• Improve your income and satisfaction through independent, interdisciplinary or integrated study and Ecopsychology.
• Help people connect their thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing ways of nature.
• Increase personal social and environmental well being.
• Add the self-correcting sunlight beauty and spirit of the natural world to your life and community.

NOTE The best way to learn and teach nature-connected psychology, counseling and education is to do it through our classic, short, online Applied Ecopsychology Orientation Course entitled Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship.  

The new course, described below, is similar to reading about and learning to drive a car from a Drivers Manual. However, on the Orientation Course a student is educated from the manual and learns, as well, to get behind the wheel, start the engine and drive the car wisely fifteen times.

ECO 525.  We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident: Thinking and Feeling as if Ecology Matters.

 Home study reading, thinking, feeling and writing. 2 credits, 90 hours. No time limit. Cost, by donation, $58 suggested (this includes a copy of the book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (value $48.00).

Graduate or undergraduate, you may obtain one or two accredited and transferable academic or CEU professional training "Clock Hour" credits through Portland State University for this course at $55/credit. Save money. These credits are usually $300-$500 each at many graduate or undergrauate programs. Call 360-378-6313 for further information.  

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course helps a student explore and identify the most important and beneficial aspects of an easy-to-read book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature by Michael J.Cohen, Ph.D. The book explores and successfully validates the nature-connected thinking and feeling process described on the Project NatureConnect homepage. 

COURSE HISTORY:

In 1936, a New York City elementary school insisted that Cohen, a left-handed child in the first grade, write with his right hand. This produced speech, posture, depression and stress disorders in him for which he received therapy.  Later, as an environmental educator he found a nature-connected remedy for many additional disorders that resulted from assaults on our personal, social and environmental well being. These disorders were caused by Industrial Society unreasonably impeding at least one or more of our 53 natural senses -including left-handedness for 10 percent of the population. They are natural senses that we inherit as part of nature's diverse communication and guidance. They help us sustain balanced and mutually supportive relationships with all members of the global life, plant, animal and mineral community.   Cohen's book describes and defends the unique contributions and significance of the web of life model that he developed to increase local and global well-being.  

COURSE INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Discover if the topic of this course makes sense to you by doing the on-line Natural Attraction Trail.

2. Obtain by email, an application for the course from nature@interisland.net or call 360-378-6313

3. Submit the application along with a check or money order for your contribution.  The application will ask you to describe at least one good experience you have had in or with nature, backyard or backcountry. You will receive by postal mail a copy of the book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature.  It contains the course reading material.  

Course instructions: 

The object of this course is to discover how, where and why your natural sensibilities and attractions guide you in a balanced way. To achieve this

1. Follow the  course description and instructions for Eco800FREE.html

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A. Read the book Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature including Appendices A,B,D,E,H,I,K. As you read it,  identify 20 or more critically important ideas, sensibiities or incidents it describes that are attractive to you. You may want to read the total book first and go through it a second time to identify your attractions to its most significant material.

B. Identify and write down what it is that makes each of your 20 attraction choices attractive and important to you. What do you think or feel is personally or globally important, reasonable, contributory or valuable about each of your attraction selections?

C. If it is helpful, you may download an online copy of the book in Microsoft Word or PDF.  
- Select and cut out your attractions in it.
- Paste them into an email,  or a Word document attachment,
- Accompany your natural attraction choices with your responses for each of your selections, (as described in, B, above). Email this material to nature@interisland.net.

D. You will receive a certificate in the mail that affirms your completion of the course satisfactorily.  You may ask for a letter grade if you would like one.

Questions?  Call us at 360-378-6313

OPTION: You may share your attractions from this course by forming or joining an online discussion group with others who are taking this course

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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
and the
Naturally Attracted DVD video
.