Posted February 4th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Ecotherapy, Student & Alumni Stories, SWC Blog.
Pachamama is my teacher...........
by Candy Jones, student at Southwestern College
"I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle." - Wendell Berry from A Timbered Chore Take Me to Bethlehem
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Posted February 3rd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
by Amy Hautman Bates
Peacemaker, Sequoyah Trueblood visited SWC last week and referred to the need for women to moderate the aggressive nature of men. Honoring the feminine virtues of creating life, peace, sensitivity to Nature and the needs of others is the most obvious way to move toward a more sane world.…
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Posted February 2nd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Student & Alumni Stories, Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC.
ON BEING HUMAN at Southwestern College, Santa Fe
- Allegra Borghese
I sit in client-mode, staring at myself down a long, dark tunnel. I see a flicker of myself that has been mischievously hiding for a long time. The uncanny feeling that emerges is a potent reality check slicing through who I think myself to…
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Posted January 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Counseling at SWC, Art Therapy at SWC, SWC Blog.
I have been inspired by all of the crayon melting art that Laura Lansrud-Lopez has been posting on NMATA's Facebook page. I have a bunch of broken crayons that I have been saving to melt into a new project. The first project was to make new crayons. I went to Michaels and bought a few…
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Posted January 29th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, SWC Blog.
Painting by Laura Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, ACS
Words by Deborah John, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LPAT
I wrote this poem to explain the way that I experience all art forms as deeply connected.
The Arts
connect and move the soul
to places we long to be.
Ultra-blue or grape-dark sky
Drifting…
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Posted January 22nd, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, SWC Blog.
By Amy Hautman Bates
I just reread Tolle's 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." …
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Posted January 9th, 2013 by Donna Harrington & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Counseling at SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
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…
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