I, Rene, had the amazing opportunity to meet with Carol Parker at a coffee shop called Dulce in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Carol Parker brings with her a wealth of knowledge related to ceremonial space, initiations and rite-of-passages, and was the initiator of Wilderness Fasts at Southwestern College. I asked her to meet to learn more…
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Albuquerque is 64 miles Southwest of Santa Fe and has many fun things to check out this holiday season! Take the Rail Runner or drive down i25 and explore the Duke City.
Go to Big Jim’s Winter of Enchantment event at the southeast corner of Coors and Montaño near Sprouts and Bosque School: 4140…
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“Interesting how you are only using a black sharpie marker in your art today,” says my art therapist, as she gently points out my visible tension with perfectionistic, black and white thinking….…
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The Graduate Assistantship (GA) program at Southwestern College is an opportunity for students to receive mentorship and develop professional skills by working in a small administrative role with the college. Assistantships are available for $3,600 to $,5400 and are typically awarded at the beginning of the fall quarter for the entire academic year.
The…
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Overview and Application Process
The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers Certificate Programs to expand your scope of professional expertise and enhance your marketability as a Counselor or Art Therapist/Counselor.
The programs consist of a series of intensive offerings in clinically relevant areas of professional practice, including:
Addictions, Abuse and Recovery
Applied Interpersonal NeurobiologyÂ
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Admissions
If you have the motivation for self-discovery and the academic background to pursue a rigorous graduate degree in the field of consciousness, your graduate school search will lead you to Southwestern College.
Southwestern brings a holistic, multicultural perspective to this Master's degree program. We are an especially good fit if you are an adult…
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The following are links to full text eBooks, which are required reading for courses in the Summer 2018 quarter.Â
Upon clicking each link, you will be asked (on the page that loads) to provide an EBSCOhost User ID and Password to access the content, both of which can be obtained by contacting Quimby Memorial Library.
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The technology of the internet... what does it mean? Does the internet teach social skills? Does it matter? Can we make connections via the internet and are they real? What about personal narrative? How does digital media affect us?
In this video interview Dr. Natalie Carlton discusses the topic of digital media as narrative, people's…
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Link to Online Forms Repository
Transcript Requests
To obtain a copy of your Southwestern College transcript, complete this Handy Online RequestÂ
OR Submit your request directly through Populi. Go to >My Profile>Student Tab>Transcript>Transcript Options>Official Transcript Request.
There is a $15 charge for each official transcript.
There is a $5 charge for each unofficial transcript ordered…
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Connect to your higher calling. Transform your work, your relationships, and your life. This is consciousness in action.
Features of the Program
Prepares graduates to affect change in their communities and/or field of study
On the ground in Santa Fe, NM or online/distance available
Integration of creative, multi-tiered method of learning and subject matter
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In the the M.A. Art Therapy/Counseling program I find myself reading and/or studying quite a bit. Spending hours on end at home can be wearing. A simple change of location is enough to keep me energized and in the frame of mind to do my best work.
My top five places to study in Santa…
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Dr. Nolan discusses combining Counseling and Coaching as a career option. …
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The following are links to full text eBooks, which are required reading for courses in the Summer 2018 quarter.Â
Upon clicking each link, you will be asked (on the page that loads) to provide an EBSCOhost User ID and Password to access the content, both of which can be obtained by contacting Quimby Memorial Library.
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The anticipation from July to September was immense, knowing grad school was a big life step for me. I prepped my spare room that was my old high school bedroom into my new office/yoga space. It was a total room renovation. I strongly feel the energy of physical space arrangement and needed to make this…
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Hours for Spring Quarter 2024
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Librarians will be in the library and available for on-site assistance throughout SWC's 2024 Spring Quarter.
On-site access to Quimby Memorial Library's collections, resources, and services will be available Monday through Thursday, 12PM - 5PM. Come by anytime within those hours to browse, borrow, meet with a librarian, or…
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Laura Lansrud-Lopez titles her 2nd act story “Follow Your Heart: Advice From a Graduate of Southwestern College.” Read about her career change from forensic firearms technician with the FBI to professional art therapist and clinical mental health counselor…
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AB, Princeton University, Transnational Cultural Studies
MA, Southwestern College, Counseling
Jason is a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a primary therapist at the Life Healing Center of Santa Fe, where he helped to found its internationally-recognized sexual addiction treatment programs for men and women. He…
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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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Creativity & Healing
Social distancing does not have to limit our creativity. Are you dancing in the living room? Playing the ukulele in bed? Singing in the shower? Penning poetry by the window? Perhaps this time apart has offered you an opportunity to express yourself. What are you longing to say in this moment? So…
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Welcome to another episode of Southwestern Soundbites– quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC’s various certificate programs. In this episode, Courtney Shackelford (Admissions Associate and current student) talks to her friend and peer, Amanda LaMendola. Amanda is both a student in the Art Therapy/Counseling program and the Addictions, Abuse, and Recovery…
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Jennifer Albright, MA, ATR, LPC/MHSP - Professionally, I am working with Experiential Healing Center with private practice serving children, adolescents, and adults with individual, family, group services. In addition, I am teaching Methods and Principles of Substance Abuse Counseling at Southwest TN Community College. I continue to work with at risk boys…
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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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Kat Duff wrote a book Alchemy of Illness and is now learning neuro-feedback techniques.
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Rick Cotroneo  MA Counseling
The year was 1984.  I was wrapped in a piece of beige linen. With leather sandals on my feet, I was holding an ancient slingshot. When…
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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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