• LIVE BLUE FOUNDATION

    LEARNING TO SWIM BEFORE AGE 5 CREATES A
    LOVER-OF-WATER AND A SWIMMER FOR LIFE

    Donate to this 501(c)(3) foundation to create more swimmers and a future generation of aquatic activity.
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  • LIVE BLUE FOUNDATION

    GETTING PEOPLE NEAR, IN, ON & UNDER WATER FOR LIFE

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  • National Bestseller by
    Wallace J. Nichols, PhD

    BLUE MIND

    The surprising science that shows how being near, in, on & under water can make you happier, healthier, more connected, and better at what you do.
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  • LIVE BLUE FOUNDATION

    International Swim Day

    International Swim Day is the only annual celebration of the FUN of swimming. Our next celebration is June 20, 2021!
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  • LIVE BLUE FOUNDATION

    BLUE MIND is Science
    LIVE BLUE is Action

    Wellness, like life, is impossible without water.
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​Our Mission

The Live Blue Foundation was created to put Blue Mind science and best practices into action—safely getting people near, in, on, and under waterfor life.

Our Vision

We recognize that water is medicine for those who need it most and everyone else. Our vision is a world where everyone understands and has access to the cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, physical, and spiritual health benefits of waters and oceans—their #bluemind.

Our Activities

Based on a decade of research, outreach, a global network of experts, practitioners, and ambassadors and the groundswell created by the book Blue Mind by Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, we identify leading organizations around the world who reconnect people with water throughout their lives and provide tools needed to put #bluemind into action.

Our Design

Our logo represents the lifelong connections we share throughout each of the seven ages of water, which Dr. Nichols details in his upcoming book Live Blue.

Donations

The Ocean Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, is a fiscal partner of The Live Blue Foundation. They established a formal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative to support their leadership in the development and implementation of new policies and procedures to institutionalize these values in the organization’s operations and the broader Ocean Foundation community of advisors, project managers, and grantees. We honor their core cross-cutting values of diversity, equity, and inclusion as we grant the funds to get people near, in, on and under water for life.

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Live Blue Foundation Partnership

The Live Blue Foundation is a partnership between Watershape University and Wallace J. Nichols, PhD.

Watershape University Co-Founder David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI with Wallace J. Nichols, PhD, author of Blue Mind at the 9th Annual Blue Mind Summit.

Watershape University (“WU”) provides the highest quality instruction of business, design, engineering and construction programs to students of all levels in the pool, spa, aquatics, and outdoor living industry.

Founded by David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI (CEO) and William T. Drakeley, ACI, IWI (President), WU is defined by decades of teaching and practice among staff, faculty and volunteers engaged in its educational and credentialing programs. WU encourages personal development through membership in the elite International Watershape Institute (IWI), providing principled leadership, a supportive culture and altruism to benefit the industry and society.


Peterson and Lauren Stack, Vice President, are pleased to serve as advisory board members of the Foundation, getting people near, in, on and under water for life.

Wallace J. Nichols, PhD

The Blue Mind Company was founded by marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols ("J") in 2009 to describe and share the science and best practices related to water and wellness. Through annual summits, books, films, awards, media, keynotes, and workshops "J" has reached over a billion people, making progress towards to the goal of creating common knowledge. #bluemind


"J" is changing the way the world engages with water and rethinking all the ways people spend time near, in, on, and under it. He is a driving force in creating common knowledge about how water is medicine for those who need it most and sharing Blue Mind science and ethos across many sectors in contemporary culture.


Please support "J" and his efforts to build a stronger, smarter, better connected, and more effective blue movement to help fix what's broken in both people and nature by becoming a patron through PATREON. . .

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