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Exploring the Benefits of Nature-Connected Thinking
A free, one credit (optional), home study course that can be done alone or shared with others by email
DESCRIPTION: Let nature-connected readings and activities help you transform the destructive energies in your thinking into rejuvenated and balanced ways of knowing. Strengthen your resilience by learning how to courteract your education's omission of organic psychology. Discover how to reconnect your reasoning and senses to their nurturing origins in nature's restorative vigor, intelligence and peace.
An optional $20 contribution to Project NatureConnect is suggested to help sustain the program and website. Other costs may include the purchase of the text, Einstein's World, that goes with this and other courses. Otherwise use a library edition.
Procedure:
Call the Staff at Project NatureConnect, 360-378-6313 and get the OK to do this course by yourself or with other students by email. Then:
1. Study the article Stairway to Sanity online until you are sure you have a working knowledge of the difference between "4-leg" and "5-leg" thinking and knowing. Do the Four-Leg Thinking and Knowing exercise at the bottom of the Stairway to Sanity page.
2. Get 5-leg information from sources 2A, 2B and 2C:
2A. Send a blank email to naturequote@aweber.com. You will receive an email with four nature quotes on it followed by a similar email every four days for a few months.
2B. Get hold of the book Einstein's World and read at least one chapter each week.
2C. Join this course's naturequote discussion group by sending a blank email to
naturequote-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
3. Do either 3A or 3B below.
3A. Identify which of the four quotes in the emails you receive (from 2A) that you find most attractive
and/or
3B. Put together a short sentence that you feel combines the most attractive parts of the four quotes.
4. Go to the most attractive natural area locally, backyard or backcountry, that is convenient to you. First with your eyes closed and then opened, for five minutes quietly discover what part(s) of that area during your visit is/are most attractive to you. Note what you think and feel as you become aware of these attractions in nature..
5. Thoughtfully consider the contribution your five minutes with this natural area makes with regard to the statement you used in 3. What does your contact with natural attractions do? Does it modify or strengthen your thinking? Write down and then by email share with others on the course via 2C, the discussion group, what you discover or learn from combining 3 and 4 above (9-leg knowing) and save what you write.
6. Repeat 3-5 until you have done fifteen of the emails that you receive from 2A. You can skip emails if you don't have time to do them, but to complete the course you must do a total of 15 of the 57 emails you will receive over a period of five months.
7. Using the 15 writeups you did from the activities, write a three page (or more) paper that describes important things you found attractive from doing 2-6 above.
8. Share your paper with your online classmates (2C) who will help you assign it a grade, then send your grade to the staff to register it if you so desire.
9. If you want academic credit for the course, contact the staff at 360-378-6313 for instructions as to how to obtain it.
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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, online, natural science tools
for the health of person, planet and spiritP.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.
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