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Accredited
Nature-Connecting
Online Alternative and Natural Holistic Degrees and Courses
that include life experience and prior training, life-love
security, solving problems and professional
health and wellness goods and remedies jobs
 Project NatureConnect
Institute of Global Education
Holistic Professional and Social Network Natural
Love-In Website
Special
NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council
Practical online distance learning to increase Gaia whole earth
wellness.
EDUCATING,
COUNSELING AND
HEALING WITH NATURE PROCEDURES
SYNOPSIS:
A
special Ecopsychology,
sensory
community, holistic degree and course program, that includes life experience
and prior training, exchanges helpful messages
and observations. Its problem solving
purpose
is to heighten
natural individual and community contact and connection with authentic
nature and its powers for completing coursework. This strengthens
personal, social and environmental well being and awareness.
The
program's hands-on whole earth and whole life activities provide
unadulterated contact with the flow
of nature's grace, balance and restorative powers, in and around us,
backyard or back country. Its problem solving professional and remedies
address destructive emotional bonds and attachments . It helps
us
know and benefit from
additionally attaining Applied Ecopsychology degrees or nature-connected Organic
Psychology certification.
OVERVIEW
OF APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY PROCEDURES
FOR TRAINING, CERTIFICATION OR A
DEGREE.
This page has been updated and moved. Please visit it at
http://www.ecopsych.com/communityprocess.html
PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:
Do you know that Project
NatureConnect
offers
a nature-centered distant learning security opportunity that enables
you to add
the benefits
of nature-connecting research, methods and credentials to your degree
program
and/or your skills, interests and hobbies?
Are
you aware that we
honor your
prior training and life experience by providing grants and
equivalent
education credit for it.
You
may take accredited or professional online CEU coursework and/or obtain
a
Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal
interests in solving problems. A partial subject list is located at the
bottom
of this page.
- Improve
your income and
satisfaction through new independent, interdisciplinary or integrated
study
and Ecopsychology security activities.
- Help
people connect their
heart, thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing
powers
of
nature to remedy addiction and destructive attachments.
- Increase
personal social and
environmental community well being.
- Add
the self-correcting sunlight beauty and
spirit of the Organism
Earth's
natural world and to your life, job and community.
Visit
our Internet Homepage
for
complete information
OVERVIEW
OF APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY PROCEDURES
FOR TRAINING, CERTIFICATION OR A
DEGREE.
This page has been updated and moved. Please visit it at
http://www.ecopsych.com/communityprocess.html
SUGGESTION:
Save time and be complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you
are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will help you find the
quickest and
least expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
You
can email
us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
Act
now. Master
Organic Psychology by doing it.
Explore it from our homepage
Contact us at
360-378-6313 Email: nature@interisland.net
VOID BELOW Please visit
http://www.ecopsych.com/communityprocess.html
Description of the Participation Process:
"After
reading the homepage and links of interest there, I called Dr. Cohen.
By phone we designed a program plan that met my special goal. To more
powerfully help people, I wanted to add Organic Psychology to my skills
as a registered nurse. It was great to find that my life
experience and training made me eligible to get an MS equivalency so I
could consider doing either an MS or a PhD program, or I could just
take courses and offer Organic Psychology to my clients.
I knew
the program was right for me as I read through and responded to the
survey of participants pages and the many links to them where the
participants describe their experiences on the courses
I
received equivalency ratings for several courses whose requirements I
had already completed at work and in other training programs. It
felt right that this program recognized the important things that I
learned elsewhere were worthwhile education that deserved credit.
Because
Organic Psychology acknowledges that natural systems in us are
trustable and honest in their own way, the program roots itself in
natural trust and honesty. Walking its talk, it subsidized me
financially because I recognized that nature, in and around us, needs
our help. We must learn how to support, rather than injure, natural
systems as part of everything we do if we are to increase personal,
social and environmental well being. I enrolled because I
discovered that my friend was meeting this goal as a Personal Life
Coach using this Applied Ecopsychology online program. From my
homepage and phone call visits, I was very sure this course would make
sense to to me because I looked into the details of its history and
results by obtaining and read the trade published version of its e-book
Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature.
