President Nolan uses Social Media for marketing, recruitment, alumni relations, development, staying abreast in the field, following higher education, and just about everything else...…
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President Nolan knows he is not your typical Graduate School President, and he explores the question "Am I Presidential Enough in Social Media?"…
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President Jim Nolan offers a Tutorial Series of Blogs about Linked In and how therapists might best use it to advance their job searches and career networks…
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The Psychology of Selfies. They can be fun and healthy expressions of authenticity, so give them a break!…
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A comical discussion of The Scientific Method, what it does and does not do. …
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The new Heartlink (SWC’s newsletter) is out! There are many pieces of great interest, but the lead article tracks the expansion, enhancement and beautification of Southwestern College’s campus. We started with the decision in 2009 to build the Art Therapy building. That decision set up on a path that has is driving us into our…
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President Nolan is full of questions about Gurus, Darshan, and titles like "Visionary" and "Shaman." As usual, he has no answers...…
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CLICK THIS URL.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-michael-nolan/is-education-supposed-to-_b_1679458.html But is the whole point of education to "get a job??" This piece of mine was published today in the Huffington Post... Sharing, tweeting, liking and Stumbled-Upon-ing always welcomed by Southwestern College.... Thanks, Jim Nolan…
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This is from my most recent (July, 2012) published blog piece for Huffington Post...Any effort you make to share, tweet, re-tweet, like or otherwise spread the word would be of great assistance to Southwestern College...
Warmly,
Jim Nolan…
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Southwestern College and India--Trance-Breaking Experiences At Southwestern College, we talk a fair amount about “Breaking Trances”—cultural, familial and intra-psychic trances. We get to seeing things a certain way, but we did not intentionally or consciously create those perspectives ourselves. Part of our job in “Transforming Consciousness through Education” is to help our students (and ourselves)…
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Unconscious Unity to Conscious Unity: A High Speed Chase through Form In addition to teaching mainstream Psychology and Art Therapy practice, this is the kind of conversation some of us get into at Southwestern College. My brothers tend to think I am not serious, that I am grandstanding, that nobody has conversations about this…
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Integrative Mental Health: The Road to the Cutting Edge The recent history of Psychology, while interesting in so many respects, is also marred by the fragmentation that is so ubiquitous and endemic in the American university system. What do I mean by “fragmentation?” Well, consider that in some universities, the field of Psychology alone is broken…
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There are things. Then there are metaphors that stand in for those things. Then there are metaphors that stand in for reified hypothetical constructs. President Nolan argues that it would be good to know which is which. …
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I remember working too hard, cognitively, to find my “solo spot” on Wilderness Fast. First I went straight to the top of a mountain, and claimed it. Then I gave myself a lecture about being a Straight White Guy taking control of the top of a mountain and how arrogant was that and yada yada,…
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