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Reactions to Project NatureConnect Organic Psychology books, courses and participation in the Natural Systems Thinking Process
"A pioneer in the environmental education movement. Participants learn to learn, learn that all subjects are interrelated with one another and themselves. Most of all they develop an interest in themselves."
- The New York Times
"It's great. He's s right to make the responsibility for living on good terms with Gaia a personal one."
- Dr. James Lovelock,
Author, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
"It presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we suffer."
- Elisabeth Ryland, San Bernadino
"This book possesses merit. It is about avant-garde environmental education and its fight to provide direct, hard-edged contact with the natural world while society fights it every inch of the way."
- The Los Angeles Times.
"Dr. Cohen's compelling application of ecopsychology connects us with the often ignored source of spirit and wellness found in nature. His deeply felt chapters catalyze conscious sensory contacts with the natural world and bind us to energies that heal our deeper being."
Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D.
Researcher and bestselling author of RecoveringThe Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search.
"This is the course that every civilized person will be required to take if we are to reverse our runaway disorders."
- Raymond Sierra, Counselor
"Mike Cohen is a crackerjack teacher. What counts is that his words help us do what we must do to save ourselves and Gaia."
- Pete Seeger
"Dr. Cohen offers an environmentally sound, hands-on educational process that reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills our personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit. His work deserves the attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."
Dr. Robert Muller, Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations, Assistant Secretary General Emeritus of the United Nations. the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize for peace.
"A solid approach that applies the same consistent attitudes to living with people as it does to living with nature."
- Environmental Education Report.
"Delightful, illuminating communication at its best--contains stories and guidance for experiencing Nature in the full thrill of her presence. Playful, scientific, but not academic. Take it and read!"
- Dr. Thomas Berry, Founder and Director,
Riverdale Center of Religious Research
"The timely sound theory and well grounded experience of this book demands its use by enlightened people. I find its personalized, sensory-focused activities gently , safely lead adults and children back outdoors. In our struggle to find connectedness and meaning it allows the natural world to nurture a responsible growing edge of culture."
- Bill Hammond, Director of Curriculum Services,
Florida Advisory Council on Environmental Education.
"A worthwhile, thought-provoking, hard look at our relationships with Planet Earth as a living organism."
- Marshal Case, Director of Education, National Audubon Society
"This fascinating literary work recycles your thinking. Cohen goes beyond simply exploring a relationship between psychology and ecology. He lets the natural world give us new ways to reason and consciously participate in our relationship with nature within and around us. His activity options provide discovery, education and emotional support as you do them. Even youngsters learn, enjoy and teach reconnecting with nature through the internet."
Chuck Lynd, the Education Forum Administrator on the CompuServe Network
"A remarkable book: a do it yourself ecopsychology process that enables any school or individual to build responsible community and environmental relationships. It's a must for educators who want to engage students in meaningful education filled with concern for creation."
Miriam Weinstein, author of the Random House Princeton Series:Making a Difference College Guide
Education is a culture in itself, affecting those who pull through with definitions, concepts, life style, a reason and way of living that makes sense. Mike's make's an awful lot of sense, hangs together beautifully.
- John Seeger, Principal, The Fieldston School
"Valuable therapeutically and educationally. The reader get to feel that he or she has experienced the in-depth search for real answers. I cannot praise the book highly enough."
- Mrs. J. Watson Thomas, Psychotherapist
"This is not a reading experience, it's a hologram. It is communicating through talking leaves, something of what whales communicate to each other...you are there."
- Robin E. Lagemann, Indigenous People's activist.
"A holistic paradigm of people and the planet that introduces remarkable new dimensions to environmental sciences, education and politics."
- Larry Brown, Ed.D. Maine State Senator
"Mike Cohen has instilled in his students an awareness of nature and its workings that few will come close to in years of concentration."
- Jim Hart, Naturalist
"Its impact lies in the fact that the author has lived its wisdom of these past twenty years... I have learned first had that its theories prove themselves in the fruition that its education delivers. It offer the medicine that disillusioned humanity and the endangered environment needs."
- Herb AlF, Ed.D. President, Environment Talent Inquiry and Development
"Important reading for everyone...Once I picked it up I didn't put it down until I read the last sentence. Its critical topic is interwoven with he author's first-person accounts. Mike uses down-to-earth language and humor to tell a vital story. As a professor, I'm tempted to assign this Book to all I meet."
- Dr. Clifford Knapp, Outdoor Education Faculty, Northern Illinois University
"The activities work, they move students. I see significant improvement in their self-esteem and value. They find something outside themselves that is actually a truth within themselves."
- Mark Walsh, Director of Wilderness Therapy, Hyde Psychiatric Hospital
"Contains a strong sense of commitment to bed rock values and to the human spirit...a willingness to live out beliefs, to experience life...a system of thinking that can be very very useful for many people who have never given much thought to their place in the cosmic order... a way to feel connected to the universe and strengthen a sense of personal identity."
