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Visionary Practices for Regenerative Leaders, Ann Filemyr, PhD
At Southwestern College in Santa Fe, we co-designed a unique transdisciplinary doctoral program, the PhD in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership, and launched it in 2022. The purpose is to...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part Four
By Awbrey Michelle Willett Ann Filmyer, Ph. D is an educator, poet, teacher, and mentor. A traditional healer she trained with the late Keewaydinoquay Paschal in the Midewiwin tradition...
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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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“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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Now What? Dr. Ann Filemyr, Ph.D
Now What? Dr. Ann Filemyr, Ph.D November 14, 2016 In the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, I summon my courage. Already in the past five days there are multiple accounts...
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Bringing the Divine Feminine to Campus – Ann Filemyr, Ph.D.
Bringing the Divine Feminine to Campus by Ann Filemyr, Ph.D. I believe the Ultimate could be a vast energetic being, nameless, formless, skinless, disembodied raw creative force power zipping...
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When One Transitions, We All Transition
When One Transitions, We All Transition by Ann Filemyr Our granddaughter announced his decision to become an F to M Trans Boy. Okay, I am ready, I thought. Well, not...
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In the Aftermath of Yesterday’s Massacre
In the Aftermath of Yesterday’s Massacre We heard the news about the June 12 massacre on Sunday evening. A man declaring himself an Islamic fundamentalist entered a gay bar in...
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Psyche & the Language of Transformation by Ann Filemyr
Dr. Ann Filemyr tells the story of Psyche in her graduation speech, November, 2014....
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The Give-Away: An Indigenous Abundance Ceremony
The Give-Away Ann Filemyr, Ph.D. Vice President of Academic Affairs & Dean, Southwestern College In a number of different but related indigenous cultures, there exists the practice some call...