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Michelle LaMasa
Mind-Body Medicine
Student
2013

“These experiences have come as a welcome surprise. I never anticipated being able to change careers prior to graduation. However, the training and education enabled me to make a professional shift and to focus my attention on mind-body medicine.”
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Haley Lowe
Organizational Systems
Alumni/a
2013

“The LIOS MA program is about what lies inside of us and really tapping into what we have to offer as human beings on this planet. When my faculty asked me to think about where my deep hunger met the world’s greatest need, I knew I was in the right place,” Haley recalls.
Andrea Lucie
Andrea Lucie
Mind-Body Medicine
Student

Andrea's a therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence for the diagnosis, treatment, and research of PTSD and TBI.

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Phil Lundberg
Organizational Systems
Alumni
2008

"My dissertation at Saybrook covered many of the issues I've had to deal with in the marketplace, and gave me the chance to speak with authority on the international stage."
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Anne MacRae
Human Science
Alumni
1992

"Saybrook is a much better match for people who want to delve into practice and theory based on their own experience. I had some extraordinary professors who understood that their students already brought something important to the table."
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Mary Madrigal
Psychology
Student

"Saybrook transformed my practice by helping me see past my patients' mental illness and find their humanity."
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Nicholas Mang
Psychology
Alumni/a

Nick researched the psychology behind civic transformation: why are some city leaders willing to excell?
Jeff McAuliffe
Jeff McAuliffe
Organizational Systems
Faculty

Alumni/a

LIOS program graduate Jeff McAuliffe was a part of the largest business re-engineering project on the globe.
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Jean Meeks-Koch
Organizational Systems
Alumni/a
2009

“You can figure out how you can move the org in people and process to accomplish what you need to accomplish, there’s a tactical functional side, but how do they dance together? That’s what I took from Saybrook.”
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Gary Metcalf
Organizational Systems
Faculty

Human Science
2000

"Saybrook faculty helped me blend work and school in a way that's made each more effective."
Maureen Molinari
Maureen Molinari
Mind-Body Medicine

Maureen Molinari researched how stress impacts people with diabetes both physiologically and psychologically, and then created a website providing videos and information for effective stress-management.

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Bernice Moore
Organizational Systems
Alumni
2009

"Psychology, social transformation, cross-cultural work, mind-body ideas ... all of this is important in organizational work, and when you study at Saybrook you have all of these traditions to draw upon to help you engage. It's much more than just studying business development."
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Donald Moss
Mind-Body Medicine
Faculty

"There is more of an interest in what the human being is capable of - of our highest potential."
Frank Munoz
Frank Munoz
Mind-Body Medicine
Student

Through his work he noticed an invisible boundary between patients, families, and the health care team.  Something was missing.

Anna Negoescu
Anna Negoescu
Mind-Body Medicine
Student
2013

“I felt hampered by the lack of attention paid to the whole person. I was trained to look at the patient holistically, but there was a disconnect in the actual practice of medicine in large systems. I had to find a social worker, or a psychologist to work with my patients, but those disciplines were not always viewing the patient's situation in the same way.”
Nettie Pardue
Nettie Pardue
LIOS Graduate College
Alumni/a

"I'm not a read a textbook and regurgitate it back person. With the experiential learning emphasis at LIOS, you live it and learn it so much more deeply: it gets kinesthetically encoded."