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
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Part Seven continued WEBSTRING SELF-DISCOVERY: Section Two |
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SECTION 2 (continued from SECTION1) Instructions: I like (or love) myself (myself is substituted for the part 1 attraction) because (2)___________________________ Now read the sentence including the new prefix: "I like (or love) myself because"____________(2) aloud. Read it to others, if possible. How does the whole sentence feel? Does it describe part of you? For example: "I like the tree because it is beautiful and strong," becomes "I like myself because I am beautiful and strong." You are nature. This revised sentence "tricks" your nature disconnected reason and language senses to become more consciousness of your inner nature. Can you validate that the changed sentence: "I like (or love) myself because (2)_____" It describes some aspect of yourself, your inner child or nature. How do you feel about yourself in this light? Does it feel right? You can be sure that some part of you is described by this sentence. It is the webstring in you that found the webstring in nature attractive in the first place. If reading the sentence makes you feel uncomfortable, search your life for at least one incident, example or dream relating to the sentence that feels right or accurate. Perhaps you can imagine or create one, if necessary. You might ask a friend to help you find this part of yourself. Friends usually can see past your self-doubts. Your sentence may be a metaphor. Try to find examples of parts of yourself that accurately match this metaphor. Remember that sometimes you have been taught to deny them, because they are your nature, and, like a weed, nature is to be conquered, not supported. For this reason, many people have trouble admitting shamelessly they are beautiful, strong, worthy, etc. Additional activities in the Project NatureConnect courses and books will help you reconnect discomforting parts of you with nature and let nature nurture them so that they feel comfortable to you. This makes you more immune to nature desensitized people, and they more respectful of you. When you are with other people, you can do this same activity
with their inner nature. You can also reverse the activity. Find
some natural part of yourself that you like or love and see if
you can discover and speak to that part of you in another person.
This also helps build relationships. Summary Option: You are encouraged to do the following evaluation activity: Below is a summary statement about this page 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 W: It is reasonable to have our senses of reason, language and consciousness, validate our hidden webstring connections with nature and enjoy the responsible rewards this whole brain connection produces.
B. Supportive Reading The Self-Discovery activity can serve as an indicator. People who find value in it show that they trust their non-verbal self and attractions to some extent. That is key in living in balance with nature within and around us. Non-verbal attraction relationships are an essence of the natural world and its eons of creation and sustainability. Since we produce artificial substitutes for parts of nature we have lost, we too often forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its intelligent, life supportive, non-literate ways. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's perfection, thus producing pollution, garbage and relationship disorders. Wildlife flees our insensitivity as do people. We feel lonely. We accurately sense that we don't belong. When we seek greater nature connectedness from contemporary society, its leaders act little differently than the storied Governing Council of a metaphoric island community. The island and Council consisted entirely of non-sighted people. Citizens there were content and adequate in their ways, but were born totally blind. One day, Gulliver, a shipwrecked castaway, half-dead, washed up on the shore. Compassionately many community members nourished and loved him to full recovery. Then he became the bane of their existence. He demanded things unknown to them in their blindness: windows, lights, books, television, painted walls and sunglasses. The Council investigated and discovered the trouble. Gulliver had strange organs that could see. The council, in their wisdom, solved their and his problem. They surgically removed his eyes. All was fine after that except Gulliver's dismembered webstring of sight pained him whenever anything reminded him of the loss of his eyes. Gulliver's loss of sightnedness parallels our loss of our webstring connections with their origins in nature. However, we can recover that connectedness. We can identify people who show that they find rewards when they participate in the webstring connections activities. We can support them teaching these activities to others. They are people who usually value the simple Self-Discovery Activity on this page. Be cautious of those who merely want to discuss, but not do the activities. They are often troubled about the polluted pool of nature desensitized words and relationships they swim in. However, they are fearfully more troubled about leaving the pool, even for a moment. They have become psychologically addicted to or controlled by substitutes for Nature's perfection, destructive or otherwise. This only changes when the shortcomings of the pool become too apparent or painful, (sometimes known as mid-life crises.) The following story reflects their predicament.
To find allies in NSTP read and do the unique greeting card or gift via the internet. It is worth your while to visit this site. Use it as a tool in your work or relationships. Send it to people and discover their response to it. Then connect to the webstrings in them that attract you.
C) Thoughtful verbalization: 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.
Optional: Read Chapter 6 in Reconnecting With Nature for additional information the relationship of words to webstrings.(do not do the activity there).
Dreamtime: Get a night's sleep before doing the next activity. Note, upon awakening, whether any changes have occurred with respect to your outlook or the way you feel.
NEXT STEP: Take me to the Orientation Course Summary Page (8)
Lost? Return to the INDEX BASE CAMP or use the link sequence below.
Sequence Links: *INDEX BASE CAMP*
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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 NatureAn 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 ACTIONThe Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
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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.
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Experience first hand the benefits of the process via our Orientation Course
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