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An OP/NAE publication of responses to the Project NatureConnect Warranty:
Confirmation of the Project NatureConnect (PNC) Assurance of
Uncorrupted Science, Psychology and Ecology Information
For those who love nature or truly care about the well-being of people,
society and the environment, the Warranty validations, below, affirm that your
personal
and professional life will significantly benefit as you make
unadulterated sensory connections to authentic nature’s balance, beauty
and purifying powers, in and around you. They guarantee that
PNC gives you far greater wisdom and support than what is offered by
the corruption that undermines leadership, education, science, psychology, economics, therapies and
spirituality that have misguided us for centuries to create the
dilemmas we face and
suffer today.
If you want to confirm the Warranty, email us for details.
"I officially
endorse the Warranty,
having experienced its Truth since participating in the Orientation
Course in 1994 and all subsequent courses.
Establishing residence on
San Juan Island in 2000 has enabled me to work with Dr. Mike in person
every summer and participate in local PNC gatherings. As a teacher, I
have introduced all my students to the PNC NatureConnecting process and
have used it to heal and promote harmony among my students. I, too,
know that Earth is my other body."
Dr. Jane Anne
Jeffries
^^^
"From 20 years of
personal experience studying, living, teaching and observing
these
principles at work, I can attest to their validity. I teach an online
course in Eco-Art Therapy and have seen lives transformed as folks
learn to
reconnect with the intelligence and love of the natural world within
and around themselves. My own life has been forever changed from
incorporating nature's balance, truth and power into my everyday
thinking. There can be no doubt that the ECHN science works and I bear
personal witness to it's trustable reliability and authenticity."
Theresa Sweeney, Ph.D., Eco-Art
Therapist
^^^
"I David Rogge, M Div, MA,LADC and
Ph D student in Applied Ecopsychology attest that this warranty is
valid and true.
- The author of the warranty radiates Integrity that
attracts others to the truth of what he teaches. I am growing daily in
my ability to dance the dance with the rest of the blue planet.
- I have introduced the dance to locked up drug
addicts who were sprung for 15 minute time periods once a week to
experience nature and her healing web strings. They blossomed and
remembered who they really are through their shared experiences in
nature.
- I currently work with former heroin addicts
recovering through Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Some are homeless
and camping in the parks and under the bridges of Minneapolis Mn. They
resonated with the truth of Eco psychology and the freedom living with
out walls is for them.
- Some former addicts reconnected with their love of
nature through experiencing a resurrection of their own integrity as
they came in touch, through web strings, with nature and their own
inner selves again. They had given up on themselves, but began to
realize nature never did or will give up on them. Resilience rose in
their spirits and they dance the dance of life again.
- I personally have come to my senses through Applied
Ecopsychology as I have walked, practiced, taught and shared it's truth
in small courses on line, and in my work places, always learning as I
go.
- Humility keeps me asking May I join you before each
nature experience. It always reminds me of asking "May I have this
dance?" She never turns me down. Nature is a sure and certain partner
in the dance of life.
- Nature as Therapy has the power to reconnect people
from the inside out. We see and experience nature's attractions that we
are drawn to, and we learn that we are those very attractions and the
world just wouldn't be the same with out us. It wouldn't be the same
without you either. May I have this dance? With deep gratitude and
agreement to the warranty,"
David Rogge MA, LADC
^^^
" This is a strong new document in the
right direction. It brings wonderful holistic assurance news to
all of us who have signed the petition to the United Nations
that asks the UN to use
PNC to increase well-being for person and planet earth. We live
so estranged from nature that it is necessary to have this Warranty How
could what it guarantees not be so?
I attest to this warranty and the truth being presented in PNC. This
program has given me the fundamentals to shift my life completely and
learn to be one with nature (which in reality is what I am) by
re-educating nature within myself. Through meeting different people in
the program, sharing in their experiences, and sharing time with Dr.
Mike, I have found a precious community. PNC has reeducated me about
the interconnectedness of life. I approve this warranty because I know
that anyone who is willing to take a first step toward learning
nature's ways will find that all of Nature supports this journey, and
the benefits, rewards, and blessings that emerge are natural, organic,
experiential, loving, living, and transferable. Everyone in my
life has benefited from these teachings directly and indirectly.
