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Navigating with a Learning Difference, Part I by Susanmarie Oddo
Time will Tell Wherever you find yourself in your educational career, you may discover, from time to time, that you need support to achieve success. As a student with a...
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Your Love is Vital, by Ann Filemyr, President Southwestern College
Each year on February 2nd, I celebrate the ancient Celtic Goddess Brigid, a great feminine solar power, she of the greening season who carries fire in her palms, she who...
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New Mexico Winter Tips by homegrown New Mexican, Tya Bussell
Here in New Mexico, we get an equal amount of all four seasons. Our summers are filled with heat and sunshine. Our autumns are crisp golden and orange with perfect...
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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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Snowflake: Reflection on the PhD Cohort by Susanmarie Oddo
Snow is beginning to accumulate, and as my border collies race outside for their last evening jaunt before bed, their paw prints pepper the snow. I delight in watching them...
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Vision Seeds for PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership
Growing Your Vision-Seed In our new transdisciplinary applied doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, each student begins their journey with the spark of an idea or...
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Snapshot of a PhD course, first quarter by Colleen Pendry
It has been a remarkable first quarter in the PhD program. VPRL620 – Phenomenology and the Call to Serve embedded spiritual, investigative, and practical methods, providing me with opportunities to...
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Reflecting on Indigenous Peoples Day by Kira Jackson, SWC Student
Being in the northeast, the hustle and bustle of the cities domineers everything. Regionally the energy is impatient, it’s fast-paced, it’s strong-willed. There’s always people, TONS of traffic, and a...
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Residency for the Ph.D. Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Program
Southwestern College & New Earth Institute launched their first Ph.D. program, called Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership. This program embodies three life-changing residency experiences that include Seeking, Gathering and Grounding,...
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My first week at SWC by Tya Bussell -Student and Graduate Assistant
The anticipation from July to September was immense, knowing grad school was a big life step for me. I prepped my spare room that was my old high school bedroom...
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Living in the Desert by Tya Bussell, SWC Student and Graduate Assistant
Ah, the sweet New Mexico landscape. Enchanting, delicious, wild, entertaining, clear, infinite. The home, I’ve called my own since I emerged from the womb. A place of lots of dirt...
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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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2 new murals, a Capstone Process
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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Hope’s Tree & New Beginnings at SWC
Jennifer Albright Knash joined the Southwestern College family as department chair of the Art Therapy & Counseling program this past spring 2022. She has brought diplomacy, kindness, creativity and a...
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The Healing Power of Words: an Interview
Here is a 50 minute interview of Dr. Ann Filemyr, Chair of the PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership program being conducted by a PhD Program Faculty Mentor Dr. Marianela...
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Relatedness and Regeneration by Marna Hauk, PhD
adrienne maree brown, in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds “Developing your capacity for adaptation can mean assessing your default reactions to change, and whether those reactions create space for...
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Pleasure and the Erotic in a Time of Emotional Winter
Looking out my window here in Minnesota, I see a lovely blanket of shimmering snow covering the ground. Here and there, the dried brittle skeleton of a plant pushes through....
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The Importance of Magic Pintos by Deborah Schroder, Program Chair
I’ve been with Southwestern College for almost 20 years. As I get ready to move on to a new position in northern New Mexico, I’m aware of what an...
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Arts-Based Research: Symbols of Internalization and Identity
One of the required courses in our Art Therapy for Clinical Professionals Masters program is a 1-credit Arts-Based Research course. Students are asked to choose a symbol to engage with...
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Calling All Visionaries!
Calling All visionaries! By Ann Filemyr, PhD. President and Founder/Director of the in PhD Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership The new transdisciplinary PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative...
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The Magic of Trans-Formation: Alchemy, Gender, and JKR
Trans- (prefix): From Latin. (1) On the other side of : across : through : beyond (2) so or such as to change or transfer Southwestern College offers a...
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Integrating Brain, Body & Heart!
I attended the NEI Certificate Program class “Integrating Brain, Body & Heart Intelligence” taught by Tim Burns, M.A. The course is one offered periodically in the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate...
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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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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,...