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"Although most people are
blocked from realizing it, the nature
connected learning process this web site offers is a psychological
key they are looking for."
-Mardi Jones, Ph.D.
Counselor, Washington State, USA
The Natural Systems Thinking Process: the science of nature connected
learning.
An easily accessible, nature
connecting, sensory tool empowers us to recover from disorders
and implement our deeper hopes and ideals.
Welcome to our IGE online
courses and degree programs that teach you a powerful, tried
and tested, educational healing process.
Uniquely,
the sensory science presented here enables your thinking to improve
itself by, at will, plugging itself into nature's perfection.
If you have ever had a good experience in a nature then you
know how unified, elated and thoughtful we become when connected
to nature. What we seldom learn to recognize is that this
euphoria occurs because we are biologically part of nature and
its peace. To sustain its own, and our, perfection, nature continually
transforms, recycles and purifies itself and its contaminants.
Research shows this
is what is happening when we connect to in a natural area, it explains why our nature connected
experiences feel good and promote healing.
To our loss, our continual
restoration by nature is absent in our daily lives because we
live in extremely nature separated ways. Over 95% of our time
and 99.99% of our thinking takes place indoors, disconnected
from paradise.
Our constant indoor rewards
psychologically condition or addict our thinking, spirit and
relationships to the benefits of contemporary life...along with
its destructive exploitation and contamination of natural systems
within and around us. Sadly, our rewards bond us to these destructive
relationships and we suffer accordingly. If you don't believe
this involves bonding, just try to change even one destructive
relationship.
The good news is that this
program's teachable, nature reconnecting process enables you
to transform destructive bonds into constructive participation.
Its science works because it enlists nature's help, backyard
or back country, to heal and recycle our damaged thinking. Responsible
personal and environmental relationships result.
"This program offers an environmentally sound, educational
process that reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental
health. It fulfills our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals
and spirit; it deserves the attention of every person who seeks
to reverse our troubles."
Dr. Robert Muller
Assistant Secretary
General Emeritus of the United Nations.
Recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize
for peace.
Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations.
Master and teach the Natural
Systems Thinking Process (NSTP), an accredited
social technology that permits us to enhance human service
endeavors, reverse soaring budgets, and increase sustainability.
Learn to improve relationships
within and around you through hands-on, accredited, Biophilia
course work, essays, activities, research, evaluations, experiences,
ethics, counseling and healing.
Benefit from activities in
natural areas that strengthen the maverick natural genius within
you. Enjoy an Earth friendly job, career, internship, certification
or M.S. or Ph.D. in Applied Ecopsychology.
The best
way to learn about NSTP is to engage in it online through our
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Applied
Ecopsychology and Environmental Education in Action
The Science,
Academics and Politics of Nature Connected
Learning, Healing, Therapy, Psychology and Spirit.
...The sanity of thinking
with 53 natural senses.
...The process of improving
the health of self, society and Nature .
...The art of co-creating
with the web of
life.
Welcome Visitor:
Please note
that the resource links on the left side column connect you to
grants, scholarships and jobs along with interactive, distance
learning, degree programs and courses. The links enable you to further explore
and enjoy a scientific Nature connecting component you may add
to your career or relationships. It has shown to improve personal,
social and environmental health.
You can
select a link whenever you are so inclined and then return to
this page. You can also learn about this program by taking a
short,
online, free course that explores its qualities and potentials.
REMINDER:
The
most effecient way to learn about NSTP is to engage in it online
through our short, accredited, Orientation Course.
It is the gateway to
all our programs.
This hands-on
web site helps you enjoy
and improve Nature
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by email,
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Nature connected
learning and psychology offer you exceptional rewards. You may make skills and opportunities
learned here into a beneficial component of your present occupation
or you may design a new career for yourself.
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Studies and
experiences at IGE document the value of genuine sensory connections
with attraction energies in authentic Nature. These unique connections
enable people to beneficially recycle, purify and transform their
destructive bonds, thinking and disorders. This empowers them
to help others do the same. To this end, we offer you The Natural
Systems Thinking Process (NSTP), a readily available, nature
reconnecting, ecopsychology
tool.
REMINDER:
The best way to learn about NSTP is to engage in it online through
our short, accredited, Orientation Course
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
Question:
Can
you afford to ignore these seldom recognized but well documented
phenomena?
