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of Life Imperative is a nature-connected,
learning tool for peace within and around you. It enables your
psyche to tap into the potent healing powers of authenic nature.
It teaches you to use these powers to restore forty-eight innate
sensory intelligences into your awareness, senses that you normally
learn to subdue.
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Contrary to mainstream thinking
and education, we are born with 53 natural sensory intelligences,
not just five. Each is part of nature, each a distinct way of
knowing and relating that, when intact, helps us sustain the
wellness, balance and resilience of natural systems within and
around us.
Backyard or backcountry, the
practical education, counseling and recuperation process in this
book empowers you to improve your wellness and livelihood. You
learn how to consciously transform the desensitized omissions
in the way our nature-disconnected society teaches us to think.
They become rejuvenated natural sensitivities and Earth-integrated,
whole ways of knowing
Master how to reconnect your mentality to its nurturing
origins, to the regenerative vigor, sustainability and integrity
of nature.
Help yourself, and those close to you, benefit from the
renewal that lies in the magnificence of a beautiful day, the
wisdom of an ancient tree and the fortitude of a weed.
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Discover how to let the "higher power"
in nature's healing energies help your thinking transform your
stress, disorders and harmful bonds into constructive personal,
social and environmental rewards.
Strengthen your inborn natural genius. Enjoy
personal growth from hands-on, "biophilia-in-action,"
classes, essays, activities, research, internships, counseling
and healing.
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"The Web of Life Imperative
offers more tools, knowledge and personal power for good
than most therapies and spiritualities. It enables us to reverse
our destructive relationships by empowering us to make thoughtful
sensory connections with genuine nature. This connection responsibly
satisfies the aching, ever-wanting hole in our psyche that has
been produced by our excessive separation from nature, a hole
that leads us astray"
- Susan Chernak McElroy,
Award winning, N. Y. Times best selling author of Animals
as Teachers and Healers and Heart in the Wild.
"We dramatically
increased our program's effectiveness by adding the Natural Systems
Thinking Process to it. It enables our participants to connect
with their sensory origins in nature and use that peaceful power
to improve their disorders and their relationships with self,
society and the environment."
James Rowe, Ph.D.
Director of the Outward Bound School in Costa Rica
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About the Author:
Recipient of the 1994
Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J.
Cohen, Ed.D. is a Director of the Institute of Global Education,
where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and Project
NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Portland State
University, Akamai University and the International University
of Professional Studies. Dr. Cohen has founded sensory environmental
education programs independently and for the National Audubon
Society and Lesley University (AEI), conceived the National Audubon
Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is
the award winning author of Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's
World, and How Nature Works. He is an accomplished
folk song artist and contra dancer who presents traditional music
programs for the U.S. National Park Service and Elderhostel on
San Juan Island, Washington.
CONTACT: www.ecopsych.com nature@interisland.net 360-378-6313,
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Regenerative
ecopsychology techniques that help people think in balance with
natural systems by
Michael J. Cohen and 36 co-authors. A Primer of Organic Psychology
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THE ECOPSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATING
AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE
Updated from
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, May-June
1994
A description of the course
and online program contained in The Web of Life Imperative
From the druids of the Celtic
forests to the great tribes of American Indians, people have
sought balance, peace and wisdom by living according to the laws
of Mother
Nature.
Unfortunately, this past century
will be remembered for unprecedented exploitation of nature--and
widespread psychological disturbance of individuals.
No coincidence to Michael J.
Cohen, Ed.D., pioneer of what he calls integrated ecology or
applied ecopsychology. An organic synthesis of ecology and psychology,
integrated ecology proposes that both the destruction of the
Earth's environment and people's isolation, stress and dysfunction
stem from a fundamental denial of our connection to nature. And
by genuinely reconnecting our thinking with nature, we reverse
our psychological disorders and their destructive health and
attitude effects.
Western civilization emphasizes
mostly the faculties of sight, reason, and language, forcing
most of us to suppress our natural senses --all 53 of them, by
Cohen's reckoning. Among them: hunger, thirst, compassion; color,
sex, place; trust, belonging, intuition; community, nurturing
and motion. Each is a fundamental natural attraction energy,
a biological form of love that sentiently connects us to the
world and holds natural systems together in balance. We inherently
register and think with these senses to make sense. However,
spending over 95% of our lives cloistered and indoors leaves
these natural sensory connections excessively unexercised, unfulfilled
and wanting; human dysfunction and evils -- stress, cigarette
smoking, greed, dependencies, violence -- naturally follow to
fill our sensory-satisfaction void and diminish our hurt and
frustrations. Our troubles, however, persist because when we
want, there is never enough.
Cohen is not a lone hunter
of the bond between man and nature. According to Pulitzer-Prize
winning sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., of Harvard, people
have an inherent biological need to be in contact with the out-of-doors.
He calls it "biophilia", and believes that nature may
hold the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even
spiritual satisfaction. Our childhood love of animals and natural
myths and fairy tales may be early evidence of our basic affinity
for nature and its instructive and healing properties. Many excellent
studies show genuinely nature-connected people enjoy greater
health and more peaceful relationships than those psychologically
oblivious to nature.
Counseling and building responsible
relationships by reconnecting with  Nature? Cohen has devised therapeutic, home study,
training manuals, workshops, on-site and e-mail/correspondence
courses, discussion groups and degree programs whose organic
activities, in backyards or back country, re-create many beneficial
relationships enjoyed by earlier hunting, gathering, and communal
living peoples. In the American Psychological Association Journal
"The Humanistic Psychologist" (Vol. 21, No. 3) and
many other reviewed professional publications, he reports that
while on these education programs community spirit and responsibility
grows, participant's personality and eating disorders subside,
learning and other cognitive abilities improve, and violence
and prejudice dissolve. His participants learn to do, own and
teach unforgettable nature connecting activities that produce
these results throughout their lives. Gradually, a deep environmental
literacy evolves that sustainably rejuvenates their natural senses,
balance and joy.
From his home base at the Institute
of Global Education, a special public education NGO consultant
to the United Nations Department Economic and Social Council,
Cohen offers online books, workshops,
training and degree
programs
and information about ecologically oriented education and therapeutic
methods.
You may visit
a study of the program
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Reminder: bookmark this
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"This program offers an
environmentally sound, educational process that reduces apathy,
catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills our personal
and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit; it deserves the
attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."
Dr. Robert Muller
Assistant Secretary
General Emeritus of the United Nations.
Recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize
for peace.
Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations.
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