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GREEN SUSTAINABILITY DISTANCE EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES: Accredited Nature-Connecting Online Alternative and Natural Holistic Bachelors Masters and PhD Degrees, Sensory Courses, Jobs and Career Training Education, Includes certified life experience equivalence and prior instruction, hands-on sustainable environmental programs |
THE INTEGRATED THERAPY AND THERAPIST NATURE PROGRAM
Project NatureConnect
Friday Harbor, San Juan
Island, Washington, USA
Institute of Global Education
Holistic
Alternative Online Natural Health Wellness Spirituality
Special
NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
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Careers, Sustainable Jobs, Degrees Graduate Schools
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| SYNOPSIS: Our green, natural Integrated Therapy and therapist course or degree is a significant breakthrough. It offers distance education sustainable counseling and therapy training that includes your prior learning and equivalence courses, life experience, and offers financial aid grants. It helps you remedy the excessive disconnection of our psyche from nature's flow that produces our disorders. Its applied ecopsychology helps you follow nature's path to Earth and humanity in peaceful balance. PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Degrees, Grants, Career Training Courses and Jobs Online. Individuals
who have enjoyed a refreshing visit in a natural area often report that
their sensory 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
remarkable 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 heart, mind and spirt. This enables them, along with their clients and friends, to increase health and wellness through a grant for thinking, feeling and relating like nature's perfection works. Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature offers critical nature connected distant education and university distance learning, graduate school scholarships and alternative careers degrees, and jobs. They are designed for independent thinking Integrated Therapy therapists who want to add sensory nature-contact methods to therapy, teaching or coaching practices. The environmental need is great for those who have the integrity and dedicated passion to master sustainable, green, health and wellness spirituality skills. They help individuals who need or seek a safe alternative to the destructive ways of society that block the restorative flow of nature in through and around us. We honor your desire to blend your life experience and training with your respect for nature, by providing special grants and equivalence credit for it. If you like, you may combine our certified accredited coursework with a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most subjects, personal interests, or jobs. (see bottom of this page)
INTEGRATED THERAPY AND THERAPIST ONLINE COURSE/DEGREE
The material that follows give an example of a typical response to questions and areas of interest in nature -connected Integrated Therapy training. "This has been a very difficult week and yesterday I quit my job after months of being unhappy and unfulfilled. I am sorry that I was not able to post yesterday....believe me when I say that it would have made my day to read everyones's responses and share my own. Part of my New Years resolution is to discard projects or thoughts in my life that aren't bringing me joy and contentment. And as a result, I will be changing jobs and perspectives for the New Year. After this decision, it was unbelievably nice to sit down today and read everyone's thoughtful statements and feel connected to everyone through their stories. It was refreshing to say the least. So thank you everyone for your contributions. And thank you Pam for your words and concern, it is especially nice to have someone like you in our group. It is with some personal turmoil that I relive one of my fondest nature-connecting experiences for out Thoughtful Contemplation exercise this week. A few years ago I spent a season working on an organic farm in rural PA. Personally it was a very tumultuous time as I was struggling with life's big questions and searching for reason in an unreasonable world. The isolation that the countryside afforded me encouraged me to drop my self-built walls and accept my surroundings as they were. One particular day I was told to weed-eat our tomato crop as so I set out with ear and eye protection and weed eater in hand. After some time of killing weeds, my body grew tired of the strong vibrations and demanding work so I took a break among the tomato plants. I removed my goggles and ear plugs and lay down in between the rows of tomatoes and longingly gazed at the sky full of clouds passing by. It was warm and sunny and between 6 foot tall tomato plants reaching for the sky I lay my back on the soft ground and contemplated a conversation we had earlier that day. A close friend and I had been discussing the 'meaning of life' or so we saw it applied to us and the perpetual human search for contentment and enlightenment. And it was there I found myself in such an interesting perspective, one I had never found myself in before and with new ears and eyes I experienced bliss. I felt the deepest connection to Mother Earth than any point before in my life. The warmth of the sun, the slightly sweet breeze, shifting clouds, birds chirping in the distance, and the smell of discarded rotten tomatoes returning to the earth alongside the sweet ripe ones still connected to the vine and the earth all seemed to call to me and embrace my soul in a soft caress. And it was there that I truly discovered nature in all her beauty and myself in all my nature-borne beauty. And for me, that day was the day I discovered my meaning of life - love! The love I give and receive from our Mother every moment in every peaceful expression around us. After 20 years of learning in our industrial society all they care to teach us, I discovered for myself the most valuable, powerful, comforting knowledge I've yet to obtain. 1) Write a general description of how you did the activity and what happened along with any quotes you like from the reading and how they added meaning to the experience: I often think of this experience as it was the first time for me that I felt such a deep connection to nature. My girlfriend and I have recently decided to spend next year working on this farm again and my thoughts have been there for the last few weeks in anticipation of digging once again in the dirt and cultivating my inner farmer. I've had a wide range of nature connecting experiences since this one, but it always comes back to me as one of the most powerful and grounding for me. 