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CREATING MOMENTS THAT LET EARTH TEACHIntroduction:
Welcome to the process centered IGE-Greenwich University degree program.
While Earth and its people are increasingly at risk, far too many of us can't stop gaining fulfillment by dancing on the deck of our sinking ship. This distance learning graduate program and its courses enable students to introduce a new, satisfying dance step, one that restores the integrity of the ship and its passengers.
Our program for the Greenwich degree offers nature connected educational, counseling and healing techniques. It is designed for those who are thoughtful enough to recognize that many destructive aspects of our society don't stop because we are psychologically bonded to them; that to promote change we must invoke a process that addresses these bonds.This program promotes responsible change by helping us make conscious sensory contacts with natural areas. There, we responsibly reconnect with our origins, reignite our joy and heal our nature disconnected cravings, stress and hurt.
Students learn how to use nature sensitive activities, teach them to others and build them into their careers. They become experts in producing worthwhile ways of relating that create and sustain balanced relationships.
The framework of this program is a proven Natural Systems Thinking Process. Natural systems intelligently sustain balance. They cooperatively create life, diversity and beauty without producing garbage, pollution or our other challenging problems. As part of nature we inherently know how to do this. The Natural Systems Thinking Process enables us to think and relate using that part of us. It is activated by genuinely reconnecting it to its origins and support in nature.
The Learning Process:Our degree programs in Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology offer hands-on courses, internships and research. They blend wellness, psychology and ecology with sustainability. The natural world is our classroom and teacher, the internet our vehicle for instruction, communication and shared learning.
Students master activities in educating and counseling with nature that incorporate personal and team learning as well as research, internships and teacher training. They learn how to create moments that let Earth teach. .Course participation, contract learning and research is done independently at home, utilizing e-mail, at the student's contracted pace and with on-site study options. Participants learn pratical methods and materials to promote personal, professional and spiritual growth.
Each student's applicable credits and life experiences are transferred into their programs. This reduces the time necessary to complete the program.
Our accredited courses may be transferred into other degree programs that accept them.
NOTE: The best way to learn the Process is to engage in it through our short, online Orientation Course. You may then intern and later teach the course if you choose. The Orientation Course (ECO 500) is an accredited one credit course that becomes part of your program.
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Institute of Global Education
Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Project NatureConnectAPPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY / INTEGRATED ECOLOGY
Department Chair Office Information
Dr. Michael J. Cohen
Post Office Box 1605,
Friday Harbor, WA 98250.
(360) 378-6313
nature@pacificrim.net
Dr. Cohen is a director of the Institute of Global Education and the faculty director of several associated University Applied Ecopsychology/Integrated Ecology degree programs. He also serves as Adjunct Faculty for Portland State University Graduate School of Extended Studies.
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