Project NatureConnect         Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. The personal page of an innovative leadership scientist-counselor-ecopsychologist-traditional musician-naturalist who has been identified as a maverick genius. Learn about him from a new DVD video and his origins and history in nature-connected learning. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (360) 378-6313 Email www.ecopsych.com   My Special Anniversary Year, 2005 My Seventy-Fifth Cultural birthday and the 4.5 billionth birthday of my natural life. My sixtieth year as an Outdoor and Environmental Educator The twentieth anniversary of my founding of Project NatureConnect being identified as a "maverick genius" and as "The reincarnation of Henry David Thoreau as a psychologist." appointment as administration and faculty of Institute of Global Education/World Peace University creation of the National Audubon Society International Symposium Is the Earth a Living Organism? Forty-Fifth anniversary of my founding Trailside's Outdoor Programs, the original and founding program and curriculum of the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute at Lesley University. Fortieth anniversary of my observation in a Grand Canyon thunderstorm that Planet Earth acts like or is a living organism, can be related to as such and qualifies for protection as an endangered species. Sixtieth year as a performing folk song artist, seventieth year as a folk singer. Thirtieth year as a published author of ten books about environment, education and psychology. Thirtieth year sleeping outdoors year-round in natural areas. Four thousandith daily hike up Mt. Young in San Juan Island National Historical Park. .   SUMMARY: Does This Feel Familiar? As a child, instinctively, like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too. With my friends, I grew up and was educated in the indoor box world of contemporary society. It detached our psyche from genuine contact with its biological origins in nature's joy, wisdom and balance. To fill this void our socialization psychologically attached us to society's ways, including the destructive trespasses of nature and people by our educational, scientific, economic and spiritual dogma. The box-world assured me that people only felt and related better in nature because in nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges of home, work, and school, escaping to nature was "recreation." SUMMARY: Does This Feel Familiar? As a child, instinctively, like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too. With my friends, I grew up and was educated in the indoor box world of contemporary society. It detached our psyche from genuine contact with its biological origins in nature's joy, wisdom and balance. To fill this void our socialization psychologically attached us to society's ways, including the destructive trespasses of nature and people by our educational, scientific, economic and spiritual dogma. The box-world assured me that people only felt and related better in nature because in nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges of home, work, and school, escaping to nature was "recreation." SUMMARY: Does This Feel Familiar? As a child, instinctively, like most children, I felt more alive, free and happier in a natural area than indoors. More intelligent, too. With my friends, I grew up and was educated in the indoor box world of contemporary society. It detached our psyche from genuine contact with its biological origins in nature's joy, wisdom and balance. To fill this void our socialization psychologically attached us to society's ways, including the destructive trespasses of nature and people by our educational, scientific, economic and spiritual dogma. The box-world assured me that people only felt and related better in nature because in nature they escaped from reality. Reality was the challenges of home, work, and school, escaping to nature was "recreation."   Thirty-five years of counseling and educational research in natural areas taught me a different story, one of re-creation. I lived year-round in settings similar to the "Survivor" TV series except that our goal was not to competetively scheme and eliminate each other to win a million dollars. Rather it was to sustainably live in balance with people and the environment. I explored and discovered and developed the webstring model, how to think and relate in ways that free our psyche from the grip of the indoor world's invasiveness, dysfunction and discontents. I have founded and packaged a nature-connected psychological science that restores people to their fullness, their natural integrity and deeper ideals. Through the internationally recognized Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP), people and natural systems co-create and grow into balance and well being. They let the unifying strands of the web of life help them rejuvenate the sensory truths, ideals and loves we are born with as part of the global life community.   