- Maria West, M.S.W., Counselor
"How important Project NatureConnect's guidebooks, workshops and activities have been to us. Its straightforward, unembroidered perceptions are as refreshing and clear as a mountain lake. It's a joy, for it unifies rather than polarizes. It effectively speaks to modern problems with modern knowledge, skills and language."
- Nancy McMinnon, The Gowland Foundation, Victoria, British Columbia.
"Young people need Project NatureConnect experiences to learn environmentally responsible citizenship. I have made Project NatureConnect workshops available on school time for teachers and for students Grades 4-12."
- Dr. Daniel Levine, Superintendent of Schools, Lopez Island, Washington.
"If education means learning to better understand mankind and the problems of a tremendously complicated planet, then this is education in the finest sense of the word."
- Robert Binnewies, Superintendent, Yosemite National Park.
"I wept as I sensed the unity of nature and myself. Honoring my nature experiences energizes and restores me. It enables me to more effectively help others recover. As these unique nature activities make me more whole (holy), my sense of self becomes more alive and active. The activities feel safe, they stimulate me. They free me to let go, to be in the moment. As I co-create with nature's rejuvenating processes, my life becomes more fun, balanced and joy-filled. These exercises enable anybody to touch nature and enjoy its embrace."
- Michael Mahaffey, spiritual counselor
"These young people learned to deal with what seems to be universal situations and feelings."
- Mr. and Mrs. Irving Pollitt, Counselors.
From anonymous Workshop and Course Evaluation forms:
"What a delight! It's a state of the art learning process, a breakthrough for humanity and the environment. My wilderness participants take it home with them and continue to benefit by using it there."
"My street gang provided me with the family, self-esteem, community, tranquilizers and security I never had. As I learned to more responsibly fulfill these needs on my wilderness trip, I lost my dependency on the gang. I became part of a larger, more peaceful community."
"I was depressed and suicidal. These activities make life worthwhile. They've kept me alive."
"A powerful convincing approach. Its new dimensions captured my imagination. It gave me hope."
"My interpersonal relationships are healthier, my environmental career is on the rise and my commitment and love for the planet is still strong. You cannot stop the process."
"Project NatureConnect is an exhilarating, humbling experience. I found new attitudes and commitments. I've become an advocate."
"I spent wonderful hours playing with our homeroom aquarium, using hand lenses to watch its amazing plants and animals, to see oxygen bubbles grow in sunlight. Before I became enamored with the natural world, I felt ungrounded. Most things seemed expendable, including the environment and me."
"What a wonderful discovery. Its sensory literacy puts into words many feelings I've had since I was a kid."
"It connects. It gives a voice to God and nature's wisdom and wholeness."
"Project NatureConnect gives added value to natural areas. The natural world is my ally. It seems so wrong to injure it within or around me. This workshop touched my creative side, renewed my spirit."
"It is fun and exciting. The simplicity of material that could have such major consequences impressed me."
"The activities have introduced my inner child to its parents in the natural world. They suggest that my 'inner child' is my true inner nature. Now, it feels even more connected, nurtured, whole and important. I've become more aware of it, I value it as part of me."
"Each chapter lets us walk the talk of the biblical words: 'Speak to the Earth and it will teach thee.' Therein lies new hope for ourselves and our planet."
"The activities gave me new reasons to trust some of my gut feelings about the health and welfare of the environment and myself."
"I committed myself to using these nature-connecting activities daily. I was motivated to do so because I was slightly overweight, my previously injured back, knee and ankle hurt, my cholesterol and PSA blood tests were high and I felt down. Were these symptoms of disconnection from Nature? Within 5 months, my pain was reduced, my blood tests were normal and I'd lost 15 pounds, too."
"My street gang provided me with the family, self-esteem, community, tranquilizers and security I never had. As I learned to more responsibly fulfill these needs on my wilderness trip, I lost my dependency on the gang. I became part of a larger, more peaceful community."
"I was depressed and suicidal. These activities make life worthwhile. They've kept me alive."
"A powerful convincing approach. Its new dimensions captured my imagination. It gave me hope."
"What a wonderful discovery. Its sensory literacy puts into words man feelings I've had since I was a kid."
"It connects. It gives a voice to God and nature's wisdom and wholeness."
"Project NatureConnect gives added value to natural areas. The natural world is my ally. It seems so wrong to injure it within or around me. This workshop touched my creative side, renewed my spirit."
"It is fun and exciting. The simplicity of material that could have such major consequences impressed me."
"The activities have introduced my inner child to its parents in the natural world. They suggest that my "inner child" is my true inner nature. Now, it feels even more connected, nurtured, whole and important. I've become more aware of it, I value it as part of me."
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Readily available, online, natural science organic psychology tools for the health of person, planet and spirit 360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.com ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email
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