Season 3, Episode 5: Welcome to UnBound: The Saybrook Insights Podcast, a proud production of Saybrook University. Saybrook is an online, non-profit, regionally accredited university headquartered in beautiful Pasadena California. Celebrating 50 years this coming year, our humanistic approach to online education has resulted in thousands of alumni the world over advancing the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
Today’s episode features Rivers Fleming, a psychology PhD student. Rivers is part of a series on Saybrook Insights featuring current students and alumni in which we catch up on what they’re researching and doing in their communities. If you’re interested in being featured, please contact me via email at nlong@saybrook.edu.
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Background: Rivers Fleming (pronouns: they/them/theirs) is a PhD candidate at Saybrook University and a contemplative psychotherapist residing in Portland, Oregon. For their dissertation they are completing a descriptive phenomenological study designed to investigate the spiritual experiences of queer Buddhist practitioners. Rivers hopes their research will contribute to efforts at helping other queer folks heal the wounds of oppression and tap into their innate goodness and wisdom as they find their way towards posttraumatic growth.