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no commentsSocial Media Coach: Images & Infinitely More
Images, You Tube, Call to Action, Instagram, Vine, Vimeo, Scoop It, Stumble Upon, Trip Advisor, Yelp and Keywords Using Images You will decide for yourself what your web page will...
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no commentsExplaining Transformational Learning to Your Friends
Transformational Education There are virtually infinite filters you can lay on What Is, or strip away from What Is. For example, you can choose to take a...
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no comments“Santa Fe Is Mostly Old White People & There’s Nothing To Do”
A Facebook Photo Blog, or PLOG, by Jim Nolan "Santa Fe Is Mostly Old White People and There's Nothing To Do" (30 photos)...
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no commentsSign Up For Job Listings in Art Therapy, Counseling, Substance Abuse Counseling
Greetings! I do research every month on jobs that are available all over the USA in Art Therapy, Counseling and Substance Abuse Counseling. If you want me to...
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Explaining “Transformational Education” to Your Family & Friends
There are virtually infinite filters you can lay on What Is, or strip away from What Is. For example, you can choose to take a look at What Is from...
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Transformational Education, Travel, & Barbecue
Transformational Education There are virtually infinite filters you can lay on What Is, or strip away from What Is. For example, you can choose to take a look...
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Fewer Words, More Essence: A Poem from Jim Nolan
Fewer Words, More Essence I was never good at the names of things. I am less good now than I once was. The words elude me more often these...
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Best of Santa Fe: My 3 Favorite Breakfast Spots in Nice Weather
My Favorite Santa Fe Breakfast Spots in Spring and Summer Favorite breakfast spots in Santa Fe changes (for me) by season. But in spring and summer, we have some...
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What INFPs Need In A Shopping Experience
What INFP’s Need In A Shopping Experience: Somewhat Tongue In Cheek. Though Not Completely. Serious Studies in Myers-Briggs Typology They’re not thinking. Why are they not thinking? Because they...
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Does the Future Belong to the Right-Brained?
Daniel Pink makes a great case for the increasing prominence of right-brained skills in the USA at this time in history. He argues that primarily left-brained, “knowledge workers”, who learned/mastered...
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Tips from a 60 Year Old Guy Who Still Has to Work
Let me give you a few tips. If you really want to save money, or if paying for graduate school seems impossible, or if the idea of paying more for...
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no commentsTransformational Learning: An Iconoclastic Vision & Version
By Jim Nolan, President of Southwestern College (note from Jim: "I know this is too long to be a traditional blog. Thankfully, it is a non-traditional blog, so it all...
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When Spiritual Counselors Ride The Quantum Physics Magic Carpet…
by Jim Nolan, Ph.D., President of Southwestern College, Santa Fe I notice these days that a lot of people in the spiritual counseling world, and related metaphysical worlds, are scrambling...
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Thinking Of Getting A Master’s Degree? Beware…
I have come to realize that a lot of prospective students looking at master’s degrees in counseling or art therapy really just don’t get it. This graduate school journey...
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no commentsTwo Styles of Leadership and of Living Your Life…
There’s a metaphor almost everywhere, offering itself as a teaching for those who open their eyes to see it. Playing tennis this morning. I am not a tennis player. My...
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no commentsToto Take Two: It’s OK to Know Nothing. No, Seriously.
People kind of get annoyed with know-it-alls. I have my own category of that going. I know that I do not know anything, but the corollary for me is...
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no commentsTrusting Your Inner Toto: We Are All Very Bad Wizards
Some leaders sound very leaderly, in voice tone, in formality, in their calculated reserve. They probably don’t use words like suck, my bad, dude, or play fantasy baseball. That’s OK....
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no commentsFive Obstacles to Staying Conscious
There are so many obstacles to staying conscious in relation to each other. The Ego, which can be the ten year old with car keys and a jug of...
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no commentsWorthy of Power?
Most people seem to want leaders to lead. That was hard for me to grasp, initially, probably because I myself wanted to lead. But it was, and continues to be,...
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no commentsLeadership Priority #1: Loyalty to the Mission
My primary loyalty has to be to the mission of Southwestern College. Sometimes that will mean that individuals will be significantly unhappy, even angry. Being a leader means keeping a...
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no commentsConscious Leadership in the Service of Transformation
Conscious Leadership Yes, at Southwestern College we train psychotherapists, counselors, art therapists. But the longer I am here, and the more alumni we track, the more I am convinced that...
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no commentsWhere I Go on the “Marijuana in the Profession of Psychotherapy” Issue
Where I Go on the Marijuana Issue, by President Nolan OK, so we decided this was an OK conversation to have in public, in blogs and comments. and I am...
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no commentsLessons in Psychology: The Exactor
The Exactor Some people set up a system, usually unspoken and known only to them, whereby those in their circles must behave in a particular way, demonstrating a strict...
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no commentsBrief Reflection on Loss, and on the Joy That Makes a Feeling of Loss Possible
Reflections from Jim Nolan, in an especially poignant week.... At one end, there is the unspeakable joy, at the other the unspeakable grief, except that they do not fall along...
