Posted February 8th, 2021 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Top News, Featured.
An Allegiance to Gratitude for Southwestern: Inspired by the Onondaga Thanksgiving Address
Today we are gathered to celebrate our graduation from Southwestern college. We look upon the virtual faces around us and we see that the cycle of life continues. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other…
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Posted July 10th, 2019 by Southwestern College & filed under Counseling at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness, SWC Blog, Featured.
By Kate Latimer, MA, LPCC, Program Chair of the MA in Counseling (Clinical Mental Health) Program
photo of Seren Morris, Joanna Conte and Kate Latimer at their SWC graduation
I first heard about Southwestern College in 2002 while living in Morocco and teaching at a small international school located in the town of Ifrane in…
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Posted December 11th, 2018 by Adam Boehm & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.
I come from the east coast, specifically from Virginia. Though I graduated from an art school with a BFA, a lot of the concepts that we discussed in class were done so in an almost exclusively cerebral way. Addressing art this way is valuable—line, shape, color are all important when making a piece. But…
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Posted August 12th, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
Part 2, if you missed it…
Part 3: How Using Ownership Language Changes My Worldview
By changing the statement from "we" to "I" in this entire blog series I have shifted my perception of life. I no longer blame “society” (you, we, or any form of “other”) for what I am perceiving as a…
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Posted July 20th, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Part 1: What is Ownership Language
In many of my classes our teachers have been training us to use “I statements” during discussions. For example, it applies when you fall into the habit of using we, or you, when you actually mean “I” in a statement, as I just did in this sentence. See what I…
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Posted April 1st, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Hello! My name is Beth Lykins, and I am a current student at SWC. I am starting my final quarter of my first year in the Art Therapy and Counseling program, and I wanted to share a student’s perspective of life at SWC. I am attending part-time, so I generally take two courses per term.…
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Posted November 17th, 2015 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
We are asked to look within ourselves in our first few classes here at SWC. This process varies from person to person. For me, it has been an incredible opportunity to work on some issues I had thought were already worked through. It only goes to prove the cyclical nature of self-exploration and personal growth.…
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Posted November 16th, 2015 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
The recent crop of counselors and art therapists from Southwestern College commenced on November 7, 2015 at the James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf in Santa Fe. It was a beautiful ceremony unlike any other I have attended, and being a former college professor myself, I have seen quite…
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Posted October 26th, 2015 by Hilary Gunby & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC.
Students at Southwestern College show mastery of content in creative ways.…
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Posted November 7th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
Sylvan, a counseling student at Southwestern, shares his thoughts on New Mexico, SWC and counseling. …
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