Earth-Based Ceremonies Facilitate Connection & Healing | Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM

Southwestern College offers both experiential learning and professional rigor. Here Katherine Ninos describes the experiential learning brought by Sequoyah Trueblood, visiting Native American Elder, through the building of a Purification Lodge and conducting earth-based ceremonies to facilitate connection and healing. Experiential learning brings students into a greater sense of consciousness and unity so they come from a core connection to self and Spirit. Southwestern College confers Masters degrees in Counseling and Counseling/Art Therapy, Certification through Specialty Programs and a continuous schedule of Community Education offerings (CECs available).

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• Native American Ceremony
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• Southwestern College
• Sequoyah Trueblood
• Santa Fe NM
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[jimnolansantafe]

@drawingothers

Oh, please. Let's have lunch DO. 

[jimnolansantafe]

@drawingothers

Still banging the same victim drum. Offer a true conversation, DO.

I was married in India in Indian tradition, and they chose to love that and feel honored by it.. It IS a choice, after all.

[jimnolansantafe]

@drawingothers

And we have tribal peers on our Advisory Board. And on ou Faculty. C'mon, you can find somebody to defend or attack anything.

[jimnolansantafe]

@drawingothers I have no respect for your posts when you come after me and my salary. Change your tone if you want a conversation. I actually WAS burglarized in the past six months. You are talking to a real person, not a cartoon.

[jimnolansantafe]

@jimnolansantafe

so I am not defending "me"....We also have no feathers on our sign. Our logo goes way back, and our most fundamental roots are in New Thought, not Native culture...

[jimnolansantafe]

@drawingothers I hear you, and I am not in agreement that we are promoting stereotypes, and that has virtually NOTHING to do with students coming and ABSOLUTELY nothing with funding we get--we get ZERO funding related to :Native American anything.. You cannot change things here,but you DO have a voice and you are using it, so that is something ...I, personally, do not have any connection with Native American culture,

[drawingothers]

Dear Jim Nolan,

[drawingothers]

You know, you can STILL have a strong curriculum if you simply remove the Native American aspect. You don't need to paint a feather on your sign to attract students and/or funding. I'm angry and I feel like I'm being robbed of any chance of abolishing our stereotypes.

[drawingothers]

I've been speaking to many of my tribal peers (including tribal politicians) about the basis of your school's teachings and all of them agree that it's borderline racism.  Southwestern College has managed to cleverly disguise it's usage of ceremonial terms so as not to offend any of the surrounding tribal organizations, but all one has to do is view your videos on this site to see evidence of racism.

[drawingothers]

If your home was burglarized and all of those things you worked so hard for had disappeared, your heart would be broken. However, those things are easily replaceable (especially with your salary I imagine)... my heritage however cannot. That's what I feel like this school is doing, slowly burglarizing my culture. It's the ONE THING that America hasn't been able to destroy, yet SWC manages to find a way.

[drawingothers]

If you believe in your school's teachings, then you should already have a profound respect for what we Natives hold sacred and STOP this exploitation.

[drawingothers]

Please, stop.

[drawingothers]

If your staff and faculty truly are experienced and inspired to teach, THEN TEACH. Don't play "Indians in the Desert", build teepees and pretend to be so caring about the earth. All your Subaru-driving clientele can certainly afford a better education WITHOUT cultural exploitation. Let us Natives be, we don't need any more stereotypes.

[jimnolansantafe]

Southwestern College is a non-profit, and it is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the American Art Therapy Association. All qualifications of all faculty are reviewed regularly by the Higher Learning Commissino, most recently in 2010, when we were fully re-accredited for ten years.

[drawingothers]

@QuimbyCollege "Magical" in the sense that you must fit a certain financial criteria to experience, correct? "New Thought" in terms of the theft, contamination and capitalization of indigenous culture, correct? "Spiritual, but not religious" in terms of mocking and/or mimicking the very ancestry your ancestry stomped upon to achieve "freedom" from oppression, correct? CORRECTION: "Art Capital" does not belong to the artists, the artist belong to the capital. There is no freedom here.

[hialoakapua]

Many blessing for the path of this video out into the world -

[krishnamadappa]

"What is within us is perfection, what is without is imperfection. The outer world can have perfection only when the inner world inspires, guides, molds & shapes the outer world."

Thank you Dear Katherine for initiating this mindful practice as a centering focus of all learning!!!

OM

[slygrrl32]

very very cool! i hope more videos go up soon!

[acadean62]

This is what education is really all about!

[acadean62]

Great video, kudos to the producers!

[tomt435]

This looks like a great program, teaching that which we have been distracted from. Anything that pursues embracing the human spirit (the good stuff) is a worthwhile endeavor. Nature in its simple honesty offers so much wisdom, serving as an introduction to our own humanity. Keep up the good work.

[QuimbyCollege]

Southwestern's roots are in New Thought, a lineage shared by the Center for Spiritual Living and Unity, among others. If you are "Spiritual, but not (necessarily) religious", you would resonate with Southwestern's New Thought origins. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and AATA, Southwestern is in the beautiful art capital of Santa Fe, a magical city...

[newthoughtsantafe]

Southwestern College is doing amazing work in the areas of Consciousness, New Thought teachings and the training of Counselors and Art Therapists. This is an amazing reflection of the Earth-Based part of what they offer, and there is much more...