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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,...
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Sexual Inheritance by Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CSTS
Fall is here and as we approach holidays that acknowledge the thinning of the veil between worlds and honor our loved ones who have passed (Día de los Muertos, Halloween,...
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Old Artwork, New Meanings, By Deborah Schroder, Program Chair MA in Art Therapy/Counseling
Old Artwork, New Meanings The packing up/moving stuff process has taken me a long time. As we try to get the old place ready to sell, I continue to...
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Welcome, Tiny Ones!
By Deborah Schroder Thanks to a very generous donation from a local therapist, we now have a lovely sand tray collection to use in the Art Therapy building. We have...
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Beyond “Bad” News by Kate Latimer, Program Chair MA in Counseling
I recently read a New York Times article titled, Bad News Bias, (published Wednesday, March 24, 2021) citing a recent study showing that press coverage of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly...
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This Week’s Hard Walk
By Deborah Schroder At Southwestern we believe that therapists should be grounded by their own connection to their spirituality. And we hold a wide view of what those spiritual...
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Finding My Inner Strength by Chelstina Rosera, SWC student
Finding My Inner Strength, March 2121 Inner strength is this magical power we all have yet often forget it’s there. When you tap into it you can achieve great things....
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“Dark Night” – Poetry by Ross W.B. Putnam, Alum of SWC
Dark Night © by Ross W. B. Putnam Dark soul in the night Not sleeping again I rattle through the hallways of Where I’ve been, ...
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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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Thoughts on Future Bound Genograms by Deborah Schroder, ATCN Program Chair
This quarter I’m teaching two sections of one of my favorite courses – Family Art Therapy. As we’ve been exploring many aspects of intergenerational trauma and historical intergenerational trauma,...
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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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Graduation Blessing from Graduating Student: Awbrey Willett
An Allegiance to Gratitude for Southwestern: Inspired by the Onondaga Thanksgiving Address Today we are gathered to celebrate our graduation from Southwestern college. We look upon the virtual faces around...
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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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Ecotherapy, Self Care and Nature
This conversation between SWC President Ann Filemyr, Ph.D., who also serves as Director of the Ecotherapy Certificate, and alumna MelindaJoy Pattison explores the benefits of Ecotherapy, especially during the pandemic...