The sustainability team was formed in 2007 when Goddard’s then president Marc Schulman signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. We conducted a carbon inventory, created a climate action plan, and began working to reduce emissions. Our goal is to be carbon neutral in fuels burned on campus and electricity usage by 2020.… Continue reading Goddard Sustainability Progress Report – July 2014
Category: Bachelor’s Degree
Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo
Mushkan DeFilippo (MA PSY ’14): This collage represents my vision of the woman I have become through my time at Goddard, and, thanks to my life experiences over those years, how I see myself as a therapist. I chose the image of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, partially because I am Italian and also… Continue reading Reflection from Graduating Student Mushkan DeFilippo
The Soil-Health-Sustainability Continuum
Mike Puckett (BAS ’15) is exploring the relationship between soil health, food health, human health, and living sustainably. To create thriving soil, he has been researching soil nutrients, composting practices, and the role of mycelium in soil remediation. He is building a raised bed garden that demonstrates how to grow health-supporting food using sustainable practices,… Continue reading The Soil-Health-Sustainability Continuum
BFAW Program Launches DUENDE Literary Journal
What is Duende? 1) “A sort of corkscrew that can get art into the sensibility of an audience…it climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet,” wrote poet Federico García Lorca in 1933, in “Theory and Play of the Duende.” 2) A new, all-online, national literary journal, produced by students in Goddard’s BFA… Continue reading BFAW Program Launches DUENDE Literary Journal
Johnny's Jubilance
Graduating student Johnny Ridenour (BAS ’14) chimes in about what brought him to Goddard: “When I finally got it together to return to school after 20+ years off, I thought of Goddard. My Dad did the same thing when he looked for a way to fit graduate school into a busy family life in the… Continue reading Johnny's Jubilance
BFA Faculty Poetry Reading: PoemCity 2014
Watch this video of BFA in Creative Writing faculty members Michael Leong, Michael Vizsolyi, Arisa White, and Wendy Call, and Program Director Janet Sylvester, reading original work as well as translations at this PoemCity 2014 event at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont here. Thanks to ORCA Media for this video coverage.
The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination
Faced with writing what seemed like an endless number of papers when I was in graduate school many years ago, I stumbled across a method for overcoming procrastination. Much more recently, in the November-December 2013 issue of The Psychotherapy Networker I came across an article that grounded my method in physiology. Eureka! I cried. (Well,… Continue reading The Mediocre Meditator: Brain Science and Procrastination
Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play
Group Drama Therapy Session led by new MA in Psychology & Counseling student Sarvenaz Moshfegh Asiedu on April 1, 2014… “Coming from an expressive therapy program into a counseling psychology program, I am reminded how much I need to connect with people through embodied play. When we engage the body, we engage a… Continue reading Student Reflections on Drama Therapy & Embodied Play
Sustainability News and Resources
All news and resources below are reported from the Goddard Sustainability Listserv, April 2014. To join the Listserv, please email Catherine Lowther. Jean-Martin Fortier: A Model for Profitable Micro-Farming: Earn a living gardening on just 1.5 acres Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife, Maude-Hélène are a thirty something couple who have been farming successfully… Continue reading Sustainability News and Resources
BFA News & Achievements – Spring 2014
Welcome to our Spring 2014 BFA in Creative Writing eNewsletter! The students and faculty of our wonderful program have been busy since the fall residency. Here’s a run-down of recent publications, readings, collaborations, and general literary accomplishments: STUDENTS Cerridwin Aker has received a full scholarship to study nonfiction at the 27th annual Fishtrap Writers Conference… Continue reading BFA News & Achievements – Spring 2014
A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet
Art as a Daily Practice: a reflection by MA in Psychology & Clinical Mental Health Counseling student Jacqueline Overstreet: “I have almost hit the three-month mark and I am almost a quarter of the way through the biggest artistic commitment I have taken on so far in my life. On Monday, January 13, 2014, I… Continue reading A Painting a Day: Reflection from Jacqueline Overstreet
Keeping Going with Creative Work
For artists’ whose vocation is the creation of works of art as well as persons who use artmaking as a vehicle for self expression, keeping a practice going can be a daunting task. There are times when the solitude of the darkroom is a balm for the pressures that come from living in the world.… Continue reading Keeping Going with Creative Work
4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up
At the heart of the fourth annual Dual Language Conference, held at the EDU Seattle Residency on Saturday, February 1, 2014, was the incredibly unified and hardworking core of volunteers that made up the planning committee. This group of over 30 volunteers was comprised of staff, students, faculty, alumni, and local community members and spent… Continue reading 4th Annual Dual Language Conference Wrap-Up
Self-Compassion at the First
Even though you can’t fail at meditating, meditating is all about failure. What I mean is this: Since you have this goal of focusing on the breath (or the sense of the whole body or whatever you’ve chosen) and since focused attention is, as the psychologist Steven Stosny says, “the most easily exhaustible and… Continue reading Self-Compassion at the First
An Ecovillage Leader
Cynthia Tina (BAS ‘15) lives in an ecovillage in Massachusetts and is exploring ecovillages as physical expressions of the worldview of the “interconnection” that we need to experience in order to move beyond the separation that characterizes many mainstream lives. She feels that this shift in consciousness is at the heart of creating change in… Continue reading An Ecovillage Leader
"Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)
BA in Health Arts & Sciences student Juanita Martin, entering her Level 8 semester, on what makes Goddard College special: “I landed at Goddard at the ripe age of 51 with more college experience than a graduating PhD student, but I had not completed any one degree. I had credits in various fields, from… Continue reading "Why I Love Goddard!" Juanita Martin (BA HAS '14)
Expressive Arts and the Body
Last October, my Jungian Seminar in New Orleans coincided with Halloween. So you can imagine the metaphysical and celebratory possibilities there were in NOLA at that time. Among the offerings was the Voodoo Music Festival with rock music, art, and of course food! Our hotel, the Best Western in Metairie hosted the Tattoo VooDoo Expo. I… Continue reading Expressive Arts and the Body
Expressive Arts Reflection from Student Mushkan Defilippo
These first images were produced for the course Trauma and Addiction. The first panel represents trauma. The images convey the different causes of trauma, childhood abuse, natural disasters, violence, war. The idea that I want to convey is that trauma shatters the inner world. Reality looks like a broken mirror, the images don’t fit,… Continue reading Expressive Arts Reflection from Student Mushkan Defilippo
When Bad Things Happen to Good Meditators
As it turns out, if you meditate long enough the devils of self-criticism and fear may decide to make an appearance. In my reading about meditation I had come across allusions to this but I didn’t pay attention, in part because I couldn’t imagine it. Meditation had either offered me some gifts of clarity… Continue reading When Bad Things Happen to Good Meditators
Alumna Doyle Canning and The Center for Story-based Strategy
I met Doyle Canning (BA EDU ’02) this fall during the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Day of Mourning is organized every year on Thanksgiving by the United American Indians of New England and builds a powerful counter-narrative about Thanksgiving. Imagine my delight when I learned that Doyle is a recent Goddard… Continue reading Alumna Doyle Canning and The Center for Story-based Strategy