Institute of Global Education
A special NGO consultant to the
United Nations Social and Economic Council.
PROJECT NATURECONNECT

 

 

Webstrings:
Snug Harbor Nature Sensitivity Training
SENSORY ECOLOGY IN ACTION!

Increase your ability to participate in nature's perfection -whether in natural areas you visit, or at home.

"Natural systems and our quality of life are at risk because our leaders deny the existence and value of webstrings. Were you ever taught about them and their vital balancing role? " - Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Program Director "This is an innovative and thoroughly relevant program for resensitizing ourselves to nature." - Earthfoot.org .

Snug Harbor Program (For online distant learning programs, see below. ) Title: Connecting Through Webstrings: Heighten Your Sensory Awareness in Nature Definition: Web-string: an attraction-sensitive string of the global web-of-life around and within us. Webstrings feelingly help people bring nature's balanced workings into their awareness and relationships. For a more complete description select here. Program Description: Master thoughtful, drug free, nature reconnecting webstring activities. They produce understanding and dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, ideals and spirit. This program teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that tap the "higher power" wisdom of nature's creation process. Its unique methods and materials help you let nature nurture self-esteem, friendships and responsible relationships.   Guide: Dr. Michael Cohen When: Year round Length of program: One hour to five or more days. Where: San Juan Island, Washington State, USA. The Training Center is located on the west coast of San Juan Island at the entrance to Mitchell Bay across the Straits of Harrow from Victoria, B.C. It is 20 miles from shore in North Puget Sound, 70 miles north of Seattle in the shadow of Mt. Baker. The island is spectacularly surrounded by the Cascade, Olympic and Vancouver Mountain ranges. Transportation to San Juan island includes a direct flight from Sea Tac or Lake Union Airport or a beautiful car and ferry ride from Anacortes of Sidney, B.C. Purpose: Once you learn how to use webstring activities, you benefit from them as you hike, kayak, sail, canoe, bicycle, cruise, motor scooter and take nature walks to the varied inland, wetland and shoreline habitats on San Juan Island. This often includes Orca whale sightings. National Park historical sites on the island acquaint you with the peaceful settlement processes of border conflicts between England and the United States. Seminars in traditional rural music of the 1800's are also available as are shoreline accommodations at the Snug Harbor Resort and Marina. Upon leaving the island you may continue this sensory ecology training and process at home via internet online instruction and study groups. Through them you may obtain additional expertise, credit and/or ecopsychology distant learning Ph.D, M.S. and B.S. degrees. You may use webstrings to enhance academic or professional programs and personal relationships. As you gain expertise in using webstrings you may intern in teaching this skill and help facilitate online courses in it for credit and a stipend. Fee: $60/day for one person, two or more people, $110/day total. Minimum $20.00/day/person. The fee only includes instruction. (Food and lodging are left to the individual. A package is available at the Training Center. Cooking facilities come with the accommodations there. Visitors should come prepared to be outside and with camping gear if they intend to camp there. Other campsites and other lodging arrangements may be made via the internet or phone.) Additions: Option A: Receive 1-7 credits of Portland State University transferable academic or professional training graduate or undergraduate credit. $40.00/Credit. Option B: Upon completion of your visit, you may continue this program with friends by obtaining a copy of Dr. Cohen's self-guiding book Reconnecting With Nature. $14.95 Option C: Upon completion of your visit, you may continue this program via online, sensory ecology courses and degree programs.   Outcome Goals: 1. To learn ways of thinking critically that reconnect with and heed natural webstring callings within ourselves, others and natural areas. 2. To understand why we naturally deserve to have good feelings and how to obtain them in globally responsible ways. 3. To learn how to self-regulate by letting webstrings nurture the balanced spirit, wisdom and unity of nature within us. 4. To reverse apathy, stress and dysfunction by energizing our natural senses and feelings through nature connecting activities. 5. To enjoy and restore nature's enchantment within and about us. 6. To learn how to speak to Earth and let it teach us, to know nature as nature knows itself. 7. To recognize the culturally induced unbalanced relationship between the old-brain and the new-brain and consciously let contact with nature re-balance them. 8. To learn to personally or professionally organize, facilitate and introduce the webstring applied ecopsychology process and to network with others with similar goals.   How the Webstrings program works: Learn how to own and use 20 sensory nature reconnecting activities that empower you to create moments that let Earth teach. Locate excellent reasons to find and follow your 53 inherent webstring attraction intelligences to their origins in a natural area. Discover how to obtain the consent of a natural area to teach you about how it works and how it works in you. Enjoy how natural attraction webstring intelligences safely energize you and your classmates and bring you into balance. Help your environmentally nurtured natural energies break through freedom-limiting walls in your thinking. Permit yourself to consciously enter hidden natural valleys of your mind that lie behind the walls of your subconscious. Recognize and identify the often suppressed 53 webstring intelligences of nature that exist within your psyche. Validate your natural sensory inheritance as part of your true inner nature. Discover how to make space for your inner nature to thoughtfully reconnect itself to its origins in a natural area. Experience how this reconnection enables nature to nurture and restore into your thinking the repressed webstring intelligences of your psyche. Celebrate the beneficial rewards from this nature reconnecting process that help you build and, help you help others build, responsible personal and environmental relationships. San Juan Island sites we visit are accessible by car, motor scooter, public transportation or rental boat. A large collection of information about San Juan Island may be found on the internet. The program starts with a 10-15 minute overview that acquaints participants with webstrings and how to relate through them. They then self-pace themselves through a series of outdoor ecopsychology activities and share their experiences with Dr, Cohen and others, indoors or outdoors depending on the weather. We do the activities in various habitats on the island to achieve a diversity of experiences.   Distant Learning Programs Online: Webstrings are activity based learning and sharing experiences. Via the internet, our courses offer the activities to improve sensitivity in natural areas and relationships at home, work or school. This is accomplished through email as part of a supportive, facilitated study group courses that use self-guiding books and training manuals. Courses may precede or follow your ecotravel experiences. To learn how you may participate in this training online select here. If you know now that you want to take an online Orientation Course, with or without credit, select here for details.   Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. 360-378-6313 Send email www.ecopsych.com   For previous pages use the BACK or GO of your browser