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ORT 502 Elements of Global Citizenship:
Course Synopsis: This course is offered to students when required or suggested by their department or by personal choice during any period semester of enrollment. They discover how our excessive separation from nature stresses our sentient inner nature and initiates our personal and global troubles. Students learn to reverse this destructive process by mastering some thoughtful sensory nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants, and spirit. This course teaches lasting hands-on leadership, education, counseling, and mental health skills that feelingly tap the "higher power" wisdom of Earth's creation process. The email and telephone contacts of the course empower students to let nature help them nurture warm interpersonal relationships, wellness, and responsibility on local and global levels. Students relate the course methods and materials to their fields of interest in order to integrate them with the global ecosystem. They become familiar with with the Natural Systems Thinking Process and improve their Globally Balanced Thinking Score.
The Orientation Course is an Email/correspondence program available to students and faculty, the general public, facilitators-in-training and interns. If you wish, you may use the book "ReconnectingWith Nature" by Dr. Cohen in conjunction with the course. This book will help you get more out of the course and enable you to continue the program through more in-depth Project NatureConnect courses. In each part of the course participants are asked to do an activity in nature, read an article, and write about their experiences and what they learned to their e-mail Interact Group. They then read the experiences of the others in the group and respond to them. A vital part of the course is learning how to trust our experiences with nature in the environment as well as with people's inner nature. For this reason the course uses outdoor natural areas and communication by e-mail between the course participants (see Interact Group Process, next page). The reconnecting activities you learn to do as part of this course bring an awareness of nature's nonverbal wisdom and love into your consciousness. There is an experienced facilitator assigned to your group, but Nature is the primary teacher. The facilitator's basic contribution to the course, besides organizational and scheduling responsibilities, is to help participants find answers for themselves through the course process. The course starts when there are a minimum of 4 committed participants. You should have a list of your group members and a starting date at this time. Be sure you read and understand the information presented on The Interact Group Process (next page). If you ever feel you need help with any aspect of this course please contact your group facilitator or Dr. Cohen for assistance.
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PROJECT NATURECONNECT