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Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership interview with Dr. Enid LaGesse
Dr. Enid LaGesse, founding faculty member in the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership (VPRL) PhD program at Southwestern College (SWC), sits down with VPRL Founder and Director, Dr. Ann Filemyr,...
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Into Becoming: My First Term as a Doctoral Student at Southwestern College, Zahra Indigo Rønlov, VPRL PhD Student
Sometimes an opportunity appears and without even knowing all the details a big YES from the heart arises. This is what happened when I first became aware of the Visionary...
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The Joy of Mentoring Doctoral Students by Dawn Wink, PhD
As a Faculty Mentor in the transdisciplinary Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership (VPRL) PhD program at Southwestern College, I bring the experience of 20 years in higher education in mostly...
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Learning with Nature, by Nena Martinez Anaya, Doctoral Student
In the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College, we understand the natural world and more-than-human beings are partners in our learning. Of course, nature is not...
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The Gift by Jamie Moon, PhD student
Doctoral student and artist Jamie Moon shares her journey and what influenced her to collect and make sand-painted stones and gift them to the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership doctoral...
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New Frameworks for Learning, PhD student testimonials
The Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe begins with an initial on-ground residency, Residency I: Seeking. The purpose is to provide an orientation...
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Finding My People and Coming Home
In the following quotes from their self-reflections, doctoral students entering in Fall 2024 share their experiences of finding community with each other and the faculty of the Visionary Practice and...
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PhD First Residency: Encounters of the VPRL kind by Vlad Rebek
A small passenger van's tires slowly bite into the dusty desert road, leading into a ranch off of the main scenic road, appropriately called Ghost Ranch. We are about...
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“Follow the Path – A Doctoral Student Begins her Journey”
In September 2024 the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership PhD Program held its annual Fall Residency welcoming its third cohort. A hallmark of the program and all graduate programs...
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Visionary Practices for Regenerative Leaders, Ann Filemyr, PhD
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...
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On the First Residency for the PhD program by Angela Palmer
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...
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Navigating with a Learning Difference, Part I by Susanmarie Oddo
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...
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Personal Reflection on MLK Day 2023, Ann Filemyr, Southwestern College President
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...
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Snowflake: Reflection on the PhD Cohort by Susanmarie Oddo
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...
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Vision Seeds for PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership
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...
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Snapshot of a PhD course, first quarter by Colleen Pendry
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...
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Residency for the Ph.D. Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Program
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,...