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Walking Through Fire: A Transformational Paradox
By Kate Latimer The work of a counselor is inherently ironic, and often misunderstood. We are shepherds of grief, sadness, doubt, fear and anger, and know that when we can...
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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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Certificates on Certificates on Degrees: Three Reasons to Add a Certificate Program to Your Education
By Courtney Shackelford As someone who works full time and attends grad school I have enough on my plate. So why would I add any additional certificates to that workload?...
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Dying to Know
By Courtney Shackelford What is it like to die? Perhaps it is a question that everyone besides myself has considered, but, as I was in the class "Dying to Know”,...
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Southwestern Soundbites: AAR Holistic Models and Biological Aspects of Addiction and Recovery
Welcome to another episode of Southwestern Soundbites– quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC’s various certificate programs. In this episode, Courtney Shackelford (Admissions Associate and current...
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Southwestern Soundbites: TGR Dying to Know
Photo by Alissa Petrosoniak Welcome to Southwestern Soundbites-- quick audio clips featuring current students, staff, and faculty discussing SWC's various certificate programs. This episode features Courtney Shackelford, current student in...
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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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“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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Sandplay
Inessa Mil'berg, SWC Alum sent us this blurb about Sandplay Therapists interested in providing a non-verbal, depth approach to therapy might consider learning sandplay. Sandplay, as developed by Dora Kalff,...
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An Interview about the Art Therapy Field with Debbie Schroder, Program Chair of MA in Art Therapy/Counseling at Southwestern College
Debbie, you have been in the art therapy field for a significant time, can you tell us more about the trajectory of your career? Hindsight is amazing, but...
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First Year…first quarter (and some tips) by Whitney Tressel, MA in Art Therapy/Counseling student
"Week Five" marks the halfway point of my first quarter within my first year as a first-time graduate student. Both unbounded excitement and complete overwhelm compete inside me for...
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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 Independent Chicken
By Deborah Schroder Do you remember the childhood story of the Little Red Hen? She went around the farmyard asking other animals to help her plant the seeds, nurture the...
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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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Job Outlook for Licensed Counselors
by Kate Latimer, LPCC Before investing in the 2-3 years of academic coursework needed to complete a graduate degree, students need to know what their job prospects will be upon...
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ENFP
By Courtney Shackelford The campaigner. That is what the ENFP has been called. It is a personality that is driven by story, idealism, and emotional connection. It is my personality...
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A glimpse: Teacher as Student Part 1
I am a third of the way through my second residency at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland. This intermodal education challenges students to...
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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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Moving From Far Away?
By Courtney Kayser When I found out I was accepted to Southwestern College, I was ecstatic! I was also terrified. My whole life had been on the East Coast, and...