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Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature: Nature-Contact, Online, Alternative and Natural Holistic Degrees Courses and Careers that enhance mindful life experience, prior training, and new thought chemotherapy activism.   




Natural Therapy: Seven Fundamentals Help Us Make Personal and Environmental Balance Happen.



Project NatureConnect
Online Degrees and Grants:  Learn How to Think Like Nature Works

Institute of Global Education 
Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council


Creating Moments That Let Earth Teach

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Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature

Subsidized Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs Online.

Project NatureConnect testimonials and validations from witnesses and primary resources confirm the value of our fundamental distant learning programs. The enable you to add the art of nature-connected science, experience  to your skills and interests. Our living proof ecopsychology testimonials demonstrate that we honor your prior training and life experiences by providing grants and equivalence credit for it.

You may take accredited Applied Ecopsychology coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most activism and new thought awakening subjects, global experience or to nourish personal interests (see the bottom of this page).

    * Help people remedy their disturbances, thoughts and feelings with the grace balance and restorative powers of nature's web of life.
    * Increase income through Ecotherapy effects for stress-relief management and imagination.
    * Strengthen personal health assistance, social and environmental self-esteem/well being and global warming reduction
    * Add the sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your God beliefs and community.

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"Wake Up, Eco-Zombies" The Om Times exposes the secret, detrimental, reality in James Cameron's AVATAR

 Dr.Michael J. Cohen says about the

"At the same time that it demonstrated what is hidden in our lives, James Cameron’s Avatar also perpetuated the Industrial Society Myth. It portrayed the restorative connections between the Na'vi and nature as occurring on another planet, Pandora. The film created an illusion that made folks think their true relationship with nature was an unobtainable fantasy rather than a reality. It further disconnected viewers from nature and made them more dependent on a film crutch, rather than helping them learn how to enjoy first hand contact with authentic nature's benefits and support. In reality, what happened to the Na’vi is happening on our planet Earth. Our ability to re-connect with nature antidote also exists here, now.

Natural Attraction Ecology and Project NatureConnect offer ways to help us genuinely connect our psyche with the grace of nature's self-correcting and restorative powers. Our loss of these powers due to the nature-separated way we learn to think and feel causes us to create our most challenging problems, mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and environmentally."

The Independence Day antidote for global Mayan Calendar Anxiety and all other excessive stress.

Today's Challenge: 

It makes sense to recognize that no perfect substitute for nature has ever been found. Nature alone is the fountainhead of authority about how its perfection operates. Today, the inconvenient truth secret as to how to let nature teach us what we need to know is readily available.

On July 4, 2012, the long-missing Big Bang attraction energy essence of the universe was identified by particle physicists at the CERN cyclotron in Switzerland. Called the "Higgs Boson," the scientific verification of the unique attraction energy that holds the Universe and everything in it together, validated the 1974 Webstring Natural Attraction Ecology model described by Dr. Michael J. Cohen in his books Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature and the Web of Life Imperative

Today it is irrefutable that since the inception of our universe, the purifying
natural attraction fundamental of the way nature's dance works has produced and sustains nature's perfection.  This is no surprise once one recognizes that nature's dance is an intelligence of its own.
 
Our great challenge is that our excessively indoor lives are extremely separated from nature and its ability to balance and purify itself. For this reason, our thoughts and feelings are disconnected from the wisdom of nature's self-correcting powers. The result is that we suffer our runaway problems. Our socialization neglects to teach our mentality how to think and feel like nature's perfection works.
None the less, deep in our psyche our consciousness biologically retains the ways of nature's organic perfection for, as part of this universe, we are simply nature's dance in human form.

The critical information that is missing in our nature-separated lives is that all energies and materials that nature has designed, including humanity, have come into being from nature to strengthen the existence of its dance. Nature accomplishes this by extending its diversity, balance and beauty. Nature loves us, along with all other things, for the contribution that we make to the life of its dance. 


Today, in Industrial Society our  problem is two-fold:


1. Our 2500 year old history of nature-separated, "modify and conquer-nature" thoughts and feelings have co-opted nature's attraction powers. For this reason on Planet Earth nature no longer has the ability to globally sustain its balance and self-correcting purification. We have become indoctrinated and emotionally bonded to using these powers to build our excessively indoor lifestyles. Insensitively, we have learned to deteriorate nature in the process.

