Online Studies, Articles,
Web Pages and Press Releases:
Learning, counseling and
healing with nature in relation to health, stress management, psychology,
environment, education, therapy and parenting.
NEW ONLINE: May, 2011 The Journal of Organic Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology
contains many up to date nature-based articles
you can publish or quote.
(See the box, below,
for suggested reading for Applicants or Candidates)
If you only
have time to read one scientific publication, read this book:
A
HISTORY OF THE NATURAL ATTRACTION MODEL
Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature The Web of Life, Well-Being
and our Prejudice Against Nature APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
A shorter, article-version of this book is also available.
Summaries you can quote from The New York Times Company About.com
Explore this book's empirical evidence for the pure science of Natural Attraction Ecology
Read the trailblazing Ecopsychology interview of Michael J. Cohen by Thomas Joseph Doherty, Editor-in-Chief
Central
Theme: education, psychology and environment overview
If you only
have time to read one article, read:
Who Are You? Who Am I? Who Are We? the essence of personal and global well-being.
Central
Theme: psychology and environment
If you only
have time to do one extensive online activity, do this one:
Exploration
Activity a first
hand experience with Natural Systems Thinking
Central
Article Theme: nature and stress
If you only
have time to do one short online activity, do this one:
We Are Attraction discovering our natural attractiveness
Central
Theme: psychology and environment
If you only
have time to read one reviewed and published scientific
study, read this one:
EDUCATION AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE:
A GREENING OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4
THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER
MARCH, 1995 Section C: Research
Central
Article Theme: therapy, stress and education
YOUR BEST
WHOLE-LEARNING PATH: If you only want to do one thing,
do this one:
Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenships (Orientation Course)
This practicum
is the complete way to learn Organic Psychology. Other readings
are helpful but there is no substitute for experience, for engaging in the real thing.
Central
Theme: education, psychology and environment
.
If you want
to learn how to remedy the core problem of our troubles and disorders,
read
Correcting Prejudice Against Nature
Central
Article Theme: environmental education therapy
If you want to review the step by step process to certification or a degree in educating, counseling and healing with nature
Course Work and Community Process Central
Article Theme: therapy, stress and education
If you want to publish or send a short announcement about the program
Announcements Available Central
Theme: education, psychology and environment
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Suggested reading for Applicants
or Candidates
Application Form: contains a few suggested readings,
(starred, below*)
Applied
Ecopsychology: Healing Ourselves and the World an investigative reporter
considers his findings (suggested for applicants)
Central News Theme: psychology, stress and nature
* Who Are You? Who Am I? Who Are We? the essence of personal and global well-being.
Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature Organic Degree and Career Program for Healing Arts Practioners and Students. Nature Connecting strengthens Reiki, Tao, Tai Chi, Healing Touch and other holistic healing procedures.
Nature-Connected Transformation: Science, Not Guesswork How and Why the Process Works.
Integrated Ecology: The Process of Counseling With Nature [.pdf file] American Psychological Association, The Humanistic Psychologist, 21, Autumn, 1993 Central News Theme: psychology, stress and nature
A
Sensory Nature Reconnecting Process Helps Us Reverse Personal,
Social and Environmental Troubles
An interview with
Michael J. Cohen (suggested for applicants)
Central
News Theme: education, stress and nature.
* Exploration
Activity a first
hand experience with Natural Systems Thinking
Central
Article Theme: nature and stress
Correcting Prejudice Against Nature learn to address our core problem
with a core solution.
Central
Article Theme: health, therapy and environment
* The Stairway
to Personal and Global Sanity: Wellness through Wholeness Key concepts and findings about Organic
Psychology and the Natural Systems Thinking Process (suggested
for applicants)
Central
Article Theme: health and environment
The Unified-Field Voice in Natural
Systems: Why
counseling, learning and relationships work better when connected
to the web of life
Central
Article Theme: environmental therapy
The Loss of Who We are Holistic truths that help us identify the source
of our destructive ways.
