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 Eight SUMMARY ACTIVITIES |
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1. The Summary Activity: Select Here After completing the activity, send the group a short paragraph that sums up for you the importance of making genuine sensory webstring contact in natural areas to help you think and relate like nature works.
2. Have you learned to own the Process? Why not Intern or Teach and help others and Earth? A. Teach: Visit Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity (ECO 508) and consider taking this self-guiding course for credit or non-credit. It consists of reading a short book (Einstein's World,) about applying NSTP to different situations and identifying what attractions you find in each of the chapters. Having completed the Orientation Course, once you complete this Natural Attraction course you can be a teaching assistant in it and earn $20 every time you work with a person who is taking it. It is not necessarily an online nor interactive course, (although students have enjoyed doing it that way,) so you can help teach it to many people at the same time. It may take 30 minutes of your time to help evaluate the final paper in it. Contact the PNC office to get started.. B. Co-facilitate: As an essence of nature, webstrings serve nature's purpose which is to support nature. To complete this course you are given the same opportunity. You are encouraged to co-facilitate this course as an intern in a forthcoming group. Considering nature's purpose, the best way to learn the Process is to teach it. Facilitating assists others who seek the value of webstring relationships. A stipend is available for those who need it in order to become involved in facilitating. Select here for facilitator information.
3. Do you want to be kept updated on Project NatureConnect or learn to use NSTP professionally? Can you think of appropriate personal, economic and professional opportunities that are available by applying the skills you begin to develop on this course? No need to guess, simply select here. If you see value in involving the Process in your professional work or vice versa, or you want to help the Process grow, you are invited to join the Project NatureConnect Professional Group. It is a mailing list to which updates notices are sent and folks help support each others in PNC when possible. Contact PNC Headquarters if this is of interest to you. People in Degree Programs should be on this list.
4. Are you interested in a obtaining a low cost Ph.D., M.S. or B.A. degree online that centers around Webstrings and includes your prior learning Check out our degree program. It is designed to save you time and money while helping you build an ecopsychology component into your profession and relationships. Discover your best path to responsible relationships and a right livelihood. By successfully completing this course you have completed the major requirement for entrance into the degree program and also become eligible for receiving a $1500 grant or a Scholarship to assist in the program. A certificate program is also available.
5. Summary of Techniques
As is suggested on the Questions and Issues page and the NSTP Introductory Article a distinct breach in consciousness exists between 4-leg and 5-leg (old and new brain) thinking. No matter the excellence of 5-leg thinking, it alone can and will not breach this gap because discussion is verbal and Nature is a non-verbal phenomenon with a proven, long established integrity of its own. It is 5-leg arrogance to believe the new brain will find a perfection greater that Nature's. Today's invention often becomes tomorrow's unsolveable problem. To be known, Nature must be known on its own, non-verbal terms. It is not about to globally start learning to communicate using the words of English or any other language. The 4-leg vs 5-leg breach remains until 5-leg folks do the NSTP activities and meld their words and thinking into webstrings that unify. It is, too often, a waste of time to explain the value of reconnecting with Nature with people who will not do the activities in full. I have found no shortcut for them that does not simply produce another breach of some kind at a later date. To operate properly NSTP demands that each of the following operants be used as each addresses some aspect of our disconnection from nature. Please indicate to your interact group which, if any, of the following process techniques do not seem familiar at this time.: 1) CONSENT: Sensitively obtain permission from a natural area to visit it, be it a wilderness or aquarium. 2) CONTACT: Let natural attractions lead you. Make a safe, non-verbal, sensory (old brain), contact with an attractive, consenting natural area or thing. Call one or more senses that were energized in this activity "webstrings" and note how doing this felt. 3) FEEL: Recognize that contact with natural attractions feels good. Thank the natural attraction you found AND webstring(s) involved for the valuable feelings and information they have provided. 4) TRUST: Trust the thoughts and feelings arising from the contact. 5) VALIDATE: Write, in reasonable language (new brain), your thoughts and feelings from the old brain experience. 6) READ aloud what you wrote, note that your translation is intelligent, enjoyable and honest. 7) SHARE your nature-connected story with other consenting people, personally or via the internet. 8) OBSERVE that you now feel less stressed, that your nature-connected story builds supportive contacts and closer relationships with people and the environment. 9) ACT to stop your discomfort from abusive or exploitive relationships with nature or your inner nature. Insist on receiving and giving permission to relate before interacting. 10) RECOGNIZE that you own this nature reconnecting activity; you may repeatedly use and teach it to benefit yourself, others and the environment. 11) IDENTIFY what reasonable things you will put into the trustable, uncontaminated, thought and feeling room you have built into your mentality. 12) ENJOY a minimum of one night's sleep (integrating dream time) before doing the next activity. 13) REVIEW (optional) your EcoIQ, NSTP Knowledge, and GBT Score. Summarize and change the scores on those that may have increased or strengthened due to this activity or other growth experiences. If any of the above procedures are not familiar, ask your interact group to help you with them.
