Posted December 12th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, People of SWC, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
Sometimes an opportunity appears and without even knowing all the details a big YES from the heart arises. This is what happened when I first became aware of the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership (VPRL) PhD program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although I had researched various PhD programs on and off…
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Posted November 19th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
As a Faculty Mentor in the transdisciplinary Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership (VPRL) PhD program at Southwestern College, I bring the experience of 20 years in higher education in mostly traditional settings. I intentionally chose a transdisciplinary doctoral program myself. I bring both lenses - traditional and transdisciplinary – to my work in VPRL. I…
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Posted November 5th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
In the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College, we understand the natural world and more-than-human beings are partners in our learning. Of course, nature is not simply an external construct, human beings are nature, embedded in natural systems and cycles, and are themselves expressions of Earth systems. Through our doctoral program…
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Posted October 29th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
Doctoral student and artist Jamie Moon shares her journey and what influenced her to collect and make sand-painted stones and gift them to the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership doctoral program faculty and her fellow doctoral students. Enjoy her unique story in her words and images.
Growing up in Tennessee, in a very traditional gift-giving…
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Posted October 9th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
In the following quotes from their self-reflections, doctoral students entering in Fall 2024 share their experiences of finding community with each other and the faculty of the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College.
Genell Howel: "Within my cohort and faculty, I found a group of like-minded individuals whose ultimate aim is…
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Posted December 9th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Snow is beginning to accumulate, and as my border collies race outside for their last evening jaunt before bed, their paw prints pepper the snow. I delight in watching them discover the first snow of the season. In the mountains of Colorado, the scene of dogs romping in deep powder is ubiquitous, and joy inducing. …
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