Anybody can use and teach NSTP as a hobby or professionally. It is an organic, hands-on learning tool that enables you to let conscious sensory contact with nature help you get your thinking to incorporate the intelligence and balance of the web of life. You learn how to think with nature rather than against it. Through nature connected psychological activities, courses and degree programs, folks master how to relate in cooperative unity, like nature works. In April of 1998 I celebrated my 50'th year as a outdoor educator, counselor and traditional folk singer, musician and dancer. I celebrated by doing exactly the same thing I did the previous month and for 50 years before that, for I still do what I like to do best. I use my science, education, counseling and musical expertise to catalyze responsible, enjoyable relationships with the nature in people and places. I continue to sleep outdoors throughout the seasons. The Project NatureConnect Web pages describe the Natural System Thinking Process. The process is a celebration in and of itself. It has been absent in our society for we conquered it along with nature. The purpose of nature and life is to support the life of nature, we call it survival. It is one thing to give lip service about co-creating with nature, quite another to subsist through a process that accomplishes this goal. Nature operates by fulfilling its attractions to attractions. Its purity washes away evil if you occasionally bathe in it. We are as attached to nature as our finger is to our toe. Society tears us out of this relationship. It rewards us for excelling at subduing nature: from excessively using lawn chemicals to indoor education to the conquest of space. The heart of our dilemmas is that we have learned to conquer and hurt life/nature and we are part of it. That some of our most profound thinkers are first raising the question as to if a relationship exists between our psyche and ecology is a statement of how far we have strayed. My doctoral work demonstrates that if you teach people to live and think like nature works, the pain and cravings that drive us to our disorders subside, and the disorders follow suit. Six major nature reconnection experiences have guided me to create and sustain Project NatureConnect and the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute outdoor programs that I founded in 1959 as the Trailside summer and ski camps and that became the Trailside Country School in 1969. I was born into a musical family of first generation Americans who escaped social and religious persecution in Russia. They downplayed the institutionalized aspects of their spirituality and most other aspects of mainstream society, leaning toward camping, music and the outdoors instead. However, my father was Phi Beta Kappa and ran for Congress in 1940 in an effort to correct some of our irresponsible tendencies. Born left handed, I was traumatized by having to write with my right hand in elementary school. "I began to write my first alphabet letters by dipping the pen held in my left hand into the inkwell that was located across the desk drilled into the right upper corner. I wrote a few letters, then, needing ink, I crossed my left hand over the desk again to dip into the inkwell. When I returned my pen to the paper I noticed that the wet-ink letters I had originally written had been smeared by my hand as it crossed the desk to the inkwell. The bottom of my hand was now blue. The teacher told me my writing was smeared and sloppy, my hand dirty. I asked for a desk with an inkwell on the left side, she replied 'There is no such thing, write with your right hand.' That felt very uncomfortable. It was the start of my natural self becoming a cultural object instead of a whole person. I've spent most of my life trying to help society thoughtfully 'drill some inkwells on the left side of the desk,' and co-create with nature's fullness within and around us. " I finally convinced the school to let me write "lefty" in fourth grade and in six months I wrote better than I had for five previous years. That experience taught me to trust and celebrate the value of my "left handed" natural senses and feelings, and to place a healthy mistrust on the directives and entrapments of mainstream culture. I never used or use alcohol