Project NatureConnect
Outcomes of Ecopsychology based evidence
and facts: facts of life experience, about how to recycle our disorders and the
effects of conscious contact with natural systems within and
around us.
"In contemporary society, a readily available life experience process for building environmentally responsible inner peace, social relationships and global unity has been absent. Now, research shows that the Organic Psychology of the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) meets this need."
A Survey of Participants
Research Questionaire Validates the Webstring Natural Systems Thinking Process for Personal and Global Balance.
The effects of webstring attraction activities in grant-funded, alternative and holistic courses, training and degree programs online; the evaluation of a sensory science for sustainable personal and environmental well-being.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: for individuals who want to get the most from these Survey pages including applicants to courses and jobs
Select what you think are the two most important subject areas identified in the questions and statements found in parts two through six of the survey (select the statements as you read through parts 2-6 , select two statements from each part, 10 statements total.) Write a paragraph that integrates these statements with respect to them being a reflection of some of your desires, beliefs and values. Include the paragraph in your application.
SIGNIFICANCE
This study shows that through conscious sensory contacts with attractions in natural areas, an Organic Psychology Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) reconnects people with nature's grace and balanced restorative ways. The connection helps individuals and groups reverse challenging personal, environmental and global problems. Since these problems are neither displayed or caused by nature- connected people, the study suggests that our excessive separation from nature creates unfulfillable wants that drive us into irresponsible relationships.
The Natural Systems Thinking Process enables us to offset our society's excessive disconnection from nature. It uses life experience to help us endow our thinking and relationships with the wellness and beauty of nature's ways.
The Process is rooted in its basic element "We thoughtfully increase personal and global well-being by sharing consensual, sensory connections with attractions in nature that help us strengthen our resilience, relationships and spirit."
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OVERVIEWThis website, and the results of a questionaire that it reports in this section, demonstrates that, to our loss, an extensive separation of our thinking from nature's ways underlies many of our personal, social and environmental dysfunctions.
For centuries we have exploited natural systems within and about us. This has produced a deep cultural prejudice against nature that today prevents us from reaping the benefits of regenerative nature-reconnecting NSTP activities.
As we overcome our prejudice against re-connecting our thinking with nature, the activities help us use nature's grace and restorative powers to transform our destructive ways into constructive relationships. This enables us to reduce social and medical costs while increasing the well-being of people and the environment. To this end, the use of NSTP Organic Psychology activities can:
- reduce the health insurance premiums of those who use them while reducing the health costs of insurance companies.
.- be profitably offered by the pharmaceutical and medical profession as a potent preventative and to hasten recovery from many disorders.
.- reduce the human service budgets of municipalities while improving personal, social and environmental health.
.- make an important contribution to conflict resolution on local and global levels
.- improve the economy by reducing environmental costs and adding environmental recycling and health benefits.
.- give added value to natural areas to help industrial society come into balance with natural systems within and about us.
- strengthen mental health by relieving the stress of five-leg thinking.
To reach this vital goal, the NSTP Organic Psychology training programs have been funded by a grant that makes them available to individuals who want to help improve the life of people and earth.
PART ONE (below): Background and averaged responses
PART TWO: Numerical results and history
PART THREE: Survey questions suggested by participants
PART FOUR: Statements by participants regarding the program
PART FIVE: Results of other studies and educational programs
PART SIX: Results of programs based on reconnecting with nature.
PART SEVEN: Results of medical and anthropological studies.
Additional life experience results may be found on these pages
Reports From 287 Participants
Evaluation Testimonials
Journal Entries
Field Study Reports
Outdoor Blog
Comments
Earthday Archive
Consent Archive,
Growth Archive
and Newsletter pages
as well as quotes in Einstein's World
PART ONE
SYNOPSIS OF RESPONSES (AVERAGED):
People who use the natural systems thinking process :
- attain greater wellness with respect to pain, anxiety, community, learning, self-esteem and spirit.
- notice many disorders subside including depression, sleeplessness and lonliness.
- become more environmentally and socially active, their apathy becomes positive energy.
- are able to teach the process to others and strongly agree that it:
- significantly improved their personal and professional life and their relationship with the environment.
- would quickly produce positive change if a larger segment of the population used it.
- daily enters their thinking and relationships.
- is vital if we are to reverse our present destructive ways
- is highly recommended life experience for students in all disciplines.
Participants said:
"The reconnecting with nature process helped me relieve physical and mental pain. I observed it positively affect people suffering from chronic physical or emotional illness."
"it enhanced self-esteem and reduced my dependencies"
"empowered me to help others help the environment"
"it significantly decreased my stress and depression."
"powerfully supports me emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically,"
"helped me restore my sense of belonging and place,"
"is a form of prayer or 'conscious contact' with my Higher Power",
"constantly offers life experiences I can trust, I sleep better."
"instilled a lasting sense of belonging to something worthwhile"
"nature's purity and beauty rejuvenated my true self."
"retrained my 'stinkin' thinkin' so annoyment became enjoyment."
"The process offers guidelines to live by that have not been interpreted by humankind. What I see in nature is also within me, and I know and trust that totally."
Jim S.
"This life experience program has guts! It takes a stand and I believe that is what our society needs...a wake up call...
Dominique L
The life experiences, described above, serve as phenomenological, ecopsychology based evidence for the value of connecting our thinking process with how nature works.
Study the results carefully in parts 2-6. Become more aware of your hopes and ideals by identifying the results that you feel are important to you and your community. Would you enjoy experiencing and teaching them? Are they not planet facts: facts of life experience and recycling disorders?
Participants added statements to the survey responses with respect to their increased balance and wellness. This document presents a review of the results of the survey, including their statements.
BACKGROUND
Since 1990, The Department of Integrated Ecology at The Institute of Global Education, in association with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Portland State University and Akamai University, has developed and taught a Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) that had been researched for 20 years. NSTP is an easily learned, scientific means to consciously gain wholeness through tangible sensory contact with natural areas and people's inner nature. Created by Dr. Michael J. Cohen author of Reconnecting With Nature, and The Web of Life Imperative, its organic, applied ecopsychology process is designed to implement personal and global balance, wellness and peace. It creates phenomenological evidence from ecopsychology, planetfacts, facts of life experience and recycling disorders.
Dr. Jan Goldfield, a retired psychologist, recently helped survey adults in a variety of occupations, who, during the previous three years, had learned to use NSTP by completing a 30 day internet course. The findings show NSTP to be an effective vehicle for catalyzing personal and global unity. They affirm the findings (results) of other studies and educational programs that are added to this survey report as PART FIVE, PART SIX and PART SEVEN.
CONTINUE TO:
PART TWO: Numerical results and history
PART THREE: Survey questions suggested by participants
PART FOUR: Statements by participants regarding the program
PART FIVE: Results of other studies and educational programs
PART SIX: Results of education programs based on reconnecting with nature.
PART SEVEN: Results of medical and anthropological studies.
Additional life experience results may be found on these pagesEvaluation Testimonials
Journal Entries
Participant Reports
Field Study Reports
Outdoor Blog
Comments
Earthday Archive
Consent Archive,
Growth Archive
and Newsletter pages
as well as quotes in Einstein's World
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the natural."
-Albert Gore
.Dear Vice President Gore,
Please be informed that Project NatureConnect provides an alternative, holistic, sensory science that helps our psyche genuinely connect with nature. Because this tool enables our mind to thoughtfully tap into nature's balance, grace and restorative powers our dysfunctions wane and our personal and environmental well-being improves.
For Peace,
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, online, life experience 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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