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 Project NatureConnect Institute of Global Education Organic Psychology Special NGO Consultant, United Nations Economic and Social Council Practical distance learning that increases energy, expertise and spirit. |
Orientation Course
Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship
Support for Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature,
Support for Global Citizenship Online Study Accredited Education
| APPLICATION: For a course application form select here or email for one. Once you have completed the application, you will be given instructions on how to proceed with the course. |
The practicum in
Psychological Elements of Global CitizenshipOrientation to Organic Psychology: The Natural Systems Thinking Process
- The science of communicating with natural systems
- The restoration of Earth's intelligence and regenerative powers within us
- The art of thinking with nature
- A powerful antidote for Natural System Dysfunction (NSD) and Industrial Society's prejudice against nature.
- Academic credit or CEU credit/clock hours available for Education, Counseling and Human Resources
- The organic application of Ecopsychology
"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."
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...-Stephen Aizenstat
"Caring people take note: the state of the world clearly demonstrates that industrial society is prejudiced against nature and that the way it has taught us to think betrays the natural psychic pulse.
It is negligent for us to have, readily available, the means to safely help a life at risk and not offer that help. In light of the deteriorating state of life on Earth and the quality of life of many people, we are negligent if we do not to learn, use and teach Organic Psychology. It is a powerful remedy that helps us increase personal, social and environmental well being.
...-Michael J. Cohen
"This is the course that every civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."
...- Raymond Sierra, .,Counselor
A certified and accredited total support distance learning Education, Counseling and Healing program online.
Inexpensive CEU credits and clock hours available for counseling, education and human services
GUARANTEED: where each of us works and lives, this 2-8 week online study and support group course helps us learn to use and teach the tool we need to reap the balanced rewards and benefits of global citizenship.
THIS SPECIAL ONLINE COURSE PROVIDES VALUABLE SUPPORT:
- Educational long-term support to help you develop expertise and leadership in applying the Organic Psychology of the Natural Systems Thinking Process. This produces unique human services that increase the well-being of humanity, the environment and Earth.
,- Emotional and Psychological support and friendship from your small, informal cooperative group of fellow students and faculty.
,- Financial support so you need only pay what you can afford.
,- Increased support for the peaceful sustainability of humanity and nature.
,- Accessibility to profound immediate support for your psyche and sanity from nature's grace, balance and restorative powers.
,- Personal and professional support to enhance your relationships and careers through online training, certification and degree programs that honor your prior training and life-experience.
,- Hands-on organic learning and relationships that support working with nature rather than exploiting and stressing natural systems within and around us.
,- Support for holistic alternative lifestyles and processes that increase your global consciousness and responsible ways of relating to strengthen health and wellness
,- Support for and from the higher power that lies in your respect for or love of nature.
The Organic Psychology Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) in this course is an advanced educational tool, a social technology that helps contemporary people safely make genuine sensory contact with authentic nature to improve personal well-being and global citizenship.
- It enables us to consciously restore nature's balanced intelligence and restorative powers into our thinking, relationships and spirit.
- It empowers us to realize our deeper hopes and ideals, to more responsibly deal with personal or global problems, including those we ordinarily might not think about or address.
- Its nature-connected psychology provides us with readily available, teachable, ways to connect to "higher power" in nature, backyard or back country.
- It is the means for supportive core study in all the courses offered in the IGE Certification and Degree programs.
- It is a course of study that can enhance any curriculum, discipline or industy, increase sanity and reduce social service, health and environmental budgets.
People who use and teach the Organic Psychology of NSTP benefit from a critical global citizenship component that is usually missing from our thinking, and from our wellness goals. With it, online study and support for our personal and professional relationships improves, along with our credibility, citizenship and happiness.
About the designer of this online education for
"global citizenship" courseRecipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D., is a Director of the Institute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, where he coordinates the Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the faculty of Akamai University and Portland State University. Dr. Cohen founded several sensory environmental education study group programs including the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute, conceived the 1985 National Audubon Society Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is the award winning author of ten personal support books including The Web of life Imperative, Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's World, and Well Mind, Well Earth. Email 360-378-6313
Course Description:
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
...---Albert Gore
Discover how the excessive separation of our psyche from nature stressfully frustrates or injures our sentient inner nature to produce our psychologically bonded dependencies and "unsolvable" personal and global citizenship problems. Learn to reverse this destructive process. Using the book "The Web of Life Imperative," master thoughtful nature-reconnecting Organic Psychology support activities that help us reduce stress and dysfunction by reconnecting us to our fulfilling origins in nature's balance and renewing ways. This accredited online-study education program improves our thinking by satisfying our deepest natural curiosity, loves and spirit. It enlists nature to help us decompose, transform and recycle the hurtful, polluting elements in our psyche and their detrimental effects .