Healing from our own disconnection comes simply by being in a state of
gratitude. We must realize that the war on nature is occurring within
ourselves also, and we need to develop and teach this program to cease
the insane thinking and behavior that this war against Nature and
Mother Earth has brought us.
Jessika Chaudry
^^^
As a perpetual student of life and a student of Project NatureConnect since 2009 I affirm the statements in this warranty as being factual and truthful.
By utilizing the ECHN process offered by Project NatureConnect I have
been able to significantly improve my personal well-being. ECHN has
safely guided me in a simplistic process that has enabled me to become
more attentive to all levels of my human consciousness. As a result, I
have restored and produced a more responsible and compassionate
relationship with not just my inner self, but the external world around
me.
I authenticate through 40 years of traveling on this earthly plain as a
human that the existence of our human suffering is a direct result of
our disconnection with our other body- Earth. The degree of
imbalance felt in our human world has been accepted and tolerated as
“normal”. This nature-separated thinking caused me great
suffering while trying to maintain what is deemed a “normal life.”
Through ECHN I have been able to remove the blinders revealing the most
vulnerable and raw feelings exposing myself to the self-correcting
process of nature and its unconditional love. As a result, I have
gained a deepened level of clarity that guides me on a daily basis, it
reminds me that I am a part of a much larger ”web of life” and to be
free in the living world around me.
Stacey Mallory, M.S.
I confirm the Warranty because becoming
involved with the PNC Process was "the" smartest thing I have ever done
in my life. The reason I feel this way is because the Natural
Systems Thinking Process is a proven vehicle that has offered me a way
of connecting with nature, by giving me a certain sense of well-being
and quieting of the mind, that I have never experienced before.
This was made possible through my own nature-connecting activities that
enabled me to bring webstrings-natural sensory attraction relationships
back into my life. As a result, I am able to experience my whole
mind, heart and soul, that I was taught to ignore. This has led
me to a deeper sense of connectedness in everything I do, feel and
experience. There can be no psychological therapy anywhere that
could have supported me in a way that this simple process has been able
to do, thus offering me a refreshing release from my past
Insecurities. This has resulted in an acceptance of who I really
am as a person, deep down inside. This deep sense of connection
has developed into a profound sense of responsibility to not only live
more respectfully with the rest of nature, but also to be a more
positive catalyst for change.
Margie Schneider, Ph.D. Student
^^^
I Danny C. Shelton, Ph.D. affirm and support the Project NatureConnect Warranty. In
2009, I completed a doctoral degree in Applied Ecopsychology and
Integrated Ecology through Project NatureConnect and the Applied
Ecopsychology Graduate Program at Akamai University in Hilo,
Hawaii. Throughout many years of counseling and therapy, I have
not found any therapy as holistically helpful as the Project
NatureConnect. Dr. Michael J. Cohens' accredited graduate
program in Applied Ecopsychology and the Sensory Science of Organic
Psychology and Natural Attraction Ecology is unique compared to any
other program, because it honors our inherent natural sensory being in
relationship with all of Nature.
Danny C. Shelton, Ph.D.
^^^
The nature of our nature is nature.
We are interdependent with everything that lives, breathes, and is, on
this planet. Our planet is interdependent with all the forces--gentle
and otherwise--that make up our universe. We are part of a continuous
creative whole born out of a manifestation of attraction and when we
know this without reservation we know our own individual wholeness
without reservation. And when we know this wholeness we no longer have
to destroy. There is no "other"--be it a tree, a person, a fish, a
tiger, or a mountain. There is nothing left to conquer--in our lives or
in our imaginations. We are free to be fully with our own natural
attraction to life--in all its manifestations. This is healing.
And in this age of abuse and culture of denial, healing means the very continuity of life itself.
Natural
Attraction Ecology nurtures life itself--inside and out. It strengthens
the web of existence as well as our own unique being-ness in this
world. It is a being-ness without end and learning this and
experiencing it is a pathway to healing. Project NatureConnect leads us
to the understanding and articulation of all that is wordless. Through
Education, Counseling and Healing with Nature, we learn to name it, to
respect it, to honor it, and to protect its creative and wordless
power. We become part of this sacred and endless environment where
there is no burnout to our environmental-ism. We are able to face the
depth of destruction we face on this earth, while holding to, and
remaining part of, all that is in creation all the time. We are honored
by life and we honor life--even as we take on the most destructive
elements ever unleashed upon this earth.
