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Press & media

Everything a journalist needs, on one page.

Use any of the text below verbatim. If you need something that is not here — an interview, a figure, a photograph, a fact checked — write to us and we will answer the same week.

Boilerplate — 100 words

Mindful Diving™ is the first international standard uniting recreational diving, mindfulness and the science of wellbeing. It is an initiative of the World Happiness Foundation, in consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC, and is governed by the Mindful Diving Institute, which maintains the standard, the curriculum, the research programme and instructor training. The standard is complementary to — never a replacement for — the safety standards of SSI, PADI, CMAS, RAID and other agencies: agency standards, dive plans and instructor judgment always come first. Its work is aligned with SDG 3 (Good Health & Wellbeing) and SDG 14 (Life Below Water).

Boilerplate — 50 words

Mindful Diving™ is the first international standard uniting recreational diving, mindfulness and the science of wellbeing. An initiative of the World Happiness Foundation, in consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC, it is governed by the Mindful Diving Institute and is complementary to, and independent of, the world's dive agencies.

Founded
2026
Certification levels
Five — MD-1 to MD-5
The Standard
Published, current version on /standard
The Current
8 June 2027 · World Oceans Day

Founder

Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo

Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation

Luis Miguel Gallardo founded the World Happiness Foundation and has spent two decades building institutions around human flourishing — chairs, summits, academies and standards. Mindful Diving grew from a simple observation underwater: that a diver who is genuinely present is both safer and more alive to the ocean. He convenes the Institute's councils and chairs its research collaboration with the Cátedra de Ciencias Contemplativas at the Universidad de Zaragoza.

lmgallardo.org →

Brand assets

The mark, the lockups, the palette, the type and the rules for using them all live on the brand page — including what not to do.

Open the brand page →Shareable media — the movement's media library →

Press contact

Write to lgallardo@worldhappiness.foundation — the Institute answers press within the same week.

Mindful Diving™ makes no claim of United Nations endorsement. The World Happiness Foundation holds consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC.

A masked diver's face breaking a calm surface at dawn.

Presence runs deep.