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SECTION ONE:
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW
Learn how to use holistic personal experiences with attractive forces in mother nature and human nature to strengthen personal and global well-being.
The nature secrets to genuinely reconnecting our thinking with the balancing powers of natural systems help us improve our lives, wellness and health as well as strengthens our ability to protect nature around and within us. This enable us to find new solutions for our disorders and increase our contribution to saner living.
Explore your nature-connecting affinities and opportunities. If you find this of value, you are eligible for full or partial scholarships, grants or special admission to Project NatureConnect training, certification or degree programs online.
"Have you ever enjoyed a good experience in nature, at a seashore, forest, brook or mountain? You can use that experience and its recuperative powers, other life experiences and your formal or equivalent education to further your personal hopes and professional goals. "
- Michael J. Cohen
The inventory-test on this overview page introduces you to essentials of the NatureConnect program. If the force of nature attractive test, below, is not of interest to you, simply select a topic to explore from the navigation column on the right--->, or procede to the program overview at the bottom of this page.
The Holistic Personal Experience Inventory
Natural attractive forces are a unifying and regenerative essence of mother nature and human nature. To learn more about this nature-connected counseling, coaching, education and healing process, complete this natural attraction force evaluation. Its secret to connecting with natural systems helps you match your thinking and potentials with people who have improved their personal and professional lives through natural attractive force activities and training.How strongly you identify or agree with the statements by Project NatureConnect course participants regarding their personal experiences to nature and the other facts that appear below them?
INSTRUCTIONS
1. On a score page sheet of paper write the alphabet in a column from A to Z.
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B-
C-
etc.2. For each of the lettered statements in Part 1 and Part 2, A-Z, below, on the score page place an appropriate number that represents your thinking, from 1-10, about each of the lettered statements.
Additional instructions are found at the end of the Inventory.
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PART 1
To reduce stress and improve relationships, for forty-five years the Project NatureConnect program has strengthened individuals who have feelingly enjoyed attractive human and mother nature experiences in natural areas, backyard or back country .
With regard to their attraction experience in nature, these people have said:
A. They sensed a reduction in stress or dysfunction and/or an increase in belonging, peace, wholeness, spirit, well being or balance. What is your experience with feeling these things in nature?
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This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiarB. They found a renewed openness or desire to improve their personal and professional relationships. What is your experience with feeling these things in nature?
1........2......3......4.......5.......6........7.......8.......9......10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
C. They noted that they did not need a book, course or instructor to teach them how to enjoy their attractive force experience in nature; it was something they innately sensed or felt as part of their natural makeup.1........2......3......4.......5.......6........7.......8.......9......10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
D. They recognized that although they valued their attractive human and mother nature experience and its effects, they often took it for granted and thought of it more as a vacation or escape from the stress and responsibilities of normal life.1........2......3......4.......5.......6........7.......8.......9......10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
E. In their daily lives they had not been able to obtain or sustain the rewards and benefits they enjoyed while connected to mother nature.
1........2......3......4.......5.......6........7.......8.......9......10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
F. They would have liked to learn how to enjoy, at will, the restorative energies of their human nature experiences with mother nature. They wanted it to help them reduce their everyday stress and dysfunction and improve their personal and professional health, happiness and relationships with people and the environment.
1........2......3......4.......5.......6........7.......8.......9......10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
G. They recognized that we most energetically protect and preserve what we love.1........2......3......4.......5.......6...7.8...9..10
This feels: ..foreign..................,,familiar.........././/.........very familiar
PART 2.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HAS PRODUCED THESE NATURE-CONNECTED OBSERVATIONS. WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THESE FINDINGS?
H. People are part of the whole of nature and have biological and sensory natural attraction origins in nature.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
I. Since we are part of mother nature, it is neither unusual nor surprising that most people naturally have had at least one good experience in a natural area (a beach, park, clouds, sunset, flower, pet, garden, sanctuary, lake, aquarium, wilderness etc.).
