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"Scientific research
is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined
by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of
people."
"Our task must be
to free ourselves from (our) prison by widening our circles of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
An Ecozombie Antidote:
 The Natural Systems
Thinking Process:
a psychological remedy for apathy
NSTP is a sustainable, nature-connected,
science that empowers people to improve their learning abilities,
wellness, and relationships. Backyard or backcountry, this readily available
education technology helps individuals and the environment restore
each other by energizing spirit and sensitivity.
- - Walk nature's socially and environmentally
responsible path.
- - Advance your effectiveness, marketability,
and expertise.
- - Discover a right livelihood within
your profession and interests.
- - Explore our inexpensive, online,
activities, courses, Ph.D., M.S., and B.A. degree programs, books,
workshops and internships:
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"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 relationships with self, society and the environment. "
James Rowe,
Director of the Outward Bound School
in Costa Rica
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SYNOPSIS:
Educating and Counseling with Nature
Project NatureConnect's Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP)
is a sensory science used by environmentally caring counselors,
teachers, and students; physicians, ministers and non-professionals.
 It consists of 127
teachable nature connecting psychological activities along with
books, articles and courses that explain how and why the activities
work.
NSTP empowers a person to make conscious sensory contact with
nature's intelligence, balance and beauty and incorporate it
in their thinking. This therapeutically nurtures our 53 (not
just five) inherent natural senses. They energize and increasingly
remain in our awareness. People enjoy and bond with them. They
help people think sensitively, in more balanced, responsible
ways, as nature intended (Biophilia.*)
NSTP enables practioners to safely reduce stress and increase
self-esteem, wellness and spirit. It feelingly helps build supportive
relationships with self, society and the environment, and teach
others to do the same.
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"The Natural Systems Thinking
Process provides a readily accessible ....and.wonderfully effective
means for students to acquire, understand, and act upon the transforming
experience of being connected to nature; of being in respectful
relationship with the natural world of which they are a part...I
look forward to continuing our work together in this effort."
J.Marc McGinnes, J.D.
Senate Lecturer
University of California at Santa Barbara
Environmental Studies
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IMPLEMENTATION:
Do you want to help produce personal, social and environmental
wellness? Of what use is this important
goal if you don't have a process that enables you to implement
it?
When you separate any organism from
its natural environment, it acts abnormally. In our nature-disconnected
society 99.9% of our thinking is separated from nature. Our greatest
troubles result from the psychological estrangement of our mentality
from nature's intelligence. Contemporary problems seldom exist
in natural systems or nature-connected people.
NSTP is a unique sensory science, an
Applied Ecopsychology that helps people to build responsible
relationships at every level of endeavor.
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"As part of Nature we are
bound biologically and psychologically to its intelligence, beauty
and purity. However, we learn to live extremely nature separated
lives. Our disconnection from nature produces an unseen but discomforting,
"ecozombie" void in our psyche and spirit. We feel
unfulfilled, hurt and isolated. This subconscious wanting
too often draws us into destructive relationships.
Unique sensory activities that help
us reconnect our psyche with its nurturing origins in nature
enable us to sensibly fill our sensory void. They empower us
to think clearly, to enjoy peaceful personal and environmental
responsibility."
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. Director
Institute of Global Education,
Integrated Ecology Department
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THE BEST WAY TO LEARN AND TEACH
THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS:
ORIENTATION
COURSE: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship
The Science of Connecting With
the Web of Life
The Art of Thinking With Nature
An exciting, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared, online
activity, information and training with credit optional. Learn by doing. Become a practitioner
anywhere. This is a free course
if it meets your needs, a transferable prerequisite for additional
courses, degrees
and participation. The course is our best, most complete and
useful way to help nature restore genuine humanity
in contemporary society.* It opens new vistas in academics, counseling,
spirit and wellness that recycle and purify destructive thinking.
READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR
APATHY
Einstein's
World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity
A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course. It helps
you reverse ecozombie disorders from your home. You can take
it, teach it and be paid, too. Credit available. Book $15.00,
Course $20.00. Optional Credit $40.00
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"Dr. Cohen's compelling application
of ecopsychology connects uswith the often ignored source of
spirit and wellness found in nature. His deeply felt chapters
catalyze conscious sensory contacts with the natural world and
bind us to energies that heal our deeper being."
Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D.
Researcher and bestselling author
of RecoveringThe Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search
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- OUTCOMES
- DEGREE PROGRAMS
- ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFICATION
- PERSONALIZED DISCOVERY
MATERIALS
- ARTICLES
- LINKS
DEGREES COURSES INTERNSHIPS
ACTIVITIES
RESEARCH WORKSHOPS
DISCUSSION
ARTICLES
* ABOUT BIOPHILIA:
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. Wilson has found
much evidence for our basic affinity for nature and its instructive
and healing properties.
The noted authors and scientific thinkers below, along with
many others, have recognized the biophilia value of educating
and counseling with Nature:
Samuel Adams, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austin, Francis
Bacon, Gregory Bateson, Charlotte Beck, The Bible, William Blake,
David Bohm, Hal Borland. William Cullen Bryant, Pearl S. Buck,
Robert Burns, John Burroughs, Lord Byron, Joseph Campbell, James
Carol. Rachel Carson, Deepak Chopra, Walter Christie, Chuang-tzu,
Cicero, Norman Cousins, Steven Covey, e. e. cummings, Leonardo
da Vinci, John Davy, Paul Devereux, Bernard Devoto, D. H.Lawrence,
Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevski,, William O. Douglas Brooke
Medicine Eagle, Albert Einstein,. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Euripides,,
Henry Fielding,, Michael Fox, George Fox, Anne Frank, Sigmund
Freud, Robert Frost, Mohandas K.Gandhi, China Garland, Kahil
Gibran, Ralph Ginsberg, Chellis Glendinning, Albert Gore, Steven
Jay Gould, Robert Greenway, Dick Gregory, William Thackeray,
Thich Nhat Thanh, Martin Heidegger,
Hippocrates, Lewis Thomas, William Irwin Thompson, Robert Hook,
Henry David Thoreau, Elbert Hubbard, Victor Hugo,. Aldous Huxley,
I Ching, Ralph Ingersoll,Thomas Jefferson, Jesus, Samuel Johnson,
Jovenel, Carl Jung, Viliyat Kahn, Immanual Kant, John Keats,
Helen Keller, R. D. Laing, Lao-Tzu, John Lennon, Aldo Leopold,
John Locke, Phillip Lubin, Joanna Macy, Maraya Mannes, Don Marquis,
Bill Mckibben, Marshal Mcluhan, Margaret Mead, Malwida von Meysenbug,
Henry Miller, Claude Monet, Montaigne, Alfred Montepert, Maria
Montessori, Thomas Moore, John Muir, T.T. Munger, Caroline Myss,
Navaho, Isaac Newton, Odonahue, Jose Ortega, Osho, Thomas Paine,
Pascal, William Penn, Plato, Plutarch, Alexander Pope, Daniel
Quinn,, Robert Redford, Ranier Maria Ilke , Franklin Roosevelt.,
Theodore Roszak., Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Jedaluddin Rumi, Bertrand
Russell, George Santayana, Susan Polis Schutz, Albert Schweitzer,
Seneca the Younger, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw,
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sioux, Skinner, Sydney Smith, Gary Snyder,
Pete Catches, Benedict Spinoza, St. Basil, Wallace Stegner, Saint
Francis of Assisi,Clement Stone, Gary Synder, Thomas Berry, Wendall
Berry, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lily Tomlin, Stewart Udall., Hendrik
Willem Van Loon, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Neale Donald Walshe, H.G.
Wells, Lynn White, Jr., Willis Harmon, E.B.White, Alfred North
Whitehead, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, E.O.Wilson, Thomas Wolfe,
William Wordsworth, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Butler Yeats,
Zeno,
William Wordsworth, Frank Lloyd Wright,
William butler Yeats,
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