The Hope Institute
A 501 (c)(3) Nonprofit
Hope is a waking dream
- Aristotle
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness
- Desmond Tutu
Our Mission
The HOPE INSTITUTE is a scientific, educational, literary, and charitable non-profit organization. We develop and offer state of the art resources, including evidenced-based questionnaires, coding systems and other tools to assess hope in children, adolescents, and adults as well as work environments and prisons.
We offer hope-centered program development and evaluation. We consult with business leaders to cultivate hope-centered leadership.
We develop evidence-based hope-building workshops for youth.
We support the training and scholarship of hope scholars and practitioners worldwide using our integrative “MASS” approach to hope (mastery, attachment, survival, and spirituality). This approach is interdisciplinary and brings together the best ideas from psychology, medicine, philosophy, the spiritual literature and the humanities. We encourage further applications of the MASS approach across disciplines.
We support collaborative hope research and exchange of ideas through symposia and conferences.
We hope you will join us.