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Thoughts from Scruff, the Campus Squirrel
By Deborah Schroder So Scruff and I have become pretty close during the pandemic. He doesn’t share his face on social media but he let me use a stand-in so...
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Wild Heart Gallery: Spring Reflections 2020
Cover image: "Rebirth" by Sarah Carter SWC's Wild Heart Gallery has gone online! Experience SWC community's heart and soul. Internal process. Thinking, feeling and doing. Creations of...
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Alum Anne Lebednik Video on Art & Creativity
In Art & Creativity, Southwestern College alumnus Anne Lebednik explores the value of integrating creativity and artmaking as a practice in our lives. Anne explains how we can approach this...
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The Five Values of Southwestern College
President Ann Filemyr discusses the purpose and power of naming and living our values, especially during times of stress and change. She shares the five values of Southwestern College: service,...
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Reflections and Transitions by Alum Chuck Hohl
During the pandemic and time of social unrest, similarly to many of us, reflections have been occupying most of my time. I have been ruminating on my role as a...
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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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Distance Art Therapy in the Time of COVID-19
By Laura Lansrud-Lopez At the beginning of March 2020, New Mexico experienced a statewide and rapid shift to physical distancing and stay-home requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Art Can Save Lives
By Ruth Dennis Years ago, I saw a line that art can save your life. At the time, I just thought it was another artist being arrogant. The art world...
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Holding On
By Deborah Schroder A tiny flash of yellow, right outside my window, caught my eye today. A precious little yellow bird was clinging to the branch of a pine tree....
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Radio Interview of President Ann Filemyr by Alum Melinda Joy Pattison
On April 6, President Ann Filemyr joined alumna MelindaJoy Pattison on her weekly radio talk show. Since graduating, she has established herself as a mental health advocate sharing news and...
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Southwestern Soundbites: Whitney Tressel on Certainty in Uncertain Times
Photo of Whitney Tressel, taken by Adria Malcolm. Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites! In this episode, Courtney Shackelford talks to Whitney Tressel; current Art Therapy and Counseling student, graduate assistant, travel...
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Creativity & Healing and an invite to “SWC Creative Commons” by President Ann Filemyr
Creativity & Healing Social distancing does not have to limit our creativity. Are you dancing in the living room? Playing the ukulele in bed? Singing in the shower? Penning poetry...
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Southwestern Soundbites: A Second Master’s Degree and Art Therapy
Hello, and welcome to Southwestern Soundbites. In this episode, Dru Phoenix talks about her experience as someone who already had a Master's degree and later decided to pursue another Master's...
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Diane’s Story
By Diane Chavez I finished grad school at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2015. I never thought grad school was possible. I went to the emergency room...
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A Therapist in Times of Covid-19 : by alum Allegra Borghese
As I write this, I am completing my final doctoral externship at a VA medical center in New York. My last day in the office was Friday, March 13th,...
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Southwestern Soundbites: Trauma Theory
Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites– quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC’s various certificate programs and happenings at Southwestern. This episode features Courtney Shackelford, current student in...
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Some Reflections on Providing Therapeutic Services in the Changing Times of COVID19
By Val Valentine Wow, what a difference a month can make! I went from a full private practice with between 25-30 face to face clients a week, to 15-20 clients...
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Message from Alum Carie King during the Pandemic
Photo by Carie King, taken on a road trip to Grand Junction, CO. Carie grew up in Maine with a wildlife biologist / photographer, so her appreciate of Earth’s beauty...
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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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Message of Reassurance to SWC Students during COVID-19 from President Ann Filemyr
A Message of Reassurance Dear Students, Today I was deeply moved to read the responses to the student survey distributed by our Student Success Team under the leadership of...
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Holding the Heart
By Deborah Schroder An individual Zoom meeting with a student inspired me to think about this, and I so appreciate that. The student was wondering how faculty members were working...
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Cracked Wide Open
An apt title for the potential personal experience this global pandemic has encouraged. Two days after it was announced that gatherings of 50 or more people needed to be postponed,...
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Soundwestern Soundbites: Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology and Psychodrama with Ben Miller
Photograph by Whitney Tressel at whitneytressel.com. Welcome to another episode of Southwestern Soundbites– quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC’s various programs and happenings. In this...