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INSTITUTE
OF GLOBAL EDUCATION
Special NGO consultant
to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
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The Science and Spirit
of Nature Connected Learning
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.
This hands-on web site helps
you enjoy Nature connected
resilience,
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Learn how a Natural Systems Thinking
Process (NSTP) enables you to walk nature's path to a fulfilling
livelihood, self-improvement and more responsible relationships.
On some level most people recognize
that they and society are in denial. We deny that even when we
know better we do not change our destructive personal, social
or environmental ways because we
are psychologically addicted to the rewards these ways provide.
We are part of Nature. Because Nature
recycles and purifies itself, neither Nature nor people(s) whose
thinking is genuinely connected to Nature normally cause or display
our destructive problems.
Because we live excessively indoor lives
our thinking is excessively separated from Nature (and vice versa).
NSTP is a readily available psychological tool that empowers
our thinking to choose to use sensory connections with Nature
to purify and recycle its destructive addictions to unreasonable
relationships.
Welcome Visitor:
Please note that the links on the left
side column connect you to grants, scholarships and jobs as well
as interactive, distance learning, degree programs and courses.
They enable you to discover 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.
Question: Can
you afford to ignore the seldom recognized but well documented
phenomenon below?
Personal or professional relationships
that are genuinely connected with Nature are more enjoyable,
successful and responsible than those isolated from Nature. The
latter suffer from excessive stress, conflict and destructiveness.
Experiences in nature can help
you validate and explain this phenomenon. 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.
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 it, 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 beneficially registers
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 they recycle and transform our addictions into constructive
relationships. If you could bottle the effects of these moments
you could sell the product for a fortune.
People who learn and practice the science of reconnecting
with nature improve personal, professional and environmental
wellness and receive many other benefits, too. We invite you
to engage in this process. You may learn it from this website
and enjoy its many opportunities
Who we are
The Institute of Global Education is a network of dedicated
individuals, universities and organizations. We have documented
that the excessive separation of contemporary thinking from its
origins in natural systems within and around us underlies our
greatest discontents and disorders. Our research remedies this
destructive breach by offering the public a unique, easily accessible,
nature reconnecting Natural Systems Thinking Process. We have
documented that this process empowers anyone to create sensory
moments, backyard or back country, where genuine contact with
authentic Nature helps inspire and restore us and regenerate
our integrity, spirit and the environment, too We have raised
scholarship funds to help support individuals interested in learning
and teaching this process as they are so attracted.
Why we are
Since 1975 Western Civilization has had available, but seldom
used, the know-how to significantly reduce its destructive environmental
and social dependencies. What we have not had is the consciousness
to seek, use and enjoy these discoveries. The Natural
Systems Thinking Process enables you to
rejuvenate and restore that consciousness for as part of Nature
we, like all of Nature, are born with it. In our conquest of
Nature we learn to suppress it.
The most effecient way to enjoy the benefits of learning the
Natural Systems Thinking Process is by taking our online Orientation Course.
GUARANTEED:
If you have had any of the experiences with Nature 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.
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PLEASE PROCEED WITH THIS SHORT INVENTORY:
Below are statements regarding the Nature experiences that
are listed above, along with reference numbers to further information
about these experiences. Simply check the statements that seem
right to you:
( ..) A. Some of the experiences,
above, could have been enjoyed by children or adults no matter
their backgrounds (1).
( ..) B. People are part
of Nature and vice versa;
natural systems flow within, around and through us (8-5A).
( ..) C. Special training,
books, or courses were not necessarily needed in order for people
to enjoy many of the experiences above. For the most part, something
within themselves and Nature connected and produced the experience
and its value (3).
( ..) D. Most of the experiences
make good sense and therefore reflect the presence of an intelligence
or wisdom (9).
( ..) E. Origins of humanity's
biology, psychology and spirit along with inherent support for
them, can be found in Nature within and around us (10).
( ..) F. On average, contemporary
people learn to spend less than one one thousandth of one percent
(.001%) of their life in tune with (in full conscious sensory
contact with) natural areas. We spend over 95% of our time indoors.
(10).
( ..) G. The most destructive,
lasting problems that face us (including war, environmental degradation,
mental health, loneliness and excessive stress/violence/conflict,)
are seldom caused or suffered by intact natural systems or nature
connected people(s) (3).
( ..) H. If disconnecting
ourselves from our inherent sensory nurturance in Nature destructively
stresses our 53 natural senses, then genuinely reconnecting these
senses with nature helps us constructively restore our inner
peace and integrity (13).
( ..) I. If disconnected,
frustrated natural senses cannot find responsible fulfillment
they will be be open and vulnerable to irresponsible fulfillment
(8-2).
( ..) J. A readily available,
backyard or back country, nature-reconnecting
process can improve most professions and relationships by becoming
a component of them (4).
( ..) K. People
who master, use and teach a sensory nature reconnecting process
have improved their happiness, income, occupation, marriage,
family, business, credibility, and global citizenship (17, 3).
( ..) L. Due to industrial
society's runaway desire to economically and socially "progress"
by exploiting Nature, people who attempt to protect natural systems
around and within them are sometimes prejudicially demeaned as
"fuzzy thinkers, tree huggers, earth muffins, immature,
flakes, environmentalists, hippies, obstructionists, etc. (8-2)"
( ..) M. SUMMARY: Nurture
your felt love for Nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons,
the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of Nature sustaining
us in its perfection. Our excessive disconnection from this love
produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness to ourselves and
Nature. To regain our integrity we must learn how to engage in
an easily accessable process, one that scientifically reconnects
us to that love and restores its peaceful voice in our thoughts
and soul, for we don't fight to save what we don't love (12).
Evaluation:
Four of your six minutes are up.
Did any statements above open a vista for you?
Forty years of research and experience in 86 different natural
systems shows each of the statements above
is usually true and can be true for you. Although our
disconnection from Nature often suppresses this truth from our
thinking, a unique ecopsychology process
that enables us to genuinely reconnect with Nature frees that
truth back into our consciousness, relationships and spirit.
This process can provide a rewarding professional component
or full time career, job or avocation.
To explore the statements of interest to you, select the reference
number(s) in the left column or below that correspond to the
numbers that follow each statement. Most of them may also be
found via #8.
By far the best way to master, live and teach each
statement's truth, is to experience it by taking our online
Orientation
Course (1)
Now, for your last two minutes:
Read this short article "A
Critical Move: The secret to fulfilling your deeper ideals."
Links to Information
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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
send e-mail
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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 educated
into the indoor world of contemporary society. Leaving little
room for Nature, it 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 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.
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 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.
(continued)
- Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Director, Department of
Integrated Ecology, Institute of Global Education
...Chair, Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology, Greenwich
University
...Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University,
Extended Studies
...Director, Institute of Applied Ecopsychology,
International University of Professional Studies.
...Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen
Award
...Prize winning author of Reconnecting
With Nature books.
This site is the home of:
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.
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.
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE: finding wellness through restoring your bond
with the Earth.
A self-guiding book by Michael J.Cohen, (Ecopress)
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.
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