2. Our secluded mentality denies that our excessive defiling of nature is stupid and immoral with respect to Mother Nature's welfare and therefore our own.  As a cover-up, we hide this idiocy by identifying it as "progress,"  "economic growth" or "God's will."

In the Om Times interview  I state that my Natural Attraction Ecology Webstring Model gives any individual a practical, beneficial tool that empowers them solve the challenging problems we face. Although this seems impossible, as I describe below its effectiveness shows that it not only identifies the problem, but it enables us to remedy its point source.

Our Erroneous Thinking

As demonstrated by the deteriorating state of the world and our inability to solve the runaway disorders that we cause, the way we presently learn to think and feel is similar to 2 + 2 = 10.  Like the equation, our education is inaccurate, misleading and therefore destructive. We must learn how to obtain accurate information and apply it wisely for that enables our intelligence to think in a good way.

To obtain accurate information is crucial because our technological power makes how and what we think be our destiny. Things must get better. To date, hope is obviously not enough.

There is a scientific solution to the adverse side effects that our non-holistic application of the scientific method creates. For example, in the numerical equation, above, it helps our thinking make perfect sense, and increases our self-esteem, too, when we discover that 2 + 2 = 10 is accurate when we use base 2.5 in our calculation
instead of base 10

The point is that many of us don't  understand base 2.5 because we usually neglect to teach the process and use of varying bases.  As adults, its like having to learn a foreign language.  This is exactly the case with respect to how we presently learn to think about how nature works.  We leave nature's dance out of the learning process.

Our stubborn troubles develop because nature's ability to produce its perfection uses an eons deeper "base" than the way our mind is socialized
(read indoctrinated or brainwashed) to think and feel Project NatureConnect encourages anyone to remedy, and help others remedy this underlying cause of our personal, social and environmental ills by adding ECHN to their life and livelihood. ECHN helps our society, top to bottom, think and feel like the dance of nature's perfection operates, in and around us. Think of it as being base 2.5.

The indisputable fact is that we need the self-correcting and restorative powers of nature's dance to help our nature-estranged thinking stop abusing and contaminating nature's intelligence, in and around us.

Obtaining Accurate Information.

With respect to nature, we live boxed-in, closeted lives. On average, how we think, feel and build relationships is separated from and out of tune with nature
over 99 percent of the time; over 95 percent of our lives are spent indoors, disconnected from how nature works to produce its perfection in and around us.
If you explore in a natural area, backyard or backcountry, the concepts that follow they will enable your psyche to remedy this disconnection at will. They will help you interlace with and compost the destructive contamination of your body, mind and spirit through nature's recycling powers. (You can obtain academic or professional training CEU credits for doing this by integrating it into our free course ECO 800bb.)

1.nature experience

Bring into you mind now at least one good experience that you have had in nature:
- backyard or backcountry
- mountain, forest or field
- brook, ocean or sky
- pet, garden or aquarium.
What colors, sounds, aromas, textures or flavors do you sense in while in this experience.
Search. Does this nature-connection experience contain comforting motions or attractive feelings of community, trust or place?
Do you feel this visit is enchanting, self-enhancing or spiritually pleasing?
Is it supportive, peaceful or both? Are you more balanced?
Do you feel renewed or purified, or that you are part of a greater whole or being. Did you feel you belong?
Do you need a book, teacher or administrator to have this experience or is it simply a natural connection?
Describe other attractions you sense or feel in this nature experience.  Would you like to repeat having it in the future?

What may come to your mind in the above are results that many individuals have reported from remembering true, valuable experiences in nature, experiences they would welcome repeating.  Many have also conveyed that they did not need a teacher, class or book to teach them to have an attractive nature experience; its qualities seemed to be innate, some could remember wonderful true experiences from early childhood.  On this course, we hold these truths to be self-evident and students share their "true for me" experiences as part of the course.

Part One Assignment: Write a description of a good experience that you have had in nature or quietly visit a natural area for 20 minutes with your eyes closed for part of the time and/or write out your responses to the activity, above.
 

