Looking to start your flowerbeds this spring and want to honor the Northern Central New Mexican foliage? New to Santa Fe and trying to determine which are the native plants along the trails? I have some tips for you!
Santa Fe Native Plant Project (SNaPP) is a certification and public education program of the…
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Southwestern College has been bringing the world extraordinary therapists since 1979. Naturally, therapists-in-training need a place to train!
www.tierranuevacounseling.org
Since 1986, SWC students have  provided affordable counseling to the community from a holistic mental health care perspective. In a unique program for a New Mexico college, Tierra Nueva Counseling Center offers students practical experience in…
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
This unique trans-disciplinary doctoral program is designed to prepare you as a regenerative leader to navigate the complexities of changing the old story of separation, domination, competition and control into the emerging story of cooperation, compassion, connection and capacity to regenerate broken social systems and struggling ecosystems. Relationships based on authentic partnership…
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New Mexico Dependent License - Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
Graduate
Hand in application ASAP (It takes up to 6 weeks to receive license, and you canât practice until you receive your Temporary LMHC)
Cost $75
Original Current Passport-sized Photo (2âx2â)
Official Transcript
Notarized Application
Notarized Supervisor Form, âExperience Planâ
The temporary LMHC is…
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Dr. Devora Neumark, a queer second-generation Holocaust survivor born to refugees from Russia (Ukraine) and Poland, currently lives in Iqaluit, Nunavut, situated in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. With over 30-years of meditation practice, Devora is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, educator, and community-engaged practitioner.
They were a faculty member in the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary…
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Next Wilderness Fast, Â September 5 - 13, 2020, San Mateo Mountains of New Mexico
(Participants must attend an orientation session on Aug. 9th, 2020, from 4-6pm on the SWC Campus, outdoors with social distancing.)
Words cannot convey the healing experience of participating in the rite of passage known as Wilderness Fast. This experience is…
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Janice Barsky was quoted extensively in an article about pet loss in the Albuquerque Tribune.
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Lee Cartwright maintains a private practice in Santa Fe, NM. He developed Shifting Consciousness through Dimensions (SCtD), a neurological system for transforming trauma and personal limitations. He has written and self-published three books on SCtD.…
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Southwestern College Graduate Programs
Classes will be taught via zoom beginning the first week of the quarter, Monday, March 30. Your first class will meet via zoom during its scheduled time. Each course will have a unique zoom link. These zoom links will be located in Populi on the syllabus page, located on the…
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The following list, provided by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, composes a summary of the key ethical principles, which guide decision-making in ethical research.
Honesty:
Honestly report data, results, methods and procedures, and publication status. Do not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent data.
Objectivity:
Strive to avoid bias in…
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CARES Act HEERF Report on Emergency Financial Aid Grants to Students (Click Here)
COVID-19 Response
COVID POLICY Update for Summer 2021
 Click here for President Ann Filemyr's Spring 21 Message
Beginning Monday, November 16, Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham has issued a new Stay at Home Health Order for two weeks. It may be extended.…
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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, mindfulness, empowerment, partnership and love, and how these values have been translated into actions and decisions by the college leadership team during the pandemic. Talk…
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As I move towards facilitating my last mural painting process at Southwestern College, I am thinking about relationships, legacy and love. Debbie Schroder and I have co-facilitated this process since 2013, and since the pandemic of 2020 the process has undergone many changes (see Group Murals During a Pandemic and Cracked Wide Open).Â
The mural…
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Monica Mody, PhD, MFA, is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She comes to her teaching and writing as a border-crossing and cross-genre practitioner interested in the resilient knowing of the body as a site for connection with vaster, more fluid…
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Registering at Southwestern CollegeÂ
Registering for New Earth Institute (NEI) and Certificate Program Coursework
You may register for a course in NEI or a certificate program once the quarterly course schedule is released. The schedule will list the New Earth Institute certificate courses offered during that quarter. Many of these courses are offered in…
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ART AS A FORCE OF NATURE: CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION AND HEALING
Shaun McNiff, Ph.D., ATR
Saturday, August 25, 9am â 5:30pm
The Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe
$135 for 7 CECs
Go to www.tandh.org to register
Art heals through the circulation of creative energy and the transformation of difficulties into…
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Photograph by Whitney Tressel at whitneytressel.com.
Welcome to another episode of Southwestern Soundbitesâ quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWCâs various programs and happenings. In this episode, Courtney Shackelford speaks with current Art Therapy and Counseling student, Ben Miller, on his journey to Southwestern, his art, and his experience in Southwestern's…
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Photo of Whitney Tressel, taken by Adria Malcolm.
Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites! In this episode, Courtney Shackelford talks to Whitney Tressel; current Art Therapy and Counseling student, graduate assistant, travel photographer, and all around amazing human. Whitney talks about going to grad school, how the pandemic clarified her path, and the power of getting still.…
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1996 Grad, Jack Lehman, MA, LPCC, Certified Trainer â Center for Nonviolent Communication.
In Thailand, north of Chiang Mai, I worked individually with workshop participants in front of a group. It was a 2-day Introduction to Nonviolent Communication. I spent much of the winter of â10 -â11 in Thailand and gave 3 workshops there and…
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TLDR:
White privilege is entrenched in our society, and not where it might be expected. Many people who consider themselves "not racist" act in ways that are still oppressive. Racism and oppression are as much "ways of being" as "words" that are said. I was surprised that I have a history of being an…
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 Laura L. Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, ACS
I was working full-time as the Family Services Program Coordinator for TeamBuilders Counseling Services when I graduated from SWC's Art Therapy / Counseling program in March, 2007. The birth of my first daughter in 2008 prompted my reluctant departure from TeamBuilders, and set me on…
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I have been inspired by all of the crayon melting art that Laura Lansrud-Lopez has been posting on NMATA's Facebook page. Â I have a bunch of broken crayons that I have been saving to melt into a new project. The first project was to make new crayons. I went to Michaels and bought a few…
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Graduate student, Amy Gordon, describes a fascinating first experience with Holotropic Breathwork. …
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Jobs in Mental Health
Southwestern College's Office of Career Services offers a variety of free workshops throughout the year  on topics such as:
Career Pathways Alumni Panels
Community Agency Work
Geriatric, Alzheimerâs and Hospice Work
Private Practice
Additionally, you can follow a lot of the happenings at Southwestern College by linking to either…
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Kelsey Fagan, is counting her many blessings as the full time art therapist at Kahi Mohala Behavioral Health, the only private non-profit psychiatric hospital in the Islands of Hawaii. In Ewa Beach, Oahu, she runs groups and individual art therapy and sandtray sessions for both court-ordered and voluntarily…
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