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Program Synopsis
Natural Accredited Learning Online
Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature; Supportive Natural Degree, Career Training Courses and Jobs On-Line
Project NatureConnect offers distant learning that enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting methods and credentials to your skills interests and/or hobbies.
We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent credit for it.
You may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most subjects or personal interests. A partial subject list is located at the end of this page.
- Improve your income and satisfaction through the ecopsychology of independent, interdisciplinary or integrated study.
- Help people connect their thoughts and feelings with the grace, balance and regenerative powers of nature.
- Increase personal social and environmental well being.
- Add the self-correcting sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your life and community.
Visit the Project NatureConnect homepage for complete information
Ecopsychology in Action
PROCEDURES FOR PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIC PSYCHOLOGY ONLINE COURSES OR DEGREES.
(4/10/09)
"Organic Psychology makes a landmark contribution to personal, social and environmental well being. For the benefit of person and planet, we must support those who want to learn, use or teach this wide-ranging sensory science."
- Mardi Jones, Ph.D.
An Outline of online Project NatureConnect Programs of Alternative Training Courses and Holistic Psychology Environmental Degrees
Methods, admissions, procedures, tuitions, financial aid, distance learning grants and understandings.
SUGGESTION: Save time and be complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will help you find the quickest and least expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
What to do to participate: two basic stepsOnce you know the courses and/or degree program are of interest, the most effecient and practical way to enter the program is to follow the following two steps in whatever order is most convenient to you
1. Tell us about yourself and what you are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will help you find the quickest and least expensive means to achieve your education, counseling or healing goals. Add the nature-connection process to your present or future profession or relationships and strengthen them.
Customize all the information you need to know in ten minutes. For your questions, goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
2. Complete our online Application Form and paste it in an Email it to us. Keep in mind that the readings it suggests are optional.
Or, better still,
Email us for an email copy of the Application Form and other information.OPTIONALLY if you want to further explore the program's scope on this page and the website, read through this page once completely then browse though it a second time to select links of interest.
This page was designed by answering questions that were asked by previous program candidates. It may or may not be of assistance to your questions.
The information, below, will repeatedly remind you to do steps 1 and 2 above because, via Internet links, folks start from different parts of this page and miss those opening paragraphs.
Please "bookmark" this page for it is an anchor. You will want to visit it again and again for guidance.
OVERVIEW:
The path to meeting your goals here is to
- call Dr. Cohen,
- complete our Application Form
- design your online participation program,
- take the Orientation Course, it will answer many questions via experience and is the first course for all students.
- obtain assistance for your financial requirements,
- then join, and appropriately support and seek support from the Student Cooperative participants and faculty for additional courses towards you goal, certificate or degree.Reminder: To customize the information you find to best fit your goals , call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Programs AvailableApril 15, 2009: With globally approved and accredited courses and degree programs now in effect, we are, with rare exception, only accepting applications from candidates who are eligible to participate in one, or more, of the seven elementary to advanced core courses of the Organic Psychology track. This means an applicant:
- should already have basic literary, math, thinking, and occupation competencies
or
life experience
or
equivalent education
that they want to expand and improve by adding Organic Psychology to it.- is interested in using our sustainability courses and/or degree programs to strengthen and/or "green" their lives and occupations and help increase personal, social and environmental well-being.
A Description of the Participation Process:"After reading the homepage and links of interest there, I called Dr. Cohen. By phone we designed a program plan that met my special plans. 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 equivalency 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.
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 where the participants describe their experiences on the courses
I arranged to receive equivalency ratings for several courses whose requirements I had already completed at work and in other training programs. It felt right that this program recognized the important things that I learned elsewhere were worthwhile education that deserved credit. This included my volunteer work at a local clinic and at the wildlife rehabilitation center.
Because Organic Psychology acknowledges that natural systems 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 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 this goal as a Personal Life Coach by adding this Applied Ecopsychology online program to his efforts. From my homepage visits and phone calls, I was very sure this course would make sense to to me. I looked into the details of its history and results by downloading, free, 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). It also included eligibility for additional financial assistance and participation through the programs "learn now, pay later" plan. Financial assistance was based on trust and an agreement I made to keep a payment schedule that I designed that fit my needs.
I've only payed for the program what I can when I can. I was privileged to do this because people who encourage the program's goals have subsidized the remainder of my tuition and, although I've obtained my degree, I still voluntarily contribute to helping pay for it. 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 organized some for outpatients at the hospital, too.
