People in the psychotherapy world use the word "traumatic" far too glibly. Trauma is not the same as "I didn't like it." And people talk about "Healing" all the time, but does that mean the person who is getting the healing is "wounded"? Healing should NOT mean "It felt good." I just want us…
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Ten reasons to consider Southwestern College, Santa Fe, for Art Therapy or Counseling, or both.
1. You can graduate being (almost) eligible for three licenses instead of one. Art Therapy, Counseling, Drug and Alcohol Abuse. (You may need a few more hours of practice in the drug and alcohol area, but then…
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The Problem with Evidence
Epistemology is the study of “How do you know what you know?”
The world of social science has adopted a position that, as clinicians, only scientific research evidence is worthy of our attention. Providing services using any other methods for which “scientific evidence” is not yet available is considered…
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The Problem with Evidence
Epistemology is the study of “How do you know what you know?”
The world of social science has adopted a position that, as clinicians, only scientific research evidence is worthy of our attention. Providing services using any other methods for which “scientific evidence” is not yet available is considered…
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“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Einstein, Rilke and many others have recognized the ascendant value of discovering profound questions, and of hanging out with them (the questions, not Einstein and Rilke) in hopes of discovering even better questions.
These days I hear…
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The Insurer, by Andrew Fearnside
3000 Hours: Meeting The Auditor
I've got this image of The Insurer lurking in me, down deep where it's dark and close and stuffy.He's tall and hefty and ten plus years older than me. He's got a crappy grey Men's Wearhouse suit…
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The Insurer, by Andrew Fearnside
3000 Hours: Meeting The Auditor
I've got this image of The Insurer lurking in me, down deep where it's dark and close and stuffy.He's tall and hefty and ten plus years older than me. He's got a crappy grey Men's Wearhouse suit on, and old loafers, and…
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This video (click below) is an amazing piece of inner reflection, exploration, engaging the shadow side of a "nice person" and coming to peace with all she finds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaW-uu3O4Cc
Amazing piece by Amy Hautman-Bates....
Thank you for sharing this, Amy......
(Mural featured in photograph is from Southwestern College Art Therapy/Counseling students'…
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Deciding On A Graduate School?
Let me give you a few tips.
If you really want to save money, or if paying for graduate school seems impossible, or if the idea of paying more for a highly designed and intentional holistic graduate education in Counseling or Art Therapy makes you crazy, you should…
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Four Tips On Career Development and Advancement
by Jim Nolan
Warning: If you are lazy, or like being a victim, do not read any further. It won't really do you any good.
1. If you are hired to work for X hours a week, NEVER say to yourself, and certainly not to your employer: “I…
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by Amy Hautman Bates
Three pieces from my recent series are hanging in the entryway at Southwestern College this week. Sometimes Art Therapists will tell you the therapy is in the process, not in the finished painting. For me, it is in both.
When I paint, I rarely consciously plan anything. The canvas…
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By Michelle Walker Harkey...
If life is a test, I think I just marked an incorrect answer this morning. As a volunteer at the Los Alamos Triathlon my stated assignment was to keep a designated part of the course safe by keeping spectators on one side of the ribbon and participants running the correct direction…
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As the Paradigm Shifts
Recently there has been a lot of conversation about a Free, Online Master’s Degree in Art Therapy. Now, I am an avid reader of Inc., Entrepreneur, Fast Company, The Harvard Business Review, and Mashable, and I have that entrepreneurial buzz in my veins too.
I got to thinkin’…
And…
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Jim Nolan created an INFP Pinterest Board...Who is/was an INFP? What do we know about them? Check it out.....and if you want to be a contributor, let it be known....
http://pinterest.com/arttherapyworld/infp/…
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Today I attended the first of a two day Phoenix based EMDR conference with Columbian born Ana Gomez. Ana is reputed to be a leader in EMDR implementation, research, and development of protocols for children and adolescents.
Her presentation today began with a liturgy on the importance of metaphors (Thanks Jim Nolan)…
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I moved to Santa Fe from Texas in August 2012 to start my first year at Southwestern College. It was a hard move for me because I basically uprooted myself from a place I called home for 15 years, leaving my family and friends behind. It was rather lonely for me until I met Paloma…
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by Amy Hautman Bates
We talk a lot about language at SWC. What are you saying? What do you really mean? This careful attention to words is part of the school’s mission of “Transforming Consciousness Through Education.” And in a way, transforming education through consciousness.
A huge step in gaining self-awareness is hearing…
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Against-Ness, Even in the Helping Professions: Who Needs That? by Jim Nolan
OK, this relatively straightforward one just came to me. I would rather be part of finding or creating a solution, or even a workaround, or even a way to let go of something without changing it, than to stand around and take righteous…
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Cathy Malchiodi’s several Facebook/Social Media threads on “Free Online Art Therapy Master’s Degree” certainly got a conversation going, and made a lot of us thoughtful about what this all means, where the world is going, and so on.
Well, I am not that intimately familiar with all, or really ANY of the particulars, but I…
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“Why Should I Sign Up for a Certificate Program?”
Southwestern College offers six Professional Certificates, and plenty of other places offer other ones, so this post is not really about SWC, it is about Professional Certificates.
Here are some thoughts on the subject:
First, I don’t…
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by Amy Hautman Bates
A year ago, I was comfortable in my perfectly tailored house in North Carolina. I had a well appointed art studio, lush flower gardens, a wonderful collection of friends and both kids in college nearby. Life was pretty idyllic. I had solid routines and a finely crafted ways…
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By Molly Doerner
"Bwoof... my name is Graham and Molly was my Mama for almost exactly 15 years and 4 months. We had so much fun together - walking, hiking, watching movies (Charlotte's Web was one of my favorites!!), going for rides & getting treats at drive-through windows all across the country ~ I'm…
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We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World Is Getting Worse
The venerable Jungian, James Hillman, and the iconoclastic Austinite and journalist Michael Ventura, improbably, wrote a book together.
Title? We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World Is Getting Worse.
Provocative, funny, serious.
…
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