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Project NatureConnect: Program
Outcomes
Applied
Ecopsychology
facts of life: evidence-based practices and rules of evidence
about
recycling our thinking to remove fallacies via hands-on sensory
experience education in natural areas. A presentation of potent
information about the creation of life and how to recycle
the mind pollution of our Ego.
A
Survey of Nature-Connected Learning Participants
"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 Natural Attraction Ecology, the Organic Psychology
of the Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) meets this need."
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PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:
Educating
Counseling and
Healing With Nature (ECHN)
Supportive Degrees, Career
Training Courses and Jobs On Line
Project NatureConnect
offers
nature-centered distant learning that enables you to add the benefits
of nature-connecting methods and credentials to your degree program
and/or your skills, interests and hobbies.
We honor your
prior training and life experience by providing grants and equivalent
education credit for it.
You
may take accredited or professional CEU coursework and/or obtain a
Nature-Connected Degree or Certificate in most disciplines or personal
interests. A partial subject list is located at the bottom of this page.
- Improve
your income and
satisfaction through independent, interdisciplinary or integrated study
and Ecopsychology.
- Help
people connect their
thoughts and feelings with the self-correcting and renewing ways of
nature.
- Increase
personal social and
environmental well being.
- Add
the self-correcting sunlight beauty and
spirit of the natural world to your life and community.
Visit our Homepage for
complete information
The Survey of Participants
A Research Questionaire Validates Pristine Truth Natureness and the
Webstring Natural Systems Thinking Process for
Personal and Global Well-Being.
The effects of Pristine Truth activities in grant-funded, alternative
and holistic courses, training and degree programs online; an
evaluation of a sensory science for sustainable personal and
environmental well-being.
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The Origins of Project
NatureConnect, Pristine Truth Natureness, and Natural System Thining.
....In
1959, Dr. Michael J. Cohen founded an extraordinary expedition school.
It was based on learning how to genuinely connect with nature, the
flow of our living Earth in and about us. Through natural attraction
sensations and feelings that were energized into consciousness through
sensory contacts in natural areas, students learned to respect the
web-of-life and themselves as they enjoyed, validated and incorporated
its self-correcting
wisdom in their body, mind and spirit.
....The
National Audubon Society identified this program as the
most revolutionary school in America. In it:
....Chemical dependencies, including
alcohol and tobacco, disappeared as did destructive social relationships.
....Personality
and eating disorders subsided; violence, crime and prejudice were
unknown.
....Academics
improved because they were applicable, hands-on and fun.
....Loneliness,
hostility and depression subsided. Group interactions encouraged stress
release and management; each day was fulfilling and relatively peaceful.
....Students
using meditation found they could enhance it, or not use it, by
sustaining a nature-connected community.
....Participants
knew each other better than they knew their families or best friends.
They felt safe and risked expressing and acting from their deeper
thoughts and feelings. A profound sense of social and environmental
responsibility guided their decisions.
....When
vacation periods arrived, neither staff nor student wanted to go home.
Each person enjoyably worked to build this supportive, balanced living
and learning utopia. They were home.
Furtherl information
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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 2-7 , select
two statements from each part, 12 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.
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SIGNIFICANCE
This
extensive study shows that through conscious sensory contacts with
attractions in
natural areas, an organic Pristine Truth reconnects people with nature's grace and balanced restorative
ways. Acting like a Rosetta Stone of our planet, its
connections help 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.
Natureness in Action
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 natural areas that help us strengthen our
resilience, relationships and spirit."
See testimonials and additional outcomes at:
Evaluation
Testimonials, Testimonials, Journal
Entries, Survey Results, Blog #1, Blog #2, Comments,
Consent
Archive, Appendix D, AppendixD2,
Who Are You
| Avatar, Testimonials, Anniversary, UN Petition, Einstein's
World Appendices 287 Participants NAE Field
Study Reports, NSD
Other Research PNC Search Engine Facebook |
Select Here for streamlined, compact updates and guidance through our PNC Organization and Application website at www.ProjectNatureConnect.org.
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OVERVIEW
This website, and
the results of a questionaire that it reports in this section,
demonstrates that, to our loss, an excessive 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 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.
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- be profitably offered by the pharmaceutical and
medical profession as a potent preventative and to hasten recovery from
many disorders.
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- reduce the human service budgets of municipalities
while improving personal, social and environmental health.
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- make an important contribution to conflict
resolution on local and global levels
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- improve the economy by reducing environmental
costs and adding environmental recycling and health benefits.
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- 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, Project Natureconnect 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.
Something important to think about: Are the course participants and observers, below, incorrect in their observations? Or, instead, do we suffer because Industrial Society has destructively strayed from the means to live in peaceful balance with nature, in and around us?
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 using Organic Psychology in other educational programs
PART SIX:
Results of programs based on reconnecting with nature.
PART SEVEN: Results of medical
and anthropologic
PART ONE
SYNOPSIS
OF RESPONSES (AVERAGED):
People
who use Pristine Truth Natureness report that they :
- 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 and testimonials 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 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, Project NatureConnect has developed
and taught the art of Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature
ECHN, a Natural Attraction Ecology sensory science that had been researched for 20 years. ECHN 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, as well as The
Web of Life Imperative,
and Educating,
Counseling and Healing With Nature, its organic,
applied ecopsychology process is designed to implement personal and
global balance, wellness and peace. It
creates phenomenological evidence from ecopsychology, empirical facts of
life experiences 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 ECHN by completing a 30 day internet course. The
findings show ECHN 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
and field study results may be found on these pages, often in the middle of them.
"We are dysfunctional socially and environmentally
because we are cut off and isolated from the world of nature and the
natural."
-Albert
Gore
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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,
Michael J. Cohen, Ed. D.
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