Mindful Diving Institute · Research Lab
Diving has been studied for seventy years through physiology and safety. Wellbeing science has been studied for thirty through attention and affect. Almost nobody has read both. The Institute keeps the two literatures in one library, reviews them in public, and states what is still unknown.
Direction
The Lab is directed from inside the contemplative sciences, not from the margins of them. Its work is held to the standards of the two chairs below.
Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo
Director, Mindful Diving Institute Research Lab
Read what the water already knows.
Flagship publication
Mindful Diving: The Ocean as a Contemplative Environment for Fundamental Peace, Ecological-Collective Flourishing, and a Research Agenda for the Mindful Diving Institute
Fundamental Peace, e-co-flourishing, and the eight-domain research agenda of the Mindful Diving Institute — the paper the Standard rests on.
Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo
Every paper the standard rests on — filter by theme, tier and open access, search by title, author or finding.
Open the library →A full review across blue space, diving psychology, therapeutic programmes, breath and ocean connection. Every claim carries its citation.
Read the review →Six questions the Institute wants answered, with the design each one needs. Propose a study, or take one.
See the agenda →An AI that answers only from the papers and the review, with citations. When the corpus is silent, it says so.
Ask a question →How divers, centers and instructors feed the science — the FP20, the logbook, and the ethics line we hold.
How to take part →Open, citable, ORCID-synced. Send your abstract or manuscript through the form: you get a confirmation and a decision with named reasons.
Mindful Diving is not therapy and is not treatment. The evidence supports diving as a contemplative practice with therapeutic potential — not as a clinical intervention. Effects reported in the literature are often short-lived without sustained practice, and instructor wellbeing has received almost no empirical attention at all. Those are the gaps. They are why the agenda exists.