or drugs for fulfillment because that does not seem reasonable. What is reasonable to me is to trust and empower in nature my natural "lefty" senses and feelings, for they are facts as real, true and valuable as any other fact. In 3rd grade, 1938, my class learned new math only to find that we were unprepared to go into 4th grade math and would have to go to summer school. My parents decided instead to teach me math on their own while living at a lake in the country. I spent my summer mornings indoors agonizing over a math workbook while enjoying afternoons playing and exploring outdoors. The comparative difference in how each setting felt made an indelible impression on me and directed my life toward outdoor rewards. At age 11, my contact with Burl Ives validated the traditional musical background of my parents and my summer camp musical experiences. By 1945, at the age of 15, I concentrated on learning outdoor skills, traditional music, songs, dance and instruments as well as on a career that included using them in camp programs. I have been amazed that so few of these homemade songs from the heart of rural people express love for the land. Unlike the songs of indigenous people, most of them sing of conquering nature and the hard times encountered in doing so. In 1957-59 I directed the American Youth Hostel's in New York City, spending most of my waking hours frustrated in a windowless basement administrative office downtown. Evenings and weekends were spent in cabarets, concert halls and recording studios as a folk singer. I trusted those frustrated "lefty" feelings. Two years later I renounced that indoor life and founded programs that provided me with the same professional fulfillment while in natural settings. That was and is my joy. I have lived, learned and taught outdoors almost continuously since 1959. Does that make me a natural person even though I am not a Native American? In 1965 a transformational experience in a freak thunderstorm on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park added new dimensions to my thinking. The profound geological effects of that storm on the landscape convinced me that Earth acted homeostatically, like a living organism, and that acts of nature and humanity could be rationally explained from this point of view. Most of my work since then has come out of that realization including founding the Trailside Country School, the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute and the 1985 National Audubon Society Symposium "Is the Earth a Living Organism." I have camped and studied in 84 different ecosystems for periods of three days to six months since 1959. I have lived with the Amish, indigenous people, outdoorsmen and ecologists. I initiated State of Maine Legislative Document # 697, March 3, 1983, AN ACT to Establish a Numerical Whole Life Factor that conveys any product's contribution to sustainability (see Cohen, 1983, page 260-266). In 1984 I financed the legal assistance that stopped the development of the Pittston Oil Refinery in Eastport, Maine. The above experiences underlie the direction and energies in my past and present endeavors. I further explore them in my books and courses. My best thinking tells me that nature operates by consensus. Nature achieves its perfection by every manifestation of it consistently being attracted to gain consent to participate from its immediate environment. The "fittest" are those things, including people, that can cooperatively do this best. The application of this observation has significant political and peace applications in conjunction with Simultaneous Policy. The key people who have encouraged my inner nature to safely and constructively express itself include my parents Sonya and Israel Cohen, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burl Ives, Valentine Zetlin, Ruth Axline, Nate Levine, Pete Seeger, John Dewey, Milton Axel, Josh Lieberman, Robert Binnewies, Benjamin Fielding, Aldo Leopold, David Brower, Robert Muller, Algernon Black, Henry Paley, John Cohen, Samuel Shacknowitz and all the Trailside Good Guys.     