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Rites of Passage: Vision Quest as a First Year
My name is Alyssa Ellegaard and I am a first-year student at Southwestern College. My journey at SWC began before classes started during this past fall’s Vision Quest in Canyon...
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Santa Fe’s Bounty by Nicol Blais
When you move to Santa Fe you might wonder what some of the things are that you can do to relax. Well just 15 minutes from campus you will...
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Deadlines for 2019 Admission
Deadlines. What a word. Here at Southwestern, we do have deadlines, but we also have rolling admission. How does that work? If you are considering applying to Southwestern College, I...
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Body, Heart, and Mind
I come from the east coast, specifically from Virginia. Though I graduated from an art school with a BFA, a lot of the concepts that we discussed in class...
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Art Therapy Surveys–THANK YOU!!
From Debbie Schroder: In the book The Resilient Practitioner, authors Skovholt and Trotter-Mathison, tell a story about a man who had a job making bricks by hand, one...
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A chance to see Shaun McNiff, Ph.D., ATR Saturday, August 25 at the T&H Conference
"The last time I saw Shaun McNiff present was in Lucca, Italy. The audience was filled with therapists from all over the world, and he had us on the...
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Why Indeed!
Why Indeed! Last November, following the national American Art Therapy Association conference, I wrote a blog about resisting and expressed my opposition to decisions made by the AATA Board of...
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Communicating Creatively: Art, Music, and Alternative Addiction Treatment Therapies
Communicating Creatively: Art, Music, and Alternative Addiction Treatment Therapies --by Michelle Peterson recoverypride.org Millions of people who suffer the ravages of drug and alcohol addiction benefit from traditional, 12-step treatment...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Caitlin Harper
I have been honored to serve the Nambé Pueblo community since October 2013. The reasons for my arrival to the little reservation nestled in a corner of the Sangre de...
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Inipi by Mark C. Speight
Inipi Into the Inipi, the pulsing womb, the comfort of darkness, the heat of intention, the heartbeat of drums taught with flesh, ...
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Feeling Cranky by Deb Schroder
Feeling Cranky I wanted to laugh out loud. I wanted to watch Stephen Colbert’s art therapy interview and feel smugly validated by a national presence whose show I love to...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Katie Hall
I have worked at Solace Crisis Treatment Center in Santa Fe, treating trauma and crisis situations for the last two and a half years. I previously worked at the Attachment...
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Within the Hallowed Bones by Mark C. Speight
Within the Hallowed Bones I awake, at this unearthly hour. So, I rise, on this desert morn’. This unearthly warm, ...
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Is My Therapist “The One?” by Jane McConnell
“Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in...
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Being a Counselor, And Using Coaching Sensibilities & Skills
Dr. Nolan discusses combining Counseling and Coaching as a career option. ...
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Becoming Visionary: The Key To Our Successful Future
Becoming Visionary Is A Mindset You Will Need --by Jim Nolan What does it mean to be “Visionary”? Visionary means looking into our unprecedentedly uncertain future and...
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Mental/Behavioral Health & Your State–Fascinating Highlights & Lowlights
From The State of Mental Health in America, 2018: Some Highlights & Lowlights Prevalence of “Mental Illness”: New Mexico ranks 31st of 51 (Counting DC) North Dakota and Hawaii...
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Why I Resist by Deb Schroder
Why I Resist There are a number of stories swirling around about the recent American Art Therapy Association conference. And no one can deny that it was intense and the...
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Conscious Entrepreneurship: A Buncha Tips on Private Practice
Conscious Entrepreneurship: A Buncha Tips on Private Practice ---by Jim Nolan, Licensed Psychologist, LPCC, LADAC These are, of course, mostly based on my experience, but I also know a lot...
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Conscious Entrepreneurship: Let’s Meet Dr. Varghese
Conscious Entrepreneurship: Why You Should Know Dr. Melvin Varghese Melvin Varghese is an incredibly likable guy who created what has blossomed into a huge phenomenon called “Selling the Couch.” He...
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Conscious Entrepreneurship: A Re-Boot…
Conscious Entrepreneurship at Southwestern College A few years ago, several of us at Southwestern College (Myself, Laura Lansrud-Lopez, Claudia Escareno-Clark, Dru Phoenix, Ande Hambuchen) created an initiative we called “Conscious...
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#AATA2017: American Art Therapy Association Convention in Albuquerque!
Here in Albuquerque, the town is abuzz with over a thousand Art Therapist burning down the house... How great to experience! I feel honored to be among them... SO many...
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Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico by Mackenzie McConnell
Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico It’s challenging to express what my experience adjusting to Southwestern College and Santa Fe has been like. Finding ways to describe how...