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
J. Mother Nature demonstrates that she has the ability and power to produce her purity and perfection.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... K. Mother Nature "knows" how to self-organize and produce her optimums of life, diversity, balance, transformation and cooperation.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
L. Nature produces its perfection in natural areas and natural systems without producing garbage or the excessive pollution, abusiveness, dysfunction, isolation and disorders all too common in contemporary society.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... M. To sustain its perfection, nature has the power to heal, restore, purify or regenerate relationships or things that disrupt its balanced ways. For example, mother nature heals a scraped landscape so that the land recovers and nature also heals our scraped knee so that we recover.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
N. Rather than be simply an escape from our problems, a feelinglful attractive force experience in nature helps us restore or revitalize our human nature mentality and energy. This is because in a natural area we can genuinely connect our human nature body mind and spirit with nature's beauty balance and regenerative powers.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... O. Most of our present day dysfunctions and disorders are neither found in nor caused by the thinking of truly nature-connected people or cultures.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... P. On average, 85% of our population agrees that we are part of, stewards of and preservers of nature, that we are not mother nature's rulers, and that we should treat the planet as a living system and return to a simpler way of living.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... Q. We suffer many personal, social and environmental troubles and our human nature seldom benefits from mother nature's healing powers because we live excessively nature-disconnected lives.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... R. The habitual nature-disconnected way we learn to think removes our human nature mentality from authentic nature's healing and restorative ways and wisdom.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
S. On average, over 95% of our time is spent indoors closeted from mother nature.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... T. On average, over 99% of our conscious thinking is separated from, and out of tune with nature.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
U. Over 18,000 hours of our formative years, kindergarten through high school, are spent indoors learning our culture's exploitive, nature conquering ways. These ways seldom include how to genuinely connect our thinking or spirit with the beneficial wisdom, cooperation and restorative powers of nature's attractive energies.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
V. On average we spend less that 12 hours of our total life consciously thinking in tune with natural systems within and around us.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
W. When you separate or disconnect a healthy part of a natural system or organism from the whole system or organism, you hurt or deteriorate the system as well as the removed part.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
X. When you separate or disconnect part of a healthy natural system or organism, sensory attractive force connections that were originally fulfilled or satisfied in the natural system become unfulfilled, frustrated and/or wanting.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
Y. When we want there is never enough so we often can be driven or rewarded to satisfy our wants in detrimental ways that don't make sense.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... ....... Z. Our addicted nature-disconnected reasoning and thinking is shocked or shamed into denial of its hurtful and destructive personal, social and environmental effects.
1.. .2. 3. 4.. 5 6 7. 8. .9.. 10 disagree ........,,..,..... .....somewhat agree..........,,..,.agree..... .......
PERSONAL OVERVIEW INFORMATION SUMMARY
Because people's human nature is part of mother nature we inherently enjoy mental and spiritual support when we are connected to attractions in nature. However, we live extremely nature-disconnected lives
Our culture is in denial that it is addicted to nature-disconnected "progress" and "economics" that insensitively exploit us and the environment and estrange us from nature. We learn to daily separate our well being, thinking and feeling from mother nature's lasting perfection and restorative powers within and around us.
Our unnecessary separation of our human nature from mother nature produces stress, dysfunction and discontents in us that subside when we consciously reconnect our mentality with nature and its healing ways. Reconnecting to authentic nature helps us rewardingly think and relate with greater sensibility.
Further information
Information at the links, below, enable you to discover the personal and professional benefits of using and teaching a powerful nature-reconnecting tool and process.Outcomes
Articles
Training or Degrees
Application Process
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KEY: Online Information Guide for Application and Admission
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
To receive advanced standing, CEU hours or credit, a full or partial scholarship and/or grant for certification training and/or a subsidized academic degree program in nature-connected counseling, education or healing:
1. Total the numbers you wrote on your score page.
2. Send us an email containing your total score and, by way of introduction, share a few paragraphs with us (less than 400 words) about an attractive or heartfelt experience that you have had with nature as a child or adult. Please express what you think, feel and sense about you good experience in nature and its importance to you, if any.
3. Tell us briefly why you want to participate in our program, your goals or hopes, your past work and personal experiences.