This course scientifically teaches lasting, hands-on, education, psychology, leadership skills and support activities that enable us to feelingly tap into the "higher power" grace and wisdom of nature's creation and restorative processes. Its email and telephone contacts between course members let natural systems help us nurture warm interpersonal relationships, well-being and responsibility.
Special Course Fee $150 Total.
[This fee includes the $85.00 basic course, plus present and further course books and DVD ($75), plus the program application fee ($100), plus financial assistance eligibility and support group participation.]
"Personal transformation is best cultivated by partnering with the supreme agent of change, the Earth. Life is change, and nature is the wizard who enlivens its magic cycles."
-Philip Sutton Chard
APPLICATION: For a course application form select here or email for one. Once you have completed the application, you will be given instructions on how to proceed with the course.
Course Overview:
THE ECOPSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATING AND COUNSELING WITH NATURE
Updated from PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, May-June 1994
From the druids of the Celtic forests to the great tribes of American Indians, people have sought balance, peace and wisdom by living according to the laws of Mother Nature.
Unfortunately, this century will be remembered for unprecedented exploitation of nature--and widespread psychological disturbance of individuals.
No coincidence to Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D., pioneer of an Organic Psychology he calls Integrated Ecology or Applied Ecopsychology. A synthesis of ecology and psychology, integrated ecology proposes that both the destruction of the Earth's environment and people's isolation, stress and dysfunction stem from a fundamental denial of our sensory-emotional connection to, and support from, nature. And by psychologically reconnecting with nature, we reverse our psychological disorders.
Western civilization emphasizes only the faculties of sight, reason, and language, forcing most of us to suppress our inherent natural senses --all 53 of them, by Cohen's reckoning. Among them: hunger, thirst, compassion; color, sex, place; trust, belonging, intuition; community, nurturing and motion, reason, consciousness and language. Each is a supportive natural attraction form of love that sentiently connects us to the world; we inherently register them and think with them to make sense. Spending over 95% of our lives cloistered and indoors leaves these natural sensory connections excessively wanting; global citizenship waines, human dysfunction and evils -- cigarette smoking, greed, dependencies, tranquilizers, violence -- naturally follow to help satisfy the frustrations that result from our profound sensory loss of nature.
Cohen is not a lone hunter of the bond between man and nature. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., of Harvard, people have an inherent biological need to be in supportive contact with the out-of-doors. He calls it "biophilia", and believes that nature may hold the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction. Our childhood love of animals and natural myths and fairy tales may be early evidence of our basic affinity for nature and its instructive and healing properties. Many studies affirm Wilson's observations.
Counseling and building responsible relationships by reconnecting with Nature? Cohen has devised therapeutic online study training manuals, workshops, on-site and e-mail/correspondence support group courses, discussion groups and degree programs whose global citizenship activities, in backyards or back country, re-create many beneficial relationships enjoyed by earlier hunting, gathering, and communal living peoples. In the American Psychological Association Journal "The Humanistic Psychologist" (Vol. 21, No. 3) and other professional publications, he reports that while on these education programs community spirit and responsibility grows, participant's personality and eating disorders subside, learning and other cognitive abilities improve, and violence and prejudice dissolve. His participants learn to do, own and teach unforgettable nature connecting support activities that produce these results throughout their lives. Gradually, a deep environmental literacy evolves that rejuvenates their natural senses, balance and joy.
From his home base at the Institute of Global Education, a special public education NGO consultant to the United Nations Department Economic and Social Council, Cohen offers books, workshops, grants training and degree programs and information about ecologically oriented education, outdoor psychology and therapeutic methods to attain good global citizenship.
Visit descriptions and evaluations of the course operation, its outcomes and some students who participate and mentor it. Read the whole course in Cohen's book The Web of Life Imperative
APPLICATION: For a course application form select here or email for one. Once you have completed the application, you will be given instructions on how to proceed with the course. Organic Psychology: a nature-connected application of Ecopsychology
This Orientation Course has proven helpful to its participants because they share its core science in common. Its purpose is to increasingly help us relate reasonably to information we discover about the web of life and to the full truth about our relationships with the web, including our sensory relationships with it. Traditional science often omits the sensory in order to be "objective." However, objecting to true, sensory natural facts that we consciously experience, such as the sensations of thirst, community or love, is very poor science. It produces our half-truths and disorders.