All students start the program with the Orientation Course that one of my classmates described. There is a specific sequence of learning that makes the course work. During it, 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, too. 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. The list members provided answers to questions and let me know they would take a course with me or help facilitate it. I just took one course after another using the Organic Psychology Track. I later used the courses to attain my degree. One of my classmates wrote a good description of what the course gave to her.
After I completed a course, as part of the program I was given the opportunity to co-faciltate another section of the course so I had experience of teaching courses on my own as part of the program.
Half of 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. I used my project to help many patients I work with learn how to recover from their illness more quickly and sustain better health after their hospital stay. I have been asked to train other nurses in the use of Organic Psychology for stress management.
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. I appreciated that the degree program and the courses were functional, not just book learning. What was most remarkable was that sometimes doing the activies felt like I was successfully exposing the stressful garbage in my mind to the purifying forces of nature and the latter would compost them into positive feelings and relationships. Many people experience the beginnings of this phenomenon when they visit a natural area. To my benefit, the coursework helped me intensify and strengthen it
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 arrange to pay what you can afford when you can afford it.
- Anonymous PNC Participant (edited)
PURPOSE:
As noted on our homepage, this web site provides a great deal of information about human ecology and the organic application of ecopsychology and ecotherapy. The purpose is to help visitors custom design for themselves online training, accredited coursework, certification or degree programs that add Organic Psychology skills to their interests, previous training and/or life experience.
PROCESS
1. Because Organic Psychology is useful to a wide range of interests and situations, to use these pages effectively, collect information from them, including below, that pertains to your personal or professional interests.
2. Reminder: Customize the information you find to best fit your goal: call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313. (Pacific Time Zone, USA.) email. Otherwise, you may become mired in information overload about this unique program. If it's of interest to you, it's definately for you.
NOTE: A Program Guide Checklist of the information on this page is located below. It goes far beyond the information you need to know if you are eligible for the Organic Psychology Track since that track only consists of up to seven core courses.
You can use the checklist as a map for applying to as well as for completing the program if you want a complete overview or for course locations.
After you have called Dr. Cohen and explored this web site, START your program with our Application and Orientation Course
Objectives:
Project NatureConnect offers accredited career training education, financial assistance and degrees in the organic application of ecopsychology. We welcome candidates who are mid-career professionals or students with strong interests in improving personal, social and environmental relationships.
We subsidize, strengthen and support people who want to help increase individual and global well being by learning or teaching how to tap into the grace, balance and restorative powers of natural systems, within and about us.
THE PROGRAM CORE: Project NatureConnect insists on understanding, trust and honesty between all beings. It strengthens trust by practicing it.
After visiting our homepage, make email and phone contact with Dr. Cohen (360-378-6313). Custom design your program with him by blending your previous experiences and schooling with our online training courses and your time schedule, budget and goals.
- Complete our Application and the Orientation Course then join our Graduate Student Cooperative mailing list.
- Most of our applicants are eligible for, and follow the Organic Psychology Track. On it, you take and facilitate only our online core courses and degree research, you mentor other students, and you make tuition payments based on how much you can totally afford now and/or later. Payments are made on a schedule you create and maintain and include optional "learn now-pay later" agreements that you create and fulfill.
- Activity by activity and course by course, climb the staircase to the level of competency of your choice. a course, certificate or degree.
REMINDER: Save time and be complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will immediately determine if you qualify for the Organic Psychology Track and help you find the quickest and least expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
You might want to read again the red paragraphs, above. They are all you basically need to know to successfully meet your goals in the Project NatureConnect organic applied ecopsychology training program.Two Course Descriptions by Participants:
http://www.ecopsych.com/orientreview.html
http://www.ecopsych.com/ecwnreview.htmlA detailed description of the full program is below.
Familiarizing yourself with the material that follows is not required for applicants who are eligible for the Organic Psychology Track.
If you are ready, email or call the office now to start the Orientation Course. It will answer many of your additional questions through hands-on experience.
Optional Information
Greetings and Welcome, Prospective Participant:
Thank you for your interest in the benefits of nature-connected alternative courses in learning, healing and relating.
