Southwestern College
Southwestern College Blog
-
Your Brain on Art
By Courtney Shackelford The brain is special and magnificent, strange and mysterious. It is powerful enough to send messages to assist in regulating our bodies, but is also a vulnerable...
-
Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Two
By Awbrey Michelle Willett Katherine Ninos, MA, LPCC, is Executive Vice President of Southwestern College and Director of the New Earth Institute. She received her BA in Psychology from Alfred...
-
Deadlines for 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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, desert morn’. A...
-
Being a Counselor, and Using Coaching Sensibilities and Skills
Dr. Nolan discusses combining Counseling and Coaching as a career option. ...
-
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...
-
Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico by Jane 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...
-
Male Therapists in Training, Including Native New Mexicans!
There aren't enough male therapists out there, and there are definitely not enough male therapists of color, or Spanish-speaking male therapists, or male therapists born and raised in Northern New...
-
Are You An Artist Who Also Wants to Help People? Art Therapy!
Are You an Artist Who Also Wants to Help People? “Art Therapy” is a thing. A real thing. It combines Psychology and Art. And Healing. And Personal Growth. And...
-
A Penny Makes Change by Mark Speight
A Penny Makes Change Mark Speight, graduate of Southwestern College's MA Counseling program Written in the Southwestern College weekly writing group facilitated by Dr. Ann Filemyr. A penny makes...
-
Wild Heart Gallery Featured Exhibition: Vicissitudes
Wild Heart Gallery May 2, 2017 was the Wild Heart Gallery opening night gala for Vicissitudes, the first solo exhibition for conceptual, multimedia artist and second year Southwestern College...
-
Voices In America Featuring SWC
Voices in America chose Southwestern College/New Earth Institute as a unique, unsung, yet storied institution, to feature in television slots between full PBS broadcast shows....
-
From the Charm City to the Land of Enchantment! Discovering the Gift In Being the Only African American In My Graduate School Classes
It’s been approximately 60 days since I packed up Lotus, my 2003 Honda Pilot, with all of my belongings that I could fit into it so I could relocate to...
-
Please Keep Your LPCC License
One of my several mentors, Dr. Sandra Shulman, told me to never let a professional license lapse. So I went ahead and did, and always regretted it. There were reasons,...
-
Being a Counselor Activist – SWC Alumna Kate Latimer
Being a Counselor Activist I was outraged from an early age. They say if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention, so I guess I was paying attention. In 8th...
-
How Do I Become a Professional Counselor?
Dr. Nolan answers the question "How do I become a professional counselor?"...
-
Who’s Who at Southwestern College – Denise Moore
Early on in my graduate internship at a family counseling agency, a supervisor told me, "We have the best jobs in the world, for we get to witness, hold and...
-
Opening the Doors to Zion
One of the many blessings of living in the Southwest is the ability to reach amazing geological locations within a day span. Over the holiday break, I had the opportunity...
-
Edge Awareness: A Practice of Sensitivity and Nonviolence
In our Yoga class at Southwestern College, my intention and plan as facilitator is for this class to be inclusive as the Nature of Yoga is meant to be and...
-
Being a Graduate Assistant and Yogi at Southwestern College
The time has come where I am going to be in facilitator role again. Very well. I accept that with gratitude and responsibility because there is a lot of energy...
-
Values and Understandings of Southwestern College’s Art Therapy/Counseling Program
A bold and beautiful articulation of the Values and Understandings of the Southwestern College Art Therapy/Counseling Program faculty members. ...