Residential Requirements

All new students in the College are required to attend a Residential Orientation (RO). The RO familiarizes students with Saybrook University's education requirements, faculty, and staff, the distance learning modalities, and introduces the courses for the initial term.

Additional residential seminars will introduce each semester and the courses of the first term of that semester. The Mind-Body Medicine degree programs have at their core in-person seminars offered by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Both the MS and the PhD require three such seminars, which are built into Saybrook courses (MBM 5600, 5605, and 5610). The seminars serve as the core for the residentials in those terms and are conducted wherever the Center for Mind-Body Medicine seminar is scheduled. An additional seminar is included in an elective course on treating cancer.

The dates of the residentials appear the College’s academic calendar. Occasionally, Mind-Body Medicine residentials will coincide with Graduate College in Psychology and Humanistic Studies (PHS) Residential Conferences in San Francisco, MBM students may attend seminars and community events, as their schedule permits. When the MBM residentials do not overlap with PHS residentials students are still welcome to attend, but must make reservations directly, as described on the Saybrook University website.