99福利视频
by Debbie Schroder
Program Chair for Art Therapy/Counseling Program听
It doesn鈥檛 really surprise me that as we approach the eighth week of the quarter, I鈥檓 finally able to spend a little time putting together an image that contains mandalas created by incoming art therapy students, during orientation. The quarter has been full 鈥 of teaching and projects and meetings, and full of beauty and richness.
Each new group of students brings in fresh energy, their own passions and creativity, and new insights into our college鈥檚 culture and mission. I appreciate that right now I鈥檓 teaching a first year course, and a second year course. Both experiences give evidence of 鈥淭ransforming Consciousness Through Education鈥 and transformation shows up looking differently at each stage. Rapid transformation is happening on a very conscious level as my second-year students began seeing clients at our Counseling Center. I鈥檓 moved every week in supervision, by the bigness of their hearts, and the steadiness of their presence.
This week I was aware of a college-community transformation as I witnessed three first-year students give a presentation in my History of Art Therapy course. We look at not only the official history of the field of art therapy in the United States, but also at the wider, deepest history of art as healing, present in indigenous cultures from all over the world. This week, two out of the three students presenting the Navajo chapter in our book, were Dine鈥. As our art therapy program receives the gifts present in diversity I can鈥檛 help but look to the future when the field of art therapy mirrors the richness of the population. Transformation indeed!
