Project NatureConnect
........Institute of Global Education
........Portland State University
ON-SITE AND DISTANCE LEARNING
WEBSTRINGS TRAINING COURSES:
Note: our courses are available to the public at large as well as students, professionals and academic programs.
Credit Optional 1-7 Units, Graduate or Undergraduate, transferable and/or Professional Clock Hours.
Credit is optionally offered in conjunction with workshops.The best way to learn the Natural Systems Thinkng Process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. You may then intern and later teach the course.
These courses parallel the Core Courses of the Greenwich University Degree Programs and may be transferred into the Programs upon enrollment. Adjusted fee refunds are provided.
COUNSELING AND EDUCATING WITH NATURE COURSES
Master thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress and free our spirit by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and relationships.
Savor the sensory adventure of a lifetime by genuinely tapping into nature's balance and beauty.
Our guide helps you reasonably find and follow 53 attractive callings from an available natural area. Safely, these callings psychologically energize you and your classmates to
break through freedom-limiting walls in your thinking. This enables you to consciously enter hidden valleys of your mind where you recognize nature's sensory essence inside yourself. You help reconnect it to its origins in nature that attracted you here, and feelingly reap beneficial rewards.
Discover how to enliven your life by psychologically plugging yourself into nature's dancing energies and balance.
Learn how to let the natural joy in life help you feel stronger about yourself. Then things naturally go better .
Title, purpose and description:
COUNSELING AND EDUCATING WITH NATURE:
Sensory nature activities for wellness, spirit and deeper learning"Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."
- D. H. LawrenceThe challenge:
Irrefutable studies now confirm that stress emanating from our nature disconnected "bleeding roots" creates the insatiable wants that cause most runaway personal, social and environmental problems.
Course Description
Discover how our excessive separation from nature stresses our sentient inner
nature and causes our most challenging problems. Learn to reverse this destructive process. Master thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and spirit. This course teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that tap the "higher power" wisdom of nature's creation process. Its unique methods and materials let nature nurture self-esteem, friendships and responsibility through e-mail, telephone and personal contacts. Start this refreshing 1-20 week distance learning program at your convenience by obtaining an application. Financial aid, internships and facilitator positions are available. Further information about the program and process is available.
"Presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we suffer." Elisabeth Ryland, Ph.D.
"Timely sound theory and well grounded experience. In our struggle to find connectedness and meaning it allows the natural world to nurture a responsible growing edge of culture." Bill Hammond, Director of Environmental Education, Lee County, FL.
Tuition: includes training manual plus instructional and administrative fees, course schedules and updates.
Credit option is approximately $40.00/credit extra, but varies at different cooperating universities. Equivilent credit value is as much as $400/credit at some graduate schools. $2,800 worth of credit is available through this subsidized program for $575.00
Time Commitment: Times listed below can be reduced by 30% or increased by six months depending upon the rate of speed at which the participant chooses to complete the course.
| ..#1. 10-20 Day Orientation Course | $35.00 (1 credit option, (see Orientation) |
| ..#2. 4-Week Introductory Course | $25.00 (1 credit option, see #3 below) |
| ..#3. Full Course Commitment: 16-48 weeks with ...Certificate (includes #2, #4, #5) | $190.00 (6 credit option, includes #2. above) |
| ..#4..Part One: 6 week Course, follows #2 | $ 90.00 (3 credit option ) |
| ..#5..Part Two: 6 week Course -follows #3 | $ 80.00 (2 credit option) |
| .....Reconnecting With Nature (RWN) | $17.95 (RWN for Introductory Course, postage paid SAVE: Order with WMWE $70.00) |
| ....Well Mind, Well Earth (WMWE) | $58.00 (WMWE for Part One & Two postage paid) |
| Total Certificate Program including materials | $295.00 without credit $575.00 with 7 credits (transferable) |
An application for the Orientation Course is available from the course page.
For other course applications send a blank e-mail.
For financial assistance contact the office
Department of Integrated Ecology, P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (360) 378-6313
SELECT HERE FOR ON-SITE WORKSHOP/COURSE SCHEDULE
SPECIAL: Reconnecting With Nature workshop and class at:
Ulster Community College, Stone Ridge, NY.(Continuing Education program)
Introductory session Sat. May 1, 1999 1-5PM (raindate Sun. May 2) $29.
6 week class meets on Wednesday nights May 19 - June.23 1999. $89.
Taught by MIRA FINK PNC facilitator
For info and catalog for UCC call (914) 339-2025 or email ceinfo@sunyulster.edu
San Juan Island Conference Monday July 26 through Friday July 30. 1999 Practicum in using PNC activities and theory, Lakedale Campground, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, open to all.
Mike Cohen, Chuck, JaneAnne, Allison, Larry,
Conference description
Contact Chuck Chuck or Mike 1-888-285-4694 (toll free)