Participate
Measured, not assumed.
Most of what the diving world believes about calm underwater has never been measured. Every diver who records a before and an after turns an anecdote into a data point. Participation is voluntary, revocable, and never a condition of any certification.
Direction
Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo
Director, Mindful Diving Institute Research Lab
- Professor of Practice, Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness, Shoolini University, India
- World Happiness Foundation Chair in Contemplative Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Take the FP20 before and after a dive
The Fundamental Peace scale is twenty items, about three minutes. Taken as a pair around a dive, it gives the field the paired measurement it currently lacks.
Open the FP20 →Keep the logbook
Your dive log already records depth, gas and time. The mindful log adds one line of attention: what you noticed, and where it went. Patterns emerge across a season, not across a dive.
The dive log →Contribute as a center
Mindful Diving Centers can enrol cohorts, run pre/post measurement across a season, and receive their own anonymised results alongside the global picture.
For dive centers →Propose or take a study
The agenda names six questions and the design each one needs. Researchers, clinicians and graduate students can claim one or bring another.
The research agenda →
What is measured can be cared for.
The ethics line
- Participation is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time, with deletion of your data on request.
- Data is analysed in aggregate and anonymised. Individual responses are never shared with your instructor, your center or any agency.
- Nothing you record affects a certification, an assessment or a seal.
- Mindful Diving is not therapy and not medical treatment. The instruments measure wellbeing; they do not diagnose.
- No mindfulness exercise is ever practised during a task-critical phase. Safety is the first mindfulness practice.
- Study protocols involving clinical populations go through the Safety & Dive Medicine Board before any diver is invited.
Talk to the Research Council
Ethics questions, data requests, institutional collaboration and press: write to research@mindfuldiving.org. Every message is read by a person.
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