The antidote offers activities that help us reduce our destructive excessiveness, a disorder that deteriorates the wellness of our living planet and ourselves. It is a globally sensitive science that is easily applied, one that enables us to experience first-hand how Planet Earth acts like, or is a wise living organism. The project's nature-connecting program helps us act in ways that, "Do onto Earth and nature as we would have them do onto us."
"The critical problems we face today are no surprise," says the Institute's Director, Dr. Michael J. Cohen, author of "The Web of Life Imperative" "These problems have been the subject of best selling books and media since 1948. We suffer our health and peace dilemmas today simply because we don't address their underlying source."
Cohen believes we bypass many excellent ideas that would improve well-being on our Living Planet because we are missing an effective means to implement these ideas. He says, " Today, the core mental short-circuit that produces our greatest problems has been identified. In addition a process to rectify it has become available. The process helps us recycle contaminates in our psyche; it remedies our greed and addiction as well as their destructive effects. The process is available on Earth Day via the Internet."
"The good news" says Cohen, "Is that Project NatureConnect's educating, counseling and healing with nature programs help us reduce a destructive prejudice against nature and the unwarranted fears and disorders it promotes. This irrational prejudice makes us spend, on average, over 98 percent of our life with our thoughts and feelings disconnected from the corrective and restorative powers of nature's flow, in and around us."
The pioneering mission of Project NatureConnect is to help us embrace the renewing intelligence of nature's ways, in and around us. The online program's subsidized, UNESCO approved, training courses and degrees enable us to make conscious sensory contact with the life-nurturing energy of the eons that flows through natural areas, backyard or backcountry. We learn how to strengthen this healing power in ourselves and others while visiting a natural area. Any of us who has had a good experience in nature knows that it rewardingly uplifts our spirit and clears our thinking.
An Akamai Ecopsychology program participant said, "I began to have a sense of Mother Earth being another mother to me that had never abandoned me and I felt this huge sense of healing."
Three new Earth Day web pages present the Project NatureConnect program
The core: http://www.ecopsych.com/core.html
Transformation: http://www.ecopsych.com/transformation.html
Community Learning: http://www.ecopsych.com/communityprocess.html
Contact Mike Cohen at 360-378-6313, or Barbara Huning (507) 450-0200
Further information and free materials: http://www.ecopsych.com nature@interisland.net
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Program Founder and Director:
Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished World Citizen Award, Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Program Director of the Institute of Global Education, where he coordinates its Integrated Ecology Department and Project NatureConnect. He also serves on the Ecopsychology faculty of Portland State University and Akamai University. Dr. Cohen has founded sensory environmental education outdoor programs independently and for the National Audubon Society and Lesley University (AEI). He conceived the 1985 National Audubon Conference "Is the Earth a Living Organism," and is an award winning author of "Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature," "The Web Of Life Imperative"and "Reconnecting With Nature." A synopsis and a video about his lifework may be viewed at http://www.imdb.comtitle/tt1357054/
"We cannot win the battle to increase the well-being of the web of life, that includes our life, without strengthening our natural senses, our emotional bonds with nature - for we will not fight to save what we do not love."
http://www.ecopsych.com/mjcohen.html
Email: nature@interisland.net
360-378-6313, Pacific Time Zone
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