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Returning to my Roots by Kam Monroe, LPCC
Returning to My Roots: Embracing the Mission of Transforming Consciousness Through Education As I stepped back onto the familiar campus of Southwestern, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It...
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Personal Reflection on MLK Day 2023, Ann Filemyr, Southwestern College President
As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16, I reflect on his life and words urging us to do better, to be better, as citizens of...
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Capstone from a Distance: Zine pages, blood, sweat, & tears
Our Capstone process underwent a new iteration this year. With the class split in half with students who are learning at a distance, and students who are local to Southwestern...
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An Alternative Higher Education
When I applied for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Southwestern, I knew I was seeking an alternative form of higher education. If the second half of the college’s...
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“Time Crystal” by Molly Ponkevitch, SWC Student
TIME CRYSTAL After W.S. Merwin I see that I will be lying in a patch of shriveled Juniper berries all skin and seed ...
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“Rising Hope” by Aubrey Leigh Newton
Rising Hope: At first, I see the road ahead, to be long, and treacherous. The mountains I see, as steep, and unforgiving. I feared, challenges unknown, and obstacles well-placed...
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Courageous Compassion at the Crossroads of Conflict
Courageous Compassion at the Crossroads of Conflict is a talk President Ann Filemyr gave to Unity Santa Fe on the morning of Sunday, September 13. It is an invitation to consider...
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Courageous Community Conversation on Decolonial Practices
This is part of a series of conversations hosted by Southwestern College and held via zoom to invite sharing on pressing social topics. This conversation led by Ann Filemyr, Southwestern...
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Ann Filemyr, College President on “Racial Justice” with painting by Onde Chymes
My heart has been heavy this past week as yet another African American man was brutally murdered by a white police officer. The brutality has once again sparked outrage,...
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Conversations I Never Had with My Daughter, By Deborah Schroder, Program Chair MA in Art Therapy/Counseling
I asked her permission to write this. It’s more her story than mine, but she doesn’t have time to write anything, being a mom of three small ones. My...
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An Alum Updates us during the Pandemic
Aloha my Southwestern colleagues! My name is Tess Yong Kim, and I am a graduate of 11/10/2018. I began my clinical practice on 2/6/2019 as an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health...
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Southwestern College and the Temple of Chavin: Educational Centers for the Transformation of Consciousness
By Laura Addiss, current counseling student at Southwestern College, and Juan Rivas Palacios, medicine guide and wisdom keeper of Chavin Laura: As future counselors it is essential that we go...
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Touch & Embodiment by Magdalena Karlick, M.A., LPCC, ATR-BC
A couple of weekends ago, Ginna Clark (Director of the NEI certificate program in Human Sexuality) and I, co-taught a weekend course entitled "Touch and Embodiment." Discussions included...
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“Consciousness in Action” by Dru Phoenix, SWC alum
Sometimes when “life” happens it feels like you are running to catch up! That was the case when I studied Consciousness here at Southwestern College. When selecting a topic to...
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Healing the Patriarchal Wound by Dr. Ann Filemyr, President Southwestern College, Ecotherapy Certificate Director
I define the patriarchal wound as ancestral suffering and intergenerational trauma caused by the power imbalance between genders. Under patriarchy, boys, men and the masculine are considered inherently superior...
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Inauguration of President Ann Filemyr & 40th Anniversary of Southwestern College
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...
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Getting to know Kate Latimer – Director of New Earth Institute
By Kate Latimer, MA, LPCC, Director of New Earth Institute photo of Seren Morris, Joanna Conte and Kate Latimer at their SWC graduation SWC for student orientation in the...
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Four
By Awbrey Michelle Willett Ann Filmyer, Ph. D is an educator, poet, teacher, and mentor. A traditional healer she trained with the late Keewaydinoquay Paschal in the Midewiwin tradition...
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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part One
By Awbrey Michelle Willett I set out using each of my classes here at Southwestern to grow as a person, and to study self-care, and the various occupational hazards of...
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Is My Therapist “The One?” by Jane McConnell
“Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is...
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Becoming Visionary: The Key To Our Successful Future
Becoming Visionary Is A Mindset You Will Need --by Jim Nolan What does it mean to be “Visionary”? Visionary means looking into our unprecedentedly uncertain future and introducing...
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Opening the Doors to Zion
One of the many blessings of living in the Southwest is the ability to reach amazing geological locations within a day span. Over the holiday break, I had the opportunity...
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Edge Awareness: A Practice of Sensitivity and Nonviolence
In our Yoga class at Southwestern College, my intention and plan as facilitator is for this class to be inclusive as the Nature of Yoga is meant to be and...
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Wild Heart Gallery Featured Artist: Laura Walkingstick
Muliebrity: The State of Being Feminine "Muliebrity” is coordinate term to “virility,” referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they...