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Institute of Global Education
Web Site: http://www.pacificrim.net/~nature/
E-mail:nature@pacificrim.net Dr. Michael J. Cohen, nature@pacificrim.net
Phone: (360) 378-6313
Description: The Institute of Global Education, a United Nations Non-Governmental
Organization operates in cooperation with many universities and Project
NatureConnect. It offers Integrated Ecology and Applied Ecopsychology
distance learning certification and degree programs and accredited,
transferable academic and professional courses. Uniquely, they blend
wellness, environment and psychology to stimulate academic and social
participation and reverse apathy. In the classroom, or at home, they
let the enjoyment, beauty and wisdom of the natural world enhance our
daily lives through hands-on experiences in educating and counseling
with nature. Students learn how to produce thoughtful, sensory
connections with nature that reduce stress, recycle our thinking and
build responsible relationships. They discover how to create moments
that let Earth teach. Internationally, the Institute provides a
supportive ever-growing network of trained, experienced individuals and
nature-connected instruction. It produces books, self-guiding training
manuals, workshops, internships, interactive internet sites, support
groups, financial assistance, degree programs and free, credit-optional
courses. The Institute recognizes that people are part of nature, yet
nature, in its wisdom, does not exhibit our runaway personal, social
and environmental problems. The nature-separated way we learn to think
and relate, not nature, produces our insensitivities and
irresponsibility. Society too often programs us to think and relate
verbally, through words and stories alone. We don1t learn how to touch,
celebrate and think in congress with the 53 inherent, sensory ways and
intelligences of nature within and around us. We seldom honor that
nature and Earth are intelligently, beautifully, illiterate.
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