This page details the most expedient and inexpensive path that takes you from being interested in Project NatureConnect's Organic Psychology and the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) to obtaining expertise at Level Three Certification in the Process and/or completing an undergraduate or advanced, globally accredited (including USA), Interdisciplinary Studies Environmental Degree in Organic Psychology, Applied Ecopsychology or Integrated Ecology.
Depending upon your goals, financial needs and ability to sustain trustful relationships, this alternative education and counseling program, through its financial aid and cooperatively administered accredited courses, can be completed for as little as $55 or as much as $75,000. Its completion and cost entirely depend upon your goals, your honesty and your time commitments.
No matter how much or little you pay, the procedures and curriculum for this cutting edge learning and healing program are the same. You may choose to take it on an accredited basis or not. You may optionally have alternative sustainable courses and Achievement Certificates from this program be included in or added to your formal training, transcript or credentials.
Think of this training path to be like climbing a ladder, one rung (course) at a time. You can pay as you go, level by level and can safely pause or quit any time except while you are in an interactive course where your departure may place the course at risk and/or adversely affect other course members. Usually, when you reach where you want to be on the ladder, you will be well trained, debt free and have saved or "earned" up to $65,000 or more. And, you may have a Certificate or Degree that will help you find and open new professional doors if you have the appropriate credentials, skills, contacts and attitude.
The IGE program is very inexpensive because you can cooperatively help drive and administer it as a mentor through trust in yourself, NSTP and the people attracted to its process.
Your immediate responsibility is always to convey your goals to the program staff and students along with what you want or need. Following this, in good faith you make and fulfill contracts with the program that help you meet your expectations through the program's online courses and community.
The key to success in any aspect of this program is to be sure you help develop trust by painstakingly making your words accurately convey what you think, feel, do and need.
The key to this web site it to read pages and articles of interest completely, and then read them again and follow their links.
Again, the key to meeting your goals here is to call Dr. Cohen, design your path, take the Orientation Course, obtain assistance for your financial needs, then join, and appropriately support and seek support from the Student Cooperative participants and faculty for additional courses towards you goal, certificate or degree.
Customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Step 1. Application
Become acquainted with the purpose, objectives and contributions of NSTP. You may accomplish this through its inter-linked web pages at http://www.ecopsych.com and the Checklist, below. A lengthy, but complete article about the program and its history is available online.
Most of the web site training information, and lots more, is also found in the NSTP Organic Psychology book The Web of life Imperative ($35). You may purchase this book at any time. It contains the Orientation Course. and comes with the course, as does the book Reconnecting With Nature and the DVD. This course is your first and only entrance into the course work and program. All else is helpful but the course provides you with the full information and experience you will want and need. You can get on the Orientation Course simply by phoning 360-378-6313 when you are ready, then sending an email for, or containing, the application.
Our Special Application Program
Please note: if you have the interest and readiness in applying to our course or program now, experience shows that you will need less help and be more contributing and cooperative in the Orientation Course. This reduces our costs for your participation and allows us to make the following arrangement:
Tuition Special: A special starting tuition, $150, is available for students who want to immediately begin the Certificate or Degree program with the Orientation Course but need time to make their tuition funds available.
Part or all of this fee can be covered by the Distance Learning Grants Program, when an applicant is qualified. Partial payment by the applicant helps sustain the program and thereby strengthen support for the applicants participation and training. A Public Education option for work/study is available to all students.
The special tuition includes the Application Fee ($100), funding eligibility, a reduced First Level Tuition, the Orientation Course and its two books the Web of life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature, used in other First Level courses (Total saved: $140) By the end of the Orientation Course payment is required or arranged for, through financial assistance, the remaining $520 of First Level Certification.
ATTENTION: The application fee becomes an extra $100 expense if you submit your application after buying the books or starting the Orientation Course. Call 360-378-6313 for further information.
YOUR BEST APPLICATION ROUTE:
A. Follow the directions on the Application Form to the depth you need to understand the contribution of the program to meet your personal and professional goals.Another good self-exploration way to do this is to carefully follow the directions and links on the Checklist, far below
or
B. Carefully read the overview, and insight articles and do the natural attractions online trail.
C. Be sure to call 360-378-6313; There, speak with Dr. Cohen to get your questions answered and to explore your possibilities and potentials in this program.D. Apply to the program before taking the Orientation Course.
NOTE: You are not a participant in the program until you have completed the Student Cooperative Contract and participation form as part of your application or before Part 6 of the Orientation Course.
