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Well Mind, Well Earth: 97 Environmentally Sensitive Activities for Stress Management, Spirit and Self-Esteem DOCUMENT RESUME ED 364 805 CG 025 128 AUTHOR Cohen, Michael J. TITLE Well Mind, Well Earth: 97 Environmentally Sensitive Activities for Stress Management, Spirit and Self-Esteem. Continuing Education Training Manual: Environmental Education Ethics and Counseling Psychology. INSTITUTION World Peace Univ., Eugene, OR. PUB DATE Aug 93 NOTE 142p.; For the companion volume "Connecting with Nature," see ED 315 296. AVAILABLE FROMProject NatureConnect, The World Peace University, Box 4112, Roche Harbor, WA 98250. Well Mind, Well Earth/Connecting with Nature manual sets are sold in bulk at rec-ced costs. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Instructional Materials (For Learner) (051) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Counseling; *Environmental Education; *Ethics; *Outdoor Activities; Psychology; *Self Esteem; *Stress Management; Stress Variables IDENTIFIERS *Nature ABSTRACT This document presents an environmental/ethics and counseling psychology training manual. An introductory preview for the manual includes "Green in Green: A study of disconnection, its implications and rectification" by Michael J. Cohen. This preview describes a study that helps readers to identify their natural old-brain as well as their culturally trained new-brain ways of knowing. The study contains a sampling of "Well Mind, Well Earth" nature-connecting activities. The manual itself presents activities and concepts from many areas of modern life. In order to help the reader beneficially become more integrated and balanced, it incorporates and unifies interdisciplinary and cross-cultural experiences. It offers 90 days of unique personal experiences, activities, and concepts that catalyze responsible growth and change through participatory contact with the natural world. The first five chapters are included under Section I, The War for Peace of Mind. Nine chapters are contained in Section II, Feelings are Facts, and an additional nine chapters are presented in Section III, Connecting With Us. Section IV, The Disconnectors, contains three chapters on alienation, prejudice against nature, and nature abandoned. Section V, Empowering Us, includes chapters on strengthening natural senses, fulfillment, and liferaft. Section VI contains four chapters on Interpretation, Theory, and Potential. The final section of the guide contains the appendices. Included are references, a brief description of The World Peace University, a summary of Project NatureConnect, and a form to obtain further information. (NB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********k************************************************************* Well lvfmi do Well Earth 97 Environmentally Sensitive Activities for Stress Management, Spirit and Self-Esteem Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING MANUAL Environmental Education/Ethics PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Counseling Psychology e Edut alional Reiearc, and trnoiovernent EDUCATIONAL RF SOURCES INFORMATION CENTER !ERICA Cohen__ This docomeni has twee ,e11,odd, ad as ecoed Iron, the pe,SOn M organzat.o, Ot.g.nating .1 1994 Edition (' Mina, changes have neon made Io ,,Ove World Peace University Press rnPrOduclion dually TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Proms of v.. or opnOnS,Wed in this loc a mom 00 not neLeSSa0V represent ficrai INFORMATION CENTER !ERIC OEM position Or p01 cc BEST COPY AVAILABLE r% Well Mind, Well Earth "It works, it moves participants. I see significant improvement in their self-esteem and value. They bond to a unity outside themselves that is actually a truth within themselves."* "What a wonderful discovery. This new sensory literacy puts into words, feelings I've had since I was a kid. It gives a voice to nature's wholeness and spirit within and around me." "As energies from my natural attractions empowered me, my restoration increased. This program not only added new dimensions to each of the twelve steps, it became a thirteenth step for me." Well Mind, Well Earth is an Environmental Education/Ethics and Counseling Psychology training manual designed for use in conjunction with our nature interpretation activity book: The World Peace University Field Guide to Con- necting With Nature: Creating Moments That Let Earth Teach.The activity identification numerals that appear in this manual correspond to those in the 1990 edition of Connecting With Nature. *Quotes from anonymous evaluations by workshop participants Regarding Book Sales: Financial Assistance: The sale of Well Mind, Well Earth helps to fund the Dare to Recover Your Nature outreach training programs at World Peace University. We encourage individuals whose