Institute of Global
Education
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Complimentary Discovery Course... Part 4
Exploring Psychological Connections With Nature
What have you learned? What do you want to learn?
Summary reading: Read the NSTP article (that you may have read previously) as a course review and note if its impact or meaning is clear or has changed for you.
Determine your course score
As mentioned previously, completing this Exploration Course allows you to sample about 30% of the Orientation Course material, consider the value of the Orientation, and make its completion relatively simple since you have already done some of the work.
To help you determine your "grade" for this kind of education, we have listed below some questions that are addressed by the Orientation Course and our other courses.
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. ..........% What are the 5 major steps to letting nature help you reduce destructive attachments?
4. ..........% Do you deserve to have good feelings? Why?
5. ..........% How can you increase your Globally Balanced Thinking Score?
6. ..........% How many natural senses do you have? Do you think with them? How?
7. ..........% What is the point source of contemporary society's environmentally destructive ways?
8. ..........% What is the key factor that makes people different or separate from nature?
9. ..........% What value is there in you safely feeling closer to nature?
10. ..........% What is the greatest truth in your life that you can trust? (Clue: the answer is neither God, love, honesty nor nature.)
11. ..........% What is the difference between a thought and a feeling?
12. ..........% How many natural senses can you name that you can know and learn from?
13. ..........% 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?
14. ..........% Is there a relationship between our runaway social and environmental problems?
15. ..........% How does nature within you know how to relate responsibly to nature in others and the .environment?
16. ..........% Life has a purpose, what is it?
17. ..........% Can you be sane if you are a cooperative citizen of an insane society?
18. ..........% Is our innate ability to sense and feel of, by and from nature?
19 ..........% Does our formal education or our leadership competently address the above questions?
20. ..........% Why don't survival stories and dollar bills produce balance and purity, like nature works?
21. ..........% What is consciousness and who invented it?
22. ..........% Do miracles happen in contradiction to nature?
23. ..........% What is the relationship between nature and the human spirit?
24. ..........% Do our problems result from the difference between how we think and how nature works?
25. ..........% Since nature produces no garbage, does nature practice unconditional love?
26. ..........% In nature, does two plus two equal four?
27. ..........% Where in nature do you find life abstracted?
28. ..........% To be part of a system, you have to be in communication with it in some way. We are part of the global life system and vice versa; how does it communicate with us and we with it?
29. ..........% What is the relationship between natural attactions and consciousness?
30. ..........% How and where do you collect self-evidence?
D. 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 three parts of 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 60-100% we urge you to gain further expertise in NSTP and apply it. The world desperately needs your talent 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 60% 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 adaquit you might be if you had the additional knowledge to obtain a similar score from this course.
The most effective way to learn NSTP is to teach it. Please feel free to guide others you know through this Course.
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 seven sessions over28 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 |