The Orientation Program: Description of Organic Psychology

An Orientation to Organic Psychology and Integral Ecology: The Natural Systems Thinking Process

The science of communicating with natural systems
The restoration of Earth's intelligence and regenerative powers within our body, mind and spirit.
The art of learning how to think with nature
A powerful antidote for Natural System Dysfunction (NSD) and Industrial Society's prejudice against nature.
Academic credit and degrees 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."

- Stephen Aizenstat

"Caring people take note: the state of the world clearly demonstrates that industrial society is postured to conquer nature. The dualistic way it has taught us to think betrays the natural psychic pulse.

It is negligent for us to have, readily available, the ECHN 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 poor quality of life of many people, we are negligent if we do not to learn and teach Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature. It is a powerful remedy and preventative that enables us to increase personal, social and environmental well being.

- Michael J. Cohen

“In the context of this course, a quote from Rumi, has become wonderfully multi-layered for me: Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Orientation Course Participant

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GUARANTEED: where each of us works and lives, this online study helps us learn to use and teach the tool we need to reap the balanced health and wellness benefits of global citizenship on our living planet.

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THIS SPECIAL ONLINE COURSE PROVIDES INVALUABLE LEARNING:

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 online.
Financial support so you need only pay what you can afford, when you can afford it.
Increased support for the peaceful sustainability of humanity and nature.
Accessibility to profound immediate support for your psyche and sanity from sensory contact with 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.

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Without training, you can't accurately think or plan what your opportunities may be as a car driver. You first have to have driven a car. Only then do you know how it feels and its potential for you.

This web site is like the drivers manual for an automobile. At best, it is a story about driving a car and its value. However, taking this Orientation Course enables you to "drive the car" at least 15 times. Then you truly become literate about "driving," you know how "driving" feels and, at will, how you may use the process to improve your life and profession.

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.

NSTP 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 Akamai University Certification and Degree programs.

It is a course of study whose science enables us to 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.

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About the designer of this online course for
"Wise global citizenship"

Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D., Ed.D., was for 30 years a Director of the Institute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He now coordinates the Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect as faculty of Akamai University and Portland State University. Dr. Cohen has founded several sensory environmental education study group programs including the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute. He conceived the 1985 National Audubon Society International Symposium, "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is the award winning author of ten books including The Web of life Imperative, Reconnecting With Nature, Einstein's World, Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature and Nature as Higher Power. Email 360-378-6313

"The unreasonable bias of Industrial Society's central story rejects that our planet acts like a living organism and that we are like a cell in it. We seldom think or learn that we need to "Not do to the life of Earth and Nature as we don't want it to do to us because it is us."

- Michael J. Cohen