2. Even though I don't know you and we have probably never met, through this computer,
I can tell you the greatest truth in your life that you can trust. It is that you are reading these words right now and you are registering the color black that they are written in. You may also be registering the seat you may be sitting on as well as the glasses you may be wearing.  The reason these are absolute trustable facts is because they are registering directly on and in two or more of your 53 natural senses in this immediate moment. Because they are immediate, you can validate them by continuing to experience them and to be sure they are happening.  They are not adulterated or misinforming because they are being experienced unswervingly by your senses. You are integrating them; they are becoming part of you. This makes them empirical evidence, the strongest way to accurately be in touch with reality.

The reason the ECHN model works is because it is solely designed from 26 years of direct sensory experiences in authentic nature, the real thing as it dances moment by moment in over 80 different habitats. 


3. One of our 53 natural senses is our sense of reason.  When something is reasonable because it is based on critical thinking along with scientific studies that best determine its truth, the process is the strongest way to accurately be in touch with that reality.  It registers on our natural sense of reason.  Our artifical built environment and technologies are based on such evidence, including your computer and pencil. This is why they operate well and predictably. However, evidence from the sense of reason alone is usually warped or unbalanced. This is because the findings from our sense of reason are seldom confirmed or modified by seeking the input of the remainder of our 53 natural senses. Objective scientific methodology considers information from our other senses to be "subjective."  This places our excessively nature-disconnected reasoning in control of us understanding and relating harmoniously with nature. That is not reasonable and why the science of ECHN sensibly and sensitively fills that gap.

4. It is reasonable for our sense of reason to trust evidence about nature that is gained from making sensory contact with authentic nature. This information is registered in our 52 other natural senses while they are in conscious sensory contact with nature's dance, in or around us.  This makes sense.  It is rational because each of our 53 natural senses are part of the dance of this universe, of our nature, our organic self. They are a seamless continuum of the attraction sensitivities in nature that make nature's dance work in the environment so attractively that it doesn't produce garbage. 

Pollution is unknown in nature because it undermines nature's dance. That is not attractive.  As per 1, above, experiences in nature demonstrate that nature self-corrects our thinking and feeling when we invite it to reconnect and participate in our equation of contemporary life.


 in lIncomplete or inaccurate facts or thoughts about nature distort the truth about the natural world and why we relate to it in destructive ways. 


In nature, our stories and labels are all fiction because nature is non-literate, as is the seamless continuum of nature within us, the body, mind and spirit of our unadulterated inner nature.



Course Direction Coordinators (CDC):
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(Step 1)

Orientation Course Enrollment

(ECO 500/600: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship) and/or participation in it as a Co-facilitator or Reader.


Mike Cohen  
nature@interisland.net
(360-378-6313
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SaVonni Yestanti
savvypnc@gmail.com  
(316) 290-9790





(Step 3)

ECO 5/608E Natural Attractions Intelligence Sanity: Book: Einstein's World (1)

Natalie Forrest  
littlemaetree@yahoo.ca
(250-342-1198)


Mike Cohen  
nature@interisland.net (order book)
(360)-378-6313




(Step 4B)
ECO 700 courses: Challenge Exams Applying  Ecopsychology via ECHN process.

Mike Cohen  
nature@interisland.net 
(360)-378-6313





(Steps 13 and 14)
Ph.D. by Dissertation matriculation project approval and completion

Mike Cohen  
nature@interisland.net
(360)-378-6313


Theresa Sweeney,
Academic Dean
keleka@frontiernet.net  ECO 530
(585) 385-9157



(Social Networking Coordinator)
 Facebook, Twitter etc.

Stacey Mallory
ecandy900@yahoo.com


Tabitha Jayne
tabithajayne@tabithajayne.com

(Annual Gathering Coordinator)
 Pamela Hoke
pam@pamelahoke.com
(772) 919-2244




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(Step 2A and 2B)
Enrollment in the Student Cooperative and its mailing lists via its Agreements Contract. Continuing with the courses. ECO 751

SaVonni Yestanti
savvypnc@gmail.com  
(316) 290-9790









(Step 4)
ECO 501/601 (611 and 612)   Introduction to Educating and Counseling with Nature  RWN
(3) Enrollment and Co-facilitation

Leslie Whitcomb
  ECO 501
leslielynn13@gmail.com
(831) 402-2497






(Step 7)
ECO 5/602A - ECO 5/602B  (ECO 612) Elements of Educating and Counseling with Nature Student Teach ECO 502

Donna J Elsten Donna@donnajelsten.com
(702) 277-3046.