ABOUT MICHAEL J. COHEN by Allison Weeks Fleeing oppression in Russia motivated Dr. Michael Cohen's grandparents to take full advantage of the freedom and liberties available in America. Relationships that sensibly supported life were sought, cherished and validated as being reasonable practices and an operating consciousness. He was raised in this atmosphere and his childhood exposure to natural areas helped him recognize their integrity and perfection in comparison to the environmental and social disorders he encountered in most human societies. He constantly elected to live, work and protect nature-connected relationships and natural areas. At great risk to himself and his family, he conceived and founded nature based social and environmental education outdoor programs because they helped him make sense of his life and that of his constituants as well as support environmental protection. Since 1959 Dr. Cohen has spent 26 years teaching, researching and living in a wide variety of natural areas to discover how and why they influenced people in a good way. He created and manifested an accomplished, repeatable curriculum for conservation education and social responsibility in school groups which he then donated to the National Audubon Society and Lesley University. At his own expense, he then translated and published the highlights of that curriculum into an accredited backyard or backcountry, Nature connected, Natural Systems Thinking Process that anybody can use and teach via the internet or in local groups. He presently continues to develop, teach and promote the process which has been incorporated in four university progams and many other environmentally and socially responsible programs. Dr. Cohen's work has the potential to make a positive, profound impact on the planet, including humanity. His process allows people to create moments that let Earth teach its non-verbal wisdom (it self-organizes, preserves and regenerates itself through attraction relationships, producing an optimum of life, diversity, and cooperative, balanced unity without producing garbage). Additionally, his simple reconnecting with nature activities have the ability to give rise to an increased awareness of personal connectedness to the web of life. Choices and behaviors begin to reflect nature's wisdom, and support of the Web replaces personal greed and destructive personal, social, and environmental behaviors. Is Dr. Cohen a maverick genius?   FORMAL EDUCATION Clayton University, St. Louis, MO Ed.D. 1981 Environmental Psychology Columbia University Teachers College, 1957 Guidance and Counseling Completed 103 units of graduate work Columbia University Teachers College, M.A. equivalent, 1955, Guidance of Adolescents, Student Personnel Administration Columbia University Teachers College, M.A. 1952, Natural Science Education University of California, Berkeley B.A. 1951, Biology City College of San Francisco, A.A. 1949, Biology OTHER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES Nature Education: 1959-1985 Participated as the founder and as a travel/study community member in the year round outdoor living and learning program of Outdoor Travel Camps, Trailside Country School and the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute. Counselor training: 1955-58, Completed an Alexander Wolf control group therapy program. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004-present, Institute of Global Education Degree Program Director in cooperation with West Coast University, Republic of Panama. 2001-present. Institute of Applied Ecopsychology Director, Akamai University, Hawaii. 1995-2002 Department Chair, Applied Ecopsychology, Greenwich University, Hawaii 1995-Spring Adjunct Faculty, Applied Ecopsychology Antioch University, Seattle 1995-present Adjunct Faculty, Portland State University Graduate School of Extended Studies 1986-present Department Founder and Chair, Professor of Integrated Ecology, World Peace University/Institute of Global Education, Portland, Oregon. Educator and Administrator, Founder and Director of Project NatureConnect 1987-present Contributing Editor, Between the Species Journal of the Albert Schweitzer Center, Berkeley, CA. Writer of nature/psychology/education articles 1985 Conceiver of the National Audubon Society International Conference IS THE EARTH A LIVING ORGANISM? 1985 Faculty, Guild of Tutors, International College, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Financed the legal assistance necessary to stop the development of the Pittston Oil Refinery in Eastport, Maine. 1983 Introduced State of Maine Legislative Document # 697, March 3, 1983, AN ACT to Establish a Numerical Whole Life Factor. 1978-1987 Founder and Director, Trailside Country School and the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute program. Administrator, educator, curriculum design, student. 1978-1987 Adjunct Faculty Member, Lesley College Graduate School, Cambridge, MA. Instructor 1976-present Folk, Contra and Square Dance Caller and Musician (1999-present, Lead singer of the Sugar on the Floor folk group. 1996-present, Traditional song artist for the US National Park Service San Juan Island National Historical Site and the stage presentation "The Life and Times of General George Pickett.") 