Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM
Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM Blog
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How to Solve Relationship Problems by Owning Your Part
Consider the idea that we co-create the dynamics of our relationships. This implies that when a problem is showing up in a relationship, each person in the relationship has helped...
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10 Tips to Thrive in Grad School at SWC
I make war with what comes in contact with a person's health or happiness, believing that God made everything good..." ~Phineas Parkhurst Quimby Grad school is a...
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How to Stop Rushing
Why do I rush? Often, it's because I'm trying to finish up something tedious I've been doing (so I can get to do something I actually want to be doing!)...
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Soul-Making at Southwestern College
What do you get when you rock a holistic, integrative, soulful curriculum and approach to Art Therapy and Counseling, in an innovative and powerfully transformational dual degree program? You get...
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Destination Grad School
Santa Fe is awesome as a grad school destination and city. Check out a few of the honors awarded to "The City Different" below (read the entire "Best of Santa Fe"...
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How to Transform Hostility into Compassion
When we view others with hostility, we're more likely to try to get our needs met at their expense. Transforming our hostility into compassion can shift our approach to conflict,...
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Mobile Metaphor Containment
by Deb Schroder If car designers only knew what art therapists truly need (not that we’re a big enough group to be listened to by the auto industry). We turn...
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Why I Stopped Saving Books
I read lots of books. I used to do a lot of underlining and note taking in those books—then I would file the books away on my bookshelf as a...
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Grad School Surprise: Exponential Experiential
Once a heroic Jedi Knight, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force, became a Sith Lord, and led the Empire’s eradication of the Jedi Order....
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Three Magic Words for Fostering Respectful Dialogue
In a difficult conversation, when I'm considering saying something controversial, I find that it really helps to preface it with three magic words: "My story is..." This allows me to...
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Taking a “Wait and See” Approach to Life
When I'm finishing up a session of meditation, I sometimes set an intention to continue doing nothing throughout my day. That doesn't mean I won't move from my meditation cushion—it...
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Digital Media, Personal Narrative and Art Therapy: The Great Unknown
The technology of the internet... what does it mean? Does the internet teach social skills? Does it matter? Can we make connections via the internet and are they real? What...
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I Like Big (Art Therapy/Counseling) Books and I Cannot Lie
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden Oh, yes, yes I do… like big books,...
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How I Free Myself from Labels
Sometimes I'll get compliments like, "You're so organized!" At these times, I'll often respond by saying, "Thanks! That's true, I am—except when I'm not!" That's because I try not to...
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Shades of Grey . . . In Art Therapy by Deb Schroder
I don’t think that anyone explores the shades of grey better than art therapists. Okay, not the 50 Shades within the popular book and movie, but the uncomfortable place between...
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A Multicultural Therapy Dilemma by Claudia Escareño-Clark
As I venture into another quarter here at Southwestern College I am having a difficult time figuring out where I will eventually fit in. I am currently entrenched in the...
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Admissions at Southwestern
Welcome prospective students! Many of you are contacting us now with application and admissions questions. Most applicants visit our campus to get a “feel” for the student body and our...
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A Ceremonial Retreat in Utah
Adolfo and Rodolfo finally got visas to travel to the U.S., and our group of 25 shamanic students and practitioners gathered in the red rock wilderness of Capitol Reef National...
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of Purity…
To begin with I cannot speak Only see In simplest forms Feel Freely Essentially Be Purity I am the babe Innocent Clean I cannot speak Only see Unabashedly Learn from...
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Skeletons in the Sky…
In preparation for my archetypal embodiment series I want to honor the structures and systems behind a persona or any construct for that matter. Those forms that silently shape what's under the...
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Mandalas and Thoughts at Week Eight
by Debbie Schroder Program Chair for Art Therapy/Counseling Program It doesn’t really surprise me that as we approach the eighth week of the quarter, I’m finally able to spend a...
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What is the Difference Between Clinical Psych and Counseling Psych?
Jim Nolan discusses the differences (historically) between Clinical and Counseling Psychology.......
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… “who will you be?”
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....
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…Archetype: Creatrix…
She waits for you by the river bend, auspiciously watching the rush of water as it folds over itself and unwinds rambling streams of story. This is where inspiration lives, in...