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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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A Lively Variation of Art Therapy
By Deborah Schroder Sometimes I think of art therapy as a wild, colorful plant, and I most often think in “plant words”, not “garden words” – which to me speaks...
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A Welcome to New Friends
By Courtney Shackelford This time last year I was new. The sun was brighter than anything I had experienced on the other side of the country and the landscape was...
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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...
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On These Shoulders, I Stand
By Maqueita Eleazer While taking the History of Art Therapy course, I was surprised to see that 7/301 pages mentioned the contributions that art therapists of color have made to...
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Your Brain on Art
By Courtney Shackelford The brain is special and magnificent, strange and mysterious. It is powerful enough to send messages to assist in regulating our bodies, but is also a vulnerable...
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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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Self Care, a Symphony in Four Parts: Part One
By Awbrey Michelle Willett I set out using each of my classes here at Southwestern to grow as a person, and to study self-care, and the various occupational hazards of...
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Rites of Passage: Wilderness Fast as a First Year Student
My name is Alyssa Ellegaard and I am a first-year student at Southwestern College. My journey at SWC began before classes started during this past fall’s Wilderness Fast in Canyon...
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Santa Fe’s Bounty by Nicol Blais
When you move to Santa Fe you might wonder what some of the things are that you can do to relax. Well just 15 minutes from campus you will...
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Deadlines for Admission
Deadlines. What a word. Here at Southwestern, we do have deadlines, but we also have rolling admission. How does that work? If you are considering applying to Southwestern College, I...
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Body, Heart, and Mind
I come from the east coast, specifically from Virginia. Though I graduated from an art school with a BFA, a lot of the concepts that we discussed in class...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Caitlin Harper
I have been honored to serve the Nambé Pueblo community since October 2013. The reasons for my arrival to the little reservation nestled in a corner of the Sangre de...
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Where Do Southwestern College Grads Work? Katie Hall
I have worked at Solace Crisis Treatment Center in Santa Fe, treating trauma and crisis situations for the last two and a half years. I previously worked at the Attachment...
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Is My Therapist “The One?” by Jane McConnell
“Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is...
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Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico by Jane McConnell
Adjusting to Southwestern College and New Mexico It’s challenging to express what my experience adjusting to Southwestern College and Santa Fe has been like. Finding ways to describe how...
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Ancestors Visible: An Art-Based Genogram Show
Wild Heart Gallery Monday, April 10th, 2017 Southwestern College's Wild Heart Gallery hosted the first opening night gala of the quarter. Deb Schroder, Program Chair of the Art Therapy/Counseling Program,...