Part of The Open to Hope Foundation’s goals includes working closely with Education Institutions, Researchers and Professionals who are striving each day to better understand and help individuals cope with loss, deal with grief and find new hope.

We will use this forum to provide opportunities for organizations, institutions and researchers to reach out to our community for inclusion in their research, as well as a reporting respository to share the results of their research. Register as part of our community and we’ll keep you up to date of new opportunities for you to participate.

For Researchers:
If you are currently working on a project and would like our community to participate, please email gloria [at] test.opentohope.com or use our online contact form to contact us. If you have results of a survey or research project and would like to make them available please send a short description, appropriate graphics (institution logo, etc.), applicable downloads (PDF, MP3, Video) and links to research [at] test.opentohope.com.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Take Part in Research Study on Social Relationships and Loss

Has someone close to you died? As you may have heard on “Healing the Grieving Heart”, a new study on social relationships and loss is being conducted by a doctoral student at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. You are invited to participate in this important new study investigating interpersonal relationships and how they might have affected your feelings about your loss.

In order to participate I would ask you to fill out a confidential 15 minute survey.? All participants will have the option of being entered in a raffle to win a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Your participation will contribute to a better understanding of relationships and loss.

If you are over eighteen years of age and would like to participate, please go to the following link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yXh28AbGKsj9ycoMzVE7ew_3d_3d

If you have any questions or would like the questionnaires to be sent to you, please contact Naomi Edelson by phone at (415) 290-0164 or by email at lossresearch@gmail.com.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Loss & Religious Coping – You are invited to participate in a research study examining religious coping and assumptive worldviews after illness or loss. The study is conducted by Dr. Brian Vandenberg and Rachel Hibberd, Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. All participants who complete our survey have the option to be entered into a raffle. From the pool of participants, we will randomly select one winner to receive a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Your approximate odds of winning the raffle are 1 in 300. The researchers conducting this study are Dr. Brian Vandenberg and Rachel Hibberd. If you have questions, you may contact the researchers. If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, you may call the Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board at (314) 516-5897. Take Survey – Click Here.

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VISITATION DREAMS

Has someone close to you passed away? Following their death did you experience a profound dream(s) about that person that you felt stood out from any other dream(s) you have had?

RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS WANTED

(Palo Alto, California)
I am a doctoral student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; my research interest is in exploring dreams of the departed during the post-death grieving period. For purposes of this study, profound dreams can be defined as but not limited to, emotionally intense dreams in which a recently deceased loved one returns in the dream state to provide guidance, reassurance, and/or warning.

If you are interested in sharing your experience through a brief interview (90 minute, in-person), during which I will be asking you about your experience and relationship with your loved one, and about the dream(s) you had during your post-grieving time, please contact Jennifer Shorter via the information below.

Your participation may help clinical psychologists better assist individuals during their grieving process. Your participation in this study may result in the following: increased self-awareness, a deepening of your connection to your loved one, and greater clarity of your profound dream experience.

If interested or if you have any additional questions, please contact Jennifer Shorter at 408-368-5459, email visitationdreams@gmail.com or take the informational note below. All inquires are confidential and there is no obligation to participate.

Criteria for participation:
? Must be 25 years old or older
? The loss of your loved one occurred at least 3 months ago
? You have not done any dream work under the supervision of a professional therapist around the specific dream images to be presented in this study.
? Mind-altering substances and/or intoxicants were not used immediately prior to the profound dream(s)

PLEASE USE THE CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED?..

To be a Visitation Dream Participant contact:

Jennifer Shorter
408-368-5459
visitationdreams@gmail.com

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