The Annual Transformation and Healing Conference

Conference theme for 2025: Creativity & Embodiment: Ancient, Alternative, and Emerging Pathways
Expressive arts and body-centered practices have provided pathways to transformational healing for individuals, families and communities from the dawn of humanity, with new and innovative approaches emerging throughout history. This year’s Transformation & Healing Conference is dedicated to exploring how ancient wisdom traditions, creative expressions, and somatic arts provide alternatives to conventional modern medical models, and contribute to emergent theories and models that support health and wellbeing.

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2024: Community Building in Turbulent Times: Healing Collective Grief & Trauma

2019 – Numinous Dimensions of Consciousness and Healing

2018 – Creativity, Consciousness and Connection in Challenging Times

2017 – Wellness in a Culture of Addiction

2016 – At the Crossroads of Human Potential

2015 – Diversity, Healing and Consciousness

2014 – Consciousness and Compulsivity

2013 – Creative Approaches to the Healing Arts

2012 – Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on Systems, Trauma and Resilience

2011 – Interpersonal Neurobiology: Integrating Body, Mind and Spirit

2010 – Nurturing Our Children, Healing Our Future

2009 – Consciousness in the Age of Aquarius

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"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

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