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Suggested procedures for optional "work/study" to help IGE students support the contributions made by their PNC courses, certificate or degree programs |
OPTIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUGGESTIONS
At Project NatureConnect, the major reason our course and degree program can be offered is because it makes a unique nature-connecting contribution to well being that is often omitted in other disciplines. It is a sorely needed missing component in most aspects of contemporary society and is therefore given financial assistance by those who recognize its value.
Our programs can continue and grow as long as folks who appreciate them support them in whatever way they can.
While some of us may not be able to fully contribute financially as participants, we hope everybody will find the time to help with public education about the value of nature-connected learning and relationships. To this end, we will make the guides and resources, below, available to assist you.
If you are on or have completed our Orientation Course, please join our PncPublicRelationsEducation Group at Yahoo.com. Do either 1 or 2 below
1. send an email to
pncpublicrelationseducation-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
-OR-
2. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pncpublicrelationseducation/join
3. Share your ideas, contacts and results with others in the group, they will do the same with you. You will get occasional emails from others who are making contacts.
4. You can send an email to the group moderators from this page if you have questions or suggestions
If you want to help in other ways with public education, also please let us know by email. Then we can let you know what special opportunities may become available. For example, you might be invited to write and article but don't have the time. Let the group (and the Co-op) know and somebody else might be interested, or vice versa.
In general, all you need to do is one or more of the suggestions below. The best way to do this is make up and store announcements so you may quickly paste one into an email or web page form whenever the occasion arises.
NEW: A DVD about NSTP, sort of, will be available by June 2007. http://www.ecopsych.com/DVDvideofilmkey.html You can review it and/or let folks know about it as well as NSTP.
1. Please occasionally just send a simple email to an appropriate individual or organization that needs help or guidance. Say something like:
"Are you aware of the powerful benefits from nature-connected learning? You may explore them at http://www.ecopsych.com
or
Al Gore notes that personally, socially and environmentally we are dysfunctional because our thinking is disconnected from the grace balance and restorative powers of nature and the natural. Would you be interested in helping me help others and myself remedy this dilemma through the nature-connected learning and healing tools at http://www.ecopsych.com?
or
"Would you like to use a sensory process to increase personal, social and environmental well-being? You can customize this tool to support your interests and help you improve personal and environmental relationships. Benefit from full information at http://www.ecopsych.com"
If enough of us do this it will make a difference as folks ready for PNC will become aware and involved with the program as well as tell others.
and/or
2. Rewrite/edit/or create a short introductory note or letter that shows its reader the benefits nature-connected learning offers in the reader's areas of interest. Many areas of focus that you can use, are on our homepage http://www.ecopsych.com.
and/or
3. Write a brief self-history and rationale that explains why you are learning nature-connected psychology, how it has been helpful and how it would be of service to a topic being discussed in a person/journal/newspaper/blog.
This could also serve as a letter to the Editor of a newspaper or other periodical or as a letter of inquiry saying it is important that the Editor do, or include, or accept a review from you, of www.ecopsych.com and stating why.
and/or
4. Ask a web-site, organization, Blog, or individual if they are using nature-connected learning as described at http://www.ecopsych.com, and how it is working for them, or if they could evaluate it from their point of view as you are writing an article about its contributions, or you are thinking about studying it.
and/or
5. Visit web sites, discussion lists, news letters and news groups whose topics are of interest to you and/or that would benefit from using Organic Psychology books, courses or degree programs.
Join one or two temporarily, and as the opportunity presents itself, send appropriate individuals a short note that motivates them to visit our home page at http://www.ecopsych.com or one of our other pages you think might be of assistance to them.
A good list of available articles and letters is available at http://www.ecopsych.com/artnews.html For example, you might say " I appreciate your interest and efforts in stress management. As have I and many others, you will find the program at http://www.ecopsych.com/ helpful in this regard."
and/or
6. Help folks get involved with the program through the books. Develop a letter that contains parts of the book descriptions available at
http://www.ecopsych.com/newbook2007.htmlhttp://www.ecopsych.com/2004wli.html
7. Visit online book stores like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Walden, Borders and go to pages that announce Reconnecting With Nature and/or Web of Life Imperative. If they have a place to make a comment, please do so.
and/or
8. Look in the search engines under
keywords (like environmental education, nature, naturalist, alternative, etc) and contact sites that appear in that keyword.)
blogs,
discussion groups,
mailing lists,
discussion lists,
newsletters,
web sites,
book sales or review sites
in the subject area you want to explore. Join a group and post an appropriate message when you can, directing it towards the purpose of those you write. You can then stay and continue, or quit the group and go on to another. You can also email an editor or administrator from a web page contact address.You can find groups at
http://groups.yahoo.com
http://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htm
Please let us know if you have additional ideas or find additional web pages that help people locate groups so we may list them here
Below are a few general letters you can modify, improve and/or sign for any appropriate situation that you locate:
Dear ,
Thank you for (your website ect) and your expertise. Are you aware of the significant challenge I describe below?
Are you aware of the crisis I describe below and its readily available remedy, its free releases and articles?
