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The Science and Spirit of Nature Connected Learning

 

The Sanity of thinking with 53 natural senses.

The Process of improving the health of Self, Society and Nature .

The Art of co-creating with the Web of Life.

 

This hands-on web site helps you enjoy Nature connected

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Learn how a Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) enables you to walk nature's path to a fulfilling livelihood, self-improvement and more responsible relationships.

 

On some level most people recognize that they and society are in denial. We deny that even when we know better we do not change our destructive personal, social or environmental ways because we are psychologically addicted to the rewards these ways provide.

We are part of Nature. Because Nature recycles and purifies itself, neither Nature nor people(s) whose thinking is genuinely connected to Nature normally cause or display our destructive problems.

Because we live excessively indoor lives our thinking is excessively separated from Nature (and vice versa). NSTP is a readily available psychological tool that empowers our thinking to choose to use sensory connections with Nature to purify and recycle its destructive addictions to unreasonable relationships.

 

Welcome Visitor:

Please note that the links on the left side column connect you to grants, scholarships and jobs as well as interactive, distance learning, degree programs and courses. They enable you to discover and enjoy a scientific Nature connecting component you may add to your career or relationships. It has shown to improve personal, social and environmental health.

 

Question: Can you afford to ignore the seldom recognized but well documented phenomenon below?

Personal or professional relationships that are genuinely connected with Nature are more enjoyable, successful and responsible than those isolated from Nature. The latter suffer from excessive stress, conflict and destructiveness.

Experiences in nature can help you validate and explain this phenomenon. Too often we take their message and benefits for granted. For example:


Have you ever:

-had a good experience in nature that made you feel happier to be alive?

-longed for a livelihood that further contributed to personal and global balance rather than exploited Earth and people?

-noticed that disorders subside and stress fades in Nature?

-loved a pet, plant or place that made life more worthwhile?


Have you ever:

- treasured a rock, or totem that helped you through troubled times?

- felt greater love for a person or people while in a natural area? Noticed that it is easier to build and sustain relationships there?

- felt as drawn to Mother Earth as you would a caring human parent that you loved?

- noticed that in nature you can think more clearly?

 
Have you ever:

- had strong sensations about connections between yourself and nature or earth that you know are real but you can't easily explain?

- felt angry or sad about how we injure or destroy the natural environment and/or its people and diversity?

- noticed that counseling, education and healing are more effective when they include quality time in natural areas?


Have you ever:

- read the scientific studies that document how reconnecting our thinking to our psychological and biological origins in Nature has beneficial learning, healing, and environmental effects?

The above experiences demonstrate that Nature has its own healing energies and perfection of which we are part. Ongoing research shows that neither that perfection, nor people(s) whose thinking is consciously connected to it produce the destructive stress, violence and corruption too often found in contemporary society.

Although we give Nature lip service, we addictively relate to it as our slave or prisoner. We normally manage, exploit or kill Nature for a profit even while knowing that we are part of it and it is our life support system. We seldom recognize that as part of it, what we do to it we do to ourselves.

Our prejudice against Nature prevents us from validating and celebrating our Nature connected experiences. We fail to recognize them as "in tune" moments, moments when Nature fully touches itself in us and beneficially registers in our awareness.

We too often overlook how these moments make sense, feel attractive and have healing qualities.

Because the rewards from these moments are more powerful than the rewards from our destructive psychological additions they recycle and transform our addictions into constructive relationships. If you could bottle the effects of these moments you could sell the product for a fortune.

People who learn and practice the science of reconnecting with nature improve personal, professional and environmental wellness and receive many other benefits, too. We invite you to engage in this process. You may learn it from this website and enjoy its many opportunities

 

Who we are
The Institute of Global Education
is a network of dedicated individuals, universities and organizations. We have documented that the excessive separation of contemporary thinking from its origins in natural systems within and around us underlies our greatest discontents and disorders. Our research remedies this destructive breach by offering the public a unique, easily accessible, nature reconnecting Natural Systems Thinking Process. We have documented that this process empowers anyone to create sensory moments, backyard or back country, where genuine contact with authentic Nature helps inspire and restore us and regenerate our integrity, spirit and the environment, too We have raised scholarship funds to help support individuals interested in learning and teaching this process as they are so attracted.