Funding for the Certificate or Degree Program and or individual courses is available through the application and conversation with Dr. Cohen.
REMINDER: The purpose of our courses and programs is to help you design and build a personal or professional Organic Psychology niche for yourself that you may move into and benefit from upon course or program completion.
To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
The Applied Ecopsychology Degree tuition is
$8100 Ph.D, and $6000 MS at Akamai University,
$5800 Ph.D. and $3500 MS and $2900 BS at West Coast University
A UNESCO approved degree, whose cost varies, is also available. It is accepted as an equivalent degree in the USA.
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Financial AssistanceNOTE: Many private foundations and scholarship organizations give grants for green programs like ours. By taking our Orientation Course (http://www.ecopsych.com/orient.html) and signing our Petition (http://www.ecopsych.com/petition2.html,) you become literate in the Organic Psychology ECHN process, you can show its signifance and you may qualify and apply for this private funding. Use the search engines (Google etc) and search for "scholarship grants green sustainable foundations sources." Also search under catogories you may fit into such as "single woman " or "Male Catholic social worker with Multiple Sclerosis over 27 years old living in Michigan " etc.
20-17--15.. .Ph.D. tuitions, including scholarship assistance are averaging $3900-$5300 at the present time and $3500 for the MS.
Tuitions are based entirely upon what you can reasonably and honestly afford. Our Distance Learning Grants and Scholarships usually cover the remainder.
Tuitions/costs in accredited USA degree programs using our courses run from $30,000-$80,000 U.S.
The Certificate Program tuition
If you are not interested in a degree, simply apply for Certification using the General Application. Tuition for the certification package is $740 for each of the three levels of Certification. Grants are available for financial assistance in this regard. This fee varies depending upon the amount of appropriate prior experience and training you bring to the program.
Page 2 of Certification lists the courses and links them to their descriptions. They are also listed in Part 5 of the Checklist, below
The first level of Certification tuition includes the Orientation Course, all books for this level and the $100 program Application Fee. Keep in mind the special application program (above)
Upon Certification Level Three completion you may elect to enter the Degree Program but scholarship funds may not be available then. It's best to enter the Degree Program now and then, with pride, not complete it later because you may have at that point met your training goals without a degree.
The applications for the Degree or Certification contain helpful links to sources of information and thereby act as an index to parts of this website.
To start your participation:
Call Dr. Cohen and then complete your General Application form that he will conveniently send you by email. Take advantage of the special application program if you can.
and
E. on the application you will find an application to the Orientation Course. Complete it.
NOTE: You can use the statements you create for the application interchangeably, or modify them, for requests for the same information on additional courses, application and financial assistance forms.
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Step 2. Cooperative Participation
After starting the Orientation Course at your earliest convenience, and before Part 6 of the course, submit the Student Cooperative contract and admission form to the IGE Graduate Webstring Support Cooperative (GWSC). You will receive this form by email when you take the Orientation Course. This is Key to your program participation and success now and later. GWSC consists of all present, and many past students, mentors and faculty members. All of them are in supportive contact with each other via online group mailing lists to which you will be added. To accomplish this, all applicants and participants are enrolled in the course ECO 751A Cooperative Administration of an NSTP Online Training and Degree Program
Most of our students are mid-career experts in their field of interest. In the Cooperative, you will find a small, informal support/guide group of students and mentors in GWSC who are in contact via email. Whenever questions, comments, petitions, evaluations, grades or contracts to take or modify courses or procedures arise, you first address them to your support group. In addition, once you obtain a response to your inquiry, you share what you learned with this group. As you learn answers to your inquiries, you further empower yourself to help others with their questions when they arise. In this way, to your advantage, you help administrate and mentor this and similar programs. Via ECO 751A, you received academic credit for learning this skill.
If your question/need goes beyond the information available in the support group, you then submit it to all members of the program via email to the total student body and faculty mailing list. You will receive email responses from those who can and will help you. Most of the student body and faculty, being mid-career professionals, have expertise and experience in some areas of the program as well as experience on guiding parts of the program. Again, as part of the learning and skill sharing in GWSC, as you gain experience, you help guide/mentor others.
If you need further assistance, call or email the central office at 360-378-6313 nature@interisland.net
You usually work with two online forms: one accompanies payments for semesters, alternative courses or certification levels. The other is a petition/contract for consent to change something or to take a course.
