Awards

At Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, we are honored to be an awarding winning college…

2005-2006 AWARDS:

School of the Year

SWIHA was recognized for outstanding and innovative school practices, including...

Best Student Organization

The Best Student Organization Award was for the creation of T.E.A.M.

 Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More is the motto that best describes a variety of student organizations that have evolved at SWIHA...Seven graduates of the Life Coaching program organized a support system for themselves and other graduates who choose to join them, operating under the name WingTeam. The concept was that it would be much easier for graduates to succeed if they knew they were not alone in starting their own businesses. Together this group of students markets coaching services, and meet regularly to access their individual commitments and goals in what is known as a Mastermind group..."

Best Student Placement Practice

SWIHA was recognized for our commitment to channel a significant percentage of our advertising budget into advertising for its graduate’s businesses.
 Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    “We have designed a website www.GreatTherapists.com and actively promoted it via print and radio advertising to push people to a website featuring our graduates and their businesses. In addition, SWIHA sponsored an Internet radio program on www.AchieveRadio.com entitled Great Therapists.  The programs have been archived so consumers can listen to the programs and obtain information at their convenience. Graduates can also provide a link on their personal websites to the Internet show on which they were a guest."

Best Wild Card Practice

The Best Wildcard Practice Award was for Education Creativity and Innovation in the classrooms.
Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

          "What do a pajama party, Groucho Mark’s glasses and chocolate fondue have in common? They are all creative educational strategies employed at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, under the direction of Linda Bennett, Director of Education. Our goal is to create and utilize innovative teaching techniques to best serve  each of our students' learning styles. By incorporating fun, unique ways of teaching, we feel we can reach deeper into the creativity of our students and allow them to learn more about themselves to make them better practitioners. "  

2006-2007 AWARDS:

School of the Year

SWIHA was recognized for outstanding and innovative school practices, including...

Best Community Student Practice

The Best Community Student Practice Award was for the participation of students in a yearlong project for women.

 Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "In 2006 we committed to a yearlong project with The Shelter for Synchronistic Healing. The Shelter involved solving medical concerns for women, and offering holistic services that would otherwise not be available to them. Through our Student Clinic, 20 women per month were offered the opportunity to receive complimentary massage treatments. Due to the immense success of the project and the benefit to these women, SWIHA has committed to extending this service for another year."

Best Student Organization

The Best Student Organization was for an organization created by a student in support of other "'Emerging Healers".
   Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "Sandy Jones, A SWIHA graduate of the Mind Body AOS Degree program, through her spiritual and psychological studies, has discovered a process of motivation that goes deep into the soul...This inspired her to create Soul Motivations, A Ministry of Love and the Emerging Healers Conference...Highlighting many fellow classmates, Sandy has created a conference that allows the 'next generation' to step forward to be heard. 85% of the speakers featured at the Emerging Healers Conference were SWIHA graduates, and all of the speakers have been in SWIHA at one time or another. This speaks of the networking opportunities that are present at the school." 

Best Retention/Completion Program

The Best Retention/Completion Award was for an amazing increase in retention and completion of programs.
Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "In 2005, SWIHA increased retention in both of our Associates Degree programs. Our Holistic Healthcare degree program had a completion rate of 75%. In 2006 the completion rate for the same program was 83.33%...We doubled the amount of graduates in the Mind Body Transformational Psychology degree program, and increased the retention percentage by 8 percentage points in our Holistic Healthcare degree program."

2007-2008 AWARDS:

Best Placement Practice

The Best Placement Practice award was for our Entrepreneurial Support of our students.
 Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "In exit interviews, graduates often report their participation in the 100 hours of Entrepreneurial Success classes contribute most to their entrepreneurial success, which is the 'Placement' they desired. This last year a new feature was added to the Entrepreneurial Support class, which was a Team E-Blast. Groups of five to seven Entrepreneurs created newsletters filled with 'Compelling Offers' which were sent to mailing lists that SWIHA has developed over the past couple of years..."

Best Community Student Practice

The Best Community Student Practice award was for our outreach to students of a local aesthetics school that closed its doors unexpectedly, leaving them with nothing but a letter.
 Below is an excerpt from the award submission:

    "Last year the school we were all attending, a westside Aesthetics school, closed with no notice. All we received was a letter in the mail telling us to pick up our personal belongings, the school was closing. On Monday, August 14, 2007 all of us showed up at the school crying, the owner and director of SWINA was there with a smile, a letter and an unbelievable offer…”

    Dear Students,

    We understand ‘sad things happen to good people’ and feel great compassion for the owners and management of the institution.  For the good of the industry we do not want to see any student harmed in this unfortunate situation, therefore we want to reach out in any way we can. 

    Please allow us to support you by giving you the opportunity to complete your training at Southwest Institute of Natural Aesthetics in Tempe, Arizona.  We will be happy to recognize the hours you have completed to date and provide the additional training you have already paid for.  By this we mean, whatever amount of training you have already paid for and have not received  - - we will provide that amount of training at no additional cost to you..."