What is Project Hope Exchange?
The first of its kind, worldwide digital database of anonymous audio messages of hope (ranging from physical health, mental health and life challenges). Project Hope Exchange is a joint initiative of Life Vest Inside and Adversity to Advocacy.
Through Project Hope Exchange we collect, aggregate and share 30-second audio messages from individuals who have survived some kind of adversity to others who are currently facing that same adversity. And at the heart of our exchange are real human voices.
Our Impact to Date
See how far our hopeful messages have reached!
How YOU Can Get Involved?
Sample Message of Hope
Robert
Bipolar Disorder
My name is Robert, and I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder over ten years ago, and through education and learning about my disorder, I was able to accept my adversity and I had to deal with it. And working with professionals and being honest with myself and others allowed me that chance.
So once I got in recovery and stabilized, I moved into advocacy and what I found was, not only did I help others, but also it was helping me stay in recovery and healthy and in control of my bipolar disorder.
The Experts Speak
"Project Hope Exchange works because we have parts of our brain and nervous system linked to dopamine and oxytocin circuits that are activated when we give and serve. So when we give hope to others … we derive very deep pleasure–pleasure that is as strong as when we receive hope, ourselves."
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.
Author, “Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life”
"Quite simply, Project Hope Exchange does what it intends: it delivers hope. Not so long ago, conventional and clinical wisdom dictated the we all keep negative events and related negative emotions tucked away where no one could see or hear them. We now know that communication, sharing, openness, and support are vital for everyone involved. Adversity CAN be overcome, but it takes disclosure, discussion, and reciprocal communication to change our formerly closed ways of doing business. Project Hope Exchange can lead all society away from despair."
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.
Professor and Former Chair, U.C. Berkeley Department of Psychology
"According to science... attuning to others and lending support–as Project Hope Exchange facilitates–leads to better health, well-being and social functioning."
Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Ph.D.
Science Director at Greater Good Science Center
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
~Dr Martin Luther King Junior
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