(Web Master)
 Website updates and suggestions for PNC.org

Stacey Mallory
ecandy900@yahoo.com
(479) 236-2860



INDEX OF CDC VOLUNTEERS

Sandra Kolbl-Holman
 Registrar,
Coop Contracts
sanskritvisions@gmail.com


Mike Cohen  ECO 500  General Information
nature@interisland.net  SKYPE: mjcohen6313

Leslie Whitcomb  
ECO 501
leslielynn13@gmail.com

Donna J Elsten  
ECO 502
Donna@donnajelsten.com


Theresa Sweeney, Dean  ECO 530
keleka@frontiernet.net

SaVonni Yestanti
  ECO 500, Coop Contracts
savvypnc@gmail.com

Natalie Forrest     ECO 508
littlemaetree@yahoo.ca

Stacey Mallory Web Master
ecandy900@yahoo.com

Tabitha Jayne
  Social Networking
tabithajayne@tabithajayne.com



Index of Course Syllabi and InstructionS Available at
https://www.box.com/shared/ndoyf0ntx5
  •     ECO500 The Organic Psychology of Global Citizenship (The Orientation Course).doc
  •     ECO501- Introduction to Educating & Counseling with Nature (Reconnecting with Nature) .doc
  •     ECO502 A & B- Educating & Counseling with Nature II (Well Mind, Well Earth) .doc
  •     ECO503-603- Exploratory Readings in Applied Ecopsychology.doc
  •     ECO504-604- Integrating Sensory Knowing and Culture (3 credits).doc
  •     ECO508- Natural Attractions, Intelligence & Sanity (Einstein's World).doc
  •     ECO509-609- Global History of the Senses.doc
  •     ECO522-622 Public Relations and Marketing.doc
  •     ECO530-630 SPECIAL  An Introduction to Eco-Art Therapy.doc
  •     ECO751- Field Studies in Educating & Counseling with Nature (Student Cooperative                    Participation).doc
  •     ECO752- Advanced Field Studies in Applied Ecopsychology.doc
  •     ECO753- Case Studies in Applied Ecopsychology.doc
  •     ECO791- Special Projects in Applied Ecopsychology.doc
  •     ECO792- Advanced Readings in Applied Ecopsychology.doc
  •     ECO800- Level I Comprehensive Exam.doc
  •     EXM880- Level II Comprehensive Exam.doc
  •     Instructions for writing a Challenge Exam for Your 700 Courses.doc
  •     Instructions for the Doctoral Dissertation.doc
  •     Instructions for the Master's Thesis- Coursework and Components.doc
  •     Instructions for Writing Final Papers (excluding Challenge Exams).doc
  •     Orientation Course Reader Role .doc
  •     Sample Case Study Proposal .webdoc
  •     Co-Facilitator Role.odt
  •     Challenge Exam Strategies and Sample Petition.webdoc

Over 800 life experience, field study testimonials and evaluations that support independent nature-connection research may be found on the pages, below (often in the middle of them.)

Evaluation Testimonials
Testimonials
 
Journal Entries 
Survey Results
Key Web Pages
Comments
Consent Archive,
Appendix D
Appendix D2
Avatar Testimonials
Anniversary

UN Petition
as well as quotes in Einstein's World
and the Appendices of
Educating Counseling and Healing with Nature
Reports From 287 Participants
Field Study Reports
PNC Search Engine

Facebook

Further information: contact Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Telephone 360-378-6313
Email: nature@interisland.net.
Website: www.ecopsych.com 
Film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1357054/
NAE http://www.naturalattractionecology.com
Prime Resource Book: http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html



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PROJECT NATURECONNECT

SUBSIDIZED EDUCATION, COUNSELING AND HEALING WITH NATURE

Accredited CEU Courses, Certification, Grants and Degree Programs

online to sustain the well-being of person, planet and
spirit. Prior training and life experience
incorporated in all programs.

P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com

The Natural Systems Thinking Process

Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director

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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the books
The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature

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