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Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Lead Faculty
Applied Ecopsychology

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Basic Requirements for GWSG membership in good standing

Contemporary Society has built insane asylums for many centuries. Today, if somebody built a SANE asylum, how many people do you know would be eliglble for it?

Our undeclared war against nature around and within us makes most of us act crazy. Like a child separated from its mother, we psychologically hurt and are angry. We want from the loss of Mother Nature in our lives. Emotionally injured, we are like zombies with respect to sensitively, rationally, knowing how to live harmoniously with diverse peoples and natural areas.

We need to engage in an effective nature connected process of relating, one that unifies on interpersonal and interspecies levels. We must practice a balanced ecosystem way of thinking and building relationships.

We fool ourselves to think that our relationship with nature is more responsible or diferent than that of the KKK with people of color or Hitler with the Jews. It is also incorrect to think that we have a greater ability to improve our relationship with nature than they have had with their bigotry. Upton Sinclair observed: "It is difficult to get people to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it."

The best way to teach a better Process for building responsible relationships is to be the process.. That is why, to be in good standing in the NSTP degree program means you are engaged in NSTP on all fronts. This includes making a valuable contribution to the Academic community and sustaining its respect. Education, not legislation or power, is a reasonable vehicle for NSTP to ride. Contemporary society has educated us into our troubles. We can educate ourselves out of them if the process we use makes space for itself to function with support. Then it helps society unbond from its destructive ways and it replaces them with constructive social and environmental relationships. How easily we forget that if nature disconnection causes problems, learning to reconnect with nature offers solutions.

LEARNING BY DOING.

The 17 requirements listed below help implement NSTP, sustain the GWSG and support each student's advanced degree program. The time and learning while doing them is applied towards fulfilling your coursework while you make inroads in places that need improvement. Knowing how to tie your shoe can be just as important as knowing how to read a hiking map if the goal is to be able to reach a new plateau.

1. The purpose of the Degree Program is to produce people who have expert working knowledge of Webstrings Science: The Natural Systems Thinking Process, an Applied Ecopsychology or Integrated Ecology.

The IGE Cooperative program is self-organized. It is based on following natural attractions and seeking permission from nature within and around yourself and in others. It is completely dependent on its participants communicating and being their word, moment by moment. It fails whenever this trust is broken.

If you have additional ideas or information that you feel should help define a GWSG member in good standing, please contact the Coordinating Committee, gwsg-ccc@egroups.com.

CONTENTS:

Members in good standing can act and respond to the following questions.

1. What is the purpose of the Degree Program?

2.W Where do we send our Quarterly Progress Reports?

3. What two communication lists OUTSIDE of GWSG should each member be registered with?

4. How are the questions for our Comprehensive Examination created?

5. Before submitting any work (waivers, course equivalency petitions, course papers, thesis, etc.) to Mike Cohen as a faculty member, what needs to be done?

6. What science magazine should all GWSG members subscribe to?

7. What material should we save for inclusion in our course and thesis Reference Lists?

8. How do we practice thinking with NSTP?

9. Where do we find descriptions of the degree courses?

10. What kind of local organization should we be a member of?

11. What list of Key Questions should be reviewed and answered during the Degree Program?

12. What Key Webpages should all GWSG participants have a working knowledge of?

13. What function does our personal Guide Group have? Where do we send our updates or news?

14. How do we create our IGE Student Website and what information do we include on it?

15. By what means does IGE make electronic tuition and other payments possible?

16. What GWSG Checklist should be reviewed and updated during the Degree Program?

17. When should you take the required public relations course?

Requirements:

2. Quarterly Progress Reports: In order for the GWSG to be officially aware of your enrollment, email a Quarterly Progress Report (found at http://www.ecopsych.com/xxxxxxx) at the midway point and end of each semester you are enrolled in. When enrolled at the IGE, email copies of your reports to Mike Cohen (nature@pacificrim.net) and your Course Co-Facilitators. When you finish at Greenwich, email copies to Mike Cohen and Greenwich (registrar@university.edu.nf) .

