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.   ......PROGRAM OUTCOME REPORT: participant observations from field study activities. ..... . Customized Educating Counseling and Healing With Nature Degrees, Career Training Courses and Jobs Online. Project NatureConnect offers distant learning that enables you to add nature-connecting methods and credentials to your skills interests and/or hobbies. We honor your prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent credit for it. You may take accredited coursework and/or obtain a Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most subjects or personal interests. A partial subject list is located at the end of this page. Add the sunlight and beauty of the natural world to your life and community. Improve your income and satisfaction through independent or interdisciplinary study Help people connect their thoughts and feelings with the grace balance and restorative powers of nature. Increase personal social and environmental well being. Visit our Homepage for complete information .     Project NatureConnect Institute of Global Education Organic Psychology Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Practical distance learning to increase person/planet well being. . Accredited ecology, environmental and social science courses, organic learning degrees and alternatives for sustainable education career training, distance learning jobs and graduate schools.                               Program Outcomes: Alice S., an online program participant, shares her results from a nature-connecting activity.   THE MOON, LIGHTING A PATH, HELPS ME TRUST MY WAY An Organic Psychology Report from an Online Course Participant I could not have more to do than I do tonight. I am depleted. After after-school meetings, helping students who soak all my energy, running errands, I realize that this evening will not be mine. I initially felt that after the essay grading, writing college recommendation letters, preparing for a trip to the states, taking care of financial matters, and on and on, that I could not do today's Organic Psychology activity. Then, it occurred to me that this was what I needed to do first. So, I am sitting at the computer--sitting for the first time all day--and I will try to explain what I did this phase of the assignment. I went outside, to my roof deck, and communed with the perfectly full moon. Even doing this activity first before all the other "tasks" was an act of trust, trusting the attractive intelligence and my love of nature. I spoke to the moon, its brilliance shining on the water, and asked for perspective--its perspective from a distance. I asked for the burdens of responsibility to be lifted--just for that moment--so I could find relief. I looked out at the rolling hills, the clouds, skyscrapers scattered at different levels on the horizon, people out walking: The full moon lit the landscape like a giant flashlight. But the illumination was real and natural, not artificial. I breathed, and breathed again. Somehow, it would all fall into place; somehow I would get the reading done; somehow I would get my grades done; somehow I would get some sleep; somehow, I would awaken at 4:30 tomorrow morning and do it all over again. I realized that artificiality of any kind is hard to tolerate any more in my life; I realized how the innate trust I have with nature simply IS--there's no working at it, no struggle. My life of constant busyness and demands on my time is one I'm enjoying less and less. This phase of the moon--lighting a path, helping me to trust my way out of these endless responsibilities. I keep thinking what Socrates said, "Beware the barrenness of a busy life." I won't let that happen. Project NatureConnect is the full moon's perspective through this. Nothing prevents me from trusting nature--nature is what has saved me. Unfortunately I've had trouble trusting humans all my life--never nature. I want to emulate nature, its consciousness and love and rhythms and beauty--never have I doubted nature's wisdom or truth. It helps me become a holistic thinkier. I'm glad I did the activity...this is what I needed to do first. Now I can breathe a sigh of relief. The value of this Organic Psychology course for me is that I've learned that it is my choice to spend time in nature and look for attractions that give me good feelings. I learned that when I ask permission, gain consent and give thanks to nature, my senses become sharp and I feel more alive. I've learned that nature attractions are intelligent and that by verbalizing what I love about nature I realize and validate what I appreciate about myself. The course helps me enhance and trust my self worth, increase my trustfulness in nature and my holistic thinking. It helps me feel more relaxed and balanced. Act now. Master Organic Psychology by doing it. Explore it from our homepage . Contact us at 360-378-6313 mailto:nature@interisland.net, http://www.ecopsych.com   RESOURCES: Online reading: useful online articles and activities http://www.ecopsych.com/2004artnews.html                                     . Achieve a Degree or Certificate for connecting your professional interests, or your hobbies or pastimes with nature. Implement your most reasonable desires as you increase personal and global well being. Topics, subjects or leisure pursuits can include those listed below or other areas of interest: Yoga Reiki Self-Improvement Self-Confidence Self-Esteem Weight Loss Ecotherapy Intimacy Holistic Leadership Organic Psychology Friendship Happiness Unitarian Universalist Pantheism Mental Health Peace Climate Change Shamanism Earth Day Activities Retreat Centers Energy Medicine Natural Systems Parenting Child Development Alternatives Dog Cat Pet Care Art Therapy Massage Therapy Ecopsychology Therapist Training Hypnotherapy Wilderness Therapy Human Services Social Work Counseling Teaching Life Coaching Therapist Hospice Caregiving Home Schooling Creative Writing Life Experience Naturopathy Consciousness Jesus & Wilderness Biophilia Herbal Remedy Life Science Violence Prevention Outdoor Education Continuing Education Anger Management Hope & Life Relationships Stress Relief Management Natural Health and Wellness Parenting & Child Development Spirit & Spiritual Development Administrative Services Continuing Education Complimentary Medicine Native American Indian Ways War On Terrorism Multiple Intelligences Environmental Education Recovery from: Addiction disorders Eating Disorders Sleeping Disorders Attention Deficit Disorders Anxiety Disorders Food Disorders Nature Deficit Disorders Depression Abuse, Addiction, Loneliness Midlife Crisis Burnout Global Warming . Return to top of this page INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Accredited nature career holistic education and job courses, organic learning degrees and alternatives; earn extra income money and increase wellness, spirit and hope. P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ORGANIC, ACCREDITED, APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email All organization programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the books The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature . ,

Alarm! Alarm! Well-being at risk Help turn the tide! www.SaneEarth.com                               "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 receive from 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   Benefit from learning to repair the natural psychic pulse within and around us. Add the sensory ecoscience of Organic Psychology to your life and livelihood. ................................................... ..................   .   Project NatureConnect Homepage Organic Psychology Search Engine Contacts Email 360-378-6313   Grant-funded, social and environemntal science accredited courses, career training and holistic organic learning degrees: alternative adult education and sustainable career training jobs online for personal and global health. Act now: student grants, scholarships loans for college online             "Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people." . "Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein.     ....................