Experiential Learning at Project NatureConnect

roject NatureConnect is not just an educational program- it’s an international community of deeply committed, loving people who work together according to individual attraction and mutual consent to support, develop and evolve both the organization and the theoretical model and method.

Experiencing Natural Attraction & Consensus in Community and on the Job

Wherever possible, the Project NatureConnect program integrates the fundamentals of Natural Attraction Ecology in its philosophy, systems, and procedures. Examples of this are self-organizing classes, sliding scale tuition, and student involvement in curriculum development, marketing, research and development. The community participates and contributes via mutually beneficial, interdependent relationships at every level of program functioning and administration.

Through their involvement in community life, students experience, explore, and identify the differences between organizational processes in play in traditional industrial society organizations (processes which separate the “human” from the “natural”), and the way we follow nature’s flow in the Project NatureConnect program.

Self-Organizing Classes

The experiential learning model unique to our program does not end with students’ experience in the nature activities of the group classes. It extends into the exploration of inner nature as students experience being free to follow attractions and self-organize into work groups; to offer their skills and talents to benefit the organization and advance the science.

The community becomes a practice ground for the implementation of applied ecopsychology as the web of life is experienced in class and community relationships. Students experience participation in mutually supportive relationships in group classes, in the online community discussions, in self-organizing work groups arising out of the attractions of students, faculty and staff, in the use of consensus building, asking permission, and respecting attractions as valid guides to personal choices.

Teamwork & Bartering for Tuition

Students volunteer to play support roles and offer services that tap their skills, talents and inclinations. A student may offer any service they believe would help the organization by contacting us. Students help build web pages, manage the online community, co-facilitate classes, write advanced curriculum, offer ideas for research and development, orient and guide less experienced students, and help to refine and increase the extent to which the program functions as a natural community.

They learn how to negotiate consensus even when needs differ, and how to relate via attractions when tensions arise. They practice going to nature for respite, support, and insight. They practice building social webs with strands of attraction, appreciation and discernment. They explore how it feels to be in community with senses and hearts open. They practice bringing nature into everything they do.