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Hi.

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I'm Landon Downing.

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I'm from Wichita, Kansas.

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I'm, currently finishing, counseling five eighty.

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So this is my second residency here.

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I am excited to get to share with you a little bit about why I chose Divine Mercy University.

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I was a theology student at Benedictine College.

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Counseling was always kind of a background dream of mine.

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And then through, FOCUS, I heard of Divine Mercy at different conferences, and, it was a dream school for me.

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But in my state, there was a while where, I wouldn't have gotten accredited by by coming to DMU.

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And as soon as they were CACREP accredited, I was pumped to to, sign up.

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And so going through the process, learning more about the Catholic Christian meta model of the person, that we can understand from a Catholic Christian perspective what it means to be a human and what it means to flourish as a human being.

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To just be grounded in that, and what that means for the counseling profession has been such a gift.

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This program has been enriching, not only professionally, but, especially personally for me.

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I've began, to look at people differently to find the goodness in everyone that I meet and and everyone that I encounter while also being given the skills to, hopefully, one day be a a mental health professional myself.

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I'm in the program part time, so I'm kinda taking a less traditional long term route.

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But, here being, at my second residency, I got to come last summer, and I'm here again.

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And just the opportunity, with an online program, you don't necessarily get that much, in person connection.

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But to be here at residency in the flesh with people who are in the trenches with you, is so fulfilling, and rewarding.

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It's exciting.

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I both last residency and already this residency, I'm, feeling a a sense of purpose and and excitement about the the future.

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I love DMU.

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I enjoy talking about it to anyone and everyone.

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I I I wear it proudly.

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So definitely a huge proponent of of the university.

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I'm very grateful for all that they've done for me and for for many others.