I only paid $150
total for the online Orientation Course and that included the books for
it ($70), the Application Fee ($100), and eligibility for additional
financial assistance and participation through the programs "learn now,
pay later" plan. Financial assistance was based solely on trust and a
contract I made to keep a payment schedule I designed that fit my
needs. I've only payed what I can when I can. I was priviledged to do
this because people who encourage the program's goals have subsidized
the remainder of my tuition and, although I've obtained my degree, I
still voluntarily contribute to helping pay for it. This makes
additional grant money available to other students and keeps the
program going, too. I also still participate in the optional work/study
program; I help facilitate the courses online and have run some for
outpatients at the hospital, too.
While on the Orientation
Course I joined the student cooperative. That put me on a mailing list
with all the rest of the 200 or more students and the faculty, too.
Then I just asked the co-op by email what questions I had or what
course(s) I was ready to take next and others joined me in taking them.
They provided answers to questions and let me know they would take a
course with me or help facilitate it. I just took one course after
another and later used them to attain my degree. After I completed a
course, as part of the program I was given the opportunity to
co-faciltate another section of the course so I had experience of
teaching courses on my own as part of the program.
Half the
reading on the courses was the email from other students, on the
courses with me, about what they were discovering while doing the
nature-connecting activities. Our information came from direct sensory
contact with natural areas, backyard or backcountry, all over the
world, not from the bias of our nature-estranged society. We learned
from natural systems how to think and speak with and for them. Although
profound, this was simple and enjoyable because we were/are natural
systems, we were simply making contact with parts of ourselves and the
world that were missing in our nature-disconnected socialization. And
we were assured that we knew and could communicate this because we did
it, even by email! I used the experiences of my classmates in this
regard, as well as my own, to document some of the ideas I made in my
final project and its defense for my degree.
The essential thing
we learned was how to use simple nature-connecting sensory activities
to create moments that let Earth teach us what we wanted to know
Being
accepted to the Orientation Course or the Program is easy once you
decide that's what you want to do. Simply read the homepage, optionally
read or do the ECHN book then call the office, (360-378-6313) and get
your questions answered. They'll email you an easy-to-use copy of the
application. Complete it, keeping in mind that once you are on the
Orientation Course you can go as far as you want in the program and
honestly pay what you can afford when you can afford it.
- PNC Participant (edited)
PURPOSE:
As
noted on our homepage, this web site provides a great deal of
information about human ecology and the organic application of
ecopsychology and ecotherapy. The purpose is to help visitors custom
design for themselves online training, accredited coursework,
certification or degree programs that add Organic Psychology skills to
their interests, previous training and/or life experience.
PROCESS
1.
Because Organic Psychology is useful to a wide range of interests and
situations, to use these pages effectively, collect information from
them, including below, that pertains to your personal or professional
interests.
2. Reminder: Customize the information you find to
best fit your goal: call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313. (Pacific Time Zone,
USA.) email. Otherwise, you may become mired in information overload
about this unique program. If it's of interest to you, it's
definately for you.
NOTE: A Program Guide
Checklist of the information on this page is located below. You can use
it as a handy map for applying to as well as for completing the
program. After you familiarize yourself with this page,
START your program with our Application and Orientation Course
Objectives:
Project
NatureConnect offers accredited career training education, financial
assistance and degrees in the organic application of ecopsychology. We
welcome candidates who are mid-career professionals or students with
strong interests in improving personal, social and environmental
relationships.
We subsidize, strengthen and support people who
want to help increase individual and global well being by learning or
teaching how to tap into the grace, balance and restorative powers of
natural systems, within and about us.
THE PROGRAM CORE: Project
NatureConnect insists on understanding, trust and honesty between all
beings. It strengthens trust by practicing it.
After visiting
our homepage, make email and phone contact with Dr. Cohen
(360-378-6313). Custom design your program with him by blending your
previous experiences and schooling with our online training courses and
your time schedule, budget and goals.
- Complete our Application and the Orientation Course then join our Graduate Student Cooperative mailing list.
-
Most of our applicants are eligible for, and follow the Organic
Psychology Track. On it, you take and facilitate only our online core
courses and degree research, you mentor other students, and you make
tuition payments based on how much you can totally afford now and/or
later. Payments are made on a schedule you create and maintain and
include optional "learn now-pay later" agreements that you create and
fulfill.
- Course by course, climb the staircase to the level of competency of your choice. a course, certificate or degree.