This Project NatureConnect work is its own warranty.
Janet Thomas
^^^
I,
Gerald Beeck, endorse Project Nature Connect Warranty. Since 2009
I am a student of PNC and gained much respect for the organization of
the long distance classes. Working together with students all over the
world to learn to reconnect to (a) our nature and (b) to our inner
nature has changed me so much for the better. My understanding of
society, economy, environment and personal/psychological well
being became integrated. PNC studies have a synergy effect
on my personal life. Not only understanding on cognitive level
increased but even more on a “felt” level through the many experiential
exercises. This carries over in my working life.
As
a certified counsellor in private practice, meditation teacher, retreat
facilitator and working in a rehab clinic I see positive results, such
as an increase in self worth, confidence, trust, acceptance, letting go
and insights into the “bigger picture”, in my clients when exposed to
nature connected activities. Even with clients who spend much time in
outdoor activities and nature a big shift happened as PNC is much more
then getting in touch with nature.
My
own positive experiences with Mike Cohen’s Project Nature Connect in
theory and experiential activities and seeing the positive changes in
my clients reinforces my own trust in The Educating, Counseling and
Healing with Nature process. I therefore endorse PNC Warranty with
gratitude.
Gerald Beeck
^^^
I
do not remember how old I was when I realized that I could hear the
trees and dance with and among them. I do remember when my mother
told me how wrong it was. I did learn to quit talking about the trees,
the ocean and the lessons that I was learning. I walked away from
talking from the trees and the ocean for a long time. I am
relearning the language of hope to teach to others. I am now
learning and using the language of horses to help me discover more
about myself and to help others find balance. Balance and peace!
That is what we learn from nature, balance and peace. A gift for
ourselves and for others. But first we have to learn how to listen to
nature.
I warranty that Project Nature Connect has helped me remember the language of my youth.
Betty Hames, BS, CC
^^^
This is the most perfectly orchestrated journey you’ll ever embark upon!
With
every breath I take and move I make I affirm this warranty to be true
and faithful to all life! In my experience, Project NatureConnect
represents the most valuable journey to our recovery from sensory loss
and disconnection/separation from Life. This brilliant process
opened me to the most tangible, respectful and repeatable truths I've
ever known! I am now an awakened activated human animal with a
conscience that knows Earth is my home, my source of life, and the
macro/microcosm of my biology. Earth is alive, conscious and so
am I.
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Janet R. Weisberg, LLC
Founder of 53Senses.com
Project NatureConnect Earth Day Event Planner and Guide
Project Natu(re)Connect Practitioner (PNC), Guide, Counselor & Ambassador. B.S. Sociology
Certified Traumatologist # 1503
Licensed and Certified Massage and Bodywork Therapist, MA 37646
Certified Yoga Teacher
Certified Peace Ambassador
Creator
and facilitator of integrative workshops: Creative Emergence Process,
Slide Down the Rabbit Hole, Self Discovery Through Connections, TAT and
Thai for eating disorders with co-facilitator Deb Sitron
^^^
I Warrant that this has been one of the most naturally attractive
journeys I have undertaken. I was introduced to Dr. Michael Cohen of
Project Nature Connect, at the end of November, 2008. He invited
me to join a long distance learning group that helped people 'think in
balance with natural systems', known as The Natural Systems Thinking
Process. As we experienced, applied gratitude, trusted, registered and
validated our natural activities we found the webstring intelligence
strengthen and sensory connect us communally. On completion of
this Orientation Course I was introduced to Educating Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN) and experienced, as well as Validated my 54
Senses through my Inner-Self and/or Other Body, and teaching others to
think in balance with their natural sensory system.
The course attractively continued with Well Mind, Well Earth
introducing 97 Environmentally Sensitive Activities for Stress
Management, Spirit and Self-Esteem. This opened new areas
in my life, and I guarantee I would not have been able to accomplish
this without the knowledge of the Applied Ecopsychology activities. For
example, I went to Peru to climb the Machu Picchu Trail with people I
had never met. Nature attractively created 'moments that let
earth teach' and I was able to introduce them to the (NSTP)as we
experienced our natural world.
