One Academic Course Credit = 1, Quarterly Unit = 10 , Continuing Education Units = 10 Clock Hours

Available CEU Courses

How many credits am I entitled to?

ou may notice that the course information on the PSU web pages lists the number of credits for some of the courses as “1”. If you only  need one credit for your professional license renewal, you can save money by registering  for the course for one credit only. If you are interested in earning the  maximum number of credits, you would enter the actual number of credits earned.

The course list below shows the standard number of credits for  each of the courses. You may earn additional credits through PSU for Co-Facilitating beyond academic requirements, for being a Mentor or Reader, and for Organizing and Teaching a course (Outreach Program).

Tuition: $55.00 (PSU) per CEU + PNC tution

ECO 500/600: The Organic Psychology of Global Citizenship (Available Credits 1-4)

This entrance level, online, sensory-ecology course in practical, nature-connected education, counseling and healing enables the student to master and teach the therapeutic science of Applied Ecopsychology. Increase personal, social and environmental wellbeing by enabling individual to create beneficial moments that let Earth teach. This restorative thinking skill helps their 53 natural senses reasonably embrace their nurturing origins in the balanced, self-correcting and renewing ways of natural systems within and around us.

ECO 501/601: Introduction to Educating and Counseling with Nature (Available Credits 1-4)

Learn to promote social and environmental responsibility by adapting unique nature-reconnecting methods and materials for your personal or professional use. Tangible sensory reconnections with nature through 27 activities and 53 natural senses satisfy deep natural wants: when unsatisfied, these wants disrupt global balance, and inner peace by fueling runaway disorders.

ECO 502A/602A: Educating and Counseling with Nature I (Available Credits 1-15)

In this advanced course, students discover how our separation from nature stresses our sentient inner nature and creates our many problems. They learn to reverse this destructive process by mastering The Natural Systems Thinking Process using thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and spirit. This course teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that feelingly tap the wisdom of nature’s creation process. Its email and telephone correspondence let nature nurture warm interpersonal relationships, wellness and responsibility.

ECO 502B/602B: Educating and Counseling with Nature II (Available Credits 1-13)

In this advanced course, students discover how our separation from nature stresses our sentient inner nature and creates our many problems. They learn to reverse this destructive process by mastering The Natural Systems Thinking Process using thoughtful nature reconnecting activities that dissolve stress by satisfying our deepest natural loves, wants and spirit. This course teaches hands-on education, counseling and mental health skills that feelingly tap the wisdom of nature’s creation process. Its email and telephone correspondence let nature nurture warm interpersonal relationships, wellness and responsibility.

ECO 508/608: Natural Attractions, Intelligence and Sanity (Available Credits 1-2)

Discover how to prevent contemporary society’s nature-separated thinking from deteriorating personal growth and responsible relationships. Encounter and consider how to meet the challenges of the socializing process of Industrial Society that reduces our sensitivity and sensibility by excessively separating us from the self-correcting grace, balance and renewing powers of nature in and around us. Increase your marketability, effectiveness and global citizenship by educating and counseling with a readily accessible natural systems thinking process.

PSU Electives

Explore Nature’s Wisdom (Available Credits 1)

Create Moments that Let Earth Teach. Participate in a hands-on approach to teaching art, poetry, and nature activities applicable for K–6 teachers, environmental educators, and parents. Master the basics of teaching students to use art, poetry, and sensory activities as a way to deepen the bonds between themselves and nature.

Counseling with Natural Attractions (Available Credits 1)

Using a hands-on approach, school counselors, teachers, and environmental educators learn to integrate various methods and coping skills to create balanced bonds between humans and nature. This program targets the at-risk youth population but is beneficial for all student groups.