Project NatureConnect
........Institute of Global Education
........Portland State University
ON-SITE AND DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES:
Credit Optional 1-6 Units, Graduate or Undergraduate, transferable and/or Professional Clock Hours.
Optionally offered in conjunction with workshops.The best way to learn the Natural Systems Thinkng Process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. You may then intern and later teach the course.
These courses parallel the Core Courses of the Greenwich University Degree Programs and may be transferred into the Programs upon enrollment. Adjusted fee refunds provided.
COUNSELING AND EDUCATING WITH NATURE COURSES
Master thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress and free our spirit by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and relationships.
Savor the sensory adventure of a lifetime by genuinely tapping into nature's balance and beauty.
Our guide helps you find and follow 53 attractive callings from an available natural area. Safely, these callings psychologically energize you and your classmates to
break through freedom-limiting walls in your thinking and enter hidden valleys of your mind. There you make tangible contact with nature's sensory essence inside yourself. You consciously reconnect it to its origins in nature that called you here and feelingly reap beneficial rewards.
Discover how to enliven your life by psychologically plugging yourself into nature's dancing energies and balance.
Learn how to let the natural joy in life help you feel stronger about yourself. Then things naturally go better .
In socially and environmentally responsible ways:
Heighten your inherent sensory awareness:
Let nature help your spirit soar.
Recapture nature's balance, peace and beauty.
Re-energize your inner nature:Restore vibrant connections with the Earth.
Discover the "higher power" in nature's wonders.
Strengthen your natural self, your inner child.Learn a nature centered hobby or livelihood:
Applied Ecopsychology increases wellness and creativity. You may learn and teach this accredited learning process. Let contact with nature help you build rewarding, sustainable relationships.
Participation by appropriate donation.
A self-guiding training book, Reconnecting With Nature, is available or is included.
Title, purpose and description:
COUNSELING AND EDUCATING WITH NATURE:
Nature activities for wellness, spirit and deeper learning"Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."
- D. H. LawrenceThe challenge:
Irrefutable studies now confirm that stress emanating from our nature disconnected "bleeding roots" creates the insatiable wants that cause most runaway personal, social and environmental problems.
The response:
Research at the Institute of Global Education shows that new nature connecting methods and materials rebind our natural roots with Earth, dissolve our stress and reduce our problems. A balanced, kinder way of life evolves. By email, telephone, correspondence or on-site, Project NatureConnect teaches a ecologically sound, education and mental health courses throughout the USA and internationally. The courses benefit all of life by nurturing natural wisdom, creation and spirit. They offer optional academic and continuing professional education credit for teachers, counselors and students.
Course Description
Discover how our excessive separation from nature stresses our sentient inner
nature and causes our most challenging problems. Learn to reverse this destructive process. Master thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and spirit. This course teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that tap the "higher power" wisdom of nature's creation process. Its unique methods and materials let nature nurture self-esteem, friendships and responsibility through e-mail, telephone and personal contacts. Start this refreshing 1-12 week distance learning program at your convenience by obtaining an application. Financial aid, internships and facilitator positions are available. Further information about the program and process is available.
"Presents an accessible, simple, enjoyable and extremely powerful way that love for all life may heal the deep wounds that we suffer." Elisabeth Ryland, Ph.D.
"Timely sound theory and well grounded experience. In our struggle to find connectedness and meaning it allows the natural world to nurture a responsible growing edge of culture." Bill Hammond, Director of Environmental Education, Lee County, FL.
Tuition: includes training manual plus instructional and administrative fees, course schedules and updates. Credit option is approximately $40.00/credit extra, but varies at different cooperating universities.
Informal, Free, 3-day Course taken in conjunction with the NatureConnect Interact and discussion list Use of the Reconnecting With Nature book is optional.
| 1. 4-Day (6-hr ) Orientation Course | $15.00 (no credit option, book optional) |
| 2. 4-Week Introductory Course | $25.00 (1 credit option, see 3. below) |
| 3. Full Course Commitment: 16 weeks ,,..with Certificate | $190.00 (6 credit option, includes 2. above) |
| 4.....Part One: 6 week Course | $ 90.00 (3 credit option ) |
| 5......Part Two: 6 week with Certificate | $ 80.00 (2 credit option) |
| .....Reconnecting With
Nature (RWN) |
$17.95 (RWN for Introductory Course, postage paid SAVE: Order with WMWE $70.00 |
| ....Well Mind, Well Earth (WMWE) | $58.00 (WMWE for Part One & Two postage paid) |
For further information and an application send a blank e-mail.
For financial aid contact the office
Department of Integrated Ecology, P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (360) 378-6313SELECT HERE FOR ON-SITE WORKSHOP/COURSE SCHEDULE
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