3. Communication Lists: Be sure you are on the PNC Professional Group email list (via nature@ipa.net, send Chuck McClintock the address you want to use) and the NatureConnect Discussion list ( http://www.pacificrim.net/~nature/list.html ). Note that you can sign up to get the daily digest form of these lists rather than individual letters, which considerably cuts down the amount of mail you receive. Emails for the PNC Professional Group should be sent to natureconnect-professional@egroups.com. Emails to the entire GWSG should be sent to pnc-gwsg@egroups.com.

4. Comprehensive Examination Questions: Since the GWSG program is self-organizing, each participant is required to help maintain quality NSTP education. As you discover interesting and important points about NSTP, please turn them into valid questions that we can ask of ourselves and each other as an ongoing process and in the Comprehensive Examinations. This familiarizes you with the exam questions before you take the exam. Send the questions to the entire GWSG as they come to mind.

Create interesting:
1. True/False questions
2. Objective questions, with answer choices numbered 1 through 4
3. Essay questions that would be valuable for you and others to answer
4. Questions with another format

Collect Case Histories: What person had what problems and why? How did NSTP help resolve them and what were the dynamics?

5. Submitting Work: The work you do in meeting course requirements (papers, projects, waivers, etc.) is also used to fulfill the reading and learning requirements for all Degree students. Your experiences and thinking becomes a textbook for others; it helps them learn and know what you have learned. Before submitting any work (waivers, course equivalency petitions, course papers, thesis, etc.) to Mike Cohen as a faculty member, be sure it has been read, commented upon and modified if necessary by members of your personal Guide Group. We may set up an archive of such work so that all can learn from them. Whenever possible you should have them available at your personal website.

6. Science News: Because NSTP is a Webstring Science that is active throughout nature, students are asked to keep up with what is happening in the fields of science and how it affects or explains webstrings. A subscription to Science News serves this purpose well (see http://www.sciencenews.org/). Many discoveries in science are actually discoveries about how webstring attractions are working in other species and the mineral kingdom.

7. Reference Material: Save your own and other course postings so that you may include them in your course and thesis Reference Lists and use them in your papers.

8 Thinking with NSTP: Except when you are unconscious, there is no time that you are not registering one or more webstrings. Continually practice converting your senses and feelings into webstrings and note when and why they are active and how they interact.

9. Course Descriptions and Updates: Please note that course descriptions and their updates are available by placing http://www.ecopsych.com/ before the course code number (e.g., eco522) and .html after the code (e.g., http://www.ecopsych.com/eco522.html). Updates will come from discoveries that GWSG participants make and that increase program excellence, such as a new book, activity, etc. Updates will be **starred.**

10. Local Environmental Organization Active Membership: GWSG participants learn about how they can help solve environmental problems by being active members of a local environmental organization. Here you can also practice and teach NSTP to interested parties.

11. Key Questions: GWSG participants learn about the NSTP by reviewing and answering the Key Questions found at http://www.rockisland.com/~process/5grglobal.html. You should be able, in time, to answer these questions and add new questions that are helpful.

12. Working Knowledge of Key Webpages: You will want to have an active working knowledge of the material presented on the index page and the Key Webpages listed below.

Index Page, http://www.ecopsych.com/appbasolinks.html
Webstring Translation, http://www.ecopsych.com/ecowebstrings.html
Mimbres Button use, http://www.ecopsych.com/button.html
Webstring Science, http://www.ecopsych.com/natpsych.html

13, Guide Groups and Newsletter: You should be in touch with the members of your personal Guide Group (see http://www.ecopsych.com/ecogrouplists.com ) as soon as you join the GWSG and continue communications as necessary for support, to answer questions about the Degree Program before asking Mike Cohen, and for review and input on all course work papers. Send your personal updates or news to your guide groups as well as to the GWSG communication list: pnc-gwsg@egroups.com.

14 IGE Student Website: Each GWSG participant creates their own IGE Student Website. See http://www.xxxx for instructions on creating your site (http://YourAddress.Homestead.com) and the information to include on it.

