Reconnecting With Nature: Finding wellness through restoring your bond with the Earth

by Michael J. Cohen

Overview

Most of us have been conditioned to ignore more than fifty natural sensitivities that connect us with nature's beauty, health, and regenerative ways. This omission underlies our unhealthy stress and disorders. The Organic Psychology chapters and activities in Reconnecting With Nature help our fifty-three senses embrace natural systems. The systems, in turn, compost and transform industrial society's pollution of our mind and body into personal, environmental, and spiritual well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893272071
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/14/2007
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Michael J. Cohen has been living, learning, and teaching in the outdoors for more than fifty years. He has founded environmental degree programs with the Lesley College Graduate School and the Institute of Global Education. He currently directs Project NatureConnect, a workshop and Internet program for socially responsible environmental education.

Table of Contents

Introduction     12
Why Think Like Nature?
Experience the Best Teacher-Nature     18
The Thinking Revolution     20
Nature's Maverick Genius     24
Thinking As If Nature Mattered     30
Reconnecting With Natural Senses
How Nature Works: The Intelligence of Natural Senses     38
The Powers of Natural Senses     54
Replenishing Earth and its People: The RWN Factor     66
Reconnecting With Nature     70
People and Nature as Community     76
Elements of Applied Ecopsychology
Educating and Counseling With Nature: The Greening of Psychotherapy     92
The Green/Orange to Green/Green Formula     102
Disconnection and the Tropicmakers     114
The Psychology of Nature Negatives     126
The Natural History of Personality     138
Reconnecting With Nature in Action
Outcomes     152
The RWN Activist Speaks His Peace     166
Self, Meet Yourself     180
A Chapter of Your Life     188
Appendices
Transitioning to Nature-Centered Thinking     192
A Case History of RWN     198
An Ecology of Spirit     212
Well Mind, Well Earth     224
Updates     226
References and Bibliography     236
About the Author     239
Environmental Impact Statement     240