Peace, Wellness and Spirit with Einstein's World followed, and it was
one of my most difficult dances. I took this book into nature and
I couldn't find an attractive connection, until one day the Earth
sparked a connection and extra energy was consciously applied. I also
have this warranty of (NNIAAL) Now Nameless Intelligence Alive
Attraction Love with nature, and have 'Regenerated Kinship with Planet
Earth'.
My sensory activities are part of my life and I reinforce the awareness
of my natural senses as I Enjoy, Validate, Match, Resonate, Appreciate,
Trust and Celebrate my environment and its expression in myself.
(SEVMRATC). To live in the Moment is to experience the Natural
Attraction Dance 'including the thoughts, senses, feelings and
relationships of our body, mind and spirit.'
Dorothy Callcott-Stevens
^^^
I, SaVonni Yestanti, guarantee the Project Nature Connect Warranty.
Here's why in simple terms: The Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature process works.
How do I know this?
How does one know that the new gadget they just purchased works? they
take it out of it's package, read the user manual and apply it's
guidance. If it doesn't work, they can always take it back and exchange
it for something else. But if it does? We've got a winner.
Dr. Michael Cohen has got a winner in ECHN. I guarantee the ECHN
warranty because the Natural Attraction Ecology (NAE) truths work in my
life, as witnessed by my own continual changes. They are self
evidenced, and because of the peace experienced when dealing with NAE,
I choose to live and teach the ECHN process as a lifestyle, teaching
specifically to children and survivors of abuse.
I guarantee the ECHN warranty and I choose the ECHN process because it
is true that it is reliable and non-corruptible, which is an absolute
ingredient when helping children and survivors of abuse heal and move
forward.
I guarantee the ECHN warranty because, just as each of us stands
breathing, Nature does too, and can not be denied. Whatever one may
believe regarding the origin of Nature, it can not be argued that
Nature is not a sustainable, living, breathing entity complete unto itself.
The acknowledgment of one's existence, at least for humans, is a
crucial factor that determines whether or not they feel a sense of
belonging, of completeness. Nature accepts each of us and validates our
existence. That fact facilitates the healing process.
I guarantee the ECHN warranty because Nature reminds each individual of
the fact that we do not exist for ourselves, but that we belong to each
other. There is a give and take; a reciprocity, that exists between
humans and Nature. We literally breathe in oxygen generated by the
trees, while our own breath helps to sustain natural life. We heal
better when we experience reciprocity.
Moreover, I guarantee the ECHN warranty because Nature mirrors to us
the good in humanity, while responding in kind to the destruction that
can be so prevalent within our society. Understanding where one's
boundaries begin and end, and knowing what represents the crossing of
those boundaries, are realizations that can produce quantifiable
results when defining what makes up 'creation' and 'dysfunction' within
our society. Healing can only take place if the distinctions are
recognized and taken seriously, rather than haphazardly.
I guarantee the ECHN warranty because when this natural "conversation" takes
place, there is no limit to the vast amount of knowledge and peace that
we have at our feet, as we traverse life. It is in this fact, that the
Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN) process
flourishes, when attempting to heal others. I acknowledge and accept
the experiences of others who participate(d) in the Natural Systems
Thinking Process Web of Life Imperative. The benefits that each
participant garnered are summed up in their own words, with the vast
majority having confirmed experiencing a genuine and significant mental
shift, during the process. I also acknowledge and accept the
experiences of the clients who participate in the nature based classes
I offer. To see the change in their condition is more than inspiring
and a true testament to the healing power of Nature.
Therefore, I, SaVonni Yestanti, declare and decree that the time has
come to accept Nature as a complete, living, healing, entity unto
itself, and I, SaVonni Yestanti, warrant that the ECHN process is not
only true and valid in its respect for healing with Nature, but
necessary in humanities responsibility to uphold Nature's very
existence.
SaVonni Yestanti, D.D.
