Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM
Creativity in the Classroom at Southwestern College
Posted October 26th, 2015 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC.Students at Southwestern College show mastery of content in creative ways.…
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Nature As Teacher: Reflections on a Hike by Hilary Gunby
Posted October 9th, 2015 by & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Professional Training Certificates & NEI, Student & Alumni Stories.A first-year student integrates the beauty of Santa Fe and her learning at Southwestern College.…
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Visual Truth: A Series on the Honesty of Art
Posted August 28th, 2015 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.Visual Truth: A Series on the Honesty of Art
Part 1
In 2005 Stephen Colbert coined the word “truthiness” and it still mischievously pops into my head when I witness discussions where no real facts seem important. As an art therapist I probably honor intuition and perception as much as anyone so it might seem a…
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The Transformative Power of Group Work by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Posted July 31st, 2015 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, People of SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.Claudia Escareño-Clark shares some reflections on her group work experience during practicum at Southwestern College. …
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My Training at Southwestern College
Posted April 15th, 2015 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.In the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit that I am a film geek and child of the 80's. Bear with me.
That moment comes when you've been in grad school so long that you don't see how the training you are receiving has anything to do with working with clients. Perhaps that is…
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Shades of Grey . . . In Art Therapy by Deb Schroder
Posted February 17th, 2015 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, SWC Blog.I don’t think that anyone explores the shades of grey better than art therapists. Okay, not the 50 Shades within the popular book and movie, but the uncomfortable place between black and white thoughts and beliefs. I’m embarrassed to admit that I gave up on reading the 50 Shades book because I was so annoyed…
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A Multicultural Therapy Dilemma by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Posted January 25th, 2015 by & filed under SWC Blog.As I venture into another quarter here at Southwestern College I am having a difficult time figuring out where I will eventually fit in. I am currently entrenched in the theories and perspectives we are learning in family counseling, and though it may be called family counseling, I cannot separate some of the issues I…
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On Becoming a Mexican Therapist by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Posted July 15th, 2014 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.Claudia Escareño-Clark explores the impact that assimilation and being an immigrant have had and how this will impact her work with clients. …
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Where Southwestern Grads Work: David Hudson, Art Therapy/Counseling
Posted March 9th, 2014 by & filed under Where do SWC Grads Work.David Hudson, M.A., ATR-BC, LPCC, is employed by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs as a Readjustment Counseling Therapist. He specializes in the treatment of chronic, combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as military sexual trauma. Using a variety of modalities and interventions in long- and short-term psychotherapy, he serves veterans from the conflicts in…
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Failure Becomes the Seed of Possibility
Posted February 7th, 2014 by & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Student & Alumni Stories.What I have learned at Southwestern College is that each quarter brings with it new experiences. Sometimes they are wrapped in neat little packages with cute little bows, and sometimes whatever I receive I’d like to send back and pretend it was addressed to someone else. That being said, sometimes the most painful experiences lead…
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SWC: The Experience by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Posted January 27th, 2014 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, SWC Blog.As graduate assistants at Southwestern College we get to do a variety of tasks, depending on our strengths and interests. While doing social media and blogging, I came up with the idea last fall to do a series of videos. What I realized is that while I was fortunate enough to already be living in…
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Beautiful Girl
Posted October 23rd, 2013 by & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Student & Alumni Stories.“Beautiful Girl” by Claudia Escareño-Clark and Gabby Valdez
Gabby's Reflections:
My assignment for my Multicultural class was to pick a topic “Outside of my Comfort Zone” pertaining to a cultural view. I chose to make a film documentary, which took much discerning to make public, about body image. In seeing the final cut, it was such…
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Transformation and Awakening at Southwestern College, by Amy Krok
Posted February 15th, 2012 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC.It was a vision.
On the rising from sleep one idle morning, the young 25-year-old girl experienced something out of this world; the girl saw clearly before her, her future. At 25, the girl had spent most of her twenties up to that point confused and searching for answers, directions and guidance. It came…
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Southwestern’s Online Art Gallery
Posted February 1st, 2012 by & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More. Hello There!
Please enjoy the art, and words about the art processes that are posted here.
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The blog is intended to inspire the creator within in us all by both seeing various mediums used, as well as reading how the pieces have been created and what they mean to the artist. We will…
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The Gift by Jamie Moon, PhD student
Posted October 29th, 2024 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Doctoral student and artist Jamie Moon shares her journey and what influenced her to collect and make sand-painted stones and gift them to the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership doctoral program faculty and her fellow doctoral students. Enjoy her unique story in her words and images.
