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Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Educating and Counseling with Nature
Applied Ecopsychology
Lead Faculty Greenwich University

 

The Project NatureConnect
Graduate Webstring Support Group Cooperative (GWSG)

GWSG is a cost effective cooperative of Greenwich University Applied Ecopsychology graduate students that:

  • stabilizes tuitions,
  • helps obtain degree and course waivers or equivilency,
  • mentors and helps teach required coursework,
  • provides support to its members as needed,
  • learns and teaches how to establish the Natural Systems Thinking Process by learning and teaching it.
  • provides fascinating, accredited internships and study opportunities.
  • is open to all interested degree program students who have completed the Orientation Course ECO 500, Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.

 

General Information:

If you are considering the Degree Program at Greenwich University, we invite you to join GWSG and enjoy its many advantages. Specific information about various aspects of the program are available through a link at the bottom of this page.

 

Purpose:

In order to help meet the United Nations's manifest for environmentally sound peace, personal growth and social justice, Project NatureConnect's GWSG has established itself as a student/faculty cooperative. Its purpose is to research, develop and make readily available a nature connected psychology, a missing link in our thinking that uniquely enables people to further the United Nations manifest.

GWSG facilitates the individual learning process of those in the group who desire to master Webstring Science and the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) by completing Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Applied Ecopsychology and Integrated Ecology at Greenwich University. GWSG provides a low cost foundation for the propagation of NSTP into the mainstream of global society.

 

Objectives:

In order to fulfill its purpose, the GWSG:

  • negotiated stable, long term, financial terms with Greenwich University for members of GWSG
  • provides financial support for individual students who have requested assistance by providing income producing work study opportunities that also act as accredited internships for degree program courses. The objective here is to provide funds collectively and cooperatively to make the group and its members self-sustaining while increasing in size and excellence.
  •  seeks start-up and long term financial support to fund work study and financial assistance to its members
  •  established an open communication process that allow each member and all GWSG Committees interactive access to information about the whole group and its functioning through email systems and sites on the World Wide Web;
  • supports the group's administrative needs with the help of senior members who have had prior experience with the degree process. As beginning members gain experience, those interested become the next generation of mentors for people entering the program and as faculty for the program at Greenwich University.
  • utilizes a proven, cooperative, interactive distance learning process established by Institute of Global Education the 501(c)(3) parent organization of Project NatureConnect and GWSG. This process provides each student with peer support and feedback in a way that facilitates a deeper working knowledge of NSTP in theory and action;-
  •   empowers mid-career professionals who master the NSTP through the GWSG to move into their communities and share their skills in nature connected education and psychology to benefit others;
  • documents the effects on the individual health and well-being of those individuals who embrace the NSTP science as a therapy, teaching, or living philosophy. This collected information will provide a basis for others to build more definitive research projects that can give the NSTP a wider acceptance and understanding.
  • serves as a model of a self-generating, self-evolving, self-organizing nature supported social entity. Its success will demonstrate the effectiveness of NSTP as an organizing process that can be used by any group or organization.
 

 

The GWSG and NSTP are founded on the following principles:

  • human beings are part of the web of life here on Earth and are therefore most well adapted when they consciously maintain their connections to that web.
  • conscious connections to the web of life are registered by the senses.
  • maximal sensory awareness and development is paramount for a self-sustaining, happy life
  • each individual serves a beneficial purpose within the web of life and by using the NSTP they can make deeper connections with that purpose and fulfill it more completely.
  • when humans as individuals and groups understand the nature of nature they make choices that are optimal for themselves and the global life community.
  • the web of life is based on optimizing the balance of attractions within itself, this brings about a state of wholeness and optimal diversity that is non-polluting and non-violent.
  • maintaining a state of balanced attraction relationships between humans and nature enables people to further express love of each other and the environment, thereby improving both.
 

Five Basics of the Natural Systems Thinking Process:

 

 1. The purpose and process of nature over the eons is to support life in balance and in this regard there are no known substitutes for the real thing.

2. When we provide social or financial rewards for nature-disconnecting stories we become psychologically bonded to these stories and their destructive effects.

3. Things that experience this imbalance suffer.

4. Continuing thoughtful, shared, sensory contacts with webstring attractions in natural areas reconnect our thinking with nature's ways to help reverse bonded imbalance and its discontents.

5. When people think in consent and connection with webstrings they experience a global consciousness that leads to unity at every level of endeavor.

 

Select Here to obtain further information:

  • Application Form
  • Degree Waivers
  • Course Equivilency and transfer
  • Prestart Opportunity Program (POP)
  • Degree Program Description and Courses
  • Master's Waiver Option and Graduate Webstring Support Group
  • How to prepare your Petition for Master's waiver
  • Professional and Economic potentials
  • Equivalent Education: life experience criteria and transfer courses
  • Graduate Webstring Support Group (GWSG) updates
  • Greenwich University and Program Information

Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Council.
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor WA 98250
(360) 378-6313
nature@pacificrim.net
www.ecopsych.com

Greenwich University
Program Information
http://www.greenwich.edu/
http://www.greenwich.edu/sshpreco.htm