Happenings

Southwestern College

Southwestern College is a consciousness-centered graduate school in Santa Fe, New Mexico offering Master’s Degrees in Counseling, Art Therapy/Counseling and Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals leading to licensure; we also offer specialty certificates for ongoing professional development. Our innovative curriculum integrates personal growth, consciousness, and holistic professional training in intimate experiential classrooms. Our faculty members are reflective practitioners and respected agents of change in their communities. Together, we facilitate a transformational process of self-reflection and increased awareness preparing our students for meaningful and sustainable careers.

Featured Blog Posts

The Weed by the Water, by President Ann Filemyr

"Southwestern College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."

Crystal Hoffman, Graduate

"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at Southwestern enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."

Anna Mills, Graduate

"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012

"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Cynthia Alexis, Graduate

"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."

Eliza Buck, Graduate

"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "

Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation

"The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one’s being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul.”

Katherine Ninos, Vice President

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

Denise Moore, Graduate

"I feel so much gratitude for being part of this caring, supporting, reflective, soulful community."

Linnea Knoespel, Graduate

CrystalHoffmanGraduate
AnnaMillsGraduate
StephanieAlburyGraduate2012
CynthiaAlexisGraduate
ElizaBuckGraduate
ReneeBorsberryfromArtTherapyCapstonePresentation
KatherineNinosVicePresident
DeniseMooreGraduate
LinneaKnoespelGraduate

"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Students have the opportunity to show their work in the Wild Heart Gallery.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational, from the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

"Southwestern College truly changed my life. Being a conscious and aware human being will benefit me no matter where my life's journey may take me."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

"At Southwestern, I learned my spirit is my teacher through the guidance of the Southwestern teachers and staff, who have been role models in their dedication, compassion and authenticity.”

Southwestern College

Featured Blog Posts

The Weed by the Water,…

Values & Understandings of Southwestern…

Southwestern College Students Are So…

“We cannot heal the earth…

Why Southwestern College for a…

How to Resolve Conflict by…

Recent posts