Central Article Theme: health and environment
On All Nine Legs-Teaching Outdoor Love
to an Indoor World by Janet Thomas. Published in Taproot,
Journal of Education in the Outdoors. (required for applicants)
Central Article Theme: health, therapy and environment
The
Nature of Psychology
How We Can Come to our Senses:
What They Don't Teach you at Harvard or Yale. A lengthy but thorough examination of the hidden
source and remedy of personal and global troubles.
Central Article Theme: health, therapy and environment
.
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Additional Articles, Activities and
Pages
Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature via 53 Natural Senses.
Read, publish or link to this article about the contents and obtaining review copies of a new book
Central
Theme: psychology, therapy and nature
Who Are You? Who Are We?
How to use and benefit from the sensory science of Natural Attration Ecology.
Central
Article News Theme: psychology and nature.
Natural
System Dysfunction and its Antidote
How to increase
peace of mind and peace in the world (suggested for applicants)
Central
News Theme: education, stress and nature.
Nature's Integrity and
the Green Classics of Christmas
Year round Christmas activities help increase personal, social and environmental relationships.
Central
Article News Theme: education, stress and parenting
Got
Nature? an introduction
and release about the values inherent in learning how to connect
with nature. (suggested for applicants)
Central
Article Theme: financial assistance and education
Overview:
How Nature Works
The value of conscious
sensory contact with strands of the web of life. (suggested for
applicants)
Central
Article News Theme: education, stress and parenting
Unpublished: Increase Well-Being: Stop Our Destructive Mass-Hallucinatory Fantasy How to reverse our unreasonable prejudice against nature.
Central
News Theme: education, stress and nature.
Paving Paradise Turning to nature to help teach and heal at-risk Youth. An Article in Yes Magazine
Central
Article News Theme: psychology and nature.
Are
You/We in Denial?
An intervention to
help increase supportive personal, social and environmental relationships.
(suggested for applicants)
Central
Theme: psychology, therapy and nature
The Green Spirit of Ecology and Psychology: 53 living-earth natural attractions register in our psyche as the green spirit of our natural senses.
Found! Industrial Society's Critical Missing
Component. Solving
the problems caused by a profound scientific falsehood. (suggested
for applicants)
Central
Article Theme: psychology and environment
The Confrontive Core Truth That Faces You and Me
Natural
Science With Attitude: Rational urges emanating from nature-connected empirical thinking and feeling
instill unity and remedy disorders.
The
Nature of Life
-In Which Wealth
Has Nothing To Do With Money by
Janet Thomas
(From The Battle In Seattle, Fulcrum)
(suggested for applicants)
Central
Theme: health, stress and environment
Disconnection
From Nature In Action:
how to reduce our troubles
by learning to use an organic psychology process. (suggested
for applicants)
Central
Article News Theme: psychology and nature.
An Introduction to Organic Psychology: An organic view of nature connected
psychology.
Central
Article Theme: health, parenting and nature
Great
Lies and Distortions that Produce Personal and Global Dysfuction:
how to deal with
five critical falsehoods that injure us and Earth.
Central
Theme: psychology, therapy and nature
A
Lie Perpetrated by Education, Psychology and Health Leaders Makes
Us Victims of Stress And Disorders. Disorders result from omitting natural systems
from our awareness
Central
Theme: education, stress and psychology
Really,
is there "No Direction Home," Bob Dylan?
A movie film
press release about how "Bob Dylan Overlooks Spiritual Directions
in Nature and Folk Music Therapy."
Central Article Theme: environmental therapy and health.
Empower
Yourself to Walk Your Talk:
join a subculture that brings nature into the consciousnes of
industrial society
Central
Article Theme: environmental parenting and health.
Special
Earth Day or Mother's Day methods and materials. EARTH DAY, MOTHER'S DAY, VALENTINE'S DAY and
CHRISTMAS. Links to free, sensitizing personal and environmental
natural system wellness methods and materials gifts online.
Central
Article Theme: psychology and environment
Nature Connected Meditation Techniques help us gain deeper reflection, inspiration and healing
Central
Article Theme: environment, health and stress
Eco-psychology & The Natural Systems Thinking Process.
A simple shift in our thinking process has the potential to unite people and heal the planet.
