We feel abandoned by our society, treated like garbage, and cut off from nature which fills us with grief. By protecting and nurturing this ecosystem we find the strength to open our minds, hearts, and souls for the survival of our Mother Earth and ourselves. The state of Earth and its people indicates that mentally and environmentally, we are distressed . This suggests that Project Reconnect used in conjunction with daily stress situations, instead of artificially programmed stress activities, could serve as an ecologically sound citizenship education preventative for chemical, food, social and environmental abuse. Improvement is indicated by an increase in score on the Barksdale Self-Esteem Index.
Improvement is indicated on all other tests and scales by a reduction in score.
As the raw data easily shows, the group improvement was significant. The average scores changed dramatically. The group score on Beck's Depression inventory reduced from 12.2 to 1.5. Scores on the Stress Test went from 19.8 to 12. Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory changed from 9.5 to 5.