To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Step 3. Course Sequence and Certification
As part of ECO751A, using the people and process described in Step 2, above, complete the Orientation Course and proceed to take the online Certificate courses listed for the 1, 2 and 3 levels in the sequence of the certification levels. Whenever it is practical complete Level 1 courses before doing Level 2.
Be sure to have completed a course's prerequisite courses before starting a course.
Be sure you are aware of these options:
A. The Certified Master Practioner track for certification or a Degree.
B. The Organic Psychology track for certification or a degree based on previous life experience and training. You take only six, or less, core courses online, total.
REMINDER: Save time and be complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will immediately determine if you qualify for the Organic Psychology Track and help you find the quickest and least expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.netYou are always enrolled and working in EC0 751A and can informally work on any other courses once you have successfully completed the Orientation Course ECO 500 and the Introduction Course ECO 501.
When you need classmates with whom to do a course, or questions answered, announce this to the Student Cooperative via its mailing list You will get responses helping you for that course others in the program and/or which mentors and students who will do it with you.
You may always petition for variances in the program guidelines using the procedures outlined in Step 2, above.
To complete Certification Level 3 you simply pass a comprehensive ECO 800 course and comprehensive examination that you will well be prepared for. This matriculates you to a semester or more to complete your Degree Thesis, Dissertation or Post Doctoral research at cooperating online universities as exemplified by Akamai University or West Coast University (Panama).
You may use the Certified Master Practioner track or the Organic Psychology track for a degree or certification.
Although many pages and articles are available on this website that help interested learners better understand the Project NatureConnect program, a free, 15 minute discussion by phone with a faculty member has proven most effecient and helpful in discovering how to customize the program to your goals.
Reminder: To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
CHECKLIST OF PROCEDURES GUIDE
A suggested path to follow from your inquiry in the alternative program to a holistic environmental degree or to reach any stopping place in between.
Part 1.
Make a "collection page" somewhere. On it, from the web pages suggested below, you can paste in statements, concepts or program agreements that are attractive to you. Also write down questions that come to mind from the pages suggested below.
As soon as you reach the point where you know this program is attractive to you for personal, professional or other reasons, Call 360-378-6313 with your questions then submit the email copy of the program Application will be sent to you. The application includes applying for the Orientation Course, new options, and requests for scholarship and/or distance learning grants financial assistance and work/study options
NOTE: doing the checklist, below, you may come across some pages or their subjects more than once because they serve as links from many other pages. Skip or review material you find familiar.
NOTE: Again, be sure you are aware of these recent alternative options:
A. The Certified Master Practioner track for certification or a degree.
B. The Organic Psychology track for certification or a degree based on previous life experience and training
Part 2.
Pages to consider:
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Applied Ecopsychology: Healing Ourselves and the World
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting "Is this Grant Loan or Scholarship for you?" a short overview that familiarizes you with the purpose, history and nature-connected benefits of this program and its funding.
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting our Homepage and Personal Inventory pages.
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Survey Do the whole survey but for Sections 4, 5, 6,7. of the survey, copy what you feel to be the two most important or significant statements for you in each of the four sections. Save this information for use later on in the Orientation Course.Also collect what you find reasonable and attractive from browsing through the "Additional Results links" on the first page of the Survey.
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Certification Program
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Organic Psychology track
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Jobs and Careers information
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting our extensive History and Purpose article
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Now take the Orientation Course and bypass the remaining requirements, below, as they are included in the course. ( On the Application apply to the program and Orientation Course; then take and complete the course.)
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.
Or continue below:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OPTIONS:
Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting degree program information
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Secrets of Nature Attraction Trail
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Stairway to Wellness article
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting Eligibility Inventory
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting our Personal Inventory
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting our Confidence Inventory
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.Collect what you find reasonable and attractive while visiting our KEY OVERVIEW Program Overview and Question Reactions
Call 360-378-6313 with questions then submit the application when the program makes sense for you.
Part 3.
On the Application you receive by email from Dr. Cohen, apply to the Orientation Course; take and complete the course.
Key: If you intend to continue with any part of the program, at your earliest convenience, but before starting Chapter Six of the Orientation Course, submit the Student Cooperative Contract. Otherwise, you place your application fee in jeopardy and may be required to pay the waived $100 of it
You may receive or request the Coop Contract by email as part of the material for the Orientation Course. Upon completing it, you will be placed on the Cooperative and Professional Mailing Lists and guide groups. Key: This will put you in contact with all faculty and students on the program.