Growing up in Tennessee, in a very traditional gift-giving…
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New Frameworks for Learning, PhD student testimonials
Posted October 25th, 2024 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.The Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe begins with an initial on-ground residency, Residency I: Seeking. The purpose is to provide an orientation to the program and to introduce students to unique approaches to transformational and experiential learning. These new ways of learning, doing, and being invite our…
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Capstone B: Summer ’24 Presentations & Art Gallery by Jennifer Albright Knash
Posted October 9th, 2024 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Image by Ben Noel, Creature of the Week
This year we had nineteen students presenting their Capstone B projects and their art pieces that demonstrate the culmination of their learning in the SWC art therapy and counseling program. The students were asked to choose between either a group art process or a creative self-inquiry where…
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Summer Capstone A – 2024 by Jennifer Albright Knash
Posted October 9th, 2024 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.The Capstone Story
This year’s summer Capstone A was an entirely virtual experience since all of our students were distance learners for this term. The idea “germinated” very quickly as this group was a close cohort; they decided upon a virtual garden where they would create symbols for each other and themselves and then work…
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Finding My People and Coming Home
Posted October 9th, 2024 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.In the following quotes from their self-reflections, doctoral students entering in Fall 2024 share their experiences of finding community with each other and the faculty of the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College.
Genell Howel: "Within my cohort and faculty, I found a group of like-minded individuals whose ultimate aim is…
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PhD First Residency: Encounters of the VPRL kind by Vlad Rebek
Posted October 3rd, 2024 by & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
A small passenger van's tires slowly bite into the dusty desert road, leading into a ranch off of the main scenic road, appropriately called Ghost Ranch. We are about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe, and the nearest community of Abiquiu is about 14 miles down the road. Cohort #3 doctoral students are happy…
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“Follow the Path – A Doctoral Student Begins her Journey”
Posted September 26th, 2024 by & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, Featured.
In September 2024 the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership PhD Program held its annual Fall Residency welcoming its third cohort. A hallmark of the program and all graduate programs at Southwestern College is experiential and transformational learning. Here we share a brief photo-essay on one of the residency activities, walking the labyrinth at Ghost…
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Returning to my Roots by Kam Monroe, LPCC
Posted September 20th, 2024 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, People of SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness, Top News, Featured.Returning to My Roots: Embracing the Mission of Transforming Consciousness Through Education
As I stepped back onto the familiar campus of Southwestern, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It felt like just yesterday that I was a new graduate student in the Art Therapy and Counseling program, soaking up knowledge and expanding my horizons.…
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The Heart of Nature Summit 2024, Ann Filemyr, PhD
Posted April 26th, 2024 by & filed under Top News, Featured.President Ann Filemyr participated in The Heart of Nature Summit on April 19, 2024. This video is her interview and covers the values of Southwestern College, the purpose of the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, as well as reflections on the balance needed to heal ourselves and heal the Earth.
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Visionary Practices for Regenerative Leaders, Ann Filemyr, PhD
Posted March 20th, 2024 by & filed under Reflections from the President, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.At Southwestern College in Santa Fe, we co-designed a unique transdisciplinary doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, and launched it in 2022. The purpose is to prepare regenerative visionary leaders who are inspired to articulate the emergent story of cooperation, compassion, connection, and capacity. We bring together faculty and doctoral students…
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Art Directive from History of Art Therapy class
Posted December 19th, 2023 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.In History of Art Therapy: Founders and Foundations, we start each class with an art directive. This is a wonderful way to explore the history of the field of art therapy while also learning about the founding mothers and fathers. This Tissue Paper Collage art directive was inspired by Edith Wallace and Jung's "active imagination".
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Hello Winter Solstice!
Posted December 19th, 2023 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, Featured.The Winter Solstice starts the winter season on December 21, 2023.
The Earth is at its furthest point from the sun, resulting in the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. Astronomically, the Winter Solstice marks the start of longer days and shortening nights. Around the world, many cultures celebrate the Winter Solstice…
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Graduation 2023 Address for Degree Students -Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT
Posted November 17th, 2023 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
Graduation Address:
Jennifer Albright Knash, DAT, Chair of Art Therapy, Graduation Address, November 2023
Featured Photo of Virginia Padilla Vigil, Katherine Ninos and Jennifer Albright Knash
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Jennifer Albright Knash is the Chair of the Art Therapy/Counseling program at Southwestern College. She currently works with…
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Albuquerque Winter 2023 Events and Activities by Tya Bussell
Posted November 17th, 2023 by & filed under People of SWC, Featured.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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Prioritizing Self Care as a Masters Student by Mariana Leon
Posted November 8th, 2023 by & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.Before attending Southwestern College, self-care was a weekend activity or something to do after all my priorities were completed. It was a luxury to have time for self care.
