Online Learning Powered by Community and Connection
Distance learning began at Saybrook long before the recent shift toward online education. Where other schools struggle to adapt programming into digital formats or train on-ground faculty for virtual instruction, every degree program at Saybrook is designed for online students in mind.
We champion online learning yet recognize the importance that community and connection play in your personal and professional growth. To foster this growth, many of our innovative online degree programs are supplemented by University Learning Experiences. These experiences are specifically designed to bring you, your classmates, and the entire Saybrook community together for transformational in-person and online gatherings.
Community
Learning Experience (CLE)
Residential
Learning Experience (RLE)
Virtual
Learning Experience (VLE)
Community Learning Experience
The Community Learning Experience is an on-ground, five-day event that invites the entire Saybrook community to meet or reunite face-to-face, form genuine and lasting relationships, and engage with peers from around the globe. Each Community Learning Experience is a new opportunity for academic, professional, and personal exploration in a safe and supportive setting.
The Community Learning Experience is your time to escape the hustle and bustle of the outside world and allow yourself to become immersed in community and emerge transformed.
The Community Learning Experience is held during the fall term of odd-numbered years, or every other year after 2025 (2025, 2027, 2029, etc.). Attendance is required for students enrolled in Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Transformative Social Change, and Applied Psychophysiology programs.
Residential Learning Experience
The Residential Learning Experience is a key component of our clinical licensure programs. Held at the beginning of each fall and spring semester, these on-ground learning intensives help Counseling and Clinical Psychology students acquire the necessary residential hours required by states for licensure eligibility.
Residential Learning Experiences act as a training ground for clinical students to put classroom theory into practice, hone clinical skills, and gain professional guidance directly from our experienced practitioner-scholar faculty.
Clinical licensure students should expect to attend Residential Learning Experiences twice every year. In the Fall of odd-numbered years when the Community Learning Experience meets, the Residential Learning Experience will also meet at the same time and location as the larger community gathering.
Students in the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology program who reside in Washington state will also be required to attend midterms in Belmont, WA, to ensure they have the in-person hours required for licensure.
Virtual Learning Experience
The Virtual Learning Experience is a five-day, online synchronous event for you, your classmates, faculty, and staff to kick off the fall and spring semester as a collective before breaking out into smaller groups based on your program of choice.
Virtual Learning Experiences set the foundation for the semester ahead. Smaller groups meet to learn about your program as a whole; breakout sessions introduce each core course of the program; and didactic, research, and practice-oriented seminars provide a taste of the lessons to come. Also built into these experiences are time and space for socializing so you can bond with classmates and faculty before entering the classroom.
More Than 40 Online Programs
Saybrook University is proud to offer you more than 40 online academic programs, with master’s degrees, doctoral degrees, and professional certificates in Counseling, Integrative Social Work, Integrative and Functional Nutrition, Mind-Body Medicine, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychophysiology, and Transformative Social Change.