Reminder: To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Part 4.
For students once they have completed the Orientation Course and Cooperative Contract,
Inquire about and/or keep your eye open for invitations from the students and staff in the Cooperative to take the Introductory Course ECO 501. Also take advantage of opportunities to co-facilitate the Orientation Course, a requirement of ECO 501.
You may, in addition, at your own rate of speed and time frame, take additional sustainable courses from Certificate Level One (below). Petition and get consent from mentors or faculty to take courses from other levels if needs be. For any course you want to share online with other Coop participants, email the Coop members to find companion participants.
Keep up your tuition payments and schedules so that the total for the Certification Level is paid, if possible, by the time you have completed the level.
Always use the Petition/Contract Form for alternatives or affirming course participation
Always use the Payment/Contract Form for making or explaining payments.
Continue on to additional Certification Levels using this process.
Do ECO 800 as your final course for Certification Level Three and/or for Matriculation into the MS or PhD program.
Part 5.
CERTIFICATION AND DEGREE PROGRAM COURSES:
These courses may be taken at $60/credit within the degree program and have financial assistance available for them.
Below, the courses below that are identified AC sit within the framework of Project NatureConnect's online degree program and include suggested credit options.
Self-Designed (SD) Certificate or Degree Program With faculty approval, a qualified student may choose to attain a certification level by taking 12 Carnegie units of that level's self-design courses (identified SD.) A course may be taken for 1 or more IGE credits, as it is indicated: (for example, 1-4 SDIGE Carnegie credits means that the course can be taken for 1-4 credits by additionally mentoring and/or co-facilitating it).
LEVEL ONE CERTIFICATION (CRT): First Semester
CERTIFICATION FOR ORGANIZING AND FACILITATING THE ORIENTATION COURSE:Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship
12 credits; 6-18 Months, TUITION: $740.
Level One leads to coursework, internships, work, jobs and careers that incorporate Orientation Course materials.
One IGE Credit equals 45 hours of classwork
AC = Transferable Accreditation and transcripts from cooperating universities are available for courses marked AC at extra cost, approximately $50/credit
SD = Can be used in the Self-Designed (SD) Certificate or Degree Program (see box above)
COURSES:
ECO101: (optional) AC Nature-Connected Personal Balance, Healing and Stress Management
1 IGE Carnegie credits (1 PSU credit)ECO 500CRT AC: ORIENTATION COURSE Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship (Prerequisite for all other courses)
1-3 SDIGE Carnegie credits (1-4 PSU credits).
ECO 508CRT AC: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity (1-3 PSU credits)
1-2 SDIGE Carnegiecredits
...........ECO 500.
ECO 501CRT AC: Introduction to Educating and Counseling With Nature RWN
3-6 SDIGE credit (1-6 PSU credits) ECO 500 prerequisite.
ECO 503CRT: Directed Readings
3 IGE credits (prior OK)
CREDIT OPTION AVAILABLE*.
ECO 522CRT: Public Relations/Funding
3 IGE Carnegie credits(prior OK)
CREDIT OPTION AVAILABLE*.
ECO 751A:(1)CRT GWSG: Cooperative Administration of an NSTP Online Training and Degree Program.
1 required IGE Carnegie credit.(1) Note: ECO 751A and participation in GWSG is waived if, instead, in your initial payment you include an extra tuition fee of $1500/certification level. This optional tuition fee goes for the services of a guide to help you develop your program and course schedule in conjunction with GWSG. You do not have to pay this fee if you take the required Cooperative Administration Course ECO 751A. This fee is not covered by scholarship or distance learning grants funding.
To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
LEVEL TWO CERTIFICATION (CRT): Second Semester
CERTIFICATION FOR ORGANIZING AND FACILITATING THE INTRODUCTORY EDUCATING AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE COURSE:
Introduction to Educating and Counseling With Nature
12 credits; 6-18 Months TUITION: $740
Level Two leads to internships, jobs, careers or work, that incorporate Level One and Introductory NSTP course material.
One Credit equals 45 hours of classworkECO 502CRT AC: Educating and Counseling With Nature
Part I WMWE 3-7 SDIGE credits (1-15 PSU credits)
Part II WMWE 3-6 SDIGE credits (1-14 .PSU credits)
............ http://www.ecopsych.com/eco502parts.html
.......... .ECO 501 prerequisite..
