Research registry
Registered before it reports.
A standard that measures people owes them the rules in advance. Every study below was written down here before any result existed — the question, the design, the instruments, the minimum group size and the year it answers. When it reports, it reports in the same place, whatever it found.
The Water Gallery
Open studies
- MD-OBS-01CollectingRegistered 2026-01-12
Attention, stress and connection across an MD-1 course
- Question
- Does completing MD-1 Mindful Diver™ change self-reported attention, stress and felt connection between the first lesson and the last?
- Design
- Within-person pre/post design using the optional wellbeing pulse. No control group; results are descriptive and reported as such.
- Instruments
- Wellbeing pulse (attention, stress, connection) · FP20 Fundamental Peace scale
- With
- Mindful Diving Institute · Chair in Contemplative Sciences, University of Zaragoza
Minimum group size: 20 people · Reports by 2027
- MD-OBS-02In designRegistered 2026-02-03
Instructor wellbeing in Seal-bearing centers
- Question
- How does instructor workload, recovery and job satisfaction differ in centers holding the Mindful Diving Center™ seal compared with their own baseline before certification?
- Design
- Longitudinal center-level cohort, annual survey at renewal. Participation is voluntary and unlinked to seal status.
- Instruments
- FP20 Fundamental Peace scale · Single-item burnout measure · Annual center self-report
- With
- Mindful Diving Institute · World Happiness Foundation
Minimum group size: 20 people · Reports by 2028
- MD-OBS-03In designRegistered 2026-03-18
Attention training and ocean stewardship behaviour
- Question
- Do divers trained in the Mindful Diving™ practice arc participate more in stewardship work — clean-ups, surveys, restoration — than they did before?
- Design
- Observational, using center-logged impact entries alongside voluntary diver self-report. Correlational only: no causal claim will be made from this design.
- Instruments
- Center impact log · Voluntary stewardship self-report
- With
- Mindful Diving Institute · partner marine conservation organisations
Minimum group size: 30 people · Reports by 2028
How we handle what you give us
Consent first, always
Every measure a diver gives is optional and can be skipped without any effect on their course, their assessment or their credential. Nothing is collected silently.
Minimum group size
No aggregate is ever shown below its minimum n — 20 people for anything public, 5 for a center's own view. Below that, the figure stays hidden rather than being rounded into something that could identify someone.
Measured, not assumed
Every number on this site is either counted from real records or clearly labelled as modelled. We do not estimate a figure and then present it as evidence.
Pseudonymised for research
Research exports carry a stable pseudonym instead of an account, no names, no email addresses and no free-text reflections. Reflections belong to the diver alone.
Published whatever it shows
Each study is registered here before it reports. If the finding is null, small or inconvenient, it is published in the same place with the same weight.
Not a medical claim
Mindful Diving™ is education, not therapy or medical treatment. No study here tests a clinical outcome, and no result will be described as one.
Working on something adjacent?
The Institute collaborates with universities, marine science groups and dive medicine researchers. If a study of yours could use a network of divers trained in attention, or if you want to challenge a design on this page, write to the research office.
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