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no commentsSWC Social Media Coaching: Pinterest, Twitter, Google Plus, Hootsuite
Conversation Number Four: Images, Pinterest, You Tube, Twitter, Google Plus, Hootsuite Using Images You will decide for yourself what your page will look like, but you should note this: Pinterest,...
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no commentsSWC Social Media Coaching: General Guidelines
Southwestern College’s Social Media Coaching Conversation Number Three: General Guidelines and Info about Social media (stuff you should know early on) Establishing a Clear Identity It helps to have a...
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no commentsSWC’s Social Media Coaching: Linked In, Blogging, Your Web Site
Southwestern College’s Social Media Coaching Conversation Number Two: Linked In, Blogging and Your Web Site Linked In As of April, 2013, Linked In has roughly 200 million users. I have...
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no commentsSouthwestern College’s Social Media Coaching Series
Southwestern College’s Social Media Coaching --for students, alumni, faculty & staff --by Dr. Jim Nolan, President Conversation Number One: Intro & Facebook Over the past several years, I have...
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no commentsSouthwestern College’s New Social Media Coaching Conversations Series…
Southwestern College’s Social Media Coaching Conversations… --for students, alumni, faculty & staff of Southwestern College --by Jim Nolan, President, Southwestern College Conversation Number One: Intro & Facebook Over the past...
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no commentsLetter from President Nolan to Those Thinking About Coming to Southwestern College
Greetings from Southwestern College… At Southwestern College, our primary commitment is to the transformation of our students’ lives. We take that charge very seriously. For us, “transformation”, “consciousness”, holistic psychotherapy...
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no commentsProfessional Development on Social Media 101: Heads Up
This is going to sound snobby. It is not. It is really just honest mirroring. If you have a Linked In account and you have seven Connections, either blow up...
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no commentsIs a Master’s Degree in Art Therapy or Counseling Worth It?
The Value of a Master’s Degree I received my BA in English in 1975, and the skills and appreciation of literature I learned back then, and the full meaning of...
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1 commentsA View Into Accreditation…Notes from Chicago
Southwestern College is a holistic, integrative, spiritually conscious graduate school in sleepy Santa Fe, New Mexico. We are unknown even to some long-time residents of Santa Fe itself. (This is...
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no commentsSaying Yes to Life. Yes to Southwestern College and Yes to Santa Fe.
Southwestern College and Saying Yes to Life... by Jim Nolan I talk with a lot of prospective students who are interested in Southwestern College. Once they have done enough homework...
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no commentsWhere Do Southwestern Grads Work? Laura Lansrud-Lopez, Art Therapy/Counseling
Laura L. Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, CTS I was working full-time as the Family Services Program Coordinator for TeamBuilders Counseling Services when I graduated from the Art Therapy...
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no commentsSouthwestern College is a Calling: What Do We Mean By Holistic, Spiritual?
Part Three: Language can be a complicated thing. At Southwestern College, we continue to reach for the best language we can find to describe what we do. We call our...
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no commentsSouthwestern College is a Calling: Part Two
Part Two: Who Teaches at Southwestern College? And How? Well, our faculty members do much more than “teach." As you can guess by reading that first piece. Teaching sounds like...
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no commentsSouthwestern College is Not Just a Graduate School: It is a Calling
Southwestern College (Santa Fe) is Not Just a Graduate School: It is a Calling --- by President, Dr. Jim Nolan Every master’s degree program in Counseling has to offer a...
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no commentsINFPs: A View from Pinterest
INFP's are an uncommon type in the Myers-Briggs taxonomy... If you are lucky enough to be one, (or are in any kind of significant relationship with one) you might enjoy...
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no commentsJim Nolan Comments on Judy Weiser and her PhotoTherapy Techniques (Video)
PhotoTherapy Techniques at Southwestern College with Judy Weiser Jim Nolan comments on Judy Weiser, PhotoTherapy Techniques, and the future of such training at Southwestern College.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b2w8Oe5to ...
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no commentsTwo Views of “Ceremony”…
There are probably many orientations to “Ceremony”, and I am going to talk about two of them here: “Ceremonialist-Based Ceremony”, and “Consciousness-Based Ceremony.” These are terms I have made up,...
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no commentsThe Blooming of the Southwestern College Campus…
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...
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no commentsDigital Natives & Digital Immigrants: A Multicultural Chasm
Speaking the Language of the Digital Natives OK, here is something the world needs. Authentic, committed, serious, spirited, informed, good-humored, action-backed, energetic and collaborative conversations and team-building around "Social...
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no commentsDisruptive Innovation Needed in Higher Education
Creativity, Vision and the Courage to Act on Them..... President Nolan's most recent post in Huffington Post... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-michael-nolan/ Jim Nolan is a Disruptive Innovator. ...
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no commentsSouthwestern College Needs Men. So Do A Lot of Clients Out There…
Musings on the scarcity of men in the helping professions.... It is no news to anybody—there are not a lot of men at Southwestern College. We are all aware of...