Free Community Lectures

Our Community Lectures are offered FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, or $20 for 2 CECs approved for counselors, art therapists and social workers.
Lectures are listed in the quarterly class schedules and posted on this site.

Seduced into Darkness: Transcending My Psychiatrist’s Sexual Abuse
Solo Performance Piece and Book Signing by SWC Faculty Member Carrie Ishee
Thursday, April 9, 6–8pm, SWC Campus – CANCELLED Until Further Notice
Free Event or $20 for 2 CECs
Please RSVP to lecture@swc.edu to reserve a seat.

Through powerful storytelling, music, and art, SWC adjunct faculty member Carrie Ishee shares how she transcended the soul shattering trauma of her therapist’s betrayal that made national news in the 90’s. Images that arose from deep within her psyche led her back to her own truth and inner authority and set her on the path to take her doctor to court, and to eventually become an art therapist. Her book offers hope for victims of abuse and is a case study in ethics for health professionals. Her performance piece will be followed by a brief discussion about ethics, victims’ rights, boundaries, and self care for the therapist, as well as a book signing.

Carrie Ishee, M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, PCC, is an art therapist, clinical counselor and life coach and adjunct faculty member of Southwestern College. She has a local private practice and a national coaching practice working with individuals and couples. Her passion is helping others create lives of beauty and purpose after
soul-shattering traumas, losses, addictions and betrayals.

Self-Care Practices in the New Medicine of Vision
Sam Berne, M.D.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 6–8pm, SWC Campus, CANCELLED Until Further Notice
Please RSVP to lecture@swc.edu to reserve a seat.

Conventional medicine treats disease with no attention to the body-mind-spirit. However, when we do address imbalance from a whole-being perspective, we can learn to use subtle energies to balance our health on the quantum level, and the potential for healing increases. In this lecture, I will offer my latest teachings on using the eyes as a portal for light to enter the body. The eyes are a direct connection to the mind-body, and the retina is a satellite dish that captures light through its 137 million photoreceptors. The more available we are to take light in, the more we radiate it. This becomes our energetic signature for health, wellness, and self-expression. I will present techniques to help release stress, toxicities, trauma and the effects of digital device use. We will learn to shift our survival consciousness to a thriving consciousness!

Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 25 years, where he works with patients to improve their vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College and did his postdoctoral work at the Gesell Institute in collaboration with Yale University. His protocols take a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to health and wellness.  www.drsamberne.com

Space is Limited. Please RSVP to lecture@swc.edu to guarantee a seat.

 

 

PAST COMMUNITY LECTURES

—Revisiting Leadership as an International Student presented by Magdalena Karlick, M.A., LPCC, ATR-BC

–Astrology for Re-dreaming Ourselves: Love Affairs with Intrapsychic Diversity presented by Jason Holley, M.A., LPCC

–The Complexity of Domestic Violence presented by Andrea Verswijver, M.A., M.A., LMHC

–More Than a Cursory Glance: Particularizing Pornography and Finding Meaning presented by Ginna Clark, PsyD., ATR-BC, LPCC

–Serving American Indian Communities presented by Janet L. Smith, M.S., ATR-Ret.

–Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine with Lama Tsultrim Allione

–Wilderness Therapy Panel presented by Dr. Ann Filemyr and Dr. Scott Thomas

—Suicide Awareness and Prevention Presented by Erin Doenwald, LMSW and Susan Hayre, LMHC

—Integrating Brain, Body and Heart Intelligence: The Neurobiological Foundations of Therapeutic Practice presented by Tim Burns, M.A.

–Energy Healing: The Latest Scientific Research and the Role of Water in the Process presented by Melinda Connor, Ph.D.

–A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy: The Basics of Working with Difficult Couples
presented by Lon Rankin, M.A., LPCC

–Authority vs. Power: Creative Leadership from the Inside Out presented by Heather Leigh, M.A., ATR-BC, LCPC

–Objects of Desire and Desiring Subjects: On Sexuality in Psychotherapy presented by Ginna Clark, M.A., ATR-BC, LPCC

–Understanding and Working with Borderline Personality Disorder by Laura Lansrud-Lopez, M.A., ATR-BC, LPAT, LPCC

–Adolescent Substance and Process Abuse by Juan Blea, M.A., LADAC

–Organic Sexuality: From Shame into Mystery by Jason Holley, M.A., LPCC

–Adult ADD/HD: A Problem Unrecognized by Doug Puryear, M.D.

–Dr. Edith Wallace: Her Life, Work and Legacy presented by Karen Stefano, M.A., LPC

–Clinical Intuition, Vito Hemphill, DOC

–The Turning of the Ages: Our Time and Place in Cosmic Cycles of Evolution, Jason Holley, M.A., LPCC

–The Right Time and Place to Heal Trauma, Lee Cartwright, M.A.

–Mindfulness-Based Auricular Acupuncture (MBAA), Dana Moore

–Eyes Made of Soul, Robert Waterman, Ed.D., Lecture and Book Signing

–The “F-Word” Project, Maureen Burdock

–Under a Remarkable Sky:The Birthchart of Southwestern College, Jason Holley, M.A., LMHC:

–Intersubjectivity and the Practice of Therapy, Bill Smythe

–The Biological Drama of Trauma, Lee Cartwright, M.A.

–Cultivating Bridges: Attunement, Interpersonal Neurobiology & Group Process, Kate Cook, M.A., LPCC, TEP

–Vision as a Metaphor for Consciousness, Sam Berne, MD

–Envisioning a New, Healthy Sexuality, Jason Holley, M.A. and Kate Latimer, M.A.

–Transformation Through the Quantum Field, Robert Waterman, Ed.D.