"Most people know that we live on the surface of Planet Earth. But do we?"
- Reconnecting With Nature, (Ecopress, 2007)
Our troubled lives result from us learning to believe the opposite about life from what we directly experience by being part of life. As this breach grows it creates a destructive conflict deep in our psyche. It deteriorates our trust in how we think and feel. It weakens our identity.
Today, the stress from this conflict is epidemic. It underlies most health, social and environmental disorders
A source of our conflict is that our society teaches us to believe we live on the surface of Planet Earth. This opposes our experience. Our experience says we live imbedded in the Earth, not on it. We see and know that we live 300 miles under its atmosphere, beneath its air, clouds, rain, snow and flying creatures. Yet, it feels foreign to say, "We live in the Earth."
The person-planet clash in our thinking is secretly destructive. It troubles our senses of self, place and trust. Our senses of peace, community and belonging also deteriorate along with many other sensitivities. Bewildered, we think this discord is normal and, in one sense, it is. Most of us don't feel centered or grounded.
Our loss of healthy fulfillment from and for our natural senses stresses us. It makes us want. For this reason we excessively accept satisfactions from unreasonable drugs, people and technologies. This undermines our relationships, the environment and our well being.
To reverse our troubles we need strength and answers, not conflict, from our place and relationships in nature and the cosmos. We best obtain this support by using a potent tool that helps our thinking and feeling genuinely tap into, and benefit from, nature's grace, balance and restorative powers.
At http://www.ecopsych.com, research, books and courses provide a funded, nature-connecting remedy for our personal and planet-home troubles. Its accredited, hands-on sensory process can be added to any relationship or discipline.
I invite you to visit or review http://www.ecopsych.com/ Can it be of service to you?
Please help increase well-being. Visit our newsroom and publish or link to a short announcement, release or article there, or review the new Ecopress book "Reconnecting With Nature." http://www.ecopsych.com/naturalnewsroom.html
For Peace,
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html
Chair: Akamai University Applied Ecopsychology
Faculty: Portland State University Extended Studies
Faculty: West Coast University.
P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 mailto:nature@interisland.net http://www.ecopsych.com
A short announcement you may release:
Reconnecting With Nature
A new book and web site for Reconnecting With Nature teaches a hands-on sensory science that helps us increase personal and environmental health. Its process not only demonstrates that natural systems are self-correcting and purifying, it enables us to think and feel with their grace balance and restorative powers. Increase your well being. Help nature beneficially recycle industrial society's contamination of our psyche and relationships. http://www.ecopsych.com/
Dr. Michael J. Cohen Director
Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect
http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.htmlChair: Akamai University Applied Ecopsychology
Faculty: Portland State University Extended Studies
Faculty: West Coast University.P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 nature@interisland.net www.ecopsych.com
Dear XXXXXXXX,
I applaud your dedication to learning how to address the many disorders that deteriorate the well being of our society and Earth. In appreciation, we offer you a significant tool to help further your efforts. Its readily applied process empowers us to correct the source of many troubles . It should be added to your every effort if we are to increase our well-being.
"A drunk one night lost his watch in the middle of a city block; he never found it because he searched for it at the street corner where the light was much brighter."
In industrial society, isn't the light we see misleading us? How bright are we?
"Most of our populace and all of our leaders are participating in a MASS, HALLUCINATORY, FEELING-NUMBING FANTASY. In it:
- the megatons of waste we dump in our rivers and bays are not poisoning the water, our body or our spirit.
- the hydrocarbons we pump into the air are not changing the climate of Earth or deteriorating our health.
- over-fishing is not depleting the oceans, over-consumption does not hurt the environment.
- living estranged from nature's grace and restorative powers does not reduce our resilience, produce loneliness or intensify our dysfunctions.
- fossil fuels will never run out, our fossilized thinking will produce social justice.
- our senses and feelings are not an important part of the way our natural systems work.
- wars that kill masses of civilians are an appropriate way to keep our hands on what's left and to keep alive the half-truths we believe.
- we are not desperately overdrawn at the environmental or emotional bank,
- sensory activities that connect our thinking to nature's healing ways don't help us act more intelligently and increase our well being,
- and really, although by age seven our kids emotionally bond to this frightening mass hallucination and we have to put them on calming drugs, they are all right."
- Barbara Kingsolver (edited)
The reason we continue to suffer our most pressing problems is because, like an inebriated person, our thinking and feeling is disturbed (1). We are not holistic, we have not located the irresponsible parts of psychology, education and science that cause our personal and environmental troubles. They have recently been identified; we must now remedy them.
Let me risk sounding as stupid as the rocket scientist who said, "The intense heat of the Sun is no problem; we can land people there by doing it at night." I'll take this risk because our situation is no joking matter. My research shows that we and the environment suffer because our thinking has learned to ignore two irrefutable scientific facts about education and psychology:
(See http://www.ecopsych.com. Tell others about it.)
1) To increase our personal, social and environmental well-being we must effectively address a powerful debilitating ailment, Natural System Dysfunction (NSD). Natural systems are nurturing and self-correcting. NSD results from our nature-separated lives stopping the nurturing, corrective flow of natural systems in and through our psyche. Our psyche becomes disturbed when it is not renewed by the flow.
