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Graduate Amy Krok Looks Back on Her Personal Transformation at Southwestern College
It was a vision. On the rising from sleep one idle morning, the young 25-year-old girl experienced something out of this world; the girl saw clearly before her, her future....
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Why I Chose Southwestern College, by Claudia Escareño-Clark
Why I Chose Southwestern College I believe that when you are considering Southwestern College, their mission statement will either ring true for you or it won’t: "Transforming Consciousness Through Education."...
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A Window Into an Intern’s Experience, from Eliza Buck
Southwestern College, Santa Fe Notes from Cooper Riis by Eliza Buck 7-13-12 Sensing safety takes time. I’ve been at Cooper Riis for 13 weeks now and have just acquired a...
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A Day in the Life of Southwestern College Intern, Craig Tomas McAdams
Craig “Tomas” McAdams – Southwestern College (Santa Fe) Internship in Maras, Peru A couple of days ago one of the boys I meet with for individual sessions – let’s...
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“Failure” – A Great Transformational Opportunity, by Alicia Hoffman, SWC Graduate
The Alchemical Possibilities of Failure by Alicia Hoffman “My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” - Bono. ...
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Sacred Relationship by Patricia Meek
Southwestern College Alumna, Patricia Meek, Recounts a Mission of Healing in the Mountains Sacred Relationship “The winds end when the snow caps of Mount Blanca melt.” This is a common...
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Southwesten College Intern, Craig McAdams, in Peru
Southwestern College, Santa Fe: Internship in Peru In the beginning of my internship in Peru, I had the honor and blessing to be able to work with and learn from...
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A Mandala a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
by Eliza Combs Okay, so maybe not once a day, although that would be an awesome practice but at least once a week for 8 weeks or so. I loved...
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Dru’s Pups Kioko & Suki
Don't these faces say it all! Well I will get around to having my face in there too...but I wanted the pups to get a little press time all by...
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Transformation and Awakening at Southwestern College, by Amy Krok
It was a vision. On the rising from sleep one idle morning, the young 25-year-old girl experienced something out of this world; the girl saw clearly before her, her...
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1 commentsFinal Mandala for Archetypal Psychology, Spring 2011
by Nicole Morgan, Copyright 2012 colored pencils and pen on paper For this project I pieced together several different images that came out of active imagination exercises. When I finished...
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Compassion Fatigue – With a Southwestern Twist! by Colleen Dougherty
In August of 2011, I presented a 1 ½ hour talk on compassion fatigue in animal care work to about 35 people at the New Mexico State Humane Conference in...
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2 commentsThe Beauty Way by Candy Jones
In the last two weeks I lost my iPod, my apple’s hard-drive, my printer/fax followed by light flashes in my left eye, and my dog’s life. The road has been...
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Practicum in Counseling by Eliza Buck
When I entered the second year of my counseling program, I immediately felt the shift of focus from myself to the client. Going to Tierra Nueva, Southwestern College's Counseling Center,...
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Operation Tierra Nueva Kitty Rescue by Erica Westby
Helping comes in many ways here at Tierra Nueva, Southwestern College's Counseling Center, magic comes in many ways too. We see so many people in so many different situations looking...