Educating, Counseling and Healing with Nature
Increase Personal and Planetary Wellness
P roject NatureConnect, began as Trailside Education, the United States of America’s FIRST Ecology Expedition School. The Trailside Educational program immersed individuals in year-round experiential learning in Nature, making wild places and ingenious cultures throughout the United States an enormous classroom in Wild America.
Project NatureConnect Inc. (PNC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Project NatureConnect offers worldwide online distance learning courses in Applied Ecopsychology, Climate Therapy, Eco-Art Therapy, and interrelated fields.
Project NatureConnect offers certificates, CEUs for Continuing Professional Development, and collegiate-level credits. Additionally, through partnerships, CEUs and credits may be registered through a USA-accredited university. As part of Project NatureConnect’s partnerships with affiliate universities, exceptional students who demonstrate the competence to research, develop, train, and further develop the Applied Ecopsychology field may optionally be considered for a Master’s or Doctorate.
One goal of Project NatureConnect is to consistently contribute research and information to society about its relationship with the life of Planet Earth. Individuals participate in meaningful Nature connecting encounters that transform all life, including ours. PNC’s methods advance and utilize Nature, combining exercises in breathing life back into our inborn 54 sensory knowing. Every interested individual can learn about and reverse patterns of destruction caused by modern culture in a safe and balanced approach. To this end, Project NatureConnect empowers individuals to add to their entire being; the Natural Systems Thinking framework’s magnificence, balance, and restorative powers. This is accomplished using our 54 senses and diverse scientifically validated approaches with established outcomes that reconnect us to our authentic selves and the natural world.
Applied Ecopsychology
in Action!
Project NatureConnect
Applied Ecopsychology
Project NatureConnect© is committed to helping restore our connection to Nature. Through nature-connecting activities, we learn how to connect our thinking and aliveness with the Web of Life, or Webstrings. Project NatureConnect connects us with the aliveness of our consciousness and subconsciousness. As a result, we create an equilibrium with Nature and its unconditional love. Living in this awareness makes a future for Nature, us, and our loved ones.
Eco-Art Institute
Eco-Art Therapy
Eco-Art Therapy© is a blending of traditional Art Therapy with the science of Ecopsychology. Eco-Art has been broadened to embrace all art forms. So, you will also see it referred to as Eco-Arts Therapy©. Examples of other Eco-Arts: Yoga, body movement, music, sand play therapy, play therapy, and more. Eco-Arts is an engaging experience that enables us to view the world through a different lens and helps us to paint the world!
Greenswitch Institute
Climate Therapy
Dr. Michael J. Cohen has spent his entire life providing thousands of individuals with meaningful, supportive, and restorative processes to reduce the effects of climate destruction. His profound approach helps us to celebrate our Greenness and help others do the same. Climate Therapy provides methods that utilize a 54-sense science to stop our climate crisis and its destructive personal and global effects.
Now Center for Wellness
Increased Health and Wellness
Dr. Veronica Murray is a board-certified coach in the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching and owns the NOW Center for Wellness’©. Their mission is to trumpet and illuminate the restorative, life-sustaining power available to us in the Nature of Well-being, NOW, in its fullness (spirit, mind, and body). Likewise, combating the falsehood that well-being can be fully experienced separated from nature.