Project NatureConnect: and International
Simultaneous Policy Organisation
COMBINED PROGRAM BENEFITS Quadruple the power of your vote. Further attain your hopes and values. Improve your ability to think clearly. Heighten your resilience, support and friendships. Reduce stress, anxiety, dysfunction, burnout and loneliness. Strengthen personal and environmental wellness. Increase professional opportunities and ethics. Discover responsible new directions goals and excitement. Enjoy nature-connected education, psychology and healing courses and degree programs on-line.
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Project NatureConnect
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Policy Organisation (ISPO) |
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The Rationale for Using Nature-Connected Organic PsychologyWe must learn to bring back into our awareness the cooperative wellness relationships we inherently share with natural systems within and around us. Our contemporary mentality has been socialized to bury them out-of-sight from its historic nature-conquering consciousness.
- Michael J. Cohen
THE ADVANCED THINKING OF EXPERTS
"Over the years, I've spent a lot of time fighting. Fighting against logging, pollution, nuclear power...as long as we fight all the time there's going to be a winner and a loser...(we must) build bridges across to the people who are fighting."
...- David Suzuki
"Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder and rain and the seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things."
...- Least Heat Moon
"The human need for nature is linked not just to the material exploitation of the environment but also to the influence of the natural world on our emotional, cognitive, aesthetic, and even spiritual development."
- Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University Pulitzer Prize Recipient (To the American Psychological Association National Convention)
"Until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things, he will never, himself, know peace."
...-Albert Schweitzer
...Nobel Prize recipient"Wilderness is the ultimate encyclopedia, holding answers to more questions than we have yet learned how to ask. That's the magic in you. You've got it; let it out."
...- David Brower
"It is quite clear to me after several years in the environmental movement that all physical problems of man's impact on the environment - pollution of the air and waters, the desecration of the land, the contamination of the food chain - all start within the environment of man's mind."
-Maurice Strong
Founder: the United Nations Environment Program
Co-Chair: U.N. Commission on Global Governance
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"
...- William Shakespeare
"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds of the action of people.""The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created
them.".
...- Albert Einstein
SENSORY ENVIRONMENTAL AND OUTDOOR EDUCATION
Most people who have had a good experience in nature understand the rationale of this observation:
Severe burns may make burn victims feel numb but they don't produce pain. This is because the victim's burned nerve endings are damaged and become dysfunctional. Extreme burn victims have been known to rationally draw up plans for their own funeral up to their time of death.
Since we are genetically born no different biologically and mentally than a hunting-gathering natural person, our mentality's nervous and sensory system, along with the rest of nature. is designed to learn, relate, be gratified and healed from genuine contact with natural systems and their extraordinary beauty, cooperative and recuperative powers around and within us.
However, we are different than nature. For over 99% of our lifetime, our contemporary indoor socialization separates our thinking from natural systems and their harmonic ways. Similar to burn damage injury, this numbs at least 45 of our 53 natural senses. Their numbness is due to the lack of these senses normal nurturing connections, exercise and support in and from nature.
In the absence of these senses and their contribution to our mind, we think differently than the way the natural world works. Nature normally produces optimums of cooperation, diversity and mutually supportive life relationships without producing the garbage, loneliness, dysfunction and abusiveness that mark our relationships.
Like a burn victim, our sensory numbness lets our thinking feel no pain about being disconnected from nature and about our loss of our mentality's inherent sensory ability to help sustain in society the consensus and perfection found in nature. Rather, that our disconnection produces destructive competition for what has been lost, competition that is normal and applauded in our society.*
As any good experience in nature demonstrates, the opposite of the nature-disconnection equation is easily attained. When we safely make sensory contact with attractions in nature, our cut-off senses reconnect to their natural origins and revive. We enable our psyche to experience profound peace, satisfactions and thoughts while in nature as well as be more open to cooperative relationships with our surroundings, including people. Connections to nature help us passionately bring to mind the grace and unifying powers of natural systems that we biologically and spiritually hold in common. This satisfies many of our otherwise destructive wants.