REMINDER:
Save time and be complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you
are looking for or seek to accomplish. We will immediately determine if
you qualify for the Organic Psychology Track and help you find the
quickest and least expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
You
might want to read again the red paragraphs, above. They are all you
basically need to know to successfully meet your goals in the Project
NatureConnect organic applied ecopsychology training program.
Course Description by a Participant:
http://www.ecopsych.com/orientreview.html
http://www.ecopsych.com/ecwnreview.html
A detailed description of the program is below.
Greetings and Welcome, Prospective Participant:
Thank you for your interest in the benefits of nature-connected alternative courses in learning, healing and relating.
This
page details the most expedient and inexpensive path that takes you
from being interested in Project NatureConnect's Organic Psychology and
the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) to obtaining expertise at
Level Three Certification in the Process and/or completing an
undergraduate or advanced, globally accredited (including USA),
Interdisciplinary Studies Environmental Degree in Organic Psychology,
Applied Ecopsychology or Integrated Ecology.
Depending
upon your goals, financial needs and ability to sustain trustful
relationships, this alternative education and counseling program,
through its financial aid and cooperatively administered accredited
courses, can be completed for as little as $55 or as much as $75,000.
Its completion and cost entirely depend upon your goals, your honesty
and your time commitments.
No matter how much or little you pay,
the procedures and curriculum for this cutting edge learning and
healing program are the same. You may choose to take it on an
accredited basis or not. You may optionally have alternative
sustainable courses and Achievement Certificates from this program be
included in or added to your formal training, transcript or credentials.
Think
of this training path to be like climbing a ladder, one rung (course)
at a time. You can pay as you go, level by level and can safely pause
or quit any time except while you are in an interactive course where
your departure may place the course at risk and/or adversely affect
other course members. Usually, when you reach where you want to be on
the ladder, you will be well trained, debt free and have saved or
"earned" up to $65,000 or more. And, you may have a Certificate or
Degree that will help you find and open new professional doors if you
have the appropriate credentials, skills, contacts and attitude.
The
IGE program is very inexpensive because you can cooperatively help
drive and administer it as a mentor through trust in yourself, NSTP and
the people attracted to its process.
Your immediate
responsibility is always to convey your goals to the program staff and
students along with what you want or need. Following this, in good
faith you make and fulfill contracts with the program that help you
meet your expectations through the program's online courses and
community.
The key to success in any aspect of this program is
to be sure you help develop trust by painstakingly making your words
accurately convey what you think, feel, do and need.
The key to this web site it to read pages and articles of interest completely, and then read them again and follow their links.
Again,
the key to meeting your goals here is to call Dr. Cohen, design your
path, take the Orientation Course, obtain assistance for your financial
needs, then join, and appropriately support and seek support from the
Student Cooperative participants and faculty for additional courses
towards you goal, certificate or degree.
Customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Step 1. Application
Become
acquainted with the purpose, objectives and contributions of NSTP. You
may accomplish this through its inter-linked web pages at
http://www.ecopsych.com and the Checklist, below. A lengthy, but
complete article about the program and its history is available online.
Most
of the web site training information, and lots more, is also found in
the NSTP Organic Psychology book The Web of life Imperative ($35). You
may purchase this book at any time. It contains the Orientation Course.
and comes with the course, as does the book Reconnecting With Nature
and the DVD. This course is your first and only entrance into the
course work and program. All else is helpful but the course provides
you with the full information and experience you will want and need.
You can get on the Orientation Course simply by phoning 360-378-6313
when you are ready, then sending an email for, or containing, the
application.
Our Special Application Program
Please
note: if you have the interest and readiness in applying to our course
or program now, experience shows that you will need less help and be
more contributing and cooperative in the Orientation Course. This
reduces our costs for your participation and allows us to make the
following arrangement:
Tuition Special: A special
starting tuition, $150, is available for students who want to
immediately begin the Certificate or Degree program with the
Orientation Course but need time to make their tuition funds available.
Part
or all of this fee can be covered by the Distance Learning Grants
Program, when an applicant is qualified. Partial payment by the
applicant helps sustain the program and thereby strengthen support for
the applicants participation and training. A Public Education option
for work/study is available to all students.
