Posted December 12th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, People of SWC, Top News, SWC Blog, Featured.
Dr. Enid LaGesse, founding faculty member in the Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership (VPRL) PhD program at Southwestern College (SWC), sits down with VPRL Founder and Director, Dr. Ann Filemyr, to discuss the program in its third year. She shares insights on the impact of the SWC transformational learning model on both students and faculty.…
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Posted December 12th, 2024 by Southwestern College & filed under People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, 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 PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, People of SWC, SWC Blog, Top News, 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 November 15th, 2022 by Southwestern College & filed under Student & Alumni Stories, People of SWC, PhD Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, SWC Blog, Top News, Featured.
It has been a remarkable first quarter in the PhD program. VPRL620 – Phenomenology and the Call to Serve embedded spiritual, investigative, and practical methods, providing me with opportunities to be an authentic learner.
The creative process is the root of my cosmology, and I jumped in with head and heart. Synthesizing course material by…
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