One primary theme in Dan Millman’s book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior is that the “time is now and you are here.”
For me, this message means you should avoid allowing your mind to get caught in the past and causing the present to fade into the shadows. Instead, you need to make an effort…
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Denise Moore, PhD student and Tierra Nueva Counseling Center Clinical Director is interviewed by PhD student Zahra RØnlov
https://vimeo.com/1054243358/239f7be735?share=copy…
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Licensing and supervision requirements vary by state. Check your state’s specific requirements by going to their website.
Southwestern College programs do meet the requirements for licensure in New Mexico. Specific determinations that its curriculum meets the state educational requirements for licensure or certification in all 50 states is an ongoing press. Current state by state…
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New Earth Institute Community Lectures
Free and Open to the Public or $20 for 2 CEs
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Questions: lecture@swc.edu
Mental health professionals may receive
2 CEs approved by the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board (#CCE0111661) and the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP No. 7520) for a $20 fee.
INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS…
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10 scholarships available for Fall 2025, valued at $1,800 per award!
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
President's Award
Art in Action Award
Neva Dell Hunter Vision Award
Southwestern College Alumni Scholarship
Guadalupe Award
Spirit of Unity Award
Gandhi Social Conscience Award
Ancient Wisdom Traditions Award
Board of Trustees Ambassador Scholarship
Scholarship application for new or continuing…
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4 PhD students will be selected annually to receive honorary scholarships, each valued at $1,000! Scholarships will be awarded prior to the start of the Fall quarter:
Grace Lee Boggs Scholarship
Dr. Ann Filemyr Lifetime Learning Award
How to Apply:
Complete the PhD Dispositions Self-Reflection Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/0XM1FfXyee
Submitted surveys will be assigned…
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Licensed Psychologist, Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Dr. Calvert is the Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate Program. She has studied mindfulness for the past 18 years and has taught classes, courses, workshops, and retreats. Rochelle leads classes/courses/seminars in Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness, (S.I.T.), Awake in the Wild- Nature-Based Mindfulness retreats, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy…
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Biography
Gina Ogden is an award-winning sex therapist, family therapist, researcher, teacher, and author. She is founder of the 4-D Network, an international collaboration of practitioners whose mission is to expand the practice of therapy and sex therapy beyond limiting notions of function and dysfunction to include a wide range of diversity and…
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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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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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One of the required courses in our Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals Masters program is a 1-credit Arts-Based Research course. Students are asked to choose a symbol to engage with over the course of the quarter through arts-based inquiry and symbolic research. Part of the course asks students to identify their social location and multiple…
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Lorraine R. Freedle, PhD is a board certified pediatric neuropsychologist, clinical social worker, and teaching member of Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and the International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST). She teaches at Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM and the Trauma Research Foundation, Brookline, MA. Dr. Freedle is the author of When a Goddess…
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Featured Artwork: Mandala Buddha, acrylic on paper, 36"x24", 2012, Tejal Murray
Over the last few blogs, I’ve been exploring Stephen Cope’s The Great Work of Your Life in a general way with examples from my own life. Today, I’m going to dive more deeply into the teachings by profiling one of Southwestern College’s graduates.
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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 3 pound organ encased in bone and liquid to keep it safe from the various hazards of the world. A millennium later, humans still do…
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Father of New Thought
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby is widely recognized as the “Father of New Thought”, since the essence of the movement is rooted in the interpretation of his teachings and healing practices.
Earlier in life, Quimby developed tuberculosis but experienced no benefits from the medical treatment of his time.…
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Here in New Mexico, we get an equal amount of all four seasons. Our summers are filled with heat and sunshine. Our autumns are crisp golden and orange with perfect harvest weather. Our springtime is windy and fresh with blooms all over the place. Our winters experience snow, ice, and frosty temperatures. This has a…
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Psychedelic Studies Certificate
Program Description
The Psychedelic Studies Certificate Program is designed for clinical professionals and community members who wish to learn about the science, history, policy, ethics, phenomenology, and clinical applications in the emergent field of psychedelic- assisted therapies. The program will encourage the development of critical thinking skills,…
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by Megan Sturges, © 2012
My practice in the studio is about giving life to the unconscious image in specific form through my hands and eyes – bringing it into this world of color and form through the embodied sense of yes or no, here or there, connecting, separating, line, shape, object, pattern. Like dreams,…
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--from Reverend Ted Wiard
Internal Boundaries Can Lead to an Easier Day
The Taos News has committed to implement a bi-weekly column to help educate our community about emotional healing through grief. You may write questions to Golden Willow Retreat and they will be answered privately to you and possibly as a future article for…
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by Rush Cole
...blackness. Trapped. Overwhelmed. No way out. Tired, so tired. Sudden energy from the surge of self-hatred that roared through me.
“Get it over with, you don’t deserve to live!” The blade against my wrist.
The Voice, coming from a part of me I didn’t know existed. “Put down the…
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I think of grief as the normal and natural healing process from a loss. There are many forms of loss, including, loss of a pet, health, home, finances, dreams and hopes, motivation, Self, addiction, social status, time, and, of course, death of a loved one. Any time you experience loss you may undergo a grief…
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Is there Drama Therapy at Southwestern College?
By Allegra Borghese
At Southwestern College we incorporate many modes and traditions of healing
into the classroom. For first year students in Consciousness I, we were
asked to represent our findings of a research project through an interactive
performance. While the introverted part of me was not…
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Loss has been part of life since the beginning of time. It happens in nature with the seasons, animals and natural disasters. With humanity’s evolution, especially in certain societies, loss was hushed and shelved away in some imaginary file cabinet called denial. Grief, death, loss and other “sad” words were not spoken. When there were…
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Quimby Memorial Library's APA Support page has moved to QML.Libguides.com!
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