Monthly Archive January 2013
Posted January 30th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Paintsplash - Art Therapy, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. Southwestern College: The Only Place to Get Your Master’s Degree in Art Therapy OK, so here is why you should pursue your Art Therapy career at Southwestern College. There are going to be controversial statements in this piece. So it goes. I am addressing the issue as the President of SWC, as a businessman, as…
Continue reading
Posted January 29th, 2013 by amyhautman & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan. Southwestern College is dedicated to maintaining a holistic curriculum, NOT one fragmented into seemingly separate, un-connected subjects or courses. The Curriculum, we are convinced, is “Consciousness”, and we are all learning in the school of life, of form. The “learning” energy or action is moving through the subject matter that makes up the…
Continue reading
Posted January 29th, 2013 by Magdalena Karlick & filed under Art Gallery, Paintsplash - Art Therapy, Top News. I have been inspired by all of the crayon melting art that Laura Lopez has been posting on NMATA's Facebook page. We have a bunch of broken crayons that I have been saving to melt into a new project. Our first project was to make new crayons. I went to Michaels and bought…
Continue reading
Posted January 29th, 2013 by Magdalena Karlick & filed under Paintsplash - Art Therapy, Top News. Painting by Laura Lansrud-Lopez Words by Deborah John PhD, ATR-BC I wrote this poem to explain the way that I experience all art forms as deeply connected. The Artsconnect and move the soulto places we long to be.Ultra-blue or grape-dark skyDrifting thru Obscure fogsFleeing fires being consumedIn climbing and…
Continue reading
Posted January 28th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Top News. Take, for example, a purple triangle, a Granny Smith green circle, a rose, and light emanating from behind it. They are nothing but a triangle, a circle, a rose, and glow. Images are Rorschachs. They are simple images, icons, shapes, in relationship with each other. But like Rorschachs, people attribute, often force “meaning” into,…
Continue reading
Posted January 26th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Top News. President James Michael Nolan Muses on the Nature of, well, just about everything, as it relates to your experience at Southwestern College. 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…
Continue reading
Posted January 23rd, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. Affordability of Graduate School Revisited… Dru tells me that many people who look seriously into Southwestern College decide to “stay closer to home”,or decide that “money is an issue”. While I guess I more or less understand that, I would not necessarily recommend either of those as a good reason not to come here…
Continue reading
Posted January 22nd, 2013 by amyhautman & filed under Student Reflections and Updates. By Amy Hautman Bates I just reread “The Power of Now”, for Katherine Ninos' Consciousness I class. It has been ten years since I first picked up Tolle's book and I was struck by how much clearer it seemed this time around. I think I used to be trying too hard to "get it". I…
Continue reading
Posted January 18th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. "Dance" Kinetic Sculpture in the garden at Southwestern College Transformational Possibilities and Properties of Dysregulation Some people believe that “Dysregulation” is a bad thing, and something to be fixed, asap. Some of us have another possible take on that. When a person has been “traumatized”, or let’s say, been through something really bad…
Continue reading
Posted January 17th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. Creating Your Career Path at Southwestern College Southwestern College is a small, extremely focused graduate institution. Many larger schools offer a multitude of majors and programs, and create “career services” offices or departments in which counselors who do not know the students and probably did not study what the students studied, use standardized methods to…
Continue reading
Posted January 17th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. Career Services at Southwestern College Questions You Should Have About Graduate School in Counseling or Art Therapy Every graduate student and (especially) prospective graduate student should have a keen interest in the answers to these four questions: 1) What are the training experiences the school will provide? 2) How will the school help me prepare…
Continue reading
Posted January 17th, 2013 by Magdalena Karlick & filed under Paintsplash - Art Therapy, Student Reflections and Updates, Top News. by Katherine Beck When it rains in Santiago all the posters pasted onto urban walls get wet. There are often many layers of posters glued on top of each other, and the water makes them so heavy they eventually peel off and become trash. This is where I come in, because I *heart* trash. That is…
Continue reading
Posted January 15th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under New Thoughts from President Nolan, Practical Questions & Answers About SWC, Counseling & Art Therapy, Top News. Musings on Consciousness (re-published from Heartlink several years ago) James Nolan, Ph.D., President Southwestern College, Santa Fe The concept of "Consciousness" has been at the center of ten times ten thousand musings since thinking beings were able to self-reflect on their own experience in the world. At Southwestern College, consciousness becomes a vibrant, immediately relevant,…
Continue reading
Posted January 15th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under Top News. Reflections on College History By Katherine Ninos, Vice President In the past several Heartlinks, we have traced the lineages and influences of Quimby/Southwestern College back through Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and New Thought, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudolf Steiner, Hindu scriptures, John Dewey, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Madame Blavatsky, Carl Jung and beyond. (For access to those Heartlinks,…
Continue reading
Posted January 10th, 2013 by Magdalena Karlick & filed under Paintsplash - Art Therapy, Top News. Let’s go for a walk, and pick up with permissionpieces from the earth, resting branches, fallen leaves, rocks rolled with time, or shells that once were homes. What history do they hold?There is room for more, from me. Let’s whisper into the rocks.They can keep our secrets, our emotions, our wishes. Shells can be…
Continue reading
Posted January 9th, 2013 by Jim Nolan & filed under Student Reflections and Updates, Top News. Professional Ethics in Art Therapy Final Paper Camille Grec Autumn 2012 “But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. ...And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, and to love life through labour…
Continue reading
Southwestern College 