Spiritual and Natural Healing Professional
Survivors of Domestic Violence Advocate/Supporter & Grassrooter
Homelessness & Poverty Recovery Advocate & Grassrooter
Foster Care and Special Needs Youth Advocate
Project NatureConnect Participant/Contributor since Fall/Winter of 1999/2000
^^^
"I warranty that my understanding and appreciation
for Nature has only grown and deepened through daily practices with the
science of Natural Attraction Ecology, The Natural Systems Thinking
Process (NSTP) and Now Nameless Intelligence Alive Attraction Love
(NNIAAL). These three concepts unmistakably transmit the language
of, to, and from Nature, to the exact same Nature of sensory language,
naturally existing within myself. To consciously initiate a
resonance of mutual regard with immediate gratitude establishes mutual
participatory reverence before further natural exchange. This
mutual consent is vital at the onset of any rappore, as it sets the
tone for the participation of mutuality and respect. My
experiences with engaging these concepts through my Nia dance practice
and daily life communications has undeniably improved each
relationship. My love for the beauty and peace in all of Nature
has expanded beyond limits since I became an active student in Project
NatureConnects' accredited Masters of Science academic program. My
experiences in this program have deepened my understanding of
self-evident, in-the-moment participation and confirm my complete trust
toward it and myself. I therefore confirm and warrant the science
of Natural Attraction Ecology for all people towards a
self-healing practice which corrects that which hinders our vision
toward a clear and just, balanced and whole society, culture and future
with Planet Earth.
Amanda Ford M.S. degree Student and Nia Brown-belt dance Instructor
^^^
I guarantee the Warranty. I've experienced its ways and outcomes:
1. It is a fact and I guarantee 'I sense therefore I am"
2. The sense of essence guarantees 'I am not a sad story, I am alive'
3. I guarantee that, 'In essence is more honest that 'in thought'
4. I guarantee that; Everyone has the truth of their experience in the moment
5. I guarantee that; Everyone defines their higher power in a non-verbal way
6. I
guarantee that; pausing after asking for consent, is an internal
realization that nature always offers unconditional love if you are not
an eco-zombie.
7. I
guarantee; 4 - 5-and 9 leg are separate and defined perceptions.
One of them you know is correct at a cellular level and not even
God could convince you is wrong.
8. Fact: The time is now, I am here, and what defines me is this moment.
9. I
guarantee; Wednesdays are RWN all day now. So if you know anyone
visiting within a 100 mile radius, I guarantee they are welcome to
attend the Creek on Wednesdays for some 'GUARANTEED FUN'
10. I
guarantee PNC it will change your life I guarantee others will notice a
profound personality change in your addictive patterns and your
potential to re-offend will disappear. Your no-body will be drastically
diminished by your two body spiritual experience
Stephen MacKay MPCP, RCS, RPC, MSci (candidate)
It is with complete confidence and assurance
that I endorse the Project NatureConnect Warranty. I have been a
co-active member of the PNC Community since 2009, learning and teaching
nature's wisdom spoken strongly through this program. The dynamic
combination of distance learning courses and visits to San Juan Island
to share knowledge with Dr. Michael Cohen and students have grounded
me, personally and professionally.
Personally, I have returned home to a land and community that I belong
to. A place that unconditionally nurtures the mind, body, and spirit. A
place where I have strong lasting friendships, built on mutual support
and trust. I've rebuilt loving familial relationships, restored by the
purity found only outside.
As a certified and professional Life Coach in Nature, I see first hand
with my clients how experiential facilitation in wilderness areas
promotes personal, social, and environmental well-being. I witness
breakthroughs in the courageous men and women I work with which is
attributed to the insights they receive by letting earth teach them,
moment by moment as their needs request. After walking with them once,
I see them gravitate towards outdoor based strategies for optimal
healthy living.
Nature and Project NatureConnect community have been my rock, my river,
and my trail to a life of sanity, contentment and well-being. In equal
terms, it has been by rock, my river, and my trail to guiding others to
a life of effectiveness, performance, and well-being. Thank you for
this gift, the opportunity to endorse, this community, it's
members, and the wisdom it advocates for.
Jordan Birch, CPC ACC MSc
Life Coach in Nature
Over the last 10 years, I have been involved with the Nature Connection
project and have become affiliated with Organic Psychology and Natural
Attraction Ecology.
Before that, as an educator with a BFA from
the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MA from Case Western Reserve
University, I had felt that something was missing.
