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Memories and Meaning

06/19/2013
Memories and Meaning
Every semester, when I teach Introduction to Psychology, I ask my students to apply what they have learned in the chapter on memory by writing about a flashbulb memory. A flashbulb memory is a vivid, detailed personal memory that an individual perceives as highly accurate. The usual examples given are memories of where a person was and what you they doing when they heard about 9/11 or for older generations, the assassination of JFK. Here I am, teaching Intro to Psychology for the summer, and the flashbulb memory assignment has rolled around again. As always, I am struck by the intense, and...

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Rethinking Complexity

A Swirling Power Quadruple Interplay: Misogyny, Violence, Silence and Voice - Part III

06/19/2013
A Swirling Power Quadruple Interplay: Misogyny, Violence, Silence and Voice - Part III
Part II of this article concluded with an attempt to understand the seemingly institutionalized culture of silence that surrounds the social system of violence against women in Kenya. I recognize the fact that both women and men are participants and therefore contributors, beneficiaries and sufferers of the cultures that they are immersed in. I am also conscious of the concept of the generally accepted perception of a "good African woman” in many African cultures. In these cultures, a “good African woman” is one that does not talk back, speak out, speak up and let alone...

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Student Satisfaction Survey Results Are In

06/18/2013

You like us, you really like us!

For the third year in a row, Saybrook University’s Student Satisfaction Survey has shown students are more content with their overall Saybrook experience. 

More than 70 percent of enrolled students participated in the 2013 survey, which was developed and coordinated by the Saybrook Office of Institutional Research, and included 57 questions measuring student satisfaction rates with 21 key academic quality indicators and 17 key indicators for university-level services.

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Waxing Existential: Time to Choose

06/18/2013
Waxing Existential: Time to Choose
Dedicated to the Amazing Healers at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle WA There was a moment in the ER that I’ll never forget. My mother had just been transported from the island she lives on near Seattle to the major trauma hospital downtown. My sister was visiting from Los Angeles and had gone whale watching with my mother that afternoon. My mother, 82, and not too mobile, insisted on getting on the boat that was just about to leave. Although my sister was reluctant and wanted to put it off for another time, my mother responded that she didn’t know how much longer she would be...

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Saybrook University Welcomes New Board of Trustees Officers

06/17/2013
Renee Levi

Saybrook welcomes its 2013-14 board of trustee officers: Renee Levi, PhD, previously the board co-chair, as chair; Brendan D. Leonard, MBA as vice chair; Bradley G. Fisher, MBA, as secretary; and Sam Talucci, MA, DMAN, as treasurer.

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Saybrook University to Sponsor Parker Palmer Event Series in Seattle

06/17/2013
Parker Palmer

Are you frustrated with politics and the lack of civil discourse in community? Do you wonder if you can make a difference? For three days in July, 2013, at events across Seattle, internationally known educator, author and activist Parker J. Palmer will spark a community conversation based on his latest book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit. The latest of Palmer’s nine books, Healing shows his commonsense approach to politics that serves the common good.

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Cheap Grace

06/17/2013
Cheap Grace
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor in Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II. Throughout his career as a professor and parish pastor, Bonhoeffer opposed Hitler’s rule, and especially Hitler’s Aryan policies. Bonhoeffer was vocal in his opposition to Hitler, participated in underground efforts to smuggle Jews out of Germany, and played a key role in the most significant attempt to assassinate Hitler. His role in the assassination attempt got him arrested and ultimately hanged as a traitor in one of Hitler’s Nazi death camps. One most meaningful...

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Rethinking Complexity

A Swirling Power Quadruple Interplay: Misogyny, Violence, Silence and Voice - Part II

06/17/2013
A Swirling Power Quadruple Interplay: Misogyny, Violence, Silence and Voice - Part II
Part I of this article provided some background and understanding of the prevalent culture of violence - especially sexual violence - against women in Kenya citing examples from Mwangi’s essay Silence is a Woman along with statistics from other sources. Her essay throbs with a seething theme of silence. My interest in the topic of silence stems from my personal experiences and how it has shaped my life as well as other women’s lives as informed by the cultures we are immersed in as global communities. As an Action Researcher, I am also interested in silence which continues to...

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Help Us Support New Students

06/14/2013

We live in a time when any human emotion is seen as “treatable” by drugs;  a time when organizations are desperately searching for ways to better organize and sustain communities; a time when the potential of new technologies for social transformation seems boundless, but is so far untested.

We live in a time when the world needs humanistic psychologists, organizational change agents, and new medicine.  Now more than ever.

After 40 years, Saybrook University remains the intellectual home of humanistic scholarship.  But are we doing enough?

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Heidegger in Coyote’s Clothing: Beyond Technological Instrumentalism

06/14/2013
Heidegger in Coyote’s Clothing: Beyond Technological Instrumentalism
The role that technology has in the world is arguably the most important question we can ask. In what follows, I want to think through with you Martin Heidegger’s conception of technology in order to see if it can apply to the hyper-technologized world of today. I suggest that the work of Donna Haraway might be a useful supplement to the Heideggerian thesis that technology is an instrumental enframing. Heidegger (1993) states that “everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it” (p. 311). We are-in-the-world with it, already...

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