Why we are
Since 1975 Western Civilization has had available, but seldom used, the know-how to significantly reduce its destructive environmental and social dependencies. What we have not had is the consciousness to seek, use and enjoy these discoveries. The
Natural Systems Thinking Process enables you to rejuvenate and restore that consciousness for as part of Nature we, like all of Nature, are born with it. In our conquest of Nature we learn to suppress it.

The most effecient way to enjoy the benefits of learning the Natural Systems Thinking Process is by taking our online Orientation Course.

GUARANTEED:

If you have had any of the experiences with Nature listed above, during the next six minutes on this web site new professional and personal understandings will enable you to further your deeper hopes, ideals and dreams.

PLEASE PROCEED WITH THIS SHORT INVENTORY:

Below are statements regarding the Nature experiences that are listed above, along with reference numbers to further information about these experiences. Simply check the statements that seem right to you:

( ..) A. Some of the experiences, above, could have been enjoyed by children or adults no matter their backgrounds (1).

( ..) B. People are part of Nature and vice versa; natural systems flow within, around and through us (8-5A).

( ..) C. Special training, books, or courses were not necessarily needed in order for people to enjoy many of the experiences above. For the most part, something within themselves and Nature connected and produced the experience and its value (3).

( ..) D. Most of the experiences make good sense and therefore reflect the presence of an intelligence or wisdom (9).

( ..) E. Origins of humanity's biology, psychology and spirit along with inherent support for them, can be found in Nature within and around us (10).

( ..) F. On average, contemporary people learn to spend less than one one thousandth of one percent (.001%) of their life in tune with (in full conscious sensory contact with) natural areas. We spend over 95% of our time indoors. (10).

( ..) G. The most destructive, lasting problems that face us (including war, environmental degradation, mental health, loneliness and excessive stress/violence/conflict,) are seldom caused or suffered by intact natural systems or nature connected people(s) (3).

( ..) H. If disconnecting ourselves from our inherent sensory nurturance in Nature destructively stresses our 53 natural senses, then genuinely reconnecting these senses with nature helps us constructively restore our inner peace and integrity (13).

( ..) I. If disconnected, frustrated natural senses cannot find responsible fulfillment they will be be open and vulnerable to irresponsible fulfillment (8-2).

( ..) J. A readily available, backyard or back country, nature-reconnecting process can improve most professions and relationships by becoming a component of them (4).

( ..) K. People who master, use and teach a sensory nature reconnecting process have improved their happiness, income, occupation, marriage, family, business, credibility, and global citizenship (17, 3).

( ..) L. Due to industrial society's runaway desire to economically and socially "progress" by exploiting Nature, people who attempt to protect natural systems around and within them are sometimes prejudicially demeaned as "fuzzy thinkers, tree huggers, earth muffins, immature, flakes, environmentalists, hippies, obstructionists, etc. (8-2)"

( ..) M. SUMMARY: Nurture your felt love for Nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of Nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our excessive disconnection from this love produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness to ourselves and Nature. To regain our integrity we must learn how to engage in an easily accessable process, one that scientifically reconnects us to that love and restores its peaceful voice in our thoughts and soul, for we don't fight to save what we don't love (12).

 

 

Evaluation:

Four of your six minutes are up.

Did any statements above open a vista for you?

Forty years of research and experience in 86 different natural systems shows each of the statements above is usually true and can be true for you. Although our disconnection from Nature often suppresses this truth from our thinking, a unique ecopsychology process that enables us to genuinely reconnect with Nature frees that truth back into our consciousness, relationships and spirit. This process can provide a rewarding professional component or full time career, job or avocation.