The special tuition
includes the Application Fee ($100), funding eligibility, a reduced
First Level Tuition, the Orientation Course and its two books the Web
of life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature, used in other First
Level courses (Total saved: $140) By the end of the Orientation Course
payment is required or arranged for, through financial assistance, the
remaining $520 of First Level Certification.
ATTENTION: The
application fee becomes an extra $100 expense if you submit your
application after buying the books or starting the Orientation Course.
Call 360-378-6313 for further information.
YOUR BEST APPLICATION ROUTE:
A.
Follow the directions on the Application Form to the depth you need to
understand the contribution of the program to meet your personal and
professional goals.
Another good self-exploration way to do this is to carefully follow the directions and links on the Checklist, far below
or
B. Carefully read the overview, and insight articles and do the natural attractions online trail.
C.
Be sure to call 360-378-6313; There, speak with Dr. Cohen to get your
questions answered and to explore your possibilities and potentials in
this program.
D. Apply to the program before taking the Orientation Course.
NOTE:
You are not a participant in the program until you have completed the
Student Cooperative Contract and participation form as part of your
application or before Part 6 of the Orientation Course.
Funding
for the Certificate or Degree Program and or individual courses is
available through the application and conversation with Dr. Cohen.
REMINDER:
The purpose of our courses and programs is to help you design and build
a personal or professional Organic Psychology niche for yourself that
you may move into and benefit from upon course or program completion.
To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Tuitions:
The Applied Ecopsychology Degree tuition is
$8100 Ph.D, and $6000 MS at Akamai University,
$5800 Ph.D. and $3500 MS and $2900 BS at West Coast University
A UNESCO approved degree, whose cost varies, is also available. It is accepted as an equivalent degree in the USA.
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Ph.D. tuitions, including scholarship assistance are averaging $3900-$5300 at the present time and $2500 for the MS.
Tuitions
are based entirely upon what you can reasonably and honestly afford.
Our Distance Learning Grants and Scholarships usually cover the
remainder.
Tuitions/costs in accredited USA degree programs using our courses run from $30,000-$70,000 U.S.
The Certificate Program tuition
If
you are not interested in a degree, simply apply for Certification
using the General Application. Tuition for the certification package is
$740 for each of the three levels of Certification. Grants are
available for financial assistance in this regard. This fee
varies depending upon the amount of appropriate prior experience and
training you bring to the program.
Page 2 of Certification lists
the courses and links them to their descriptions. They are also listed
in Part 5 of the Checklist, below
The first level of
Certification tuition includes the Orientation Course, all books for
this level and the $100 program Application Fee. Keep in mind the
special application program (above)
Upon Certification Level
Three completion you may elect to enter the Degree Program but
scholarship funds may not be available then. It's best to enter the
Degree Program now and then, with pride, not complete it later because
you may have at that point met your training goals without a degree.
The
applications for the Degree or Certification contain helpful links to
sources of information and thereby act as an index to parts of this
website.
To start your participation:
Call
Dr. Cohen and then complete your General Application form that he will
conveniently send you by email. Take advantage of the special
application program if you can.
and
E. on the application you will find an application to the Orientation Course. Complete it.
NOTE:
You can use the statements you create for the application
interchangeably, or modify them, for requests for the same information
on additional courses, application and financial assistance forms.
Step 2. Cooperative Participation
After
starting the Orientation Course at your earliest convenience, and
before Part 6 of the course, submit the Student Cooperative contract
and admission form to the IGE Graduate Webstring Support Cooperative
(GWSC). You will receive this form by email when you take the
Orientation Course. This is Key to your program participation and
success now and later. GWSC consists of all present, and many past
students, mentors and faculty members. All of them are in supportive
contact with each other via online group mailing lists to which you
will be added. To accomplish this, all applicants and participants are
enrolled in the course ECO 751A Cooperative Administration of an NSTP
Online Training and Degree Program
Most of our students are
mid-career experts in their field of interest. In the Cooperative, you
will find a small, informal support/guide group of students and
mentors in GWSC who are in contact via email. Whenever questions,
comments, petitions, evaluations, grades or contracts to take or modify
courses or procedures arise, you first address them to your support
group. In addition, once you obtain a response to your inquiry, you
share what you learned with this group. As you learn answers to your
inquiries, you further empower yourself to help others with their
questions when they arise. In this way, to your advantage, you help
administrate and mentor this and similar programs. Via ECO 751A, you
received academic credit for learning this skill.
