Yearly Archive 2021
Posted December 2nd, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Reflections from the President, Top News, Featured.
Calling All visionaries!
By Ann Filemyr, PhD. President and Founder/Director of the
in PhD Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership
The new transdisciplinary PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College in Santa Fe features a unique approach. This low residency doctoral degree is designed to support adult learners who seek to…
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Posted November 17th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, Featured.
Trans- (prefix): From Latin. (1) On the other side of : across : through : beyond
(2) so or such as to change or transfer
Southwestern College offers a curriculum that initiates transformational learning. Meaning, through the process of education one will emerge differently than they arrived. The mantra of the institution is “transforming…
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Posted October 21st, 2021 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, Featured.
I attended the NEI Certificate Program class “Integrating Brain, Body & Heart Intelligence” taught by Tim Burns, M.A. The course is one offered periodically in the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate program here at Southwestern College.
The weekend course took a dive into the science of the brain and nervous system to enable us to better…
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Posted October 21st, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Top News, Featured.
When I applied for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Southwestern, I knew I was seeking an alternative form of higher education. If the second half of the college’s name, “New Earth Institute,” didn’t give it away already, the school’s style of educating certainly does. “Transformational Learning”, a term used frequently by Southwestern, is…
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Posted October 4th, 2021 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Ecotherapy, Top News, Featured.
I attended the Ecotherapy workshop “Exploring Kinship Relations Using Ecotherapy and Art Therapy” and so enjoyed being out on campus spending time walking through the gardens, meditating in the labyrinth, and sitting by the desert fountains. It was definitely food for the soul and, even better, to be able to make art as well was…
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Posted September 30th, 2021 by Dru Phoenix & filed under Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Top News, Featured.
Fall is here and as we approach holidays that acknowledge the thinning of the veil between worlds and honor our loved ones who have passed (Día de los Muertos, Halloween, Samhain, All Hallows Eve, etc.) I’d like to tell you a ghost story from my own life.
Years ago, I visited an Intuitive, planning to…
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Posted August 27th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Featured.
Old Artwork, New Meanings
The packing up/moving stuff process has taken me a long time. As we try to get the old place ready to sell, I continue to find things tucked away that I had forgotten all about.
A recent find was a painting I did in class while teaching at Mt. Mary.…
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Posted July 6th, 2021 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Top News, SWC Blog.
In March 2020, we enjoyed our last "in-person" mural process on campus (Cracked Wide Open, March 2020). As we move to gathering together as a group this summer (August 2021), I wanted to take the time to review and share the steps that we took, the pivots that we twirled to make sure that our…
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Posted June 29th, 2021 by Adam Boehm & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Featured.
By Deborah Schroder
Thanks to a very generous donation from a local therapist, we now have a lovely sand tray collection to use in the Art Therapy building. We have several rooms at Tierra Nueva that are well equipped for sand tray or sand play work, and now we have that opportunity available in the…
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Posted April 21st, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News.
As I reflect on the recent guilty x3 verdict of Dereck Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, I hope Mr. Floyd’s family feel some relief with the jury’s decision, but I know from experience working with survivors of violent crime that the outcome of a trial does not erase loss or stop the…
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Posted April 16th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
I recently read a New York Times article titled, Bad News Bias, (published Wednesday, March 24, 2021) citing a recent study showing that press coverage of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly negative in the US, compared to other countries. The article’s author, David Leonhardt wrote, “When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage…
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Posted March 29th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, Featured.
By Deborah Schroder
At Southwestern we believe that therapists should be grounded by their own connection to their spirituality. And we hold a wide view of what those spiritual practices and beliefs might be. Walking in nature, meditating, singing, being part of a faith community, so many varieties are represented in our diverse community.
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Posted March 25th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Featured.
Finding My Inner Strength, March 2121
Inner strength is this magical power we all have yet often forget it’s there. When you tap into it you can achieve great things. When I think of times in the past when I had to be strong, I envision instinctual animalistic power. I don’t think about what I…
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Posted March 9th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Where do SWC Grads Work, Top News, Featured.
Dark Night © by Ross W. B. Putnam
Dark soul in the night
Not sleeping again
I rattle through the hallways of
Where I’ve been,
What I knew
What I used to do, …
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Posted February 16th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Ecotherapy, Top News, Featured.
Ceremony is inside of us
Sprinkled with stardust from galaxies that made us
Ceremony is inside of us
Walking in harmony with the mother’s beat
Hand within its wisdom’s dirt
Ceremony is inside of us
A sun dance of sunlight drumming tapestry
Ceremony is inside of us
Exchanging breath blessing with vision…
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Posted February 11th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, People of SWC, Featured.
This quarter I’m teaching two sections of one of my favorite courses – Family Art Therapy. As we’ve been exploring many aspects of intergenerational trauma and historical intergenerational trauma, it’s occurred to me that this pandemic we’re in will be reflected in genograms. How will that look, what will therapists see?
So many families’…
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Posted February 8th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Ecotherapy, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Top News, Featured.
TIME CRYSTAL
After W.S. Merwin
I see that I will be lying
in a patch of shriveled Juniper berries
all skin and seed
their life has fled like dead stars
their juice glimmers elsewhere
their juice glimmers in me
as I remember, piney and sweet
desert pearls embedded…
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Posted February 8th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Top News, Featured.
Rising Hope:
At first,
I see the road ahead,
to be long, and
treacherous.
The mountains I see,
as steep,
and unforgiving.
I feared,
challenges unknown,
and obstacles well-placed ahead of me.
At times,
I stumbled,
from the weight of all I carry.
But,
I feel my spirit,
ignited once more,
rising above the…
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Posted February 8th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
An Allegiance to Gratitude for Southwestern: Inspired by the Onondaga Thanksgiving Address
Today we are gathered to celebrate our graduation from Southwestern college. We look upon the virtual faces around us and we see that the cycle of life continues. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other…
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