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Dear Inquirer or Visitor
Thank your for your interest
in the benefits of Organic Psychology and the development of
OrganicGuide, our job and career program.
In conjunction with cooperating
individuals, organizations and agencies like yourself, OrganicGuide
trains, funds and makes available personnel with the expertise
to facilitate Organic Psychology programs. OrganicGuide
can be used in conjunction with Americorps, SeniorCorps and Vista
programs as well as for increasing environmentally sound sustainability
and well-being in business, social and academic settings.
OrganicGuide contributes to positive change and
sustainability. Through the science of Organic Psychology it
helps us transform our psychological bonds to destructive relationships
into constructive passions, thoughts and acts.
We suffer many problems and
discontents because our nature-conquering society exploits our
inner nature, our innate desire to form rewarding, supportive
survival bonds with the natural world. Our socialization removes
our bonds to nature and attaches them to stories, technologies
and relationships that have detrimental side effects. This produces
the bonded tenacity of our most challenging personal, social
and environmental troubles.
By helping our thinking tap
into its origins in nature's grace, balance and restorative powers,
Organic Psychology enables us to socially re-bond ourselves in
ways that increase the health of ourselves and the environment.
This frees and increases our ability to learn, grow and enjoy
happiness; it reduces our dysfunctions, disorders, addictions,
stress and relationship problems.
If this appeals to you or is
of interest, read the material below. If you find it agreeable,
further information and how to contact us is at the bottom
of the page.
History
Over the past fifty years an
unusual set of outdoor education circumstances at Project NatureConnect
has produced Organic Psychology, a remarkable social technology.
Today, a tested, funded, enabling tool is readily available to
give humanity this extraordinary means to improve personal and
global well being.
The Institute of Global Education
is a non-profit organization where Project NatureConnect seeks
caring people as writers, consultants, publicists, funding agents
or practioners who want to help increase well-being by incorporating
the process of Organic Psychology in their work for public and
private sectors.
If Organic Psychology makes
sense to you, it indicates that your awareness has taken a step
beyond the bonds that keep us on our detrimental treadmill. That's
the kind of sustainable thinking we need to improve the welfare
of people and the environment and we invite you to contact us.
Organics Make Greater Sense.
Organics work. They reward
us for thinking and acting in ways that support nature instead
of exploiting it. We benefit because we and the environment are
part of nature.
We make greater sense of our
lives by using organics to help us personally and professionally
purify the pollution found in the environment, our neighborhood
and our mentality. They are all interrelated.
Organics are a way of thinking
that either avoids harmful things or lets nature transform harmful
things into support for life and growth.
Organic thinking has joyfully
been applied to gardening, farming, food and many other products.
Ask a person who grows an organic garden what they think and
feel about it. Ask yourself why you are happier about, and trust,
organic products over those that are not organic.
Uniquely, during the past half-century,
Project NatureConnect has integrated organics into the fields
of counseling, education and healing. The result is an Organic
Psychology that helps people create thoughtful sensory moments
in natural areas. In these teachable, nature-connected periods
and places, the perfection of nature's grace, balance and restorative
powers enters our psyche to guide and strengthen our intelligence.
It renews our passion to improve our thinking, relationships
and spirit at every level; our consciousness and well-being expand.
Folks learn to use the nature-connected
thinking process of Organic Psychology via the Internet, or in
a local setting, in less than two weeks at three hours/day, or
in two months at five hours per week. It enhances any discipline,
profession, spirituality or relationship.
Detrimental Disconnection
Organic Psychology helps us
address a profound, often hidden problem in our society. The
problem is that, to our great hurt and loss, we daily abort our
psyche from the natural intelligence and nurturance of its inherentance,
its supportive womb in nature. We disconnect it from the spirit,
consciousness and wise energies of our Mother Earth.
Although we and our psyche
are part of nature, on average, over 95 percent of our time and
99 percent of our thinking is separated from nature. This disengagement
from our natural legacy is catastrophic. The way we think becomes
harmfully out of tune with way nature's potent balancing and
renewing powers work. It leads us to unthoughtgully engage in
economics and progress that have us running amok in natural and
social life communities.
As demonstrated by many cultures
over many millenniums, nature's unifying grace and restorative
ways ordinarily support the sanity and well-being of nature-centered
people. Natural people, in turn, think in ways that help sustain
nature's non-polluting perfection.
But how can nature help us
improve or correct our thinking when we have excessively separated
our thinking from nature?
An essence of our unsolveable
problems is that our excessive separation from nature underlies
most of our personal, social and environmental dysfunctions.