Connection to nature is easily achieved at any level of decision-making or relationship-building by including simple nature-connecting activities in these processes. We must support leaders and teachers who value and use these activities in order to further enjoy cooperative relationships and their benefits.
[*Mental dysfunction/disorder: to prevent the constant registration of the pain and frustration of this separation, as well as from other emotional injuries, the pain is placed in our subconscious where we can't ordinarily experience it. However, to alert us to their danger, additional separations or rejections activate that pain-stress-fear into our awareness so we feel it, often inappropriately.]
A TOOL TO IMPLEMENT OUR DEEPER HOPES AND VALUES
Overview of this Web Site's Rationale and Implementation
Although our best minds entertain many excellent observations and theories about why we need to improve our relationships with the environment and each other, we seldom have a process that enables us to implement them. The process of nature-connected Organic Psychology is a tool to this end.
Because we too often mentally and physically live destructive nature-separated lives, in support of ISPO, Project NatureConnect offers people the art and science of Organic Psychology, a nature-reconnecting prevention and recovery ecopsychology tool. This nature-based psychology helps our sense of reason cooperatively increase wellness in ourselves and the global web of life including people.
This nature-embracing way of knowing enables dysfunctional thinking to safely tap into the purifying recovery and healing powers in natural systems, backyard or backcountry. Over time, the genuine contact of our mind with the grace of our natural origins helps us transform destructive psychological bonds into constructive social and environmental relationships.
This advanced ecopsychology is a hands-on, sensory way of knowing that even a child may learn in order to restore our natural ability to think and relate in more balanced and cooperative ways. The program is offered online or on site, through subsidized training books, accredited courses, degree programs, grants and internships. It increases our love of natural systems of which we are part, and we protect and save what we love. When we reconnect to the
nurturing sustenance of nature, we emotionally reconnect to survival and what is most deeply satisfying in our human experience.
"At personal, local or global level decision making it is necessary to include Organic Psychology nature-connecting activities as part of the process. The multitude of unifying powers and senses they bring into play increases our ability to deal with our disorders through consensus."
- Michael J. Cohen
Or-gan-ic Psy-chol-o-gy: 1. The peaceful art and science of building responsible relationships by thinking, feeling and interacting while in conscious, sensory contact with genuine natural systems and their unifying, restorative powers. ..2. A nature-connected, non-polluting, counseling, education or healing process whose rewards simultaneously strengthen natural systems in people and the environment.
C0-CREATING WITH NATURE
Rationale to Help Increase Cooperative Relationships Locally and Globally
That the whole of nature self-creates its optimums of cooperation, beauty and life-in-diversity without producing garbage demonstrates that nature operates by consensus of attraction sensitivities; nothing is left out, everything belongs. As part of nature we genetically inherit the ability to operate this way whenever we genuinely connect our thinking to the wholeness of authentic nature. Today, a sensory Organic Psychology tool is readily available that enables us to make this connection and thereby relate more cooperatively with each other and the environment through consensus. Nature-connected psychology can be incorporated in all decision-making functions. To this end a free introductory exploratory course is available on-line from Project NatureConnect. The course also helps people increase stress management, balance and wellness in their lives.
CONTENTS
- A self-discovery activity: your relationship with nature
.- The rationale for using nature-connected organic learning and psychology
.- KEY The Organic Psychology of natural consensus and cooperation: how and why it works.
- Free Course: ECO 400ISPO. Exploring the Benefits of Nature-Connected Thinking
- Press Release: Practical Alternative Offered for Inadequate Thinking and Disaffected Voters
.- ISPO/PNC Homepage
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SP/PNC Combined Program Homepage
Towards the Improvement of
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Project NatureConnect
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Online Organic Psychology books, training and degree programs
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