To explore the statements of interest to you, select the reference number(s) in the left column or below that correspond to the numbers that follow each statement. Most of them may also be found via #8.

By far the best way to master, live and teach each statement's truth, is to experience it by taking our online Orientation Course (1)

 

Now, for your last two minutes:

Read this short article "A Critical Move: The secret to fulfilling your deeper ideals."

 

Links to Information

1. Orientation Course
2. Program Overview
3. Outcomes: a survey
4. Degree Programs Online
5. Courses Online
6. Self-Guiding Books
7. Discussion List Online
8. Reference Library
9. Eco IQ Test
10. Nature's Intelligent Voice
11. Free Course Online
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13. Meditating and Nature
14. FAQ
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PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Wellness for person, planet and spirit

 

P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250
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"As part of Nature, to preserve species, environments and our integrity we need to learn and teach a tool, a scientific process that enables us to rejuvenate our inherent love of nature. The nature reconnecting, program on this website provides that tool."

 

SUMMARY: Does This Feel Familiar?

As a child, instinctively, like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too.

As my friends and I grew up we were surrounded by and educated into the indoor world of contemporary society. Leaving little room for Nature, it secretly detached our psyche from its biological and psychological origins and spirit in nature's joy, intelligence and balance.

To fill this sensory void, unknowingly we emotionally attached to thinking in society's indoor ways. Unfortunately, these included the destructive trespasses of nature and people by our scientific, economic and spiritual dogma.

The indoor world assured me that people only felt and related better in nature because in nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges of home, work, and school. Escaping to nature was "recreation," a vacation. My theme song became "I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."

Thirty-five years of counseling and educational research in natural areas taught me a different story, one of re-creation. I designed and lived in settings similar to the "Survivor" TV series except that our goal was not to competitively scheme and conquer and thereby win a million dollars. Rather it was to learn to sustainably live in balance with people and the environment. I explored and discovered how to think and relate in ways that free our psyche from the grip of the indoor world's invasiveness and discontents. When vacation time arrived, nobody wanted to go home. We were home.

I have researched and packaged a readily accessible, desperately needed, nature-connected, psychological science. Backyard or back country, it restores people to their fullness, their natural integrity and deeper ideals. My internationally recognized Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) enables people and the environment to co-create and grow into balance. It lets the unifying strands of the web of life itself help us rejuvenate the sensory truths, honesty and loves we are born with as part of the global life community. It is lasting because it is rewarding personally and professionally so it sustains itself.

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- Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.

Director, Department of Integrated Ecology, Institute of Global Education
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Chair, Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology, Greenwich University
...Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University, Extended Studies
...Director, Institute of Applied Ecopsychology, International University of Professional Studies.

...Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award
...Prize winning author of Reconnecting With Nature books.

 

This site is the home of:

Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship: a short, online, orientation course for environmentally sound personal growth and social justice Learn the Art and Science of thinking in balance with nature.

Nature-Connected Degree Programs: low cost, cooperative , Ph.D or M.S. ecopsychology degrees and courses online include your prior experience: degree waivers are possible.

RECONNECTING WITH NATURE: finding wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth. A self-guiding book by Michael J.Cohen, (Ecopress)

Interactive Self-Discovery Nature Trails
Learn about this site through fun online experiences

The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Environmentally sound personal growth and social justice

APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
Education as if Planet Earth mattered

The Millennium/Earth day Wellness and Unity Activity: "In Balance with Earth"

The EC0 IQ test; check out your inherent proclivity to think like Nature works.

EARTH DAY ACTIVITY: LET EARTH SPEAK A hands-on, interactive, self-discovery highlight

The Globally Balanced Thinking Study (GBT): measure and score your ability to think with nature's wisdom.

WEBSTRINGS: The nature sensitivity path to safely reconnecting with the web of life through its attraction strands within and around us.

Ecozombie Rehabilitation Year: an antidote for the environmentally desensitized thinking that produces our unsolveable problems.

 



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