The Shared Crossing Research Initiative
Measuring the efficacy of programs designed to improve the end-of-life experience
The Shared Crossing Research Initiative (SCRI) is a not-for-profit collaboration with Santa Barbara’s Family Therapy Institute. The mission of SCRI is to study profound and healing shared crossing experiences with a special emphasis on the shared death experience.
SCRI’s first research collaboration began in 2012 with Dr. Michael Kinsella and his team of researchers at UCSB. The aim of this collaboration was to assess the merits of the Shared Crossing Project’s programs and methods designed to create ease around end of life and to facilitate shared crossing experiences. This research included over 75 individuals who participated in shared crossing programs and it revealed that people who followed the shared crossing protocols gained a more meaningful and peaceful appreciation of death. In addition, participants also reported a wide variety of profound and healing end-of-life phenomena, including shared death experiences. While more research is underway, there does appear to be a correlation between participating in shared crossing programs and a variety of shared crossing phenomena. Drawing upon our earlier work, we have created the shared crossing spectrum, a user-friendly guide to the most common, desirable, and meaningful end-of-life experiences.
Shared Crossing Testimonial Project
In March 2018 SCRI initiated the Shared Crossing Testimonial Project (SCTP). The SCTP seeks to gather personal accounts of shared crossings through written and video recordings. William Peters, Director of SCRI has again joined forces with chief researcher Dr. Michael Kinsella. The SCTP is the only research project of its kind that is gathering an international library of personal accounts of profound healing experiences around death. These accounts will form the basis for an upcoming book. The aspiration of this book is to apply stories of shared crossings to transform personal and societal relations to death and dying.
Purpose
Displays of conscious, connected, and loving end-of-life experiences serve as a prototype for others to follow. They also offer a life-changing perspective by awakening people to what matters most in life. These firsthand accounts lead to significant personal transformations in the lives of listeners, which we aim to harness to effect positive socio-cultural transformation related to end of life.
Testimonial
“When my dear friend was dying I was sitting vigil with two other caregivers. I was so thankful for the Shared Crossing training as it prepared me for the amazing, heart-opening experiences that occurred during and after the death of my friend."
- Arlene Radasky
For more information about how to participate by sharing your own personal shared crossing account or to learn about other ways of supporting SCTP please contact William Peters at william@sharedcrossing.com
The Shared Crossing Research Initiative (SCRI) is a not-for-profit collaboration with Santa Barbara’s Family Therapy Institute. The mission of SCRI is to study profound and healing shared crossing experiences with a special emphasis on the shared death experience.
SCRI’s first research collaboration began in 2012 with Dr. Michael Kinsella and his team of researchers at UCSB. The aim of this collaboration was to assess the merits of the Shared Crossing Project’s programs and methods designed to create ease around end of life and to facilitate shared crossing experiences. This research included over 75 individuals who participated in shared crossing programs and it revealed that people who followed the shared crossing protocols gained a more meaningful and peaceful appreciation of death. In addition, participants also reported a wide variety of profound and healing end-of-life phenomena, including shared death experiences. While more research is underway, there does appear to be a correlation between participating in shared crossing programs and a variety of shared crossing phenomena. Drawing upon our earlier work, we have created the shared crossing spectrum, a user-friendly guide to the most common, desirable, and meaningful end-of-life experiences.
Shared Crossing Testimonial Project
In March 2018 SCRI initiated the Shared Crossing Testimonial Project (SCTP). The SCTP seeks to gather personal accounts of shared crossings through written and video recordings. William Peters, Director of SCRI has again joined forces with chief researcher Dr. Michael Kinsella. The SCTP is the only research project of its kind that is gathering an international library of personal accounts of profound healing experiences around death. These accounts will form the basis for an upcoming book. The aspiration of this book is to apply stories of shared crossings to transform personal and societal relations to death and dying.
Purpose
Displays of conscious, connected, and loving end-of-life experiences serve as a prototype for others to follow. They also offer a life-changing perspective by awakening people to what matters most in life. These firsthand accounts lead to significant personal transformations in the lives of listeners, which we aim to harness to effect positive socio-cultural transformation related to end of life.
Testimonial
“When my dear friend was dying I was sitting vigil with two other caregivers. I was so thankful for the Shared Crossing training as it prepared me for the amazing, heart-opening experiences that occurred during and after the death of my friend."
- Arlene Radasky
For more information about how to participate by sharing your own personal shared crossing account or to learn about other ways of supporting SCTP please contact William Peters at william@sharedcrossing.com