Personal or
professional relationships that are genuinely connected with
Nature are more enjoyable, successful and responsible than
those isolated from Nature.
Nature-isolated
people suffer from excessive stress, conflict and destructiveness
that contact with nature ordinarily helps us transform
into peace and responsibly balanced relationships.
Sick people whose windows face
natural areas recover faster than those whose windows face buildings.
People who live close to natural
areas live longer than people who don't.
Plants and pets brighten our
mental state.
Your experiences
in nature can help you
validate, explain and profit from these phenomena. Too often
we take their message and benefits for granted.
For example:
Have you ever:
-had a good experience in nature
that made you feel happier to be alive?
-longed for a livelihood that
further contributed to personal and global balance rather than
exploited Earth and people?
-noticed that disorders subside
and stress fades in Nature?
-loved a pet, plant or place
that made life more worthwhile?
Have you ever:
- treasured a rock, or totem
that helped you through troubled times?
- felt greater love for a person
or people while in a natural area? Noticed that it is easier
to build and sustain relationships there?
- felt as drawn to Mother Earth
as you would a caring human parent that you loved?
- noticed that in nature you
can think more clearly?
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- Have you ever:
- had strong sensations about
connections between yourself and nature or earth that you know
are real but you can't easily explain?
- felt angry or sad about how
we injure or destroy the natural environment and/or its people
and diversity?
- noticed that counseling,
education and healing are more effective when they include quality
time in natural areas?
Have you ever:
- read the
scientific
studies
that document how reconnecting our thinking to our psychological
and biological origins in Nature has beneficial learning, healing,
and environmental effects?
The above experiences
demonstrate that Nature has its own healing energies and perfection
of which we are part. Ongoing
research shows that neither that perfection,
nor people(s) whose thinking is consciously connected to it produce
the destructive stress, violence and corruption too often found
in contemporary society.
The Natural
Systems Thinking Process empowers you with a teachable tool
that safely strengthens these experiences and their benefits
Although we
give Nature lip service, we addictively relate to it as our slave
or prisoner. We normally manage, exploit or kill Nature for a
profit even while knowing that we are part of it and it is our
life support system. We seldom recognize that as part of Nature,
we share its natural systems. What we do to it we do to ourselves.
Our prejudice
against Nature prevents us from validating and celebrating our
Nature connected experiences. We fail to recognize them as "in
tune" moments, moments when Nature fully touches itself
in us and improves our thinking by registering this connection
in our awareness.
We too often
overlook how these moments make sense, feel attractive and have
healing qualities.
Because the
rewards from these moments are more powerful than the rewards
from our destructive psychological additions, the energies in
them help us recycle, heal and transform our destructive attachments
and disorders into healthy participation.
If you could
bottle the effects of these moments you could sell the product
for a fortune. As studies show, NSTP is a unique, powerful science
that works even better because it enables you to connect with
authentic natural systems, the real thing. If you want some experiences
with it take our online free course or our Orientation Course
Who we are
The Institute
of Global Education is
a non-profit network of dedicated individuals, universities and
organizations.
We have shown that the addictive,
excessive, separation of contemporary thinking from natural systems
within and around us underlies our greatest discontents and disorders.
Our research helps remedy this
destructive breach by offering the public a unique, easily accessible,
nature reconnecting Natural Systems Thinking Process. This process
empowers anyone to create sensory moments, backyard or back country,
where genuine contact with authentic Nature helps restore us
and regenerate integrity, spirit and the environment.
We have founded, designed and
offer courses and activities that help you enjoy these benefits.
We have raised and provide
scholarship funds to help individuals who want to use or teach
this process.
REMINDER: The most effecient way to enjoy the
benefits of learning the Natural Systems Thinking Process is
by taking our online Orientation Course.
"We dramatically
increased our program's effectiveness by adding the Natural Systems
Thinking Process to it. It enables our participants to connect
with their sensory origins in nature and use that peaceful power
to improve their disorders and their relationships with self,
society and the environment."
James Rowe, Ph.D.