15. Join PayPal..com to electronically facilitate the transference of funds and payments when necessary

16. GWSG Checklist: GWSG participants should complete the steps listed on the GWSG Checklist (found at http://www.ecopsych.com/ortchecklist.html) . Each person should save their personal checklist on their IGE Student Website and update the checklist during the Degree Program as necessary.

Some of the checklist steps are described above. The following additional steps are part of the GWSG Checklist and are to be performed in order to be considered a GWSG member in good standing.

A. Biography and Goals Statement. To help all GWSG participants get to know each other better and find common interests, each person writes a short biographical and goals statement and saves it on their IGE Student Website (http://YourAddress.Homestead.com).

B. Course Contracts. Each GWSG participant fills out a contract (found at http://www.ecopsych.com/appformcontract.html) for each course they are enrolled in and saves them on their IGE Student Website (http://YourAddress.Homestead.com).

C. Log-Journal. Because the courses require a defined number of hours per credit (45), students keep a log of the date and number of hours spent in course activities, including co-facilitating, the course or subject they might apply the hours to, and thoughts and feelings about the experience.

Please be aware of the total hours (below) that must be spent in coursework towards your degree (minus the hours transferred in from equivalent education.)

Ph.D. 1850 hours, about 3 hours per day for 2 years
M.S. 1350 hours, about 2.5 hours per day for 2 years

Keep in mind that you can take a leave of absence from the Greenwich program, (not GWSG)

D Telephone Call(s). To help participants become more intimately acquainted with GWSG and Greenwich, at least one introductory phone call to Mike Cohen is required (360-378-6313).

E. GWSG Committee Participation. You should be an active member of at least two of the GWSG Committees below or others by GWSG consent. All appropriate committee work is assigned credit hours towards courses. GWSG participants should check the egroups.com email server pages to see if they have had mail to them bounce or their messages were sent.

Coordination Committee .. gwsg-ccc@egroups.com
Grants and Resources .. wsgresources@egroups.com
MS Waivers .. mswaivers@egroups.com
ORT 500 and Early Admission .. ort500@egroups.com
Public Relations .. gwsg-publicrelations@egroups.com
Outreach . otrgwsg@egroups.com
Environmental Education .. gwsg-enviroed@egroups.com

17. Public Relations: In order to help GWSG meet its work-study financial aid goal for its participants, all GWSG members are asked to begin the Public Relations course at their earliest convenience after they are officially accepted in GWSG and have completed the GWSG Application and Orientation Course ECO500.

In order to intern in courses we need students in the courses. We also need student tuition to help pay work/study tuition costs. Actively use the Mimbres Button and an explanatory PNC flyer for making public contact whenever possible. If you find additional ways to develop interest, let GWSG know about them. See http://www.ecopsych.com/ecopublicity.html.

GWSG Public Relations Basics:
ECO 522 3 credits 135 hours
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PARTIAL CHECKLIST:

[ ...........................] ..Submitted GWSG Application 
.......,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,......,,,,,,,.http://www.ecopsych.com/appzformcoop.html

[ ...........................] .. GWSG Application approved

[ ...........................] .Biography and Goals Statement placed
.......,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.....,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.http://www.wellness-services.com/pnc/gwsg.htm

[ ...........................] ..Sent Degree Program Application
.......,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.....,,,, .,,,,,,,,,,,http://www.ecopsych.com/appzformgrnch.html

received

CONTRACTS MADE

[ ...........................]..to make contracts with GWSG .......,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

[ ...........................].. to keep a Log-Journal:

[ ...........................]. to make introductory telephone call(s) .

[ ...........................]. to file a quarterly activity report.1/1 3/1 6/1 9/1

[ ...........................]. to join the professional egroup mailing list

[ ...........................]. to join the NatureConnect discussion list

[ ...........................]..collect questions, criteria and case histories

[ ...........................]..share course work with support team

[ ...........................]..subscribe to Science News

[ ...........................]..become involved with one or more committees

Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Council.
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor WA 98250
(360) 378-6313
nature@pacificrim.net
www.ecopsych.com

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