4. Share with us the letters and scores of the three A-Z statements, above, to which you gave your lowest scores and the three to which you gave your higest scores. In your email, ask any questions you have about them, if necessary (If while visiting our website you decide to change your answers, you may send us an email with the changes.)
5. Within five days you will receive notification of your success in this application. Meanwhile, visit our program application page and follow its further instructions. (You may include things written for the 1-4 paragraphs, above, in your application)
End of Section One
KEY: Online Information Guide for Application and Admission
SECTION TWO: PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Nature Of It All. How Do We Belong?
by Janet Thomas
"Ishi, (the last hunter-gather Native American) was sure he knew the cause of our discontent. It stemmed from an excessive amount of indoor time. 'It is not a man's nature to be too much indoors.'"
......- Theodora Kroeber"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth."
.......-Chief Sealth
........(Ecclesiastes 3:19, Ted Perry, John Muir)
It is our personal and collective experience relationship with nature that often determines our sanity, our future and the future of the earth.
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Much has been written about how we need to save the planet but the deeper truth is that it is essential if we are to save ourselves.
How conscious are we about our interactions with the natural world? How do we passionately incorporate mother nature's intrinsic health into our own healthy sense of self, other and livelihood? Do we acknowledge this deep and penetrating secret partnership in a renewable way that serves both people and planet?
These are compelling questions for us as we face a most precarious future.
We Lose What We Most Love
As nature's resources are diminished so is the quality of our lives. As the quality of our lives diminish, we lose touch with our natural ability to connect to the web of life within which we are so intricately bound. It becomes a cycle of loss. The nurturing attractive nature force link between our human lives and our earthly home gets broken. We are driven to seek more and more satisfaction in the material world, which means we consume more and more of the very resources we need to sustain natural world and our love for it. We get further and further away from our innate sense of meaning and being. We lose what we most love-about ourselves, the world to which we belong and our sense of the sacred in everyday life.Nature's Saving Grace
In these difficult times, we are virtually on the edge of losing our ability to save both ourselves-and our earthly home. Yet the saving grace is simple: We will save what we love. And when we stop long enough everyday to reconnect to thenurturing sustenance of nature, we emotionally reconnect to what is most deeply satisfying in our human experience-belonging. We re-learn to love the very essence of who we are as living breathing perfect beings on a living breathing perfect planet. It is a generative partnership that happens when we enliven all our senses with the awareness of nature's attractive energies, intelligence and sustenance. We find and feel that through personal ecperience, we, too, are part of the things we celebrate in nature.
Restoring Our Sensory Connections To Nature's Intelligence.
Project NatureConnect is first of all committed to helping us-as individuals-restore our connection to our place in nature. Then, through NatureConnect activities, we learn how to genuinely connect our thinking to the web of life that is always around us, always nurturing us, always waiting for us to wake up. We are bonded to living in awareness and equilibrium with human nature and mother nature, in hope and in love. Living in that awareness we create a future for our loved ones and our extended human family, a future that makes personal and professional sense
The Science of Nature's Regenerative Powers.
This website is special because it is doable. It offers a web of possibilities-for everything from personal growth to professional gain. It is based on the NatureConnect work developed by Michael Cohen, Ph.D. over a span of 40 years of studying, teaching, writing about and experiencing the regenerative power of our natural experience in the natural world. His work is a science and an art, the result of decades of practice working with communities of people in natural areas, all culminating in a process that helps us recover what it is we have lost.Healing Our Relationships
It is time for us to come out from behind the addictive socializing and economic forces that keep us disconnected from the Earth and each other. It is time to re-learn how to let the personal experiences with the wisdom and renewing energies of mother nature transform destructive patterns into balanced and loving relationships that can help restore both personal worth and global harmony.
"The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!"
....-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Next: What We Do
After you obtain information about the human and mother nature Project NatureConnect attractive force 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.
KEY: Online Information Guide for Application and Admission
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore
."Project NatureConnect provides alternative, holistic, sensory tools that help our psyche genuinely connect with nature. Our personal and environmental well-being improves through sustainable education and counseling techniques that enable us to thoughtfully tap into nature's balance, grace and restorative powers."
-Michael J. Cohen
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
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