6. DRAFT: Summary of Process Basics: Below are nine basics of the Natural Systems Thinking Process that help people solve the personal, social and environmental problems that result from the difference between the disconnected way we learn to think and how nature works. Please share how you would you edit, add to or modify them. Rationale: The heart of our unsolveable problems is psychological. We are in denial. We deny that we are addicted to a story that says for us to live we must conquer, exploit and subdue nature, including our inherent human nature. Every other part of nature survives in balance through attractions that unite build and sustain consensual, mutually supportive relationships. NSTP enables us to think and act this way by identifying and addressing our denial and addiction. 1. Nature can be seen as a unifying attraction process that organizes, preserves and regenerates itself to produce an optimum of life, diversity and balanced cooperation without producing garbage, madness or death as we know it. Nature's way of expressing love prohibits the pollution, abusiveness and stress that deteriorate life. 2..We are born part of and attached to nature but learn to spend 99.9% of our conscious time and thought detached/disconnected from nature. Our psyche is dismembered from its origins. It silently suffers its profound loss of contact with its nurturing sensory and sensibility roots in nature's ways and intelligence. However, any word or incident that reminds us of our psychological dismemberment breaks the silence. It triggers the emotional pain of it into consciousness and we feel it. As reflected by the state of the world, indoors or outdoors, our mentality is guarded, stressed, ill, wanting and destructive due to our painful deficiency of nature's peace, wisdom, and beauty (10, 16F). 3.When we provide material, social, or financial rewards for nature-disconnecting stories and technologies, we become psychologically bonded to them and their destructive effects. Things that experience these effects suffer. 4.The web of life is a global ecosystem of which people are part. To be part of a system one must in some way be in communication with the system. The Natural Systems Thinking Process enables a person to restore their inherent 53-sense ability to consciously register, enjoy, and respond to communication with nature. It accomplishes this by helping us bring into our awareness the webstring attraction loves that we share with the web of life and make sensory contact with them in nature, backyard or backcountry. 5. People experience webstrings as sensory attractions, uncomfortable sensations are webstrings that attract us to seek additional webstrings and continue to participate. 6. Attractiveness is conscious of itself. When people think in consent and connection with webstrings they experience an attractive global consciousness that leads to unity at every level of endeavor. 7. There is an age old purpose and non-verbal process that sustains nature's web of life and its members, including people. That attractive purpose and process is to support life in balance. In this regard there are no known substitutes for the real thing. People must connect with genuine nature or suffer from the imperfections of the substitutes we create for it.
8. Because we are nature renegades, to reconnect with nature, relationships must be entered by gaining consent and measured by their long term effects on local and global life in balance. 9. To reverse our imbalance and its discontents, repeated, thoughtful, shared, consensual, sensory contacts with webstring attractions in natural areas reconnect our thinking with nature's ways. This produces more sensitive and responsible personal, social and environmental relationships. A person can learn to trust and use these nature connected experiences to help produce unity and balance.