NSD desensitizes most of industrial society so we seldom see it at work. We do, however, observe and feel its wide ranging detrimental effects. It injures our psyche, limits our thinking and increases our vulnerability to the disorders we suffer (4)
Our NSD desensitization makes our thinking disrespect, disregard and unwittingly exploit or conquer the grace, balance and restorative powers of natural systems within and around us. When healthy, the flow of natural systems supports the well-being of life and its eons, including the life of our thinking, feeling and relationships. Our erosion of natural systems and their flow due to NSD underlies most of the disorders that plague Earth and humanity.
http://www.ecopsych.com/globalwarming44.html#anchorreport
2) Organic Psychology is an enabling tool that empowers us to plug our thinking into the self-correcting ways of natural systems, backyard or backcountry. With the help of the restored flow of these systems we restore our natural senses and well-being. This process is a potent, readily available antidote and preventative for NSD (2, 3).
Organic Psychology, free of charge, gives us the sensory means to strengthen the vigor of natural systems within and about us. This helps us toughen our resilience and increase our wellness while reducing health and environmental problems and budgets (5).
Discussion:
Echoing advanced thinkers throughout history, Psychologist Stephen Aizenstat has noted:
"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."
Our health and relationships suffer because Natural System Dysfunction addicts us to unnecessarily spend over 95 percent of our time indoors and needlessly disconnect 99 percent of our thinking from the restorative functions of natural systems. This omission betrays the natural psychic pulse. Plagued by this deficit, important parts of our lives and mentality are toxic, not organic. To our loss, we work against natural systems instead of enlisting their regenerative, self-correcting ways (6).
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore, Vice President, USA Author, Earth in the Balance"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
-Mahatma Gandhi
The science of Organic Psychology helps us to think with nature's integrity by enabling us to create moments that let Earth teach. It helps us improve our health by, at will, tapping into the supportive and renewing ways of natural systems within and around us. Natural systems have the organic ability to decompose, compost and recycle the pollution of life systems; this includes the toxic waste in the life of our psyche. They help us remove our mind pollution, the hurt and destructive NSD aspects of our thinking. They help us transform our disorders into cooperative relationships because that's how natural systems work, that's why nature does not produce garbage.
To further contribute to the public, and to increase the its confidence in you, I urge you to support and use Organic Psychology as a tool to help us reverse NSD and our dilemmas (7). You can specialize in it or add it to any profession, interest or relationship. I offer you the dedicated services of trainers and consultants in this regard.
For your information, a special report about Natural System Dysfunction (4) and Organic Psychology, is located at http://www.maverickgenius.com/nsdomission.html.
I would be happy to consult with you to explore ways for you to make Organic Psychology fulfill its potential for good. This will produce heightened attraction to your efforts, for a vast majority of the public suffers from NSD and seeks a remedy for it. Organic Psychology is readily available online at http://www.ecopsych.com/
For Peace,
Michael J. Cohen,
Director, Institute of Global Education, Project NatureConnect (9)
http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html
References:
1 Cohen, Michael, Editor (2001) The State of Planet Earth: Results of Ecozombie Thinking (http://www.ecospsych.com/zombie2.html)2. Cohen, Michael, Education and Counseling With Nature: A Greening of Psychotherapy. Interpsych Journal of Mental Health. (http://www.ecospsych.com/counseling.html)
3. Cohen, Michael, Nature Connected Psychology: Creating moments that let Earth teach Greenwich Journal of Science and Technology Vol No 1, June, 2000 (http://www.ecospsych.com/natpsych.html)
4. Cohen, Michael, How to Treat Natural System Dysfunction (NSD): The Restorative Powers of Organic Psychology. (http://www.ecospsych.com/articlensd.html)
5. An Introduction to Organic Psychology (http://www.ecospsych.com/2005organicintro.html)
6. The Organics of Psychology (http://www.ecospsych.com/insight2005.html)
7. A Survey of Participants: Reactions to NSTP and Studies of Effects, The Web of Life Imperative, Victoria, B.C. Trafford.
(http://www.ecospsych.com/survey.html)8. Thomas, Janet (2005) On All Nine Legs - Teaching Outdoor Love to an Indoor World, Taproot, SUNY Cortland, NY, Coalition for Education in the Outdoors. (http://www.ecopsych.com/2005taproot.html)
For additional NSD information visit http://www.ecopsych.com/halfvast.html
and
Friends of Natural Systems at http://www.organicpsychology.com.friends.html
or
contact Dr. Cohen at 360-378-6313 nature@interisland.net, http://www.ecopsych.com
To help your community overcome NSD, you may publish or link to two free NSD articles .
http://www.ecopsych.com/articlensd.html
http://www.ecopsych.com/attractionlink.html
Let us know if you use either of them and we will place a link to you from our link page.
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Holistic alternative environmental courses and degrees for the
sustainable health of person, planet and spiritP.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com
ORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
send email
All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.
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