A Guest on El Dia de los Muertos
Graduate Student, Amy Gordon, shares a powerful experience of her first Dias de los Muertos event.…
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Graduate Student, Amy Gordon, shares a powerful experience of her first Dias de los Muertos event.…
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This week has been one of manifesting intentions.
Yesterday morning began as any other here on the compound. The mountain summits rose majestically unabashed by gathering clouds. The dogs scurried to my door and I exited my casa to make my morning coffee. The Women of Maras began to arrive shortly before nine…
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Marianela Medrano, PhD, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in Psychology. Her literary work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is the founder…
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Kat Duff wrote a book Alchemy of Illness and is now learning neuro-feedback techniques.
1985
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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By Michelle Walker Harkey
If life is a test, I think I just marked an incorrect answer this morning. As a volunteer at the Los Alamos Triathlon, my stated assignment was to keep a designated part of the course safe by keeping spectators on one side of the ribbon and participants running the correct direction…
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<-- 2006 2008 -->Wendy Goodman, MA, LPCC, LADAC As I reflect upon my career path since leaving Southwestern College I wonder if any one of us can truly know the possibilities of opportunity that lie before us. If we are prepared to explore what we don’t know and can be flexible to unexpected turns in…
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About the ProgramThe Passport Program allows Southwestern College students, staff and faculty to borrow materials in person from other participating academic libraries in New Mexico.The Passport Program is sponsored by The New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries (NMCAL).Prior to Visiting another LibraryAll prospective borrowers must have a current Southwestern College photo ID card and be…
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Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico
It’s challenging to express what my experience adjusting to Southwestern College and Santa Fe has been like. Finding ways to describe how magical, fulfilling, and painful it has been almost seems impossible. I arrived in Santa Fe from Oregon in August and I had almost two months…
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The office of Financial Aid would like to thank all veteran for their service and welcomes you and your eligible dependents and spouses to Southwestern College.
Applying for VA Benefits
Choosing a Program
You may qualify for more than one type of VA education benefit. Since applying for a certain education benefit could affect your…
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Trixie Pujol is doing early intervention work with children ages 1-4 years old in Los Alamos and Santa Fe, primarily with kids with autism, and runs a monthly support group for parents and caregivers of children with autism. She recently attended the World Autism Congress in Cape Town, South Africa where nearly 1,000 people from…
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For Halloween, you will likely dress up. You will show the community a side of yourself they rarely, if ever, see. You will express your inner dimensionality with such verocity. You will adorn yourself, enticing the community to see something so very true about you and yet usually hidden from view. Ok, how many times…
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Diana received her bachelors of arts in Theater and Art from Oberlin College, in Oberlin, OH. She graduated with a masters in counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM, and has been a psychotherapist since 2008. She has worked extensively with individuals, families, and adolescents in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Before…
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Rev. Brendalyn Batchelor, M.A., LPC, is an ordained Unity minister. She received her master’s degree in Counseling from the University of New Mexico in 1991 and has been the minister of Unity Santa Fe since December 1994 when she went from the pews to the pulpit through the Field Licensing Program. She was ordained in…
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Andrew Fearnside, LMHC
I work as a psychotherapist for a small agency in Albuquerque, NM, providing treatment for a wide variety of folks with problems centered in addiction, trauma, grief and loss, depression and anxiety. I am proud to say that I am still generally delighted, and sometimes challenged, by the great mystery that life…
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Sandra Brown has moved to Grand Junction, Colorado.
Lorrie Bonds Lopez is an ombudsperson and mediator and the Chief of Staff for Environmental Stewardship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Linda Lauver is graduating this summer after three years at Pacifica Graduate Institute…
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Judi Carmi is back in Santa Monica, after two years in Sonoma County, Northern California and then two years in Portland, Oregon. She is back with the Los Angeles Unified School District working as a School Counselor.
Denise Kelly has been in private practice in Asheville,…
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BeeBee Brinn lives in Bamberg, Germany and works with the Dept. of Defense Dependents Education Activity (DoDEA) on a US military base at a middle/high school. Beverly is working as a middle school counselor, a speech/language pathologist for 7th-12th graders, and teaching a middle school Study Skills elective class. “It is…
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Reflection Option #3: A Letter to My Teacher--By Colleen Dougherty
Dr. Carol Parker, Ph.D, LPCC
Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM
Dec. 3, 2012
Dear Carol,
I am writing to tell you about my experiences so far in the AmeriCorps program called OARS-Opportunities in AmeriCorps for Re-entry Success. This program exists in four of New…
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Fall is here and as we approach holidays that acknowledge the thinning of the veil between worlds and honor our loved ones who have passed (Día de los Muertos, Halloween, Samhain, All Hallows Eve, etc.) I’d like to tell you a ghost story from my own life.
Years ago, I visited an Intuitive, planning to…
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Living in Santa Fe the hot springs in the area are of great interest. There are a bunch of great hot springs spas in the area, that I highly recommend spending a day at. These spas cost money and that can sometimes be a factor for whether or not we can spend a day to…
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ART AS A FORCE OF NATURE: CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION AND HEALING
Shaun McNiff, Ph.D., ATR
Saturday, August 25, 9am – 5:30pm
The Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe
$135 for 7 CECs
Go to www.tandh.org to register
Art heals through the circulation of creative energy and the transformation of difficulties into…
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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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The initial impulse to create a unique higher learning institution devoted to consciousness began in 1976 in Alamogordo, NM. Then in the fall of 1979 the first 12 students began their course of study.
In the first entering class was Katherine Ninos, M.A., LPCC, who now teaches and mentors other teachers in the Consciousness curriculum.…
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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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