7. Director's Summary Thanks for the courage and conviction to take this course and validate your global citizenship webstring attractions. I look forward to further contact with you on other courses and functions of Project NatureConnect and share with you, below, my summary of the need for global citizenship that includes the web of life. Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
In summary for myself: Some environmentally
enlightened friends of mine own land that lies next to a national
park. Recently, I tried to convince them not to clear cut their
My friendss' look reminded me of a man who was pinned in the wreckage of a train. Only his upper torso was visible. During his rescue he said he felt OK, he even joked with his rescuers. Then he died. When they freed his body, they found his legs had been amputated. Traumatic shock to many webstrings had prevented him from being aware of his demise. My clear cutting friends, with respect to their relationship with nature, were similarly in traumatic shock. So are most members of industrial society. In far too many of us, that glazed look not only appears with respect to our abuse of the environment. It also appears with respect to our abuse of substances and each other. Nature does not display our runaway problems. Biologically and psychologically, every human being is to nature as our leg is to our body, or our toe is to our hand. We are born of, and consist of, the materials and at least 53 natural sensory relationship webstrings that pervade the natural world. We mainly differ from nature in that we educate ourselves to think differently than how nature works . TRAUMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL SHOCK: Unlike members of nature centered cultures, at birth we are physically and emotionally "amputated" from the environment. Our traumatic separation desensitizes us to natural life, including the nature of our children, each other and our inner nature. We uncontrollably violate the world with the anger and frustration from our lack of natural fulfillment and wisdom and the subconscious hurt we feel and protect. Often, to our cost, we emotionally attach, addict to or depend on persons or substances that fulfill our wanting, nature disconnected senses. With respect to nature, we live in a state of Traumatic Psychological Shock (TPS). It pollutes healthy reasoning, environments and budgets. It is reversed by nurturing and restoring our 53 natural senses back to wellness and contact with Mother Earth. We lose conscious contact with our planetary home and community. Our study of 4237 participants shows that psychologically, our excessive indoor upbringing makes us indoor addicts. Our earth separated new brain literacy overpowers our natural thinking processes. Through TPS, it subdues eons of natural beauty, balance and profound old brain sensitivities. Nature-assaulting stories flood our consciousness, overriding, rather than integrating, the web of life's intelligent contributions. Invasiveness and abusiveness often become our destiny. We live with, and act out, their stress and discomfort. We learn to shug our shoulders and say "That's life." Our nature-conquering society stops us from learning that "That's life within our Earth disconnected cultural cage and thinking." In contrast, a student with a high Globally Balanced Thinking Score did a nature connecting activity on the Introductory Course. Consider the following repeatable, teachable, discovery that resulted. What might Earth and our interpersonal relationships be like if many people learned to do and teach these activities?
I invite you to consider several other significant quotations
from the email journals of Course participants that are located
on this site If you have done well in this course it indicates that you have developed a rare, nature connected, degree of consciousness and balanced relationships. You can help others who seek this and improve the wellness of the global ecosystem, too. Project NatureConnect invites your further participation to this end and will support your endeavors as best we can.
Below is a summary statement about this process 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 X: The Natural Systems Thinking Process helps us offset our traumatic psychological shock and bring us into moments in balance with nature.
Your Score: You may determine your Nature Reconnection Fulfillment Appitude by adding up the scores of Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, then multiplying the sum by 12.5. Make that number a percentage or a decimal number. It indicates your potential for enjoying the rewards of balanced personal and global thinking through the use of the Natural Systems Thinking Process. Repeat the activities offered in this Orientation Course and see if your Score rises and how that helps you feel and relate. You may continue to increase your score and potential through the additional courses, materials and degree programs offered by Project NatureConnect.
Optional Reading Bonus:
Additional Training: 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. NEXT STEP: Take me to the Orientation Course Part Nine Evaluation Activities
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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
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APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTIONThe Natural Systems Thinking Process
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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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building. The glazed look on their faces indicated my suggestion
did not register. Missing in their mentality were the webstrings
necessary to modify their action.