1977-78 Environmental Education Consultant, National Audubon Society 1969-78 Founder and Director, Trailside Country School, Administrator, educator, curriculum design, student. 1959-78 Founder and Director, Outdoor Travel Camps and Trailside Outdoor Programs, the pilot program of the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute. 1957-59 Executive Director, American Youth Hostels, Metropolitan New York Council, New York, NY 1955-57 Biology and Science Teacher, Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry, NY 1953-55 Chief of the Clinical Microscopy Section, 1st Army Medical Laboratory, New York, NY 1952-62 Vocalist and Musician, folk singing trio: The Shanty Boys, New York, NY 1952-57 Administrative Assistant, Camp Robinson Crusoe, Sturbridge, MA Membership in Professional Organizations: National Association for Interpretation Association For Experiential Education North American Association for Environmental Education Coalition for Education in the Out-of-Doors Global Network of Environmental Education Centers Alliance for Environmental Education AWARDS AND HONORS Keynote speaker at the national conferences of the: North American Association of Environmental Education, NY State Outdoor Education Association Coalition for Education in the Out-of-Doors. Award for Excellence in Interpretation, National Association for Interpretation Distinguished World Citizen Award from the World Peace University PUBLICATIONS Bold titles are books. Cohen, M. J. (1966). 101 Plus Five Folk Songs for Camp. New York, NY: Oak Publications. Cohen, M. J. (1967). TO HELL WITH SKIING: 64 Tragicomic Ski Songs. New York, NY: Oak Publications. Cohen, M. J. (1968). Catalog of The Trailside Country School reprinted in Cohen, M. J. (1974) Chapter 2, OUR CLASSROOM IS WILD AMERICA. Freeport, Maine: Cobblesmith. Cohen, M. J. (1974). OUR CLASSROOM IS WILD AMERICA. Freeport, Maine: Cobblesmith. Cohen, M. J. (1978). ACROSS THE RUNNING TIDE. Freeport, Maine: Cobblesmith. Cohen, M. J. (1980). The Environment as an Educator. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION REPORT. Washington, DC. Cohen, M. J. (1982-A). The Lesson We Weren't Taught. NEW ENGLAND OUTDOORS, July. Boston, Massachusetts. Cohen, M. J. (1982-B). The Bewilderment of Education. PROCEEDINGS Education for the Year 2010. World Future Society, Annapolis, MD. Cohen, M. J. (1983-A). PREJUDICE AGAINST NATURE. Freeport, Maine: Cobblesmith. Cohen, M. J. (1983-B). But One Breath Have All. THE INTERPRETIVE NATURALIST. Association of Interpretive Naturalists. New Jersey. Cohen, M. J. (1984). Culture-Nature-Self Paradigm. JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, Summer. Athens, Georgia. Cohen, M. J. (1985). Releasing Prejudice Against Nature Through Environmental Education: The Expedition Institute Model. PROCEEDINGS: Is The Earth A Living Organism? National Audubon Society Expedition Institute, Sharon, CT. Cohen, M. J. (1985) The Liberation of Self and Planet: Some Lessons From Nature's Classroom. ADVENTURE EDUCATION. Journal of The National Association for Outdoor Education. February. England. Cohen, M. J. (1985). AS IF NATURE MATTERED: A NATURALIST GUIDED TOUR THROUGH HIDDEN VALLEYS OF YOUR MIND. National Audubon Society Expedition Institute, Sharon, CT. Cohen, M. J. (1985) Education as if Nature mattered: Reaffirming Kinship with Planet Earth. Proceedings of the Bureau of Applied Sciences International Symposium on the Promotion of Unconventional Ideas in Science, Medicine and Sociology, November, Isle of Wight, UK Cohen, M. J .(1986). Education as if Nature Mattered: Heeding the Wilderness Within. PROCEEDINGS of the Association for Experiential Education. September. Moodus, CT. Also accepted for publication by the JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. Cohen, M. J.(ed.) (1986). PROCEEDINGS of the 1985 international symposium Is The Earth A Living Organism? Sharon, Connecticut: The National Audubon Society. Cohen, M. J. (1986). Organism Earth: The Gaia Hypothesis. THE ANIMAL'S AGENDA, November. Westport, Connecticut. Cohen, M. J. (1986). Making Nature's Wisdom Public: The Affirmation of Planet Earth as a Living Organism. PROCEEDINGS of the North American Association for Environmental Education. September. Eugene, OR. Cohen, M. J. (1986). Awakening a Ghost. THE COMMUNICATOR, Journal of the New York State Outdoor Education Association, December. Raquette Lake, NY. Cohen, M. J.(1986). Education as of Nature Mattered: Reaffirming Kinship with the Living Earth. PROCEEDINGS: International Symposium on the Promotion of Unconventional Ideas in Science, Medicine and Sociology, ("The Maverick Genius Conference") Bureau of Applied Sciences, England. Cohen, M. J.