budget precludes the purchase of this publication to submit a request indicating the amount of financial assistance they need in order to purchase the book. Money Back Guarantee: Because its activities have proven effective, Well Mind, Well Earth comes with a money back guarantee.Sincerely commit yourself to this training manual's prescribed program described in its instructions. Upon completing it, if you find it has made no difference in your wholeness simply return the book with a letter to that effect and a self-addressed, stamped envelope. $20.00 of your purchase price will be refunded. Well Mind, Well Earth /Connecting With Nature manual sets are sold in bulk at reduced costs. A free 1- day training workshop anywhere in the U.S.A. is available with the pre-purchase of 120 sets at list price. INTRODUCTORY PREVIEW FOR WELL MIND, WELL EARTH Green in Green: A study of disconnection, its implications and rectification MICHAEL J. COHEN, Ed.D. The World Peace University SYNOPSIS: One hundred and fifty years ago Henry David Thoreau observed that the natural world is "A civilization other than our own." Today, scientific evidence shows that each of us is part of nature's civilized,ever changing perfection. It also shows that we teach ourselves to violate that civilization, and therefore ourselves. Personally, socially and environmentally, our problems result from the difference between the process that we and the natural environment use for building responsible relationships. Our logic emphasizes educating ourselves to think and relate through the use of language, -abstract words, symbols and images, while the natural world achieves its perfection through sensory, non-language communication. This difference disconnects us from nature's ways within and about us. It prevents us from enjoying (enjoining) nature's wisdom. We will never teach the natural world to speak English and tell us its knowledge. To learn how nature works we developed revolutionary, sensory, non-verbal, nature connection techniques. By activating a person's critical thinking while they are in any natural area -backyard, park or back country- our award winning educational methods and materials enable people to thoughtfully, sentiently re-connect their inner nature and the natural world. The connection lets nature's self-organizing, regenerative civilization function within individuals of any age. It reverses apathy, dysfunction and dependency. It motivates and responsibly guides academics, stress management and self-esteem. Not surprisingly, truly civilized relationships result. Through a series of questions, the reader as well as participants in this study identify their natural old-brain as well as their culturally trained new-brain ways of knowing. When given an exercise that challenges them to bring to consciousness their inner nature, they experience conflicts and stress. Both disappear when language is introduced that correctly identifies and brings into awareness the sensory signals from their inner nature. The study examines its implications and contains a sampling of Well Mind. Well Earth nature- connecting activities. D I Many researchers validate that a human being's inner nature consists of multiple senses. At least 53 different natural senses in people have been identified (Cohen 1993, 1993A ,Sensory 1992). They include senses like sight, color, thirst, nurturing place, community, motion, language, reason, consciousness and touch., Aspects of each sense pervade the natural world,.In the Fall of 1992, we conducted a study of 62 Washington State residents of differing occupations, ages 16-51.Its object was to determine if we could model the long term effects of assigning cultural symbols to a person's natural sensory experiences. We invite the reader to participate in this study. To do so, from your own memories and thinking, respond to the study's questions and exercises as well as to the participant's responses included here. Part One 1. Answer the following question from your own experience if possible, or otherwise from your best thinking about the question. Question: When did you first learn the color Green? If you can't remember the specific incident write when and/or how you think you or other people learned the color Green. Write your response here: Participants responses fall into two main categories. Here and throughout the remainder of this study, place a check mark next to the responses below with which you agree, write in your own additional response, and react to the responses listed: A. Some participants remember when they learned to associate the word green with their green color sensation thereby knowing green by its name or label : ( ) "My parents told me that the name for the color of the grass and trees was green." () "I learned
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