ECO 601CRT AC: Student Teaching Introduction to Educating and Counseling With Nature RWN
...........3-6 SDIGE credits
...........ECO 501 prerequisite..
ECO 504CRT: Sensory Knowing & Culture 2-3 SDIGE credits.
ECO 751A:(1) GWSG: Cooperative Administration of an NSTP Online Training and Degree Program. 1 required IGE credit..
ELECTIVE 3 CREDITS (An alternative to ECO 504 for students not going on to Level Three, see below).
LEVEL THREE CERTIFICATION (CRT): Third Semester
CERTIFICATION FOR ORGANIZING AND FACILITATING THE COURSE
Educating and Counseling With Nature
12 credits; 6-18 Months TUITION: $740
Level Three leads to internships, careers, jobs, work and advanced degrees that center around implementing NSTP.
One Credit equals 45 hours of classworkECO 602CRT AC: Student Teaching Educating and Counseling With Nature
Part I WMWE 3 IGE Carnegie credits
Part II WMWE 3 IGE Carnegie credits.................. http://www.ecopsych.com/eco602parts.html
........... ECO 502 prerequisite.ELECTIVE 4 IGE credits see below
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ECO 751A:(1) GWSG: Cooperative Administration of an NSTP Online Training and Degree Program.
1 required IGE Carnegie credits..
ECO 800: Certification in Applied Ecopsychology
1 IGE credit
Successful completion of this course signifies optional matriculation into 15 credit research and thesis or dissertation completion of an M.S. or Ph.D program or its equivalent.
ELECTIVES for level one, two or three
ECO101: Nature-Connected Personal Balance, Healing and Stress Management AC 1 IGE Credit
(may be used as internship or field study unit)ECO 509CRT: Natural /Global History of the Senses
Up to 3-5 SDIGE Carnegie creditsECO 751CRT: Field Studies in Educating and Counseling With Nature
Up to 3 IGE Carnegie credits (prior OK)ECO 752CRT: Externship in Educating and Counseling With Nature
Up to 3 IGE Carnegie credits (prior OK)ECO 753CRT: Case Studies in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology
(3-6 IGE Carnegie credits) (prior OK)ECO 793CRT Selected Topics or Problems 3-6 IGE Carnegie credits (prior OK)
ECO 800CRT: Certification in Applied Ecopsychology
1 IGE Carnegie credits
MATRICULATION Enter and complete the Degree research component of the program while on this courseCounseling with Natural Attractions: A Hands-On Natural Sensory Awareness Trail for Environmental Educators and School Counselors
.....1-2 trimester credits 10-20 clock hours (PSU)
.....1 IGE Carnegie creditsExplore Nature's Wisdom: Nature, Poetry, and Art as a Gateway to Discovering Creative Sensory-Awareness in Nature
.....1-2 trimester credits 10-20 clock hours (PSU)
.....1 IGE Carnegie credits
(1) Note: ECO 751A and participation in GWSG is waived if, instead, in your initial payment you include an extra tuition fee of $1500/certification level. This optional tuition fee goes for the services of a guide to help you develop your program and course schedule in conjunction with GWSG. You do not have to pay this fee if you take the required Cooperative Administration Course ECO 751A. This fee is not covered by scholarship or distance learning grants funding.
FINANCIAL AID AND CREDIT FEES
- By special permission payments can be made by the credit as you proceed in each course of the program (at $80/credit instead of $62/credit, as above, to accommodate bookeeping for handling payment transactions, payment failure etc.). The total program Admisson Application fee then becomes $250 and includes two credits: ECO 500 Orientation Course and ECO 751A . Each Certification Level then becomes $960 (It's less expensive to borrow the money at a bank).
Reminder: to customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
QUESTIONS? Email your guide group, a mentor, or the student cooperative, or call 360-378-6313 if you can't get an answer or have not yet enrolled.
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore
."Project NatureConnect provides readily available sensory tools that help our psyche genuinely connect with nature. Our well-being improves through alternative holistic courses and sustainable degrees that enable us to thoughtfully tap into nature's balance, grace and restorative powers."
-Michael J. Cohen
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Holistic alternative environmental courses and degrees for the
sustainable health of person, planet and spiritP.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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