My first class at Southwestern was Psychology of Altruism: Fundamentals of Helping Relationships. This course explored the balance of service and self-care. It wasn’t until then…
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On the First Residency for the PhD program by Angela Palmer
Posted November 1st, 2023 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, Featured.I am a new student in the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Ph.D. In late August and early September I had the privilege to participate in my first residency. It is titled "Seeking" and it kicks off the PhD program and allows us to connect with each other, the faculty, and the program overall. This…
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What to do in New Mexico, Summer 2023 by Tya Bussell
Posted May 23rd, 2023 by & filed under People of SWC, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.There are many gems to be discovered in the summertime throughout New Mexico. The summer temperatures in lower elevation areas of New Mexico range from 80-100 degrees Fahrenheit. The higher elevation locations of NM reach the 70s in the peak of summer. These temperatures are perfect for shorts and tank tops with plenty of sunscreen!…
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Springtime Flowers of Santa Fe By Tya Bussell
Posted April 20th, 2023 by & filed under Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.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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Winter Capstone 2023 by Jennifer Albright
Posted April 20th, 2023 by & filed under Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.This year for Winter Capstone 2023, we had nineteen students and five new murals; there was the opportunity to participate via distance as well as on ground in unique and ingenious ways. Students were asked to consider how they would like to participate and ways in which they would like to integrate the ideas of…
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Economic Data on New Mexico by Tya Bussell, Student
Posted February 21st, 2023 by & filed under Counseling at SWC, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.New Mexico ranks in the top half of the most affordable states to live in and the state with the lowest average taxes paid per household. New Mexico doesn’t have a state sales tax. It has a statewide gross receipts tax, which is commonly passed on to the consumer by businesses just like a normal…
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Navigating with a Learning Difference, Part I by Susanmarie Oddo
Posted February 9th, 2023 by & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Time will Tell
Wherever you find yourself in your educational career, you may discover, from time to time, that you need support to achieve success. As a student with a learning difference, I’d like to share with you my standouts for success, which emerged during my first quarter as a PhD student. It is my…
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Your Love is Vital, by Ann Filemyr, President Southwestern College
Posted February 6th, 2023 by & filed under Reflections from the President, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Each year on February 2nd, I celebrate the ancient Celtic Goddess Brigid, a great feminine solar power, she of the greening season who carries fire in her palms, she who blesses the arts of poetry, smithing, and healing. In Ireland it is called St. Brigid’s Day, honored as a holy day at her sacred spring…
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New Mexico Winter Tips by homegrown New Mexican, Tya Bussell
Posted January 25th, 2023 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Featured.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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Personal Reflection on MLK Day 2023, Ann Filemyr, Southwestern College President
Posted January 9th, 2023 by & filed under Reflections from the President, Consciousness & Mindfulness, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16, I reflect on his life and words urging us to do better, to be better, as citizens of the nation and members of the human community. I consider how he inspired so many. The work they collectively accomplished made our lives more possible.…
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A Researcher’s Blessing
Posted December 13th, 2022 by & filed under Top News.Thank you provisioning creatrix power of the living universe, of which we are a deep part, for guidance in helping connect us with the next now and necessary node(s) in the sinuous, supple, undulant, and infinite webweave of the cosmos-in-becoming knowing itself more deeply.
We honor affirm that as we are a part of the…
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Snowflake: Reflection on the PhD Cohort by Susanmarie Oddo
Posted December 9th, 2022 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Snow is beginning to accumulate, and as my border collies race outside for their last evening jaunt before bed, their paw prints pepper the snow. I delight in watching them discover the first snow of the season. In the mountains of Colorado, the scene of dogs romping in deep powder is ubiquitous, and joy inducing. …
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Vision Seeds for PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership
Posted December 9th, 2022 by & filed under Reflections from the President, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.Growing Your Vision-Seed
In our new transdisciplinary applied doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, each student begins their journey with the spark of an idea or a desire, a personal calling. We call this initial spark the vision-seed. Our program is designed to help students nurture, incubate, develop, and bring to…
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Snapshot of a PhD course, first quarter by Colleen Pendry
Posted November 15th, 2022 by & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.It has been a remarkable first quarter in the PhD program. VPRL620 – Phenomenology and the Call to Serve embedded spiritual, investigative, and practical methods, providing me with opportunities to be an authentic learner.
The creative process is the root of my cosmology, and I jumped in with head and heart. Synthesizing course material by…
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