I then discovered Mike Cohen's Nature
Connection Program, which has been an educational journey of growth
within the true connection between Nature and Mankind. I am now aware
of the fact that the earth and I are one. Not separate competitors, but
joined collaborators.
I have experienced the impact this new and
powerful knowledge has had on my life and also on the students I teach.
When you allow the connection with nature to
be an ongoing presence in your life, and stay in tune with your natural
attractions, positive results are encouraged and magnified.
Bonnie B. MacKay BFA MA MSc.
I have read and endorse all sections of the Project Nature Connect Warranty.
I have been a member of this program for four years and function as a student mentor here.
Through out my time in this program I have witnessed at least thirty
individual students recover mental health and create lives that sustain
their local ecosystems even as they improve the lives of others.
In real practical terms this means there are now parents who are better
parents, spouses who are happier in long term marriages, extended
family members who are in better balance with all of their kin,
and many professionals who are better able to serve profoundly
disadvantaged clients in more efficient and sustainable ways. In real
practical terms this has been accomplished through the actions of the
Project Nature Connect learning community - a community that sometimes
experiences natural growing pains, but is also self correcting,
compassionate and accessible to folks around the globe regardless of
their ability to pay or their social status.
I endorse Project Nature Connect because I know that the air I breathe,
the water I drink and the food I eat mean that I am taking the Earth
into my body every day. I endorse Project Nature Connect because I know
that the air I exhale and the daily actions I take to tend my own soil
mean that I am giving myself into the body of Earth each day. I realize
this is sanity, this is intelligence, to seek to behave in ways that
respect and support the very life support systems that keep me alive.
Project Nature Connect makes this form of sanity available to many,
many more people than I could ever personally reach.
I endorse Project Nature Connect because I care enough about my own
species and all other life forms on this planet that I want to be able
to correct our current forms of social and ecosystemic deterioration
while we still have time to do so without undergoing profound loss as a
species. Project Nature Connect is a living systems model of a way to
make these corrections. I endorse Project Nature Connect and the
Project Nature Connect Warranty.
Leslie Whitcomb, M.Sc.,
Applied Ecopsychology Consultant
Educational and Family Communications Facilitator
^^^
“I, Pamela S. Hoke, hereby endorse the
referenced Warranty for Project Nature Connect. I have
read all statements and acknowledge them to be true and necessary as
our last frontier toward a shift in mindset of modern society.
I
have not only been experiencing the beneficial psychological and
physical effects of genuine, habitual sensory connection with Nature,
but I have also witnessed time and again others who have begun to do
the same and feel the new, reasonable balance of mind and body.
The research speaks for itself, and is the missing ingredient that
needs to be consciously applied in all practices and fields of study if
our modern society is ever going to find a reasonable balance to make
wiser choices.
The Educational Counseling and Healing with Nature
process creates the much sought after positive mental shift within
individuals and their personal relationship with earth, therefore
increases the positive relations within themselves which naturally
progresses into positive relationships with others and their
environment. Society will continue to deteriorate as long
as it continues to ignore or deny this deeper communication with its
core life source.
It is time for all experts and leaders to stop
talking the talk of nature, and truly begin to walk and think with
nature, not dance around it out of the fear of losing status and stuff,
because at the beginning and end of each day, status and stuff will
never matter more over the air our bodies intelligently know to breathe
in. The more citizens of planet Earth who stop talking about nature,
and truly begin deeper conscious contact with their life source as
unconditional love and support, the better our chances are for a
future of balanced health and happier lives, because we are then
beginning to inhabit earth with a more genuine life experience, as it
is one that is more respectful to self, others and earth as one system.
”
Pamela S. Hoke, Project Nature
Connect Ph.D. Student since 2011.
^^^
I have read the Warranty and I am glad to endorse it. For
those of us who "live" the PNC way of relating to ourselves, others and
nature it makes incredible sense that we should want to share it. Mike,
that is what you have done for us, and what we try to do as well,
within the program, as well as within our everyday personal lives.
The way you
have uncovered and taught a way to "communicate" with Nature, has
greatly improved my life, in a multitude of ways. I
have experienced the beneficial results of PNC in educational settings
with children in schools, with my family at home, and most importantly
within myself. That is where I feel it has helped the Earth Community
the most. Please allow me to give you an example.
