Institute of Global
Education
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Complimentary Exploration Course..Part 3
Exploring Psychological Connections With Nature
Reconnecting to wholeness.
A. Go to an attractive natural area. Notice if you think your attraction to this area is similar to the natural area's permission for you to do the activity here. When you feel you have permission, thank the area or an attractive part of it for consenting to help you with this activity.
B. Walk through this natural community for one minute.
C. For the next miinute walk through this natural community while repeating the word "unity" over and over again. This helps you become aware of and sense the many attraction relationships here that unify this community with itself and you.
D. Repeat B and C for about 10 minutes and observe what you sense between when you say unity and when you don't.
Summary Option:
You are encouraged to do the following evaluation activity:
Below is a summary statement about the activity above followed by an agreement indicator. For future reference and growth, read the SUMMARY and then mark on the indicator the degree of agreement you have with the statement. Record and retain your score on a separate piece of paper.
SUMMARY U: Webstring sensory attractions in me are a unifying continuum of webstring attractions in Nature and they feel good and reasonable when consciously reconnected.
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OPTIONAL: On a piece of paper, record the SUMMARY letter above (U) along with the number (below) that indicates your agreement with the summary statement. 1.........2..........3........4.........5.........6.........7.........8..........9.........10. |
II. Summary reading: Read the article in Common Future Magazine as a course review and note if its meaning is clear to you.
III. Thoughtful verbalization:
Send an email to the NatureConnect List, whose subject is PART 3 EXPLORATORY COURSE RESPONSE so that other course members and List readers can identify it, read it, and share their attractions, thoughts and feelings about your experiences with it. In the email, share your experiences, thoughts and feelings from the activity and reading assignment on this page to the group along with the following Seven Interact Catalysts:
1) a general description of how you did the activity and what happened, along with quotes you like from the readings and how they added meaning to the activity.
2) the three most important things you learned from the reading and webstring connections;
3) how would you feel about having the webstring attractions you experienced in the activity taken away from you?
4) whether or not the activity and reading enhanced your sense of self-worth and your trustfulness of nature;
5) the part of you, if any, the activity identified or re-educated inside or outside of you;
6) your reactions to what you found attractive in the postings you read from the other group members. Be sure to save the interact postings of yourself and others that are attractive to you so that you can refer to them and quote them at another time.
7) What value, if any, was there to doing the Summary Option (If you did it.)
The use of the Seven Interact Catalysts will enhance your learning experience and that of the others in the course as well.
REMEMBER: You will increase your learning from this activity by 75% if you teach this activity to another person. You may ask your interact group for help if you need it.
Determine your course score
As mentioned previously, completing this Exploration Course allows you to sample about 20% of the Orientation Course material, consider its value, and make its completion easier since you have already done some of the work. The Orientation Course is the gateway to our online Master's and Doctoral programs, courses, workshops and books.
To help you determine your "grade" for this kind of education, we have listed some questions below and also have a short Apptitude Inventory.
A. Pick out the questions that you feel are most interesting or important to you.
B. Apply the confidence indicator below to each question you select .
C.
Record and retain the number of each question you select
and your score for it on a separate piece of paper.
or
Print out the questions and place your score in the space provided
on the questions that are most interesting
to you. Retain this informatiobn
Question Confidence Score: My confidence level in having a working knowledge about this question is:.
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CONFIDENCE INDICATOR: The percentage (below) that indicates my confidence in having a working knowledge of this question is: 10%........20........30........40.........50.........60... ....70.... ...80.........90.......100%. |
THE QUESTIONS:
1. ..........% How much of our ability to sense and feel do we inherit from nature?
2. ..........% Why are webstrings subconscious and how do I bring them into awareness?
3. ..........% Do you deserve to have good feelings? Why?
4. ..........% How many natural senses do you have? Do you think with them? How?
5. ..........% What is the key mental factor that makes people different or separate from nature?
6. ..........% What is the difference between a thought and a feeling?
7. ..........% How many natural senses can you name that you can know and learn from?
8. ..........% Why do we continue to assault nature and people when it doesn't make sense and we don't like doing it or its effects?
9. ..........% Is there a relationship between our lasting social and environmental problems?
10. ..........% Why don't contemporary survival stories and dollar bills produce sustainable balance and purity, like nature works?
11. ..........% Do our problems result from the difference between how we think and how nature works?
12. ..........% Since nature produces no garbage, does nature practice unconditional love?
13. ..........% Where in nature do you find life abstracted?
V. Add up your total percentage score and divide it by the number of questions you selected.
To this percentage, add 3 percentage points for each of the three SUMMARY SCORES above 7 that you had in the course.
If your SUMMARY SCORE average is above 75% you are entitled to do and use the bonus activity You should visit it now. If you score above 7 on it, add and additional 3 percentage points to your score. This produces your total score.
If your total score is between 65-100% we urge you to gain further expertise in NSTP and apply it. The world desperately needs your rare, surviving, apptitude in this area if we are to come into balance with Earth and each other. (If your score is above 75% you are probably eligible for the $1500 Doctoral Degree Program Compatibility Grant. See the "green sentence" in the IGE letter at the bottom of the Graduate Student Cooperative Page. )
If your total score is below 65% you should consider how important you feel these questions and NSTP are to you. If they are important we encourage you to take and teach the Orientation Course and then redo this test.
If you have a high score but only selected a few questions, consider the value of the additional questions and how much more expert you might be if you had the additional knowledge to obtain a similar score from this course.
Now proceed to the Apptitude Inventory.
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The most effective way to learn NSTP is to teach it. Please feel free to invite and/or guide others you know through this Course. You can give it to others as a gift for most occasions If you have done well with the course you may ask the mailing list respondents to the course if you may join them and supportively respond to others who take this course. If you have no further involvement in the course, please remove yourself from the Interact Group Mailing List at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PNCExplore or write the list and request to be removed. The list moderators may also do this automatically if they choose. |
SUMMARY: A publishable Nature-Connected Counseling and Education article is available that summarizes this course. You may refer people to it and/or our homepage
Guaranteed: Your personal, professional or academic life will improve dramatically as, through NSTP training, you develop relationships that answer and help others answer the questions above.
Donations: This Exporation Course has been made available to you free of charge through a financial donation from a PNC course participant. If you would like to make a similar donation to help make the Course available to others, it would be most welcome in improving our relationships with self, society and nature.
The Institute of Global Education is an Educational Non-Profit Organization. Send donations to IGE, P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
| REMINDER: The best way to learn the nature-reconnecting process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. From ten sessions over35 days you will enjoy the benefits it holds for you and the world you love. |
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PROJECT NATURECONNECT The Natural Systems Thinking Process P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 www.ecopsych.com www.webstrings.org Dr. Micheal J. Cohen, Director send e-mail |