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Project
NatureConnect
Counseling
with Natural Attractions An On-Line CEU/Graduate or Undergraduate Level Academic or Professional Development Course Instructors:
For
information and sign up contact:
General Introductory Page
Counseling with Natural Attractions: A Hands-on Natural Sensory Awareness Trail for Environmental Educators, School Counselors and Chemical Dependency Professionals. An
e-mail-based on-line distance education course offered cooperatively by PSU and Project NatureConnect. Course is graded upon completion online via Banweb. Graduate
Quarter Credit: 1 Counseling or Education
COURSE REGISTRATION: EMAIL:<Stacey@connect2nature.org> ONE
CREDIT/
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A hands-on approach for school counselors, teachers and environmental educators that integrates methods and coping skills to into a process that opens bonds between humans and nature in a balancing way. This program targets the 'at risk' youth population, but is beneficial for all student groups. Instructor: Fee: $110 including $60.00 sent to PSU For
information and sign up contact: OBJECTIVES/COURSE
PURPOSE AND OUTCOMES: Current research indicates that direct exposure to nature "is essential for healthy childhood development" (Louv, 2005). Environment-based education improves standardized test scores and creativity is stimulated by being outdoors. At the same time, government studies indicate that we spend, on the average, 90% of our time indoors (Cohen, 1989). Child advocacy expert Richard Louv emphasizes this statement in his recent book Last Child in the Woods (Louv, 2005). Louv calls our indoor-bound mentality 'nature-deficit disorder.' He backs his statements with research that indicates children are inside too much. This points to some disturbing childhood trends such as obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), depression and substance abuse. This class addresses "nature-deficit disorder" and provides a gateway for school counselors, chemical dependency professionals and environmental educators to explore an educational and creative experience in nature via the Web-of-Life/GreenWave process. It produces a natural sensory awareness that can help students and recovering adults feel better about themselves and increase their awareness of their environment. By the end of this course participants will be able to use, as a counseling and teaching tool, the benefits of interactions with nature that enhances an appreciation for nature, a sense of well-being. Participants will also understand the organic interconnection of all life via natural sensory awareness, the language nature uses to communicate.
Upon completion of this course students will: 1. Understand an integrative new insight to the profound interconnections of biological, social, cultural and physical phenomena that comprise the scientific definition of the web-of-life. 2. Understand the concept of natural sensory-connections that allows us to be an active participant in this web-of-life construct. 3. Write nature-oriented poetry. 4. Help students open bonds between themselves and nature, and to further validate the sensory learning experience. 5. Actively use inherent senses to determine personal attractions in nature and more fully understand the complex web-of-life model and how humans play an active role in the process by directing their attention to multiple sensory bonds in nature. 6. Learn the process of natural sensory awareness which recognizes the intrinsic value of all living beings and sees humans as a vibrant string in the web-of-live construct. 7. To learn interspecies ways of thinking critically via enhanced sensory awareness that reconnects with and heeds natural callings within ourselves, others and natural areas. 8. To teach nature-awareness activities to students identified as 'at risk'. 9. To enjoy nature's enchantment within and about us, and to learn how to know nature as nature knows itself.
Course Background This
course is a peace education vehicle designed to help any individual learn how to create authentic sensory
moments that let Earth teach. To this end we offer whole life methods
and materials that remedy our destructive disconnection from nature and
empower the United Nations to meet its manifesto for sustainable
personal and global peace, environmentally sound education and social
justice. Offered cooperatively by PSU and Project NatureConnect. All credit fees payable to Portland State University, Continuing Education/Graduate School of Education with the School of Extended Studies. Course fees are paid as contributions to PNC tuitions via www.ecopsych.com/paypal.html. Enrollment
is limited to 8 credits per term unless officially admitted to PSU
(except Summer term when enrollment is limited to 16 graduate or 21
undergraduate credits).
Reference
Registration Form PORTLAND
STATE UNIVERSITY EMAIL:<Stacey@connect2nature.org> Course Name: 98JH Counseling With Natural Attractions One credit Course Fees: $50/one credit (10 contact hours) to Project NatureConnect via www.ecopsych.com/paypal.html plus $60 paid to Portland State University (you will be billed from them to your student account) Course Sign up: EMAIL:<Stacey@connect2nature.org> 479-677-3328
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