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Project NatureConnect (PNC) Institute of Global Education Nature-Connected Organic Psychology: cooperative relationship opportunities and training in consultation with International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) Breaking down the barriers to solving world problems   July 14, 2004 For immediate release   A practical, rewarding and creative alternative empowers caring people to make a difference through cooperation.   July 30, 2004. International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) and Project NatureConnect (PNC) have joined together on the Web to promote cooperation and consensus in personal and global relationships in order to break down the barriers to solving world problems The site, Towards the Improvement of Personal and Global Relationships is found at http://www.ecopsych.com/ispopnchomepage.html. It is designed to empower individuals and groups to work together for saner and more supportive interactions between people, nations and the environment. It tackles the monumental socio-political roadblocks obstructing the way to both global health and personal well-being. Simultaneous Policy addresses the competition that pervades economic systems and results in the exploitation and degradation of culture, community and planet. Project NatureConnect addresses our need for a practical, nature-connected, learning tool to help us enlist the healing and restorative powers of nature to deal with our dysfunctions, find consensus and act cooperatively. Simultaneous Policy was developed by British businessman John Bunzl to encourage individual voters worldwide to use their voices in consensus to solve local and global environmental, social justice and health problems. He advocates constructive cooperation and consensus over destructive competition as the fundamental shift necessary to bring about change. This is accomplished through a world democratic governance in which all nations act on the wishes of their respective peoples.The Simultaneous Policy strategy produces deep democracy over "pseudo democracy." It helps the public regain control of global financial markets and corporations and supports the conditions necessary for a global society and economy more in tune with Nature and the needs of human nature. Bunzl says "Instead of voting for the largely indistinguishable and redundant policies of political parties, by adopting SP we're taking global policy out of the their hands and instead creating our own policy." In Project NatureConnect, ecological-psychologist, Michael Cohen, brings more than fifty years of natural systems research and experience to the equation. His work has long focused on helping individuals reclaim the inherently fulfilling and healing experience with life that comes from consensus relationships with nature.including human nature. He has developed a system of learning in which both cognitive understanding and sensory awareness of nature's ways bring about a fundamental feeling of personal well-being and belonging that supports the web of life within which we are all inextricably graced. Reconnecting with nature thoughtfully reinforces cooperation over competition; it leads to waste-free behavior, enhances emotional and psychological well-being, and supports a heightened moral/ethical/spiritual view of all life. The Simultaneous Policy concept was initiated by John Bunzl in 1998; he since founded the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) to campaign for the adoption of SP around the world. He is author of The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet, and has given lectures and workshops on SP to many conferences, including to the World Trade Organization, the World Social Forum and the Schumacher Society. As well as being an activist, Bunzl is a company director of a business specializing in raw materials and specialty papers. He was born in 1957 in London where he lives with his wife and three children.  Dr. Michael J. Cohen is the founder and award winning director of Project NatureConnect (PNC), a workshop and internet training and degree program for socially responsible environmental education and psychology at the Institute of Global Education. He is the author of many books, including: How Nature Works; Well Mind, Well Earth; Reconnecting with Nature; and most recently, The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance With Natural Systems. Cohen lives and works on San Juan Island, Washington, in the very northwest corner of the United States. The cooperation between of Simultaneous Policy and Project NatureConnect  presents a unique consensus-building strategy that stops governments and individuals from behaving irresponsibly. It's based on personal caring about the state of the world and it exposes all those seeking to exacerbate, or hide behind, competition between people, nations and the environment. SP helps solve the problems of corporate globalisation by offering win-win solutions for voters, civil society activists, and politicians. PNC helps solve the problems of personal distress and dysfunction that prevent the formation of cooperative relationships by offering tried and true methods of connecting to nature's regenerative and nurturing systems. In the combination of PNC with SP, civil society has the potential to lead governments, not the other way round. "The full truth is, that in nature, the fittest are those that are the most cooperative, those that create the strongest and greatest number of diverse, mutually beneficial, consenting relationships with their neighbors. Nature self-creates in cooperation, beauty and diversity without producing garbage; it is a natural consensus where nothing is left out, everything belongs. As part of nature we inherit the ability to think and operate the same way." --Michael J. Cohen "Simultaneous Policy transcends party-political differences and allows voters, NGOs, politicians and governments to adopt it without risking their respective personal or national interests. It represents political action of a kind not yet seen: a New Politics of cooperation and community which transcends both the divisions of conventional party politics and the dilemmas of maintaining international competitiveness." --John Bunzl Susan Chernack McElroy, New York Times best selling author of Healing With Animals. says about the complimentary programs: "New and practical, this environmentally sound social technology partnership helps caring people combine nature's restorative powers with local and internationally informed thinking. It helps us increase understanding, cooperative relationships and healing within and around us." Emilio Jos Chaves researcher in Economics and Sustainable Development, says about Simultaneous Policy: "In a time where so many urgent symptoms claim our attention, it seems there is not enough courage nor time to address the fundamental roots of global present problems and viable roads to face them. The Simultaneous Policy is a simple, peaceful, low-risk and clear invitation for humankind to jump - in two steps - from a present spiral headed toward auto-destruction, into another one oriented toward life, cooperation and spiritual growth. To share is to live." Janet Thomas, author of The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations, says about the Simultaneous Policy and Project NatureConnect relationship: "This is a critically needed partnership that links personal fulfillment with global responsibility. A changing public policy will only develop a sustaining grace if the individuals of this world know and feel themselves in relationship with nature's grace. Trusting and deepening our personal relationship with the natural world is the beginning of becoming a true global citizen. It is the way transformative change will happen. SP and PNC are doable, easily accessible, affordable and empowering. Best of all, they are available."   For further information and links to SP and PNC visit http://www.ecopsych.com/ispopnchomepage.html * * *     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     Share this website with a friend: ,       SP/PNC Combined Program Homepage Towards the Improvement of Personal and Global Relationships Project NatureConnect INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council Online Organic Psychology books, training and degree programs P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 USA 360-378-6313 nature@interisland.net | www.ecopsych.com   International Simultaneous Policy Organisation Using our Votes to Take Back the World P.O. Box 26547, London SE3 7YT, UK  Fax: +44 (0)20-8460 2035 info@simpol.org | www.simpol.org .