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Admirers, alumni, and friends of Saybrook have established a scholarship fund in the memory of Saybrook founder James F.T. Bugental, PhD, and Elizabeth Keber Bugental, PhD.  The scholarship will support Saybrook students interested in studying the tradition of existential and experiential psychotherapy developed in the teaching and writing of Jim and Elizabeth.  “Many in the… Read more »

A recent survey conducted on Saybrook’s technology tools shows that most Saybrook classes are barely scratching the potential of communications technology. According to the online survey, developed by Saybrook’s Dean of Instruction Eric Fox, the vast majority of students (73%) usually keep in touch with faculty via email, and almost never with text messaging or… Read more »

Saybrook has some great community programs coming up in the months ahead.   Thursday, April 2 The Saybrook Dialogues kick off 2009 with “Leadership, Wisdom, and Making a Difference.” Organizer Marc Lesser, the founder and president of coaching and facilitation company ZBA Associates and the former director of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, will focus the… Read more »

For Annemarie Welteke, the only problem with her job as a librarian is the marketing:  she thinks the Navy stole her slogan. “You know how they used to say ‘see the world, join the Navy?’” Saybrook’s librarian asks.  “I always think of it as:  see the world, become a librarian.  I know it’s not so… Read more »

We’ve all been to a “special place” – even if we couldn’t explain what that meant.  Some places are romantic, others profound, and some have history written all over them. How does that happen?  How do they get that way?  Most importantly, could such places, and the way we relate to them, cultivate them, and… Read more »

A school is defined by its people, yes: but at Saybrook, more than many schools, technology impacts how much access we have to our learning community, and how we can interact with it.  That’s why Eric Fox, Saybrook’s new Dean of Instruction, is conducting a survey of faculty and students to find out how they… Read more »

Saybrook held its spring Residential Orientation for new students last week, and forty two new students enrolled at Saybrook for the Spring Semester, coming from California, Canada, Switzerland, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, New York, Michigan, Maine, New Jersey, and other points across the globe.  They come to Saybrook with experience at a variety of… Read more »

Saybrook will be holding a spring open house for prospective students in its San Francisco offices on Thursday, March 12, from 5:30 – 8 p.m. Accessible in person, by webcast and teleconference, the open house will feature presentations on:  Saybrook. LIOS, and the new University structure; Academics at Saybrook, including our humanistic tradition and our… Read more »

by George Aiken For the Saybrook Alumni Association, supporting Saybrook’s long standing tradition of humanistic thought and education is of primary importance. We believe that our humanistic roots are critical to Saybrook’s role as a viable, important, and necessary educational institution in the world today. Over the past year, we have worked to create new… Read more »

Saybrook students now have the opportunity to learn with some of the world’s leading scholar-practitioners in peace and development.  In an agreement signed February 3, Saybrook will incorporate into its Social Transformation Concentration curriculum two online courses developed for TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU). Based in Austria, TPU  draws faculty from among the leading peace scholars… Read more »