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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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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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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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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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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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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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Touch & Embodiment by Magdalena Karlick, M.A., LPCC, ATR-BC
A couple of weekends ago, Ginna Clark (Director of the NEI certificate program in Human Sexuality) and I, co-taught a weekend course entitled "Touch and Embodiment." Discussions included...
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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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“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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Sex in Full Spectrum by Ginna Clark, PsyD., LPCC, ATR
Check this out in the Santa Fe Reporter!!! http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-9132-sex-in-full-spectrum.html ...
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Considering Working with Addictions/Substance Abuse?
A Letter to Anybody even REMOTELY Thinking of Working in Addictions/Substance Abuse Dear Friends, Colleagues, Prospective Students, Current Students, & Alumni, Credentials, licenses, and professional certificates can help us get...
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Experiential Action Methods – WOW!
Graduate student, Amy Gordon, describes her love of a course in Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology at Southwestern College's New Earth Institute.. ...
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Trippy Colorful Significantly Spiritual Experience- Without the Use of Drugs
Graduate student, Amy Gordon, describes a fascinating first experience with Holotropic Breathwork. ...
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Soul-Making at Southwestern College
What do you get when you rock a holistic, integrative, soulful curriculum and approach to Art Therapy and Counseling, in an innovative and powerfully transformational dual degree program? You get...
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Human Sexuality at Southwestern College/New Earth Institute
Sylvan Schneider is excited about Southwestern College's certificate program in Human Sexuality......
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Admissions at Southwestern
Welcome prospective students! Many of you are contacting us now with application and admissions questions. Most applicants visit our campus to get a “feel” for the student body and our...
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Transforming Sexual Shame in Ourselves and Others
If you’re considering the Human Sexuality Certificate program but still aren’t sure, consider how it can open doors for you as a practitioner…and as a sexual being. Sexual...
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Where Psyche and Sex Meet: At Southwestern College
Our sexual lives - our desires, our behaviors, our fantasies - are intimately connected to psyche. It’s no surprise then that students and therapists have been asking for more....