With 99 percent of our thinking
separated from nature, we are so bewildered (disconnected from
wilderness) we don't recognize that, nature-wise, we suffer the
mental-emotional shortcomings and restricted bonds of an adult
who has been born and raised in a closet. We manage nature and
Earth no better than a lobster running Kennedy International
Airport.
A major dysfunction we suffer
is our bonding to the belief that, contrary to good evidence,
we can't benefit from genuinely reconnecting our thinking with
nature.
How Organic Psychology Works
Our thinking is our destiny.
Organic Psychology provides the co-creative ways and means for
us to grow by safely reconnecting our thinking with the way nature
produces its optimums of life, diversity, cooperation, peace
and balanced perfection. Nature ways accomplish this without
producing garbage or our excessive pollution, insanity and abusiveness.
A simple example of Organic
Psychology-in-action is the decision to take a walk in the park
in order to think or feel better, to clear our head. We benefit
from the refreshing mind-set that results from choosing to visit
a park's natural area and enjoy nature's renewing ways there.
However, most of us don't recognize, or simply reject, that connecting
with nature in the park is far more than just "getting away
from our problems." It is also a healing process. We usually
deny that in the park a touch of nature's powers has revitalized
us.
While visiting natural areas,
genuine contact with nature's ways provides an antidote for what
ails us due to our excessive disconnection from nature. The science
of Organic Psychology helps us concentrate and strengthen this
phenomenon. It provides us with a nature-reconnecting art that
empowers our mentality to thoughtfully and safely tap into nature's
healing essence, backyard or backcountry. It enables us to make
nature-connected prevention and recuperation available at will,
with a pet, aquarium or potted plant. It helps our mind, soul
and consciousness benefit from nature's restorative grace.
Organic Psychology works because:
- It gives our thinking the
means to interlace with nature. We become more whole from composting
into fertile thoughts the garbage that destructive aspects of
society have dumped into our psyche.
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- It helps us to recycle how
we think and feel; our renewed psyche and resilience more effectively
repair the damage inflicted on ourselves, society and nature.
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- It gives us the power to make
sensible changes and refute detrimental bonded relationships.
This empowerment erases apathy.
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- It increases our ability to
recover from dysfunctions, disorders, addictions, stress and
relationship problems, locally and/or globally.
Organic Psychology often seems
like a fraudulent "Snake Oil Cure-All" to our nature-disconnected
ways of thinking. It remains unbelievable until we engage in
it and enjoy its benefits, or our mind acknowledges the validity
of an observation by Gregory Bateson and many others: "Our
greatest problems result from the difference between how we think
and how nature works."
Organic Psychology helps our
thinking include nature's balance and regenerative powers by
creating nature-connected moments that let Earth teach and become
a supportive ally. It gives us the ability to expand our consciousness
and strengthen our love for the whole of life. This is important
because we only protect what we love.
Organic Psychology is now funded;
the accredited distance learning courses and degree programs
it offers online are guaranteed affordable.
Obviously, today, the consciousness
of our society does not yet hold the welfare of natural systems,
around and within us, in high regard. For example, although the
benefits of sustainable Organic Farming to the land and people
have been well known since 1965, only about 0.2 percent
of all U.S. crop land has been certified organic since then,
while 70% of song bird populations continue to decline and our
cancer rates, dysfunctions and stress levels rise.
With support, Organic Psychology
can help us improve our whole-life consciousness and the well-being
of all natural systems around and within us. See http://www.OrganicPsychology.com
and http://www.ecopsych.com/
for the documented results of Organic
Psychology and how you can easily learn to use it.
Does Organic Psychology make
sense to you? Can you help its use provide the support and success
it needs and vice versa? Is doing this of interest to you?
Become a Trainer
We are developing funding to
provide part-time jobs at $20,000/year,
or more, for trained individuals to be Internet and/or on-site
facilitators for teaching the skills of Organic Psychology to
any interested group or organization. Would you or your organization
be interested in the free services of such a guide? Would one
or more individuals in your program be interested in training
as a part-time guide? Can your services help us develop interest
in the use of such guides or applying Organic Psychology to contemporary
endeavors and relationships?
Thank you for considering this
page. We look forward to your suggestions and involvement; we
hope to see you listed in the left-hand column as part of this
team effort to stop fracturing the wholeness and integrity of
the global life community.
Owls and Howls,
Michael J. Cohen
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Director
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to the UNESCO
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
Chair: Akamai University Applied
Ecopsychology
Faculty: Portland State University Extended Studies
Faculty: West Coast University.
P. O. Box 1605,
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313
www.ecopsych.com
nature@interisland.net
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. M.J. Cohen Got
Nature?
2. M.J.
Cohen How
You Can Come to Your Senses
3. Project NatureConnect Secrets
of the Natural Attractions Trail
4. Project NatureConnect Survey
of Participants
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