Upon finishing the first chapter and activity in the orientation
course, I returned home from the river at night. It was snowy winter
forest, and comming into a clearing where the sky was visible, I
noticed the stars, and how they seemed brighter to me than they had in
years. I was amazed! My attention was drawn to another light through
the tress nearby and upon realizing that it was a light coming from a
new neighbors house, I had the desire and impulse to go and meet them
just then and there.
I interpreted all this as being more alive, aware, inspired and
community oriented. It has changed and improved my life, and continues
to do so. It seems that whomever attempts the PNC techniques benefits
from them. It's obvious to us, and so we want to share the blessings we
are receiving. They can only grow in this way.
Rimas Kalvaitis
Educator, and PNC participant
I
officially endorse this special Warranty of integrity and balance
having experienced its organic truth as self-evident and do hereby
attest as follows;
•
That I have consciously read all the author’s contents A-O and its
statements and acknowledge them to be factual and truthful.
• That I have benefited from Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) and recognized Nature as my Higher Power.
•
That Project NatureConnect (PNC) has impacted my life to make
behavioral changes that has benefited our inherent planet.
•
That my personal, social and professional life have significantly
benefited from connections to authentic nature’s beauty, healing and
purifying powers, in and around me.
•
That Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature (ECHN) have enriched
my natural senses to generate a model that will significantly help
Managers, leaders and indigenous people to seldon exhibit irrationality
and all sort of ill-decision making capacity.
•
That my conscious participation in Michael J Cohen's Natural and
Organic Psychology has empowered me to build reasonable relationship
with the whole of nature.
In
the light of the above, I therefore attest to the validity of the
authorized Project NatureConnect Warranty statements and authenticate
through the model (Natural System(s) Decision Making Model, ‘NSDMM’) I
submitted as one that will help managers, indigenous people,
researchers etc, to psychologically re-bond their natural systems and
thinking process to the attractive and supportive rationale that nature
only freely provides.
UDORJI CHIJIOKE ANTHONY ND, HND & BS.c (in view)
^^^
I
am grateful for this opportunity to affirm the validity of the concepts
set forth so clearly in the Warranty document. My affirmation is based
on a lifetime of deep attraction to the natural world and my personal
experience with those concepts as a Project NatureConnect student since
2008.
The first incidence of my deep attraction to nature that I can recall
occurred decades ago, when as a toddler I would squat down and stare in
awe at the beautiful form and colors of an Iris flower. It was a
morning ritual for many days in a row. Although my attraction to nature
remained strong through the ensuing years, I did not fully appreciate
its significance until a life- transformative event occurred in 1988.
At that time, I faced serious financial and a variety of other daunting
personal problems, which were exacerbated by out of control alcohol
consumption. Desperate, I joined Alcoholics Anonymous in hopes of
relief from my anguish, and began to work the program’s 12 steps. I had
no problem with the first step: “Admitted we were powerless over
alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.”; but I had serious
problems with God and Higher Power issues that arose in
subsequent steps. At that point in my life, my notion of God was
confused, to say the least. It had been shaped largely by
indoctrination with abstract stories which often conflicted with
feelings that arose from my experiences with nature. As I sought to
deal with this confusion, I spent more and more time in the woods, away
from human-made objects, and immersed myself in the unadulterated
natural environment.
Ironically, perhaps, I also discovered and read the four volumes of
Joseph Campbell's ‘‘“The Mask of God”. I am still amazed, and grateful,
that my experiences while immersed in nature fused with my absorption
of the meaning of Campbell’s abstract stories and resolved my conflict
and confusion. I now know this resolution resulted from the
powerful effect of the natural systems thinking process discussed in
the warranty document.
Continuing to participate in the recovery community, I realized how
widespread the problem of addiction has become among adolescents. The
more I heard their stories, the more I related to them. Based on my own
positive experiences with reconnecting with nature, I founded a fully
accredited, nature-based high school with emphasis on applied
ecopsychology.
George Lowery, Founder/Director
The Polestar School of Expeditionary Learning
Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinator- Applied Ecopsychology Activities
Selkirk Outdoor Leadership and Education (SOLE) Sandpoint, Idaho
SOLE-Appalachians Atlanta, Georgia
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