Abstract
In this interview, Michael Cohen shares his methods for facilitating sensory connections to nature settings and beliefs about their therapeutic benefit and influences on identity. Michael discusses his long career facilitating outdoor education in the United States and abroad and describes the development of his career from his education at Columbia Teacher's College in New York in the 1950s, through direction of various outdoor education programs, and a key personal revelation experienced in Grand Canyon in 1965. Michael also talks about his childhood upbringing in the progressive Sunnyside Gardens community of Queens, NY, his involvement in the folk music movement, and important books that influenced his thinking. The text of this interview was adapted from a telephone conversation with the Ecopsychology editor Thomas Joseph Doherty.
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