PROJECT NATURECONNECT Greenwich University Applied Ecopsycology/Integrated Ecology ORIENTATION COURSE ©Copyright 1996 Michael J. Cohen    Elements of Global Citizenship: The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life The Art of Thinking With Nature

Part Seven WEBSTRING SELF-DISCOVERY

A. The Experience This is a two-part reconnecting activity you can do to help your new brain discover and validate your connections with the web of life within and around you. SECTION1: Go to an attractive plant, animal, mineral or place in a natural area. Try not to impose on it. Thankfully ask for its permission to become involved with it. Gain its consent to help you with this activity. Do the following activity once you are sure the natural thing you selected continues to give you some sort of comfortable, attractive good feeling. Be sure that you like this natural attraction. Write down what thing or webstring in this area you like and why. Make this as simple a response as: I like (or love) this ___________ (plant, animal, mineral, place, thing, sensation) (1) I like (or love) it because it (2)___________________(Complete this sentence fully. State why you like (or love) the natural attraction you choose and enter that reason in (1). Notice that you have produced a webstring connected statement. Copy the "because (2)" statement you wrote above and be ready to paste it elsewhere, or have a written copy of it readily available PART 2 Be sure you have completed Part 1. Note: This activity will not be helpful if what you liked in nature is a "hurtful" aspect of nature rather than a comfortable one. ("Discomforting" aspects of nature are usually signals to immediately seek more comfortable attractions in nature. See Chapter 13 RWN)     Start your post to the group with the Subject (GROUP NAME OR NUMBER)_________: PART 1, YOUR NAME, so that other course members and readers can identify it, read it, and share their thoughts and feelings about your experiences with this page and vice versa. Submit your attraction experiences, thoughts and feelings from the material on this page to your support group or journal along with the following Twelve 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 experience. 2) the three most important things you learned from the chapter 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 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 in the final paper for this course. 7) What value, if any, was there to doing the Summary Option (If you did it.) 8) Write one or two keywords that convey what important thing you learned from this assignment. 9) Write one or more complete, single, short, power sentence "quotes" that convey a significant contribution that this assignment makes to improving our relationships. (10) Integrating Dream Time:get at least night's sleep before doing the next activity. While your 5-leg mind sleeps, your 4-leg mind rides the inroads to consciousness made by the activity and reading. Note, upon awakening, whether any changes have occurred with respect to your outlook or the way you feel. 11) Conclude by identifying what things you have put into the trustable, uncontaminated, thought and feeling room/space you built into your psyche during Part/Chapter One. The use of these eleven Interact Catalysts will enhance your learning experience and that of the others in the course as well. 12) 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. Select here to continue     Lost? Return to the INDEX BASE CAMP or use the link sequence below.   Course Sequence Links: *INDEX BASE CAMP* PREREQUISITES | INSTRUCTIONS | PRE-POSTING REMINDER PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE | PART SIX | PART SEVEN |PART EIGHT | PART NINE | PART TEN | RESOURCES

 

What you can do: The Orientation Course, below, responds to 32 critical life relationship questions. They are answered by enabling you to enjoy and then share online ten authentic, sensory, Nature connected attraction experiences over a 12 day to 5-week period. Sign the Earth Day Petition for Peace on Earth Through Peace With Earth and put to use the Earth Day Activity   THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY AND TEACH SELF-EVIDENT ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES IS THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS:   ORIENTATION COURSE: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life The Art of Thinking With Nature An exciting, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared, online activity, information and training with credit optional. Learn by doing. Become a practitioner anywhere. This is a free course if it meets your needs, a transferable prerequisite for additional courses, degrees and participation. The course is our best, most complete and useful way to help nature restore the good nature of humanity in contemporary society. It opens new vistas in academics, counseling, careers, spirit and wellness, vistas that recycle and purify destructive thinking. Optional Credit $42.00   READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR APATHY Einstein's World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course. It helps you reverse nature disconnection disorders from your home. You can take it, teach it and be paid, too. Book $15.00, Course $20.00. Optional Credit $42.00   EXPLORE THE PROCESS FREE: Our Exploratory Course online enables you to sample the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn, first hand, its thrust and benefits. INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council   PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available online tools for the health of person, planet and spirit P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 www.ecopsych.com APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION The Natural Systems Thinking Process Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director send email nature@interisland.net     Nature Connected Education and Counseling Courses and Degrees Online Too often we suffer and feel helpless because the deterioration of humanity and the environment hurts us and we are unaware of its cause. Research demonstrates that the stress arising from our extreme sensory separation from our nurturing origins in Nature underlies most of our unsolvable personal, social, and global problems. In a democracy, to reach our hopes and dreams the knowledge we discover must be accompanied by a readily available educational process that motivates and enables the public to apply the knowledge. With respect to our destructive disconnection from nature, the web page links, below, empower you to use and teach an effective rehabilitating process that will help you improve most settings and relationships. . Experience first hand the benefits of the process via our Orientation Course   RATIONALE  ORIENTATION DEGREES or CERTIFICATION COURSES RESULTS  ACTIVITIES FAQ WORKSHOPS ARTICLES  ECO-IQ TEST BOOKS INTERNSHIPS JOB/CAREER  EARTH DAY PEACE PLAN FREE COURSE WEBSITE HOME PAGE  VALIDATION NEWSLETTER DISCUSSION EARTH DAY PETITION LINKS . PLEASE NOTE: All links to http://www.pacificrim.net/~nature/-name-.html have been moved to http://www.ecopsych.com/-name-.html. If a pacificrim page link is not working, kindly change its domain address from pacificrim.net to ecopsych.com .   A GIFT FOR YOU Thank you for your interest in our program. As a gift from us for visiting this page you may build your own free website SELECT HERE     For previous pages use BACK or GO of your browser Please SCROLL UP to return to the top of this page. . . ... ...