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Hello Winter Solstice!
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...
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Graduation 2023 Address for Degree Students -Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT
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:...
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Prioritizing Self Care as a Masters Student by Mariana Leon
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...
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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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New Mexico Winter Tips by homegrown New Mexican, Tya Bussell
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...
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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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Reflecting on Indigenous Peoples Day by Kira Jackson, SWC Student
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...
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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,...
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Living in the Desert by Tya Bussell, SWC Student and Graduate Assistant
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...
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Capstone from a Distance: Zine pages, blood, sweat, & tears
Our Capstone process underwent a new iteration this year. With the class split in half with students who are learning at a distance, and students who are local to Southwestern...
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Arts-Based Research: Symbols of Internalization and Identity
One of the required courses in our Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals Masters program is a 1-credit Arts-Based Research course. Students are asked to choose a symbol to engage with...
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The Magic of Trans-Formation: Alchemy, Gender, and JKR
Trans- (prefix): From Latin. (1) On the other side of : across : through : beyond (2) so or such as to change or transfer Southwestern College offers a...
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Integrating Brain, Body & Heart!
I attended the NEI Certificate Program class “Integrating Brain, Body & Heart Intelligence” taught by Tim Burns, M.A. The course is one offered periodically in the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate...
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An Alternative Higher Education
When I applied for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Southwestern, I knew I was seeking an alternative form of higher education. If the second half of the college’s...
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Knowing when to say “when”
I attended the Ecotherapy workshop “Exploring Kinship Relations Using Ecotherapy and Art Therapy” and so enjoyed being out on campus spending time walking through the gardens, meditating in the labyrinth,...
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“Healing the Racial Complex in our American Psyche” by Kate Latimer, Program Chair MA in Counseling
As I reflect on the recent guilty x3 verdict of Dereck Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, I hope Mr. Floyd’s family feel some relief with the jury’s...
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Finding My Inner Strength by Chelstina Rosera, SWC student
Finding My Inner Strength, March 2121 Inner strength is this magical power we all have yet often forget it’s there. When you tap into it you can achieve great things....
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“Dark Night” – Poetry by Ross W.B. Putnam, Alum of SWC
Dark Night © by Ross W. B. Putnam Dark soul in the night Not sleeping again I rattle through the hallways of Where I’ve been, ...
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“Time Crystal” by Molly Ponkevitch, SWC Student
TIME CRYSTAL After W.S. Merwin I see that I will be lying in a patch of shriveled Juniper berries all skin and seed ...
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“Rising Hope” by Aubrey Leigh Newton
Rising Hope: At first, I see the road ahead, to be long, and treacherous. The mountains I see, as steep, and unforgiving. I feared, challenges unknown, and obstacles well-placed...
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Graduation Blessing from Graduating Student: Awbrey Willett
An Allegiance to Gratitude for Southwestern: Inspired by the Onondaga Thanksgiving Address Today we are gathered to celebrate our graduation from Southwestern college. We look upon the virtual faces around...
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Ecotherapy, Self Care and Nature
This conversation between SWC President Ann Filemyr, Ph.D., who also serves as Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate, and alumna MelindaJoy Pattison explores the benefits of Ecotherapy, especially during the pandemic...