This course works because it enables us recognize that Industrial Society seldom acknowledges that it contains a strong prejudice against nature and that, unbeknownst to us, it socializes/indoctrinates us to think with that prejudice. Organic Psychology provides us with a remedy for this destructive prejudice. It helps us erase our bias by applying its antidote, an attractive familiarity with nature. We gain this ability through a science of ecology that is rooted in the empirical truth of first hand, web of life, sensory experiences. They directly register the web and its self-correcting ways in our psyche and consciousness. This enables our nature-connected experiences to demonstrate to our critical thinking that that web of life functions through natural attractions, through cooperative "webstring" sensitivities and senses in our awareness that we share with nature. This results in more whole and accurate information than our questionable stories about nature being "competitive food chains or survival of the fittest systems," as has been the case since the 1940's. The results fit the observed fact that the web of life is attraction-based, cooperative and balanced. For this reason its renewing and purifying ways do not produce garbage or pollution, or our unreasonable abusiveness and disorders.
The Organic Psychology on this special course empowers us to learn about ourselves directly from the fountainhead of authority, the web of life itself, through rational natural sensation and feeling connections with it. This information supercedes the theoretical, half-truth, bonded, nature-disconnected stories that, too often, we become conditioned or addicted to. To explore this process further and benefit from it, read http://www.ecopsych.com/ksanity.html. Project NatureConnect courses and degree programs are accredited based on the accuracy of the scientific information and webstring attraction Ecology process described in the model on that page. Applying it will help you address the destructive prejudice against nature that is placing at risk the well being of all of life, including humanity.NOTE: A complete description of the Orientation Course, including its process and its effects, is available as a word document you can read online or download at http://www.ecopsych.com/ORIENTATION.DOC (note caps).
Learning how to think with nature restores our well-being, sanity and Earth.
Nurture your felt love for Nature. Never deny it. That love is nature's voice, the eons, the purifying grace, intelligence, and beauty of Nature sustaining us in its perfection.
The disconnection of our thinking from how nature works underlies our greatest hurt, greed and destructiveness. Natural systems and natural people seldom produce or suffer them.
To recover our sanity and well-being, we must learn how to thoughtfully reconnect our mind with nature's support, balance and restorative powers, learn how to help them help us restore their strength and peace in our thoughts, soul and surroundings. The readily available Organic Psychology of the Natural Systems Thinking Process enables us to do this.
- Michael J. Cohen, Project Director
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....Course Specifications:
- Open to all interested persons; transferable to most academic programs and professional training requirements; credit optional.
- Always affordable via financial assistance programs
- May be used in accredited online study Distance Education Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees via email
- 8-16 days in length (minimum); average length 5-7 weeks.
- Begins on the first and 15th day of each month, or by appointment;
- A consensus based time schedule is planned by course members;
- Enjoy a supportive 4-6 person interact online study and support group via email;
- Credit optional: transferable graduate or undergraduate credit or professional clock hours.
- Post-course internships available.
- This email/correspondence course is part of a subsidized Natural Systems Thinking Process course and online study degree program offered by Project NatureConnect. It uses self-guiding materials found entirely on internet sites..(Optionally, but highly recommended, you may use the books "Web of Life Imperative" "and" Reconnecting With Nature" in conjunction with the course and get more out of it, as well as be able to continue the program independently.) The course starts whenever you would like to proceed with an available interact study and support group. Successful completion of the course bypasses the need to complete several sections of the Application Form
NOTE: A prerequisite and instructions for this course and its support group class are required to optimize its effectiveness. If you are signing up for the course you may begin the prerequisite material now while you are waiting for the course to start. http://www.rockisland.com/~process/5grnchdprerqust.html. This material may also be read, offline, in the Web of Life Imperative pages 29-39 and 121-131.
Course Fees and recommended financial contributions
A donation of $85.00 (see Special Fee, below) is requested to help cover Course organizational, administrative and instructional costs. It includes eligibility for facilitator internships, degree programs, scholarships and grants, participation in the next level (Introductory) Course. (see application.
Special Course Application Fee $150 Total.
[This fee includes the $85.00 basic course, plus present and further course books and DVD ($55). plus the program application fee ($100), plus financial assistance eligibility.]If your think you may want to obtain a certificate or degree in this field, you may save $120 by first applying to the fully funded degree program. Procedures are also found on the application form and at the degree website.
This course and its books are free to qualified certificate or degree program applicants as they are included in the $150 special application fee.
NOTE: scholarships, payment terms, work study online, credit and financial aid are available.
CREDIT OPTION: An additional $50.00/credit is required if you want to obtain transferable graduate or undergraduate academic or CEU credit/clock hours to non-IGE degree programs. Credit transfer is free and automatic into the cooperating IGE degree programs.
APPLICATION: For a course application form select here or email for one. Once you have completed the application, you will be given instructions on how to proceed with the course.
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, nature psychology support tools
for accredited global citizenship online educationP.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
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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.
APPLICATION: For a course application form select here. Once you have completed the application, you will be given instructions on how to proceed with the course.
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