Project NatureConnect

How to Participate

Contact Project NatureConnect by Email to nature@interisland.net
We invite you to telephone with questions or comments (360) 378-6313. Call for permission to use our toll free number.

 

• Arrange to obtain the Reconnecting With Nature self-guiding training manual.
• Form a study group or individually learn the activity skills.
• Apply for the 4-day, 4, 6, or 12 week distant learning Email/correspondence course.
• Sponsor a training workshop, or a course for a group or program.
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• Integrate the nature connecting process personally or professionally.
• Train to become an intern or guide for the project.
• Become an ambassador for the program, help network it.
• Do volunteer work, fund raising or make a financial contribution to the program.
• Write an article or letter about the program.
• Tell us how you would like to participate in other ways.

 

Send an email to the Department of Integrated Ecology. Tell us how and why you would like to participate or to order materials.

Enjoy a book! Reconnecting With Nature: 24 powerful basic element activities
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Think With Nature

In every satisfying moment of our lives we increasingly bond to our supportive surroundings, to supportive people and stories, to our home, car and values. For this reason, our indoor education and ritual experiences, no matter what they say in words, tend to further attach our natural senses to the questionable ways of our excessive indoor world.

Although it may feel personally fulfilling, the bonding process does not fully cooperate with nature. Rather, it reinforces our physical and sensory disconnection from nature, even when its story says to reconnect with nature.

From every satisfying act that does not include nature, on some level we further learn that we don't need nature and we further devalue nature. For this reason, even the marvelous teachings of indigenous people are often inappropriate for us. They are effective spiritual tools from, by and for a people who fully lived and loved in nature. That is not us. What we first need are non-verbal connections that bond us with nature's non-verbal beauty and wisdom. Activities that tangibly reconnect our natural senses with their natural origins accomplish this. As of old, they let Earth cooperatively guide us in the same way that Earth ultimately guides nature centered societies of human and other species. These societies neither display nor promote our runaway problems until they bond to the industrial world's nature disconnected ways.

What else 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.

Sign the Earth Day Petition for Peace on Earth Through Peace With Earth and put to use the Earth Day Activity

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 ($35) 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 $42.00   READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR APATHY Einstein's World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course. It helps you reverse nature disconnection disorders from your home. You can take it, teach it and be paid, too. Book $15.00, Course $20.00. Optional Credit $42.00   EXPLORE THE PROCESS FREE: Our Exploratory Course online enables you to sample the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn, first hand, its thrust and benefits.

 

 

INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council   PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available online tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 www.ecopsych.com APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email nature@interisland.net     Nature Connected Education and Counseling Courses and Degrees Online Too often we suffer and feel helpless because the deterioration of humanity and the environment hurts us and we are unaware of its cause. Research demonstrates that the stress arising from our extreme sensory separation from our nurturing origins in Nature underlies most of our unsolvable personal, social, and global problems. In a democracy, to reach our hopes and dreams the knowledge we discover must be accompanied by a readily available educational process that motivates and enables the public to apply the knowledge. With respect to our destructive disconnection from nature, the web page links, below, empower you to use and teach an effective rehabilitating process that will help you improve most settings and relationships. . Experience first hand the benefits of the process via our Orientation Course   RATIONALE  ORIENTATION DEGREES or CERTIFICATION COURSES RESULTS  ACTIVITIES FAQ WORKSHOPS ARTICLES  ECO-IQ TEST BOOKS INTERNSHIPS JOB/CAREER  EARTH DAY PEACE PLAN FREE COURSE WEBSITE HOME PAGE  VALIDATION NEWSLETTER DISCUSSION EARTH DAY PETITION LINKS . PLEASE NOTE: All links to http://www.pacificrim.net/~nature/-name-.html have been moved to http://www.ecopsych.com/-name-.html. If a pacificrim page link is not working, kindly change its domain address from pacificrim.net to ecopsych.com .   A GIFT FOR YOU Thank you for your interest in our program. As a gift from us for visiting this page you may build your own free website SELECT HERE     For previous pages use BACK or GO of your browser Please SCROLL UP to return to the top of this page. . . ... ...