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Knowing when to say “when”
I attended the Ecotherapy workshop “Exploring Kinship Relations Using Ecotherapy and Art Therapy” and so enjoyed being out on campus spending time walking through the gardens, meditating in the labyrinth,...
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“Ceremony” by Iva Brito, student of Ecotherapy Course
Ceremony is inside of us Sprinkled with stardust from galaxies that made us Ceremony is inside of us Walking in harmony with the mother’s beat Hand within its wisdom’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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Loving Trees By Ann Filemyr, Ph.D. President of Southwestern College
Written on November 22, 2019 Let no one say that I lived in the ponderosa pine forest and failed to notice. Today I went out and stood beneath thick...
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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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The Weed by the Water, by President Ann Filemyr
The Weed by the Water by President Ann Filemyr Sitting on the breakwater next to Navy Pier in Chicago, I look down at...
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Rites of Passage: Wilderness Fast as a First Year Student
My name is Alyssa Ellegaard and I am a first-year student at Southwestern College. My journey at SWC began before classes started during this past fall’s Wilderness Fast in Canyon...
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Ecotherapy: How Many Thousands of Years of Evidence Do We Need?
Earth-Based Practices and the Problem with Evidence-Based Practice “Epistemology” is the study of “Knowledge,” and how we know what we know, or what makes us think we “know” the things...
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Ecopsychology of the Night: An Interview With Jason Holley, by Rene Tricou
A simple question. What is astrology? I would say astrology is a way to live in connection with natural cycles of time. It is also the correlation, “as above,...
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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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“We cannot heal the earth until we heal ourselves. We cannot heal ourselves until we heal the earth.” by Ann Filemyr
"We cannot heal the earth until we heal ourselves. We cannot heal ourselves until we heal the earth." Kari-Oca Declaration of the 1992 Parliament of Indigenous Peoples In 1992 I...
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Council of All Beings
Council of All Beings The Ecotherapy Certificate Program under the leadership of Dr. Ann Filemyr, Director of the Ecotherapy certificate program and President of Southwestern College, hosted a ceremonial...
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Ecotherapy Interview: Post 1
The Ecotherapy certificate program at Southwestern College offers a Wilderness Fast each year to interested individuals. In September 2016, Wilderness Fast members took a 9-day trip to Canyon De Chelly...
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Interview with Carol Parker
I, Rene, had the amazing opportunity to meet with Carol Parker at a coffee shop called Dulce in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Carol Parker brings with her a wealth of...
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of Two Worlds by Andrea Twitchell
Since beginning my apprenticeship as an art therapist/counselor in training here at SWC in 2014, I had my most challenging quarter in the spring of 2016. For the first two...
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Counseling, Consciousness, and Survival in Utah’s Horseshoe Canyon
I never thought that the coursework in a master’s degree in counseling would help me to survive a night of being stuck in Utah’s rugged, remote, and desolate Horseshoe Canyon....
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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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A Spiritual Journey
In the early 90’s I began studying with shamanic practitioners. At first, I worked with well-known shamanic teachers Michael Harner, Ph.D. and Sandra Ingerman, M.A., as well as other excellent...
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Clearing Stuck Energies
Our indigenous elders and healers tell us that ancestors can get stuck on the earth plane after passing. This may be due to a traumatic and unexpected death in which...
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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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A Newbie Art Therapist Reflects on the 2012 AATA Conference
by Christina-Villarreal The American Art Therapy Association's 45th annual conference (2012) was held in San Antonio, Texas. As a budding art therapist, I decided to take the opportunity to attend my...
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Wilderness Fast: Sylvan Schneider’s Experience in Death Valley
Sylvan Schneider goes on a Vision Quest at Southwestern College, and shares his experience.......
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Original Agreement
According to the Original Agreement People could become Plants But only if they kept the rituals That were set up in those days. I found out about this One spring...