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Courageous Community Conversation on Decolonial Practices
This is part of a series of conversations hosted by Southwestern College and held via zoom to invite sharing on pressing social topics. This conversation led by Ann Filemyr, Southwestern...
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Wild Heart Gallery: Spring Reflections 2020
Cover image: "Rebirth" by Sarah Carter SWC's Wild Heart Gallery has gone online! Experience SWC community's heart and soul. Internal process. Thinking, feeling and doing. Creations of...
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Alum Anne Lebednik Video on Art & Creativity
In Art & Creativity, Southwestern College alumnus Anne Lebednik explores the value of integrating creativity and artmaking as a practice in our lives. Anne explains how we can approach this...
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The Five Values of Southwestern College
President Ann Filemyr discusses the purpose and power of naming and living our values, especially during times of stress and change. She shares the five values of Southwestern College: service,...
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Conversations I Never Had with My Daughter, By Deborah Schroder, Program Chair MA in Art Therapy/Counseling
I asked her permission to write this. It’s more her story than mine, but she doesn’t have time to write anything, being a mom of three small ones. My...
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Creative Conversations: Navigating a New Landscape of Synchronous Teaching & Learning
Contributors: Emilah DeToro, Magdalena Karlick, Seren Morris, Virginia Padilla-Vigil, and April Vogel In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our faculty at Southwestern College had to quickly mobilize to...
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Message from Alum Carie King during the Pandemic
Photo by Carie King, taken on a road trip to Grand Junction, CO. Carie grew up in Maine with a wildlife biologist / photographer, so her appreciate of Earth’s beauty...
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An Alum Updates us during the Pandemic
Aloha my Southwestern colleagues! My name is Tess Yong Kim, and I am a graduate of 11/10/2018. I began my clinical practice on 2/6/2019 as an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health...
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Cracked Wide Open
An apt title for the potential personal experience this global pandemic has encouraged. Two days after it was announced that gatherings of 50 or more people needed to be postponed,...
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Southwestern Soundbites: TGR Dying to Know
Photo by Alissa Petrosoniak Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites-- quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC's various certificate programs. This episode features Courtney Shackelford, current student in...
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Touch & Embodiment by Magdalena Karlick, M.A., LPCC, ATR-BC
A couple of weekends ago, Ginna Clark (Director of the NEI certificate program in Human Sexuality) and I, co-taught a weekend course entitled "Touch and Embodiment." Discussions included...
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“Consciousness in Action” by Dru Phoenix, SWC alum
Sometimes when “life” happens it feels like you are running to catch up! That was the case when I studied Consciousness here at Southwestern College. When selecting a topic to...
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Sandplay
Inessa Mil'berg, SWC Alum sent us this blurb about Sandplay Therapists interested in providing a non-verbal, depth approach to therapy might consider learning sandplay. Sandplay, as developed by Dora Kalff,...
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An Interview about the Art Therapy Field with Debbie Schroder, Program Chair of MA in Art Therapy/Counseling at Southwestern College
Debbie, you have been in the art therapy field for a significant time, can you tell us more about the trajectory of your career? Hindsight is amazing, but...
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A Lively Variation of Art Therapy
By Deborah Schroder Sometimes I think of art therapy as a wild, colorful plant, and I most often think in “plant words”, not “garden words” – which to me speaks...
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A Welcome to New Friends
By Courtney Shackelford This time last year I was new. The sun was brighter than anything I had experienced on the other side of the country and the landscape was...
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Facing My Privilege of Congruency
By Deborah Schroder, MA in Art Therapy/Counseling Program Chair I’ve always enjoyed sharing Virginia Satir’s way of working, with my students in my family art therapy course. This spring at...
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Tracking Anger – an Art Therapy Exploration
As part of our Wild Heart Gallery art show on “Anger and the Feminine Self” we are offering this somatic art directive to those interested in exploring their own anger...
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Santa Fe Pride 2019
By Laura Lansrud-Lopez This past Saturday on June 29th, fifty years after the historic riots at Stonewall Inn, a dedicated and enthusiastic group of students, friends, family, and staff of...
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When “assessment” is in the title for a retreat
This past Friday, June 29, the SWC leadership, including the members of the Academic Council, the Chief Finance Officer and the Director of Enrollment Services (me!) gathered together for our...
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About Being Mad
by Dru Phoenix, MA, LMHC The upcoming Wild Heart Gallery art show at Southwestern College is titled “Anger and the Feminine Self.” The idea was to invite the feminine into...
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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...