If your
question/need goes beyond the information available in the support
group, you then submit it to all members of the program via email to
the total student body and faculty mailing list. You will receive email
responses from those who can and will help you. Most of the student
body and faculty, being mid-career professionals, have expertise and
experience in some areas of the program as well as experience on
guiding parts of the program. Again, as part of the learning and skill
sharing in GWSC, as you gain experience, you help guide/mentor others.
If you need further assistance, call or email the central office at 360-378-6313 nature@interisland.net
You
usually work with two online forms: one accompanies payments for
semesters, alternative courses or certification levels. The other is a
petition/contract for consent to change something or to take a course.
To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
Step 3. Course Sequence and Certification
As
part of ECO751A, using the people and process described in Step 2,
above, complete the Orientation Course and proceed to take the online
Certificate courses listed for the 1, 2 and 3 levels in the sequence of
the certification levels. Whenever it is practical complete Level 1
courses before doing Level 2.
Be sure to have completed a course's prerequisite courses before starting a course.
Be sure you are aware of these options:
A. The Certified Master Practioner track for certification or a Degree.
B.
The Organic Psychology track for certification or a degree based on
previous life experience and training. You take only six, or
less, core courses online, total.
REMINDER: Save time and be
complete. Call us. Tell us about yourself and what you are looking for
or seek to accomplish. We will immediately determine if you qualify for
the Organic Psychology Track and help you find the quickest and least
expensive means to achieve your goals. 360-378-6313
Email us and we'll call you (USA): nature@interisland.net
You
are always enrolled and working in EC0 751A and can informally work on
any other courses once you have successfully completed the Orientation
Course ECO 500 and the Introduction Course ECO 501.
When you
need classmates with whom to do a course, or questions answered,
announce this to the Student Cooperative via its mailing list You
will get responses helping you for that course others in the program
and/or which mentors and students who will do it with you.
You may always petition for variances in the program guidelines using the procedures outlined in Step 2, above.
To
complete Certification Level 3 you simply pass a comprehensive ECO 800
course and comprehensive examination that you will well be prepared
for. This matriculates you to a semester or more to complete your
Degree Thesis, Dissertation or Post Doctoral research at cooperating
online universities as exemplified by Akamai University or West Coast
University (Panama).
You may use the Certified Master Practioner track or the Organic Psychology track for a degree or certification.
Although
many pages and articles are available on this website that help
interested learners better understand the Project NatureConnect
program, a free, 15 minute discussion by phone with a faculty member
has proven most effecient and helpful in discovering how to customize
the program to your goals.
Reminder: To customize the information you find to best fit your goals and situation, call Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313.
CHECKLIST OF PROCEDURES GUIDE
A
suggested path to follow from your inquiry in the alternative program
to a holistic environmental degree or to reach any stopping place in
between.
Part 1.
Make a "collection page"
somewhere. On it, from the web pages suggested below, you can paste in
statements, concepts or program agreements that are attractive to you.
Also write down questions that come to mind from the pages suggested
below.
As soon as you reach the point where you know this
program is attractive to you for personal, professional or other
reasons, Call 360-378-6313 with your questions then submit the email
copy of the program Application will be sent to you. The application
includes applying for the Orientation Course, new options, and requests
for scholarship and/or distance learning grants financial assistance
and work/study options
NOTE: doing the checklist, below, you may
come across some pages or their subjects more than once because they
serve as links from many other pages. Skip or review material you find
familiar.
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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"Human
behavior is rooted most deeply in nature's intentions and desire. The
rhythms of nature underlie all of human interaction: religious
traditions, economic systems, cultural and political organization. When
these human forms betray the natural psychic pulse, people and
societies get sick, nature is exploited and entire species are
threatened."
-Stephen
Aizenstat
In
industrial society our excessively nature-separated lives mold us to
betray the natural psychic pulse. We learn to block from our thinking
over 98 percent of the wise sensory callings and fulfillments we
normally share with natural systems and their eons of experience. Our
subconscious hurt and frustration from the severed disconnection of
these senses underlies our greatest troubles.
-Michael
J. Cohen
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Benefit
from learning to enhance the natural psychic pulse within and around
us. Add the sensory ecoscience of Organic
Psychology to
your life and livelihood.
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