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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...
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Four
By Awbrey Michelle Willett Ann Filmyer, Ph. D is an educator, poet, teacher, and mentor. A traditional healer she trained with the late Keewaydinoquay Paschal in the Midewiwin tradition...
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Three
By Awbrey Michelle Willett For Jason Holley, MA, LPCC self-care is the beginning of all good therapy. Jason is a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe, prior to...
by Southwestern College | June 17, 2019 | Permalink
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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...
by Southwestern College | June 14, 2019 | Permalink
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part One
By Awbrey Michelle Willett I set out using each of my classes here at Southwestern to grow as a person, and to study self-care, and the various occupational hazards of...
by Southwestern College | June 12, 2019 | Permalink
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Rites of Passage: Wilderness Fast as a First Year Student
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 Wilderness Fast 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 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...
by Adam Boehm | January 2, 2019 | Permalink
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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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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...
by Southwestern College | April 23, 2018 | Permalink
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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...
by Southwestern College | March 3, 2018 | Permalink
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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...
by Southwestern College | January 18, 2018 | Permalink
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Ecotherapy Project
Community-Based Ecotherapy by Rene Tricou I am a Master’s degree student at Southwestern College working toward the Ecotherapy certificate. During my first year, many of the courses I took...
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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...
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Ancestors Visible: An Art-Based Genogram Show
Wild Heart Gallery Monday, April 10th, 2017 Southwestern College's Wild Heart Gallery hosted the first opening night gala of the quarter. Deb Schroder, Program Chair of the Art Therapy/Counseling Program,...
by swcblog | April 16, 2017 | Permalink
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Ecopsychology of the Night: An Interview With Jason Holley, by Rene Tricou
A simple question. What is astrology? I would say astrology is a way to live in connection with natural cycles of time. It is also the correlation, “as above,...
by Southwestern College | April 3, 2017 | Permalink
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Fun with Music!
There are lots and lots of things to do outside of the classroom at Southwestern College. Music, while not part of the curriculum, is still a passion of many of...
by Adam Boehm | March 9, 2017 | Permalink
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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...
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Moment of Truth Exhibition
Wild Heart Gallery To find out more about the exhibition in the Wild Heart Gallery called Moment of Truth, I sat down with Sarah Ehle, the liaison for the cohort of...
by swcblog | February 16, 2017 | Permalink
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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...
by Southwestern College | February 11, 2017 | Permalink
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Liberating Student Loan Lessons for Life
Liberating Loan Lessons for Life You finally figured out a career path and maybe even the college you want to attend, but now you are faced with the daunting task...
by Southwestern College | January 21, 2017 | Permalink
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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...
by Southwestern College | January 21, 2017 | Permalink
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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...
by Mahala Scott | January 21, 2017 | Permalink
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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...
by Mahala Scott | January 21, 2017 | Permalink
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