. Web Site Navigation Project NatureConnect: online books, training and degree programs Introduction Shortcut Overview What We Do Who We Are Learn in Nature Purpose Program Director Site Map New/Updates Application Forms Education Introduction Education Index Degrees/CEU's Certification Orientation Key Courses Scholarships Procedures Financial Free Course Free Activity Information Synopsis Books Careers/Jobs Articles/News Organic Psych Natural Systems References Essence Validation Outcomes Testimonials Key Book Homepage2 Contacts Email 360-378-6313 Return to Homepage                                         Navigation (top) . .........,,,, ...........................................................			Nature-Connecting Holistic  Courses and Degrees Online: Natural Career Education Personal and Professional Whole Life System Alternative Training Grants, Employment, Jobs  Project NatureConnect Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington, USA Institute of Global Education, Director M. J. Cohen Ph.D.   Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Online education to increase personal, social and environmental well-being PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Grant-Fundeds Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs On Line Learn the pure art and science of creating balanced, therapeutic relationships: a practical application of spirituality and organics. Project NatureConnect offers environmentally and socially responsible distant learning. It enables you to add the benefits of nature-connecting methods and materials to your profession, degree program and/or other skills, interests and hobbies. We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent education credit for it. You may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal interests.  Improve your economics 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 and environmental health and wellness. Add the sunlight beauty and spirit of Planet Earth to your life, community and meditations. Visit our Homepage for complete information Project NatureConnect Article link.     Janet Thomas, Investigative Journalist   "Through her acute love of nature and human nature, the expertise of Janet Thomas exposes the trespasses by contemporary thinking on the rights of natural systems in people and the environment. She is strong and knowledgeable, a journalistic Druidic princess who, to our benefit, defends against the violation of nature within and around us. With the balanced powers of a glacier, her tenacity and wisdom seldom leave an illegitimate stone unturned. For this reason, David Suzuki applauds her inspiring looks at people, issues and solidarity; Vine Deloria Jr. says she creates breathtaking vision. Janet is a critically thinking playwright, author and editor who deals with issues of abortion, abuse, nuclear war and environmental degradation. She's as sweet as a honeysuckle, but when she speaks her truth it is wise to listen. This may be experienced in her book "The Battle in Seattle" of which a chapter about connecting with nature is available online"   To accurately portray Janet Thomas and her work, reminds me of a challenge I once presented to Paul Merrill. He was a Vermont farmer I hired in 1959 to bulldoze a cow pasture level to play baseball. His experience with that field was a metaphor of how the limits of contemporary thinking impact Earth's natural systems, the perfection of the biological world within and around us. This is where Janet loves to inquire. Mr. Merrill's skill in bulldozing a field brings to mind that people are part of nature. What we do to nature we also do to our natural selves. Today, both people and the land suffer from being excessively bulldozed by the destructive ways we have learned to think. Most of the Vermont rocks rolled to the side of the field at the urging of Mr. Merrill's powerful John Deere blade. However, some small rocks turned out to be like icebergs of the soil. They were tips of immense glacial boulders buried deep in the ground. "No farm tractor gonna move them suckers," shrugged Merrill, "You gonna need to get some dynamite and them big construction tractors." Doing that would have brought me way over budget so we ended making the field part of a wildlife sanctuary. It began its inherent path back to becoming a maple-beech-yellow birch forest. Twenty years later the Federal Government got into the act in the form of the National Forest Service. They helped modify the local conservation laws, blasted the boulders and bulldozed miles of beautiful, wild plateau life and land into the sterility of a golf course. Janet Thomas is as anchored in nature as were those field boulders. She, like most of us, has been subject to the bulldozer of contemporary socialization. However out of desperation and pain, she long ago became enamored with her resilient roots, her grounding in the landscape. She nurtured those roots to survive and thereby survived. Through one crises after another she has turned to the grounded sensory boulders in her life and called upon them for help. Because her good judgment has supported these profound roots over the years, they now support her in times of need. That is how nature's renewing powers work when they have not been bulldozed into parking lots, shopping malls or buried in fear and hurt in our subconscious to avoid feeling the pain of being bulldozed. Through her acute love of nature and human nature, Janet's expertise exposes the trespasses by contemporary thinking on the rights of natural systems in people and the environment. She is strong and knowledgeable, a journalistic Druidic princess who, to our benefit, defends against the violation of nature within and around us. With the balanced powers of a glacier, her tenacity and wisdom seldom leave an illegitimate stone unturned. For this reason, David Suzuki applauds her inspiring looks at people, issues and solidarity; Vine Deloria Jr. says she creates breathtaking vision. Janet is a critically thinking playwright, author and editor who deals with issues of abortion, abuse, nuclear war and environmental degradation. She's as sweet as a honeysuckle, but when she speaks her truth it is wise to listen. This may be experienced in her book "The Battle in Seattle" of which a chapter about connecting with nature is available online Contact: (Janet Thomas) nature@interisland.net Vist: Janet Thomas - Mike Cohen       Share this website with a friend: ,     INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available, online, natural science tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book The Web of Life Imperative. .