Director of the Outward Bound School in Costa Rica
GUARANTEED:
By selecting
here, if you have had any of the experiences listed above,
during
the next six minutes on this web site
new professional and personal understandings will enable you
to further your deeper hopes, ideals and dreams. You can then
return to this page and continue exploring this site or continue
on into the site from there. Select
If any aspect of the program
listed in the left hand column is of greater interest to you
now, BOOKMARK this page, then select that interest. You may also
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PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Wellness for person,
planet and spirit
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313
www.ecopsych.com
Dr. Micheal J. Cohen, Director
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"As part of Nature, to
preserve species, environments and our integrity we need to learn
and teach a tool, a scientific process that enables us to rejuvenate
our inherent love of nature. The nature reconnecting, program
on this website provides that tool."
SUMMARY:
Does This Feel Familiar?
As a child, instinctively,
like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a
natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too.
As my friends and I grew up
we were surrounded by and socialized into the indoor world of
contemporary society. Leaving little room for Nature, it helped
us become good citizens but it also secretly detached our psyche
from its biological and psychological origins and spirit in nature's
joy, intelligence and balance.
To fill this sensory void,
unknowingly we emotionally attached to thinking in society's
indoor ways. Unfortunately, these included the destructive trespasses
of nature and people by our scientific, economic and spiritual
dogma.
The indoor world assured me
that people only felt and related better in nature because in
nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges
of home, work, and school. Escaping to nature was "recreation,"
a vacation. My theme song became "I owe, I owe, so off to
work I go."
Thirty-five years of counseling
and educational research in natural areas taught me a different
story, one of re-creation. I founded, designed and lived in settings
similar to the "Survivor" TV series except that our
goal was not to competitively scheme and conquer and thereby
win a million dollars. Rather it was to learn to sustainably
live in balance with people and the environment. I explored and
discovered how to think and relate in ways that free our psyche
from the grip of the indoor world's invasiveness and discontents.
When vacation time arrived, nobody wanted to go home. We were
home and we were learning extraordinary, applicable, new ways
to think and relate in a balance with people and the environment.
I have researched and packaged
a readily accessible, desperately needed, nature-connected, psychological
science. Backyard or back country, it restores people to their
fullness, their natural integrity and deeper ideals. My internationally
recognized Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) enables people
and the environment to co-create and grow into balance. It lets
the unifying strands
of the web of life itself help
us recycle and rejuvenate the sensory truths, honesty and loves
we are born with as part of the global life community. It is
lasting because it is rewarding personally and professionally
so it sustains itself.
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- Michael
J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Director,
Department of Integrated Ecology, Institute of Global Education
...Director, Institute
of Applied Ecopsychology, Akamaia University/International ..University of Professional
Studies.
...Adjunct Faculty, Portland
State University, Extended Studies
...Chair, Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated
Ecology, Greenwich University
...Recipient of the 1994
Distinguished World Citizen Award
...Prize winning author
of Reconnecting With Nature books.
...Founder of the National
Audubon Society Expedition Institute
This site
is the home of:
Nature-Connected
Degree Programs: low
cost,  cooperative , Ph.D or M.S. ecopsychology
degrees
and courses
online include your prior experience: degree waivers are possible.
Psychological
Elements of Global Citizenship: a short, online, orientation course for environmentally
sound personal growth and social justice Learn the Art and Science of thinking in balance with
nature. The orientation course
contains
all the programs and materials described below:
RECONNECTING
WITH NATURE:
finding wellness through
restoring your bond with the Earth. A self-guiding book by
Michael J.Cohen, (Ecopress)
NATURAL
SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS: A
book that contains the total Orientation Course
Interactive
Self-Discovery Nature Trails
Learn
about this site through fun online experiences
The Natural Systems Thinking
Process
Environmentally
sound personal growth and social justice
APPLIED
ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
Education
as if Planet Earth mattered
The Millennium/Earth
day Wellness and Unity Activity: "In Balance with Earth"
The EC0
IQ test: check out your inherent
proclivity to think like Nature works.
EARTH DAY
ACTIVITY: LET
EARTH SPEAK A
hands-on, interactive, self-discovery highlight
The Globally
Balanced Thinking Study (GBT): measure and score your ability to think with
nature's wisdom.
WEBSTRINGS:
The
nature sensitivity path to safely reconnecting with the web of
life through its attraction strands within and around us.
Ecozombie
Rehabilitation Year:
an
antidote for the environmentally desensitized thinking that produces
our unsolveable problems.
REMINDER:
The best
way to learn about NSTP is to engage in it online through our
short, accredited, Orientation Course It includes all the topics listed above.
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