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Institute of Global Education Part 8 Orientation Course Instructions |
PROJECT NATURECONNECTSECTION 6: RESPONDING TO ATTRACTIONS
If the course is largely self-organizing, what holds it
together?
Attractions. You will find it attractive and rewarding to read
all the email and respond to what in it attracts you. Because
of the number of participants, please keep your messages brief,
when
possible......a few paragraphs. Share thoughts feelings and reactions
that are important to you, especially if you want input on them
or want somebody else to know them. If you appreciate that somebody
is sharing themselves with you, somehow let them know that if
its attractive or important to you. If it feels attractive, honestly
thank them if you have learned something worthwhile from their
shared experiences and thinking.
If you want to help others by facilitating this course later, or are in a degree program or course for credit, it is important to save the postings of the course to use as a reference in your future thinking, work and papers.
SECTION 7: SUSTAINING TRUST
Since Nature is uneducated and non-literate why should
I trust what I learn from it on the course?
This course is trustable because it uses words to connect the
language-reason (5-leg) part of your mentality to the non-verbal
(4-leg) rest of the web of life that is part of nature in yourself,
others and the natural world. However, the words in the email
and training manuals, along with the people who produce them,
are only trustable if the words accurately convey what is happening,
or will happen, or has happened.
How can I help the course be trustable?
In our world of words it is our responsibility to accurately
and honestly convey our actual experiences, senses and feelings,
--if we are to know the joy and rewards of trust and community.
Help build trust. Please make an effort to have the words you
share here honestly report what attractions you sense, think
and feel while doing the activities and responding to email.
In this regard, the course helps us learn to be our word.
Does the course produce unsafe dependencies upon its members?
Hopefully, people will not be dropping out of the sessions
once they start. Again note that others are depending on you
and your shared experiences in order for them to learn and to
complete the course. We are on this course because we have each
consented to be on it, and, in the process, consented to let
others on it share our experiences with us. We are each part
of nature and deserve the respect given to attraction relationships
with nature in the environment and each other.
SECTION 8 POSTING TO YOUR INTERACT GROUP
Are their any special "best ways" to exchange email
information amongst course members?
Here are some important hints:
A) Only send your postings via email, NOT by attachments to emails as many attachments contain viruses, do not interface with other computers, and they are quite time consuming as well. Please use lower case when possible as UPPER CASE IS HARDER TO READ AND IT COMES ACROSS LIKE WE ARE SHOUTING.
B) When you post to your interact group, briefly indicate
the subject and/or person that you are responding to, For example:
UCSB OSPREY GROUP, PART 1A, Sue's response to Jan.
C) One of the purposes of this sensory connecting with nature
course is to help discover your relationship with nature based
on the truths of your own conscious, sensory contacts with the
natural world. Try and focus your email communications on:
1) sharing your personal experiences -attractive sensations, feelings, reactions when doing the activities and;
2) parts of the readings that are attractive to your thinking and feeling and that help validate your activity experiences.
3) Please note that as part of this course, unless otherwise requested, we, on occasion, anonymously archive and distribute some postings from the course to the NatureConnect List, our newsletter, and other interested parties. This contribution helps the course serve its purpose: to have ecopsychology experiences help unify the natural world and people. The distributions enable others to become familiar with the course and to people's potential when they are connected to nature. Those who make this discovery are thankful for your contribution to their experience.4) You will find that each assignment on the web has further instructions with regard to how to do it as well as helpful hints on sharing your thoughts and feelings about it via the group email.
D) If you are taking this course for inclusion in the IGE Degree or Certificate Program you might want to read the syllabus for the course located at
http://www.ecopsych.com/eco500.html
What does the base camp page
look like? How does it operate?
Visit a sample
of the base camp page index http://www.rockisland.com/~process/5grnchainstructindex.html
and note how it will operate once the links are working. If you
have questions, ask the group to help you with them once you
get acquainted.
Please proceed to Part Nine
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