PART THREE
UNSTRUCTURED
INFORMATION
Participants
were asked to optionally, "Create a question or two about
PNC, as in Part 2, that you think conveys valuable information
and then to answer it 1-10 as above." A representative sampling
of the wide ranging freely made statements about sustainable
natural health and holistic health care job training,appears
below.
Questions participants'
created and responded to:
(10 ) I have
referred people in my personal and professional life to PNC.
(10 ) PNC is
a part of a new process of knowledge.
(10 ) The PNC
exercises had a profoundly positive effect on my experience of
the world around me.
(10 ) PNC holistic
health care job training has value to the business community.
(10 ) I was
an activist for the environment but could not cope with feelings
of despair or hopelessness that positive changes would occur.
PNC methods and materials helped me find good feelings, cope
and move forward in my activist work.
(10 ) PNC is
easy and fun, it supports alternative mental health,
(10 ) PNC helps
me make relationships with others who are learning the same things
I am.
(10 ) PNC provides
logical step-by-step methods of working through day-to-day problems
with the good of all as the outcome. It teaches analyzing, decision
making processes which make life easier and more fun when I use
them.
(10 ) PNC offers
a unique process of connecting us with nature, with others, with
ourselves, and with our Higher Power.
(10 ) Our planet
cannot be saved with intellectual resources alone; we must have
a personal sustainable natural health connection to the natural
world, as PNC provides, in order to save it.
(10 ) PNC offers
a set of principles to live by that leads us to peace through
personal growth and responsibility.
(10 ) PNC sustainalble
natural health classes connect people at a deep level, resulting
in sincere life-long friendships.
(10 ) PNC has
motivated me to make behavioral changes in my life that benefit
the planet.
(10 ) PNC creates
experiences where individuals learn to honor their own developmental
processes in relation to nature and to honor those same processes
of others.
(10 ) PNC helps
to relieve physical and mental pain and positively affects people
suffering from chronic physical or emotional illness.
(10 ) PNC creates
worldwide connections between people who love nature, connections
that would not exist otherwise.
(10 ) Getting
to know yourself in a fresh way is one of the perks of PNC.
(10 ) The coursework
of PNC creates opportunities for wellness and fosters inner growth.
(10 ) New respect
for the living global community is a by-product of the PNC program.
(10 ) Teachers
who take the PNC Course are more apt to relate with their students
from the standpoint of potentiality.
(10 ) Self
discipline is taught gently in the PNC Program.
(10 ) To be
able to love the natural community is the first step to be active
and to find solutions for environmental problems.
(10 ) My self-esteem
has been greatly enhanced by PNC
(10 ). PNC
has taught me how to retrain my thinking process.
(10 ) PNC has
helped me restore my sense of belonging and place in the world.
(10 ) PNC methods
helped me discover that nature continually is available to support
me emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically in a non-verbal
but powerful way.
(10 ) I use
PNC alternative mental health activities often as a support in
my Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program; specifically, for me,
as a form of prayer or "conscious contact" with my
Higher Power.
(10 ) I find
the stress factor in my life has significantly decreased after
PNC experiences.
(9) Taking
the PNC holistic health care job training course helps you improve
your skills in relating to people.
(9) PNC can
help students with self-esteem and other emotional problems open
up, connect and develop healthy relationships with those around
them.
(9) PNC has
enhanced my sense of social and environmental community.
CONTINUE
TO:
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.