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 PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Student & Alumni Stories, 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 25th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Student & Alumni Stories, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
The Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership PhD Program at Southwestern College in Santa Fe begins with an initial on-ground residency, Residency I: Seeking. The purpose is to provide an orientation to the program and to introduce students to unique approaches to transformational and experiential learning. These new ways of learning, doing, and being invite our…
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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 October 3rd, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
A small passenger van's tires slowly bite into the dusty desert road, leading into a ranch off of the main scenic road, appropriately called Ghost Ranch. We are about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe, and the nearest community of Abiquiu is about 14 miles down the road. Cohort #3 doctoral students are happy…
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Posted September 26th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, Top News, Featured.
In September 2024 the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership PhD Program held its annual Fall Residency welcoming its third cohort. A hallmark of the program and all graduate programs at Southwestern College is experiential and transformational learning. Here we share a brief photo-essay on one of the residency activities, walking the labyrinth at Ghost…
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