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Posted March 20th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under Reflections from the President, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
At Southwestern College in Santa Fe, we co-designed a unique transdisciplinary doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, and launched it in 2022. The purpose is to prepare regenerative visionary leaders who are inspired to articulate the emergent story of cooperation, compassion, connection, and capacity. We bring together faculty and doctoral students…
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Posted December 19th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
In History of Art Therapy: Founders and Foundations, we start each class with an art directive. This is a wonderful way to explore the history of the field of art therapy while also learning about the founding mothers and fathers. This Tissue Paper Collage art directive was inspired by Edith Wallace and Jung's "active imagination".
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Posted December 19th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, Featured.
The Winter Solstice starts the winter season on December 21, 2023.
The Earth is at its furthest point from the sun, resulting in the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. Astronomically, the Winter Solstice marks the start of longer days and shortening nights. Around the world, many cultures celebrate the Winter Solstice…
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Posted November 17th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
Graduation Address:
Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT, Chair of Art Therapy, Graduation Address, November 2023
Featured Photo of Virginia Padilla Vigil, Katherine Ninos and Jennifer Albright Knash
More on: Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT, ATRL-BC, LPC/AODA, CCTP
Jennifer Albright Knash is the Chair of the Art Therapy/Counseling program at Southwestern College. She currently works with…
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Posted November 17th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, Featured.
Albuquerque is 64 miles Southwest of Santa Fe and has many fun things to check out this holiday season! Take the Rail Runner or drive down i25 and explore the Duke City.
Go to Big Jim’s Winter of Enchantment event at the southeast corner of Coors and Montaño near Sprouts and Bosque School: 4140…
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Posted November 8th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
Before attending Southwestern College, self-care was a weekend activity or something to do after all my priorities were completed. It was a luxury to have time for self care.
My first class at Southwestern was Psychology of Altruism: Fundamentals of Helping Relationships. This course explored the balance of service and self-care. It wasn’t until then…
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Posted November 1st, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, Featured.
I am a new student in the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Ph.D. In late August and early September I had the privilege to participate in my first residency. It is titled "Seeking" and it kicks off the PhD program and allows us to connect with each other, the faculty, and the program overall. This…
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Posted April 20th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Looking to start your flowerbeds this spring and want to honor the Northern Central New Mexican foliage? New to Santa Fe and trying to determine which are the native plants along the trails? I have some tips for you!
Santa Fe Native Plant Project (SNaPP) is a certification and public education program of the…
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Posted April 20th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
This year for Winter Capstone 2023, we had nineteen students and five new murals; there was the opportunity to participate via distance as well as on ground in unique and ingenious ways. Students were asked to consider how they would like to participate and ways in which they would like to integrate the ideas of…
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Posted February 9th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Time will Tell
Wherever you find yourself in your educational career, you may discover, from time to time, that you need support to achieve success. As a student with a learning difference, I’d like to share with you my standouts for success, which emerged during my first quarter as a PhD student. It is my…
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Posted February 6th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Reflections from the President, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Each year on February 2nd, I celebrate the ancient Celtic Goddess Brigid, a great feminine solar power, she of the greening season who carries fire in her palms, she who blesses the arts of poetry, smithing, and healing. In Ireland it is called St. Brigid’s Day, honored as a holy day at her sacred spring…
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Posted January 25th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Featured.
Here in New Mexico, we get an equal amount of all four seasons. Our summers are filled with heat and sunshine. Our autumns are crisp golden and orange with perfect harvest weather. Our springtime is windy and fresh with blooms all over the place. Our winters experience snow, ice, and frosty temperatures. This has a…
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Posted January 9th, 2023 by Southwestern College & filed under Reflections from the President, Consciousness & Mindfulness, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16, I reflect on his life and words urging us to do better, to be better, as citizens of the nation and members of the human community. I consider how he inspired so many. The work they collectively accomplished made our lives more possible.…
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Posted December 13th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Top News.
Thank you provisioning creatrix power of the living universe, of which we are a deep part, for guidance in helping connect us with the next now and necessary node(s) in the sinuous, supple, undulant, and infinite webweave of the cosmos-in-becoming knowing itself more deeply.
We honor affirm that as we are a part of the…
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Posted December 9th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Snow is beginning to accumulate, and as my border collies race outside for their last evening jaunt before bed, their paw prints pepper the snow. I delight in watching them discover the first snow of the season. In the mountains of Colorado, the scene of dogs romping in deep powder is ubiquitous, and joy inducing. …
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Posted December 9th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Reflections from the President, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Growing Your Vision-Seed
In our new transdisciplinary applied doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, each student begins their journey with the spark of an idea or a desire, a personal calling. We call this initial spark the vision-seed. Our program is designed to help students nurture, incubate, develop, and bring to…
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Posted November 15th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
It has been a remarkable first quarter in the PhD program. VPRL620 – Phenomenology and the Call to Serve embedded spiritual, investigative, and practical methods, providing me with opportunities to be an authentic learner.
The creative process is the root of my cosmology, and I jumped in with head and heart. Synthesizing course material by…
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Posted October 26th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
Being in the northeast, the hustle and bustle of the cities domineers everything. Regionally the energy is impatient, it’s fast-paced, it’s strong-willed. There’s always people, TONS of traffic, and a hundred different moving parts. You were never really encouraged to put your feet into the grass and just allow yourself to be when growing up…
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Posted October 25th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, Featured.
Southwestern College & New Earth Institute launched their first Ph.D. program, called Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership. This program embodies three life-changing residency experiences that include Seeking, Gathering and Grounding, and Crossing the Threshold. As one of fifteen students, I attended the first residency of our first cohort, “Seeking,” in early September of 2022.
On…
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Posted October 18th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
The anticipation from July to September was immense, knowing grad school was a big life step for me. I prepped my spare room that was my old high school bedroom into my new office/yoga space. It was a total room renovation. I strongly feel the energy of physical space arrangement and needed to make this…
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Posted October 17th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
Ah, the sweet New Mexico landscape. Enchanting, delicious, wild, entertaining, clear, infinite. The home, I’ve called my own since I emerged from the womb. A place of lots of dirt and unending blue sky, fresh air, and S P A C E!
!Òrale!
I grew up in central NM, spanning from Estancia to ‘Burque…
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Posted July 16th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Here is a 50 minute interview of Dr. Ann Filemyr, Chair of the PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership program being conducted by a PhD Program Faculty Mentor Dr. Marianela Medrano.
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Posted March 17th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
adrienne maree brown, in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“Developing your capacity for adaptation can mean assessing your default reactions to change, and whether those reactions create space for opportunity, possibility, and continuing to move towards your vision… I believe that regardless of what happens, there is an opportunity to move with intention—towards growth,…
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Posted February 22nd, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Top News, Featured.
Looking out my window here in Minnesota, I see a lovely blanket of shimmering snow covering the ground. Here and there, the dried brittle skeleton of a plant pushes through. It certainly has its own beauty, but it is harsh. The kind of beauty that will give you frostbite. The glitter of ice coating a…
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