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Posted December 16th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Muliebrity: The State of Being Feminine
"Muliebrity” is coordinate term to “virility,” referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they connect with and empower the feminine aspects of the self, community, or greater collective via artistic processes. The Wild Heart Gallery is proud to present…
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Posted December 9th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Muliebrity: The State of Being Feminine
"Muliebrity” is coordinate term to “virility,” referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they connect with and empower the feminine aspects of the self, community, or greater collective via artistic processes. The Wild Heart Gallery is proud to present…
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Posted December 4th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Muliebrity: The State of Being Feminine
"Muliebrity” is coordinate term to “virility,” referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they connect with and empower the feminine aspects of the self, community, or greater collective via artistic processes. The Wild Heart Gallery proudly presented a series…
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Posted November 27th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Muliebrity: The State of Being Feminine
"Muliebrity” is coordinate term to “virility,” referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they connect with and empower the feminine aspects of the self, community, or greater collective via artistic processes. The Wild Heart Gallery proudly presented a series…
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Posted November 23rd, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Wild Heart Gallery
"Muliebrity" is coordinate term to "virility," referring to qualities of femininity. Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to explore how they connect with and empower the feminine aspects of the self, community, or greater collective via artistic processes.
On Thursday, November 10, 2016, the…
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Posted October 30th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories.
Wild Heart Gallery
Featured in the Wild Heart Gallery until November 8th, is an exhibition of ceramic works from three Southwestern College students who took classes over the summer with instructor, Seren Clancy, at Serendipideez Ceramics Studio here in Santa Fe. Angelica Restrepo, a recent SWC graduate, was the only one of the three who…
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Posted October 21st, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
The writing group at SWC is a place where students, faculty, and staff can come together and share in a communal free-writing experience each Thursday at noon. Patterned after Natalie Goldberg's exercises, we start with a prompt of some sort and write for a few minutes, then, if we want, we share what we wrote.…
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Posted October 21st, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Lead-in
Students new to Southwestern College in the fall of 2016 were invited to introduce themselves through their art and other creative processes. It is the Wild Heart Gallery's honor to feature a few of the contributing artists of the Lead-in exhibition.
Artist: Nicol Blais
Title: Heroes
My art has always…
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Posted October 21st, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Lead-in
Students new to Southwestern College in the fall of 2016 were invited to introduce themselves through their art and other creative processes. It is the Wild Heart Gallery's honor to feature a few of the contributing artists of the Lead-in exhibition.
Artist: Laura Murphy
Title: Awake. Present. Healing.
Laura's expressive…
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Posted October 21st, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Wild Heart Gallery
Students new to Southwestern College in the fall 2016 quarter were invited to introduce themselves through their art and other creative processes. On Thursday, October 6th, the Lead-in exhibition gala opened with artist talk presentations by Laura Murphy, Anne Lebednik, Meg Hamilton, Blake Van Egeren, Victoria Begay, Eric Case,…
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Posted August 16th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Wild Heart Gallery Exhibition
Art Therapy/Counseling student, Rebecca LaPera, is in a cohort of 25 people who are about to enter into the last phase of the Southwestern College graduate program - internship. She had a dream where she saw her classmates' work from the past two years exhibited in the Wild Heart Gallery. Inspired by…
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Posted August 15th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Honoring the Spectrum of Self
On May 20, 2016 the Wild Heart Gallery hosted the opening night of "Honoring the Spectrum of Self," an exhibition where Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to investigate the sacred pieces that have shaped them as an individual or within the collective. The show featured a variety of…
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Posted August 15th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Honoring the Spectrum of Self
On May 20, 2016 the Wild Heart Gallery hosted the opening night of "Honoring the Spectrum of Self," an exhibition where Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to investigate the sacred pieces that have shaped them as an individual or within the collective. The show featured a variety of…
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Posted August 14th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Honoring the Spectrum of Self
On May 20, 2016 the Wild Heart Gallery hosted the opening night of Honoring the Spectrum of Self, an exhibition where Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to investigate the sacred pieces that have shaped them as an individual or within the collective. The show featured a variety of works installed within…
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Posted August 12th, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
Part 2, if you missed it…
Part 3: How Using Ownership Language Changes My Worldview
By changing the statement from "we" to "I" in this entire blog series I have shifted my perception of life. I no longer blame “society” (you, we, or any form of “other”) for what I am perceiving as a…
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Posted August 9th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Honoring the Spectrum of Self
On May 20, 2016 the Wild Heart Gallery hosted the opening night of Honoring the Spectrum of Self, an exhibition where Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to investigate the sacred pieces that have shaped them as an individual or within the collective. The show featured a variety of works installed within…
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Posted August 8th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Honoring the Spectrum of Self
On May 20, 2016 the Wild Heart Gallery hosted the opening night of Honoring the Spectrum of Self, an exhibition where Southwestern College staff, faculty, and students were invited to investigate the sacred pieces that have shaped them as an individual or within the collective. The show featured a variety of works installed within…
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Posted August 8th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Wild Heart Gallery, Creativity & More.
Wild Heart Gallery Exhibition
On May 20th, 2016 the Honoring the Spectrum of Self exhibition began with an opening night of planned and spontaneous performances. Spoken word, song, and video filled the large art therapy classroom and vibrant conversations filtered into the Wild Heart Gallery, where guests could examine the installed works…
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Posted August 5th, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.
Living in New Mexico has always been a dream of mine, and when I had the chance to move here to come to SWC, I jumped at the opportunity! It wasn't long before I was itching to explore my new world, and when I did, I was truly awestruck by the beauty within minutes from…
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Posted August 3rd, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Part 1, if you missed it...
Part 2: Practical Examples of Ownership Language
I look around and see so many things that say "Stop doing THIS!" or "Don't do/think/act THIS way!" or even "Fight THIS!"
With so much negative bombardment, is it any wonder I feel so overwhelmed and defeated much of the time, especially…
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Posted July 20th, 2016 by Adam Boehm & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Part 1: What is Ownership Language
In many of my classes our teachers have been training us to use “I statements” during discussions. For example, it applies when you fall into the habit of using we, or you, when you actually mean “I” in a statement, as I just did in this sentence. See what I…
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Posted July 16th, 2016 by Ann Filemyr & filed under Reflections from the President, People of SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Bringing the Divine Feminine to Campus by Ann Filemyr, Ph.D.
I believe the Ultimate could be a vast energetic being, nameless, formless, skinless, disembodied raw creative force power zipping through the universe in the never-ending processes of making and unmaking, being, becoming and dissolving back into non-being. The Great Mystery, who I refer to…
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Posted May 4th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under SWC Blog.
Life purpose and vocation; I sometimes wonder how they are related.
Sometimes I hear life purpose described simply and clearly, like this quote from notetoselfphilosophy.com:
Note to Self:
“What is my purpose in life?” I asked the void.
“What if I told you that you fulfilled it when you took an extra hour to talk…
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Posted April 13th, 2016 by swcblog & filed under Art Therapy at SWC, Where do SWC Grads Work, People of SWC, Consciousness & Mindfulness.
Featured Artwork: Mandala Buddha, acrylic on paper, 36"x24", 2012, Tejal Murray
Over the last few blogs, I’ve been exploring Stephen Cope’s The Great Work of Your Life in a general way with examples from my own life. Today, I’m going to dive more deeply into the teachings by profiling one of Southwestern College’s graduates.
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