Central
Article News Theme:environment and psychology
Invitation
from West Coast Univeristy
to affiliate with their Degree Program in Panama.
Central
Theme: education, stress and psychology
Folk
Songs Identify How To Prevent the Erosion of Our Personal, Social
and Environmental Sanity
Learning from songs
about oppressing nature around and within us.
Central
Article News Theme: music and psychology
Nature's Healing Grace by Janet Thomas in Gatherings, the
Journal of the International Community for Ecopsychology.
Central
Article Theme: psychology and parenting
Nature:
The Unacknowledged and Endangered Healer A personal report from a counselor
who uses organic psychology.
Central
Article Theme: environment, health and stress
Thirteen
Significant Questions
whose answers increase our adequacy
Central
Article News Theme:environment and psychology
Nature Connected Psychology: creating moments
that let Earth teach: A science
and technology journal report.
Central
Article Theme: health and education
Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology The Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) embodies both Nature's science and spirit. Who's
the Boss of You?
The
destructive secret of mind pollution and how a nature-connected
psychology helps people overcome their addiction to unreasonable
thinking.
Central Theme: nature, parenting health
Exploration
Activity a first
hand experience with Applied Ecopsycholgy
Central
Article Theme: nature and stress
The
Einstein-Thoreau Equation
for thinking in balance with natural systems within and around
us.
Central Article Theme: stress and environment
Organic Psychology: uncontaminated natural system information and
processes
Central Article Theme: environment and psychology
An
Introductory Textbook
Reconnecting
With Nature
Central Theme: education and environment
The Science of Natural Attraction Ecology: Read, publish or link to this article about the contents and obtaining review copies of a new book
Central
Theme: psychology, therapy and nature
Introduction
to The Web of Life Imperative
Central
Article Theme: nature and psychology
Introducing Janet Thomas an investigative journalist brings
Organic Psychology to the public eye.
Central
Theme: health and nature
Finding
Hope Up a Creek,
Regaining health through
ecopsychology activity, by Francesca Lyman.
Central
Article Theme: education, environment and nature
Green
Politics, introducing
a green psychology as a tool to increase green political consciousness.
Central
News Theme: environment, stress and education
EDUCATION AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE:
A GREENING OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4
THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER
MARCH, 1995 Section C: Research
Central
Article Theme: therapy, stress and education
"We
have fifty three senses? But I can barely handle five!"
By Marlow Shami, M.S.
Also published in E-Magazine
Central News
Theme: environment, stress and education
Back to Basics: The Urgent Value of
Natural Systems
an overview article in Interspecies E- Magazine
Central
Article Theme: education, environment and nature
The
Artisan and the Art of Nature an Art and Nature article in Interspecies E- Magazine
Ecopsychology: The Unusual Language
of Michael J. Cohen, by John Scull,
Central
Article Theme: environment and psychology
On Connecting with nature: An Interview with Mike Cohen
By Tammy Fowler
Central Article Theme: environment and psychology
Learning From Leaves: Transformational Ecopsychology
by Mark Morton Glasgow
Exploring Webstrings: Of Birds, Shamans and NSTP
by Ruth Walsh
Pathways to Consciousness: Returning to Our Senses
by Diana Elsmore
PRESS RELEASES
Short Announcements use these as emails or concise descritpions of our Applied Ecopsychology program
We
Suffer Because We are Victims of a Lie undoing distortions about the biosphere and natural
systems.
Unique
Free Online Course
addresses the thirteen
most significant problems we face and provides a tool that helps
us solve them.
West
Coast University invites Project NatureConnect to affiliate with it for Degrees internationally
accredited by ICDE.
Press Releases
1. If this link
does not work try this
link then scroll down for Project NatureConnect when
you get to this page and select for "view all press releases."
Press
Releases 2.
Releases about student
activities and program updates.
Press
Releases 3. Release about grants and financial assistance programs
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about the Project NatureConnect program from the web site by
using the Navigation guide (left column), a free, helpful 15-minute
discussion by phone with a faculty member
is the most efficient way to customize the program to your goals.