GREEN SUSTAINABILITY DISTANCE LEARNING SCHOOLS: Accredited Nature-Connecting Online Alternative and Natural Holistic Bachelors Masters and PhD Degrees, Sensory Courses and Career Training Education, Includes life experience and prior instruction, hands-on environmental sustainability and social networking  ECO 530: Reconnecting With Nature Through Art Project NatureConnect Online Natural Attraction Degrees-Courses-Grants  Institute of Global Education Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council ..... PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Grants, Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs Online. Individuals who have enjoyed a refreshing visit in a natural area often report that their contact with nature's balance and beauty increased their well-being in lasting ways. They say that the connection renewed their psyche, cleared their mind and energized their spirit. To this end, the process of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature (ECHN) empowers anyone, anytime, to increase personal, social and environmental well-being, and to help others do the same. ECHN students learn how to help nature's self-correcting ways interlace with their mind, body and spirt. This enables them, along with their clients or family, to increase wellness and achievement by more adequately thinking, feeling and relating like nature's perfection works. Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature offers monumental distant learning spiritual life techniques that enable you to add sensory nature-contact methods and credentials to your skills and interests. We honor any prior spiritual growth or spiritual power training or life experience by providing grants and equivalent credit for it.  You may take accredited coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most subjects or  personal interests. (see bottom of this page) Help people remedy their disturbances, thoughts and feelings with the grace balance and restorative powers of natural healing and spiritual health. Increase income through natural attraction ecotherapy stress-relief management. Strengthen missing personal social and environmental self-esteem and well being . Add the sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your needs and community. Visit our Homepage for complete information .   ECO 530/630 An Introduction to Eco-Art Therapy   This is a fun, experiential course designed to introduce the student to how adding an art component to nature-connecting activities can enhance the ability of Nature to teach. Both art and nature are non-verbal ways through which our subconscious mind can express itself. In this class, the student will learn techniques to use to facilitate that expression through making therapeutic, nature-inspired art. At the end of the course, students will be given the opportunity to design their own unique activity. You do not need to be an "artist" or have any so-called "creative talent" to take this class. It is not an art course, but rather uses the creative process of art-making as a tool for healing and self-discovery. It lets the student explore the innovative merging of traditional Art Therapy with Applied Ecopsychology. The course consists of 14 individual hands-on lessons/activities and typically runs 4 months. It is taught by Dr. Theresa Sweeney, founder of Eco-Art Therapy, experienced author, and workshop leader. She is the Dean of Applied Ecopsychology at Akamai University. Email her at <mailto:keleka@frontiernet.net>for more information.  Further information: contact Michael J. 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Benefit from empowering your livelihood and prior experience to be more validated, green, holistic, environmental, sustainable, natural, nature-connected, healthy, alternative, spiritual, organic and peaceful. Achieve a degree or certification that strengthens your contributions as a counselor, healer, teacher, environmentalist, coach, therapist, spiritualist, leader or health and wellness mentor. You may obtain a subsidized, nature-connected Applied Ecopsychology degree or certificate in conjunction with: ...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           .. 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Prior training and life experience incorporated in all programs. P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the books The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature .