Institute of Global
Education
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Complimentary Exploration Course..
Nine-Leg Thinking Aptitude Appraisal
The sensory disconnection of contemporary people from nature produces psychological stress that underlies many of our problems. Some people more than others have the ability to recognize and address this phenomenon and thereby make an exceptional and rewarding contribution to society and Earth. Your honest responses to the statements below regarding this exploratory course will help you determine your aptitude for this kind of work.
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FOR EACH STATEMENT A-O below, record the number that indicates your agreement with the statement. 1..........2..........3..........4..........5...........6.........7..........8..........9.........10. |
( ..) A. Some of the experiences
in this course could have been enjoyed by children or adults
no matter their backgrounds .
( ..) B. People are part
of Nature and vice versa; natural systems flow within, around
and through us.
( ..) C. Special training, books, or courses were not necessarily needed in order for people to enjoy many of the course experiences. For the most part, something within themselves and Nature connected and produced the experience and its value.
( ..) D. Most of the experiences make good sense and therefore reflect the presence of an intelligence or wisdom in Nature.
( ..) E. Origins of humanity's biology, psychology and spirit along, with inherent support for them, can be found in Nature within and around us.
( ..) F. On average, contemporary people learn to spend less than one one thousandth of one percent (.001%) of their life in tune with (in full conscious sensory contact with) natural areas. We spend over 95% of our time indoors.
( ..) G. The most destructive, lasting problems that face us (including war, environmental degradation, mental health, loneliness and excessive stress/violence/conflict,) are seldom caused or suffered by intact natural systems or nature connected people(s).
( ..) H. If disconnecting ourselves from our inherent sensory nurturance in Nature destructively stresses our 53 natural senses, then genuinely reconnecting these senses with nature helps us constructively restore our inner peace and integrity.
( ..) I. If disconnected, frustrated natural senses cannot find responsible fulfillment they will be be open and vulnerable to irresponsible fulfillment .
( ..) J. A readily available, backyard or back country, nature-reconnecting psychological process can improve most professions and relationships by becoming a component of them.
( ..) K. People who master, use and teach a sensory nature reconnecting process have improved their happiness, income, occupation, marriage, family, business, credibility, and global citizenship .
( ..) L. Due to industrial society's runaway desire to economically and socially "progress" by exploiting Nature, people who attempt to protect natural systems around and within them are prejudicially demeaned as "fuzzy thinkers, tree huggers, earth muffins, immature, flakes, environmentalists, hippies, obstructionists, zealots, etc."
( ..) M. There is value in sharing with others our attraction experiences in Nature and learning from the natural attractions others share with us.
( ..) N. People in contemporary society who have strong feelings for Nature are part of Nature's diversity. Their thinking has survived the challenge of being confined to society's "nature-disconnected well bottom." In this sense, through natural selection they are ambassadors for Nature's value and integrity.
( ..) O. Nurture your felt love for Nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of Nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our excessive disconnection from this love produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness to ourselves and Nature. To regain our integrity we must learn how to engage in an easily accessible process, one that scientifically reconnects us to that love and restores its peaceful voice in our thoughts and soul, for we don't fight to save what we don't love.
APPRAISAL RESULTS
Total your A-O scores and divide the total by 15 to determine you NSTP aptitude.
High scores are rare. They indicate great aptitude for contributing and being successful in the field of Applied Ecopsychology or Integrated Ecology.
If your score is high, you might ask yourself: "If I am not becoming involved with this unique, important field and its rewards, who do I think is going to implement the vital contribution it can make?"
Visit the Homepage of Project NatureConnect for further information in this regard.
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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 |