(1986). Letting Nature Speak: Honoring the Wilderness Within. PROCEEDINGS of the New York State Outdoor Education Association, October. Geneva, NY. Cohen, M. J. (1986). Planet Earth As A Living Organism. THE CLEARWATER NAVIGATOR. Poughkeepsie, NY. Cohen, M. J. (1986). Education as if Nature Mattered: Rebuilding Kinship with Planet Earth as a Living Organism. PROCEEDINGS of New England Alliance for Environmental Education, October. Plainfield, Vermont. Cohen, M. J. (1987). Romancing a Planet, EARTH FIRST JOURNAL. Tucson, AZ. Cohen, M. J. (1988). HOW NATURE WORKS. World Peace University Press, Eugene, Oregon. Cohen, M. J. (1988). HOW NATURE WORKS. Stillpoint. Walpole, New Hampshire: Cohen, M. J. (1988). Monkeywrenching Mainstream Education. EARTH FIRST JOURNAL. Tucson, AZ. Cohen, M. J. (1988). The Fabric of Earth Kinship. POLLEN The Education Journal of the North American Bioregional Congress. Wilder, Kentucky. Sunrock. Cohen, M. J. (1988). Earth Kinship: The Fabric of Personal and Global Balance. EARTH FIRST JOURNAL, December. Tucson, AZ. Cohen, M. J. (1989). Connecting With Nature. HALO MAGAZINE April. Elmhurst, IL. Cohen, M. J. (1989). Education As If Nature Mattered. COALITION FOR EDUCATION OUTDOORS JOURNAL, May. Cortland, NY. Cohen, M. J. (1989). THE WORLD PEACE UNIVERSITY FIELD GUIDE TO CONNECTING WITH NATURE: CREATING MOMENTS THAT LET EARTH TEACH. Eugene, OR: World Peace University. Cohen, M. J.(1989-A). Lessons Learned Since Earth Day 1970. NATURE STUDY, The Journal of the American Nature Study Society. Newark, NJ. Cohen, M. J.(1989-A). Earth Kinship: The Fabric of Personal and Global Balance. JOURNAL OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION. Spring. Boulder, CO. Cohen, M. J. (1990-A). Progress: Teaching Peace To Children. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND PEACE. September. Flagstaff, AZ. Cohen, M. J. (1990-B). With Justice For All Beings .BETWEEN THE SPECIES Journal of the Albert Schweitzer Center. May. Berkeley, CA. Cohen, M. J. (1990-C). The War For Peace. CRANBROOK SCHOOL HERALD. June. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cohen, M. J. (1991-A). The Fabric of Personal and Global Balance. LEGACY, The Journal of the National Association for Interpretation 1. Helena, Montana: Falcon Press. Cohen, M. J. (1991-B). Leave It To Beavers. THE TRUMPETER, Journal of Ecosophy. Victoria, B.C., Canada. Cohen, M. J. (1991-C). Integrating Feelings in Environmental Education. ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS. The Journal of the International Society of Naturalists; Baroda, India. Cohen, M. J. (1991-D). SCHOOL SCIENCE REVIEW. The Journal of The Association for Science Education. December. England. Cohen, M. J. (1991-E). Environmental Education's Rendezvous with Destiny. CLEARING #78, the Journal of The Environmental Education Project, Oregon City, Oregon. Cohen, M. J. (1991-F). Peace and the Environment. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND PEACE. June. Flagstaff, Arizona. Cohen, M. J. (1991-G). Environmental Education's Rendezvous With Destiny. PROCEEDINGS, 19 and 20th Conferences of North American Association For Environmental Education, St. Paul, Minnesota. Cohen, M. J. (1991-H). Making Sense With Nature. PROGRESS IN EDUCATION. Pune, India. Cohen, M. J. (1991-I). Connect With Nature: Regenerate Personal and Global Balance. PROCEEDINGS, International Conference of the Association for Experiential Education, Lake Junalaska, North Carolina. Cohen, M. J. (1991-J). Project NatureConnect. WORLD PEACE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN, Box 4112, Roche Harbor, Washington 98250. Cohen, M. J. (1991-K). Integrating Nature's Balance. THE JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION v.22 #4, Washington, DC. Cohen, M. J. (in press A). Making Sense With Nature. THE SCIENCE TEACHER Journal of the National Science Teachers Association, Washington, DC. Cohen, M. J. (in press B). Project NatureConnect in Monroe(ed.) MONOGRAPH OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING. Washington, DC: North American Association for Environmental Education. Cohen, M. J. (in press C). The Fabric of Balance. FORUM The Journal of Educators for Social Responsibility; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cohen, M. J (in press D). Making Sense with Nature: Outdoor Education's Rendezvous With Destiny. ADVENTURE EDUCATION, The Journal of the National Association for Outdoor Education; England. Cohen, M. J. (1992) The Nature of Senses, ENERGY AND NATURE, April, Germany. Cohen, M. J. (1992) WELL MIND, WELL EARTH. Portland Oregon, World Peace University Press. Cohen, M. J. (1992). New Roots For Personal Growth and Grounding. JOURNAL OF THE OREGON COUNSELING ASSOCIATION, Eugene, Oregon. Cohen, M. J. (1993) Counseling With Nature: Catalyzing Sensory Moments that Let Earth Nurture. COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY Vol. 6, No. 1 Abingdon Oxfordshire, England: Carfax Publishing. Cohen, M. J, (1994)Integrated Ecology: The Process of Counseling With Nature. THE HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST. Vol. 21. No 3. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. Cohen, M. J. (1994) World Peace: Getting Back To Basics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND PEACE Vol. 10 No. 1 Flagstaff, Arizona. Cohen, M. J.(1994) The Process of Counseling With Nature. THE TRUMPETER Journal of Ecosophy, Vol. 11 No. 1 Victoria, B.C., Lightstar Press. Cohen, M. J. (1994) Counseling and Nature: A Greening of Psychotherapy. ERIC/CASS Greensboro, North Carolina: United States Department of Education. Cohen, M. J. (1994) Discovering Us: The Ecology of God. THE TRUMPETER Journal of Ecosophy, Vol. 11 No. 3 Victoria, B.C., Lightstar Press. Cohen, M. J. (1994) Are You Missing the Missing Link? The Greening of Critical Thinking, PROCEEDINGS 27th Annual Conference New York State Outdoor Education Association, SUNY Cortland. Cohen, M. J. (1995) Counseling and Nature: The Greening of Psychotherapy. INTERPSYCH, the Electronic Mental Health Journal, March, Internet. Cohen, M. J. (1995) Why Don't We Create Moments that Let Earth Teach Us? COOPERATIVE LEARNING, Santa Cruz, CA: International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education. Cohen, M. J. 1996. Wilderness Revisited: The Twilight's Last Gleaming, in Adams(ed.) THE SOUL UNEARTHED , Tarcher-Putnam, Los Angeles. Cohen, M. J. (1995) RECONNECTING WITH NATURE: A restoration of the missing link in Western thinking. Friday Harbor, WA Project NatureConnect, University of Global Education publication. Cohen, M. J. (1997) RECONNECTING WITH NATURE: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth. Ecopress, Corvallis, WA. Cohen, M. J. (1997). The Natural Systms Thinking Process, How Applied Ecopsychlogy Brings People to their Senses. PROCEEDINGS, 26th Annual Conference of North American Association For Environmental Education, Vancouver, British Columbia. Cohen, M. J. (1999 in press) The Missing Link in the Way You Think: Discover and Recover it ..INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND PEACE, Flagstaff, Arizona. Cohen M.J. (2000) Nature Connected Psychology: creating moments that let Earth teach The Natural Systems Thinking Process Greenwich Journal of Science and Technology Vol 1 NO 1, Hawaii, Cohen, M.J. (2000) EINSTEIN'S WORLD: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity in Action. Institute Of Global Education Technical Bulletin. Cohen, M.J. (2003) THE WEB OF LIFE IMPERATIVE: Regenerative ecopsychology techniques that help people think in balance with natural systems. Trafford.   Feel free to contact me for consultations and further information on Project NatureConnect send email P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, Washington 98250 (360) 378-6313   What you can do: The Orientation Course, below, responds to 32 critical life relationship questions. They are answered by enabling you to enjoy and then share online ten authentic, sensory, Nature connected attraction experiences over a 12 day to 5-week period.   THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY AND TEACH SELF-EVIDENT ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES IS THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS:   ORIENTATION COURSE: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life The Art of Thinking With Nature An exciting, inexpensive blend of shared, online activity, information and training with credit optional. Learn by doing. Become a practitioner anywhere. This is a free course if it meets your needs, a transferable prerequisite for additional courses, degrees and participation. The course is our best, most complete and useful way to help nature restore the good nature of humanity in contemporary society. It opens new vistas in academics, counseling, careers, spirit and wellness, vistas that recycle and purify destructive thinking. Optional Credit $50.00 Books used: The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature     INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available, online, nature-energy tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.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.