Saybrook Events

Psychology Open House for Prospective Students

On Tuesday, February 28th, 2012, from 5:30 - 7:00 PM PST, join us to learn more about our Psychology programs and engage in discussion with faculty members. Participants may attend the Open House on site or via conference call. 

The Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies is the world's premier center for humanistic scholarship and research. We invite you to learn more about our programs:

• MA with Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy (MA-MFT)
• PhD Clinical Psychology
• MA and PhD Psychology
• Jungian Studies
• Creativity Studies
• Social Transformation

Saybrook is a unique university of student-engaged learning in a rigorous course of study. Our mission is to provide graduate education that evokes and guides transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities toward a just, humane, and sustainable world. Our renowned faculty, alumni, and students are thought leaders in their fields.

At the Open House, Saybrook faculty will lead discussion on select topics and answer prospective student questions. To learn more and register, please RSVP HERE.  

Saybrook Conference Sessions Open To Prospective Students This January

Join us at an upcoming conference session to engage in an integral part of the Saybrook experience. For 40 years Saybrook University has offered distance education for graduate students. Combining online and residential instruction, our programs foster close contact amongst faculty and learners while offering flexibility. A key component of Saybrook's learning model, residential conference sessions bring faculty and students together, spurring intellectual creativity, collaboration, and mentorship.

Prospective students may attend and observe two sessions at the SFO Westin Hotel in Millbrae, California:

Sunday, January 15, 2012 -- 9:15 am - 12:00 pm PST

Courses and Seminars:
Renewing the Encounter Between the Human Sciences, the Arts, and the Humanities
Introduction to Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change
Buddhist Pathways to Health
Systems Practice: From Systems Thinking to Systems Being
Generative and Strategic Dialogue: Intro to ORG 7044
Trauma and Transformation: The “Human”

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 -- 9:15 am - 12:00 pm PST

Courses and Seminars:
Trauma and Transformation: Social Dimensions
Intermediate Training and Education in Hypnosis (5620)
Movement, Exercise, and Health
Researching Organizations and their Complexity: Exploring Methods That Support a Systems Approach to Change
City of San Francisco Initiative: A Collaborative Project Opportunity
Creativity and Writing: Beyond the Norm

Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet with faculty and Admissions representatives. To learn more and register, please RSVP HERE!

13th Annual White Privilege Conference

In past years, members of the Saybrook community have been involved with the annual White Privilege Conference. All are invited to attend the upcoming event next March.

Intersectionality: Vision, Commitment,
and Sustainable Partnerships

March 28-31, 2012
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hosted by: New Mexico Equity and Social Justice Alliance

Speakers will include:

Heidi Beirich
Director of Research, Southern Poverty Law Center

Professor Kimberle Williams Crenshaw/AAPF
Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School

Jane K. Fernandes
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Mary Romero
Professor and Faculty Head of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University

Please visit the WPC webiste for more information.

PsyD Conference Call for Prospective Students

Tuesday, December 13, 2011, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm PST, join us for a discussion with our PsyD Program Chair, Shawn Rubin, to learn more about a unique program that may be right for you. The Saybrook PsyD program is distinguished by its humanistic values, its emphasis on life-span development, and the ability of students to specialize in areas directly related to their passions and interests.

Our graduates work in a variety of settings, including private practice, schools and universities, community health centers, hospitals, nursing homes, the juvenile justice system, and substance abuse clinics.

Dr. Rubin teaches and supervises from an integrative existential-humanistic and contemporary psychoanalytic orientation. Since 2005 he has served as Managing Editor of the Journal for Humanistic Psychology. He is presently a Member at Large of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32) and is the Editor of the online Newsletter of the Society. In his private practice, Dr. Rubin treats children and their parents, adolescents, adults and LGBTQ populations. Methods of research with which Dr. Rubin has particular expertise include the heuristic, phenomenological, narrative and case study approaches of qualitative research.

Dr. Rubin will lead a discussion of the PsyD program prior to engaging students in a question and answer session. To learn more and register, please RSVP HERE.

 

A Just World: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Social Justice

March 30, 2012

Philadelphia, PA

Justice is a pressing concern in the world today, and discussion about it must be, beyond theory, practical and multi-disciplinary. While justice is a fundamental virtue and goal advocated by world religions, the task of creating a just world cannot be solely a religious one. All disciplines can and must contribute to the conversation about what justice is and how it can be achieved. Conference organizers invite scholars representing different disciplines to speak about various aspects of social justice from their perspectives—such as, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, the business world, and education.

Important Dates

• January 15, 2012 - Abstract submission deadline
• January 30, 2012 - Decision to accept/reject abstracts
• March16, 2012 - Paper submission deadline
• March 30, 2012 – Conference date

For more information, visit the Conference Website.

Society for Phenomenology and Media: 14th Annual International Conference

The Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) is hosting their annual conference (February 16-19, 2012) at National University in San Diego California. Proposal and three-person panel submissions are welcome, deadline is December 1, 2011.

SPM is especially interested in attracting divergent views from feminist, new historicist, analytic, linguistic, Marxist, semiological, structuralist and post-structuralist, post-colonial, and other perspectives. The Society also seeks research in topics of interest in popular culture, cultural studies, and gender studies as they are connected to media.

For more information, visit the conference registration and information site and review details on submission guidelines.

Conference Alerts notifies academics of upcoming events

Conference Alerts is a valuable resource for academics. Users subscribe (for free) to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming conferences and events. These alerts can be individually tailored to correspond with various interest areas, available dates, and preferred conference destinations worldwide. It is also possible to add events to the Conference Alerts database to share with others.

Examples of conference listings relevant to the Saybrook community might include those in the social sciences and humanities, psychology, religious studies, conflict resolution, communications and media, globalization studies, gender studies, LGBT, human rights, sustainable development, e-learning, and higher education, among others. Conference Alerts is based in South Africa but the service includes events occurring throughout the globe.

Catch Saybrook at this year's APA in Washington D.C.

Saybrook University is always well represented at the American Psychological Association, with faculty, alumni, and students making presentations, leading panels, and holding debates.

This year they’ll be presenting on everything from using expressive arts in the workplace to hypnosis and cyberspace.

Saybrook’s annual APA convention dinner, sponsored by Dr. Stanley Krippner and the Saybrook Alumni Association, will be held on Friday, August 5, from 6 - 9 p.m., at Clyde’s of Gallery Place (707 7th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.).

RSVP REQUIRED

To RSVP, or for more information, email Saybrook Alumni Director George Aiken, or call:  415-394-5968

A list of Saybrook faculty, student, and alumni presentations at this year’s APA (Aug 4-7) is below:

Calling existentialists in the San Francisco Bay Area

Do you want to connect with other existentially oriented therapists in the Bay Area?  

The Existential Humanistic Institute is hosting a Learning Community on Thursday, July 7, to connect people interested in existential therapy and see how a vibrant existential culture can address local and global needs. 

A Learning Community is a social forum in which people who share a common interest can get together and network, share resources and ideas, brainstorm, and build a local support system in the psychological world at large. Learning community meetings can look very different depending on who organizes them, but the common thread which they all share is that they bring people together who have diverging interests. It is also helpful to invite people from other professions (e.g. – the artistic community, the teaching community, the medical community) to create an integrative grassroots forum.

The EHI’s Learning Community meeting will be held:

• Date:  Thursday, July 7th, 2011
• Time:  7:00 - 9:00 PM
• Location: Laguna Grove Care
• Address:  624 Laguna St.  Map  http://tinyurl.com/427obrj 
• San Francisco, CA  94102

For more information, contact Candice Hershman