'To connect with nature out thinking must include a 4-leg sensory way of knowing. Our senses connect us with the living Earth around us in every moment. If we don't understand our interdependence and relationship to nature, it is because we have disconnected our senses from their source. We have dismissed them as irrelevant. We have forgotten their significance. ' 'Thus, each attraction sensation, feeling or emotion in nature is rational, sensory, rewarding way of knowing and relating that we biologically inherit from and hold in common with nature.' Quotes from Thoreau, Lawrence, Shakespeare, Confucius, Sinclair and Emerson spoke to me and I was thankful for their presence in this chapter. 2) The three most important things I learned from this chapter are: 1. 'We spend, on average, less than 12 hours per lifetime in conscious sensory contact with nature.' Wow! Well here is our problem. I want more than half a day in my lifetime to be in contact with all of nature's beauty and offerings. 2. I've heard about webstrings before, but I've never conceptualized their presence as clearly after reading this chapter. I feel like I understand them more and can begin to see their connections in nature. We are all truly connected! 3. I internalized 9-leg thinking and created an empty room to fill with my personal and our collective experience through this course. 3) How would you feel if this webstring attraction were taken away from you? I agree with others that it would be devastating. However, I feel very comforted that I will always be present and made aware in my life. 4) Did the activity enhance your sense of self-worth and your trustfulness of nature? Most definitely. I can always turn to nature to renew my spirit and make me feel whole and connected. This exercise was perfect for me....just what I needed today. 5) The part of you, if any, the activity identified or re-educated inside or outside of you: Things will change and change is a good thing. Our connection to Mother Earth will remain constant through life's ups and downs and seeking out contact with her will surely soothe the pains and blows of living in our modern society. 6) My attractions to group member’s postings this week: I was attracted to everyone's stories. Darnela embracing a memory in a winter snow-covered cornfield, Frank speaking fondly of his 'energy place,' and Michael trying to make sense of an elaborate natural museum. I particularly was attracted to Michael's statements and thoughts which enhanced my own experience this week. 7) What did you find of value in doing the SUMMARY STATEMENT A: Because I am naturally a sensory being, in this activity sensory contact with attractions in the natural area provided most of the rewards I obtained from my good experience in nature. I fully agreed with this statement and after my thoughtful contemplation I was able to attribute more perspective and gain more acceptance of my current state. I accept who I am and what I need to make me happy and feel connected. 8) Two words conveying what I learned from this assignment: Love and contentment 9) Write one or more complete, single, short power sentences “quotes” that convey a significant contribution that this assignment makes to improving our relationships: 1. 'The most important gift we ever shall earn is the ability to love and be loved in return!' - (Eden Ahbez) YES!! Thank you Michael. My thoughts exactly. 2. We should look to form that connection between our true self and nature's true self to find the missing pieces we see today. 10) After Dreamtime this week, note any changes with respect to your outlook or the way you feel: I feel refreshed and renewed from this experience and I feel comforted knowing that things are as they should be. Clarity has come in the form of acceptance. 11) Identify what things you have put into the trustable, uncontaminated, thought and feeling room/space you built into your psyche. To love and be loved is the greatest single thing we can do to create a better world for ourselves and for our world. Contact:
Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Telephone 360-378-6313 Read the Ecopsychology Journal interview with Dr. Cohen: http://www.ecopsych.com/ecopsychologyjournal.html Email: nature@interisland.net. Website: www.ecopsych.com Personal page: http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html RESOURCES Overview Article<http://www.ecopsych.com/hallucinatearticle.html> Process Synopsis<http://www.ecopsych.com/transformation.html> Fundamentals <http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen22.html> Outcomes<http://www.ecopsych.com/survey.html> Interview<http://www.ecopsych.com/ecopsychologyjournal.html> Research<http://www.ecopsych.com/2004ecoheal.html> Identity<http://www.ecopsych.com/thesisquote6.html> Petition<http://www.ecopsych.com/petition2.html> Articles<http://www.ecopsych.com/2004artnews.html> Book<http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html> Film<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1357054/> NAE<http://www.NaturalAttractionEcology.com> Journal quotes from students who are doing natural attraction activities: I did this very activity with trees in my compound in the front of my house. After gaining the area’s permission, I wrapped one of my hands with a towel and close my eyes and I was walking around, touching the trees and a goat that was tied to a tree with a rope. The sensation I got from the things I touched with unwrapped hand was quite different with the wrapped hand. With the unwrapped hand the texture of the trees and the warmness of the goat registered in my mind through my inherent natural sense of touch and I became aware of their existence, while with wrapped hand, it seems my sense of touch was dormant infact, I felt been disconnected, my mind wasn’t registering anything and I repeated it with my eyes open and the result is still the same. The three most important things I learned from this activity are: (a) My wrapped hand is disconnected from nature. (b) Someone that is separated from nature will not be making effective use of his/her natural senses. So true. (c) With the wrapped hand I felt no attraction to the natural things I touched and it made me uncomfortable. The good feelings I had of doing this activity was knowing how one feels when connected or disconnect from nature. Great. I had the same experience. This activity enhanced my sense of self-worth enormously by my observation. For an extensive collection of Journal quotes from students doing natural attraction activities: Visit http://www.ecopsych.com/survey.html .................................................................................. Achieve a Degree or Certificate to strengthen your professional interests, or your hobbies or pastimes, by connecting them with nature. Implement your strongest hopes as you increase personal and global well being. Topics, subjects or leisure pursuits can include those listed below or other areas of interest: |
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