Welcome to Applying Nature-Connection to Your Life and Career! This is a live training. It will provide you with both a better understanding of what our full certification program offers as well as many coaching and nature-connection skills that you will be able to apply directly into your life, right now.
We will send out reminders as we get closer to the first video-conference, but just so you have it, here is the link to access the live video-calls: https://zoom.us/j/286570240
Schedule: This course meets, live, 6 times
- Thursday, May 30th, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Intro to Nature-Connection
- Thursday, June 13th, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Thursday, June 27th, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Thursday, July 11th, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Collaborating with Nature
- Thursday, July 18th, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Applications to working with others
- Thursday, August 1st, 2019: 4:30-6:30pm MST
- Applications to working with others
All sessions will be recorded and posted in the classroom. If you miss a session, you can watch the recording.
Community Learning Environment:
EBI specializes in providing collective, self-motived learning opportunities. You are part of a group of other students who are participating in this program together. Think of this course as a mini, private, social site just for your cohort, where you can all connect, share and explore the concepts taught together. The “Course Discussion” is the main news feed area for the site, it is where you can interact with each other and support each other’s progress, and encourage each other to take your inspirations out into the world. You can access that almost anywhere on the site.
Certification of Completion:
To obtain a Certification of Completion, you need to complete all 6 “lessons” and “topics” as mapped out below. This is entirely up to you. You can do as much as you’d like and at your own speed.
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Hi All! I just wanted to hop on the general forum here to share a really cool experience I had this week! I was going about my morning yesterday which included the ever exciting “getting the recycling bin from the street side” where I found a small robin perched on a ledge just inside the open bin. It just looked at me as I stood there dumbfounded that it didn’t fly away. My normal reaction to this was that it must be injured or sick but it looked really healthy and I didn’t see any ruffled or loose feathers. I slowly tipped the bin on it’s side so I could try to get him to move and observe whether he was injured or not. He hopped out onto the ground and then flew quite a ways off, appearing to be fine. Later on in the morning I was trimming back a small tree on the side of the driveway (and when I say “small tree” I mean it stands about 4 feet high) very near to where the bin was earlier, when suddenly the same bird came fluttering into the tree I was working on and landed on a limb right near my head. Again, dumbfounded, I stood there not really knowing what was going on. He just sat perfectly still and looked right at me. I went and got a little bowl of water and set it on the ground below the tree and watched him a little more as I started to research this kind of behavior from birds on my phone. I came across an incredibly helpful article from a New York state audubon society that had a lot of very detailed ways to troubleshoot this scenario. After going through them, nothing seemed to be wrong with this little guy. Reading further, they talked about how this kind of behavior can often be misinterpreted by humans and leads people to intervene and try to help. I have to be honest and say that I was very close to taking him somewhere. The behavior I was seeing was actually a fledgling who was still early on in his adventures away from the nest and flying. As soon as I read that I started seeing all the signs that he was actually ok. He and his mom were calling to each other, he was taking cover in low brush for safety, he was fluttering his wings and practicing balance. I spent a good part of the day observing this awesome moment of seeing a young bird gain its independence and even saw the mom come by a few times to feed him a worm. While pondering on this experience last night, that was quite literally put right in my face to see, I realized this event had a lot to show me. I recently moved in with my girlfriend who has an 8 yr old daughter. We’ve been struggling with bedtime habits and routines with her and we’ve been completely frustrated. I think this was nature’s way of showing me that young will find their way but they still need a little patience and understanding from the parents as they navigate new environments. It was a valuable lesson and one that has made us look at this from a different angle!
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