Education, counseling and leadership in support of the United Nations manifesto for environmentally sound personal growth and social justice     Institute of Global Education Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Project NatureConnect Michael J.Cohen, Ed.D. Director Department of Integrated Ecology Institute of Global Education     The IGE Graduate Student Cooperative program.   History Nature can be seen as a self-organizing process that cooperatively produces itself and its perfection through binding natural attraction energies. For the past few years, graduate students and faculty have organized the IGE degree program to emulate nature's self-organization .They creatively learn how to cooperatively network and help coordinate the program through their attraction to its beneficial process, outcomes, and each other. To the best of their ability degree students as part of their program and course work, involve themselves in the parts of its operation, listed below, that attract them. There, as mid-career professionals, they share their expertise and time in a multitude of disciplines and interests while getting credit for doing so in their courses. They carry and teach this skill upon graduation. The cooperative program is effective because most of our students have had years of experience in their professions and are determined to grow. Once a candidate is accepted into the program they join the student cooperative, become part of a small supportive guide group, and network via email with the group and the entire student body internationally.   Cooperative Relationships Educational Activities of the Cooperative for which students receive course credit include: Support Group Participation: Learn how to complete degree applications, join the Co-op and be assigned and participate in a Co-op support group. Intake: learn how to help welcome and orient degree candidates into support-guide groups and share their ever growing knowledge and experience in the program with other students in these groups. Orientation Course Coordination: learn how to help put together and start Orientation Course groups of 3-6 people and co-facilitate them. Cooperative Course Coordination: learn how to help organize interact study sections of the degree program courses, students and facilitators . Group researcher and reader: learn how to help assume one of four distinct supporting roles in the interact groups of students who are taking a course together and participate in evaluations of student and facilitators as part of the course. Public Relations. learn how to creatively explore and help students place links, notices, articles and grant applications in appropriate places on the internet and other media to educate the public about the program and their work. This helps student build a niche for themselves in their community Dissertation Preparation: Advanced students assist students with project or dissertation preparation and research. Online Newsletter : learn how to help collect and distribute to the student body emails describing student successes, challenges, opportunities and growth in the Program. Competency Exam and Oral Examination Team: Faculty as well as advanced students and graduates read, evaluate and help students improve their responses to the comprehensive exams. Publications. Students write and publish educational materials that support various aspects of the program and add new knowledge to it. Mentoring. Individuals learn how to help candidates on equivalent education growth and documentation for Bachelors and Masters waivers, private or special courses, and in other areas where needed. Coordination Team: students help coordinate the cooperative program, fill in where needed, and become increasingly adept at the programs many facets.   Be sure to visit the basic requirements page to see the additional course activities Cooperative students are involved in to support their program and the Cooperative       Return to Degree Program table of contents         The best way to learn and teach how to implement integrity 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, accredited, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared, online activity, information and training to become Natural Attraction literate. 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 the 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 Activity 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 and peace of person, planet and spirit P.O. 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