEN

Portland State University
Continuing Education
CI 408/808 PSU COURSE# 98JP

Educating and Counseling with Nature--Part Two
1-6 Quarterly credits (PSU) (*7)
PSU DATE AND COURSE NUMBER
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=2037


Further your understanding of how Western civilization separates and estranges us from nature's integrity, love and spirit within us. Learn thoughtful, natural reconnection activities that help us reverse this dilemma and catalyze responsible relationships. Offered cooperatively by Portland State University and Project NatureConnect
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For information register or inquire about this course call 360-378-6313 or email nature@interisland.net

(*7) Additional Associated Courses and Credits
Mentor 3 credit, #PSU-1
PART2 mentor.doc
Student Teach 4 credit, #PSU 1-PART2 studteach.doc
(One academic credit = 1 CEU's or 10 Clock Hours)


For registration 
call or email Dr. Michael Cohen
360-378-6313,
email nature@interisland.net
or visit the online registration instructions



NOTE:
Portland State University-Project NatureConnect 52 online college course credits are transferable to all college and university programs including the PNC financially assisted degree training programs for Akmai and West Coast Universities.

(To most economically use these certification courses in the degree program, apply to this course of study before you take the Orientation Course and use the program application to apply for the Orientation Course.)

 

Degree Program college courses general subject, purpose and description:

COUNSELING, EDUCATING AND HEALING WITH NATURE:
Sensory restorative nature activities for wellness, spirit and deeper learning.

Irrefutable studies now confirm that stress and emotional hurt emanating from our nature disconnected roots creates insatiable wants that cause most of our continuing personal, social and environmental dysfunctions.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION These courses help people discover how our excessive separation from nature stresses our sentient inner nature and causes our often unsolvable problems. Learn to reverse this destructive process. Master thoughtful, nature-reconnecting, reasoning and activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and spirit. This program teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that tap the "higher power" wisdom of the biological creation process that drives natural systems within and about us. Its unique methods and materials let nature nurture self-esteem, friendships and responsibility through e-mail, telephone and personal contacts. Start this restorative distance learning program at your convenience by obtaining an application. Financial aid, internships and facilitator positions are available. Further information about the program and process is available.

 

"Presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we suffer."

- Elisabeth Ryland, Ph.D.

"Timely sound theory and well grounded experience. In our struggle to find connectedness and meaning it allows the natural world to nurture a responsible growing edge of culture."

- Bill Hammond, Director of Environmental Education, Lee County, FL.

 

For further information please visit our homepage

For an application send email.

For financial assistance contact the office

For registration 
call or email Dr. Michael Cohen
360-378-6313,
email nature@interisland.net
or visit the online registration instructions

 

 

 


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PROJECT NATURECONNECT

Strengthening holistic natural wellness medicines
and complementary naturopathic home remedies
P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com

ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
The Natural Systems Thinking Process

Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director

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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.

 

 

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ORT http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=3599

NAT Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=4274

ECHN 501 Educating and Counseling With Nature, Introduction
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=2350

Educating and Counseling with Nature, Part I
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=2036

<>Educating and Counseling with Nature, Part II
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=2037

Explore Nature's Wisdom: Create Moments That Let Earth Teach
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/detail_large.cfm?id=45DR

Counseling with Natural Attractions
http://sesweb.ses.pdx.edu/ceed_cat/list_topic.cfm?id=182

 

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