A Preliminary Investigation of Grace Jiu-Jitsu/Women Empowered ® for Trauma & Mental Health Recovery
Thank you for your willingness to check out this research study and reading some information about participating in it. There is no obligation to take part or give your consent to participate until you've read this page and the information on it fully.
The purpose of this study is to conduct a preliminary investigation of the Women Empowered® (WE) program and its potential role in facilitating trauma and mental health recovery. This study is being conducted by trauma writer and researcher Dr. Jamie Marich. Although a graduate of the WE program via the online study format and an advocate for embodied practices like martial arts in the healing of trauma, Dr. Marich is not affiliated with Gracie University.
In this open-ended questionnaire, you will be asked to share some information about your personal background, and then you will be asked some questions about your experiences with the WE program. All of these questions allow you to share as much or as little information as you are comfortable sharing. Even if your responses are brief or you choose not to respond to certain questions, your overall participation is a benefit to this study. If answering the questions online is not possible, you will be able to participate via a phone interview. You may also have negative experiences to share about the WE program or the instruction you received; please feel free to share these experiences as these will also be beneficial to this study.
The survey generally takes anywhere from 15-45 minutes to complete depending on how much detail you want to give in your responses. Please don’t see giving short answers or taking little time to fill out the questionnaire as wrong in any way. You may consider tying your responses out in a separate document if they are long and then cut-pasting them into the online portal.
ELIGIBILITY: You must be at least 18 years old to participate. You are eligible to participate in this study if you have participated in at least ten WE classes taught by a certified instructor. You are not required to identify your name to participate in this study. You can use the online portal that lead investigator Dr. Jamie Marich has set up for this study to input your responses and submit them anonymously. We do offer an option that allows you to be contacted via email or phone if you’d like to give a more detailed interview at a later date. No member of the Gracie University staff will see your name directly attached to any part of this study. If you are unable to complete your survey in an online format for any reason, we can arrange for you to be phone interviewed. Please contact us by email at the address provided below or you may call 330-881-2944.
By sending your response back, you are giving your informed consent to participate in the study. If at any time you want to withdraw from the study, or if you do not want your responses quoted, simply contact lead investigator Dr. Jamie Marich at support@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com. Please bear in mind that no actual names will be used in any way as we share the research. The first phase of the research will be written up for the purpose of an academic article possible future writing by Dr. Jamie Marich and her team on the role of martial arts in embodied trauma recovery. Assistant investigators on this study are Pamela Ebert and Anna Pirkl. As a matter of disclosure due to Anna’s involvement with Gracie University, Anna will only be given access to the data collected in this first component of the study, not any of the names or corresponding identifying detail to the responses.
All of the responses will be stored for a period of seven years in security-guarded software in Dr. Jamie Marich’s home office and will be destroyed if you choose to withdrawal from the study.
Thank you for your willingness! If you choose to participate please give your consent by following the steps below, then you will be directed to the survey. Keep this page for your records if you need to contact us in anyway, especially if you decide to withdraw your response at any time.
The purpose of this study is to conduct a preliminary investigation of the Women Empowered® (WE) program and its potential role in facilitating trauma and mental health recovery. This study is being conducted by trauma writer and researcher Dr. Jamie Marich. Although a graduate of the WE program via the online study format and an advocate for embodied practices like martial arts in the healing of trauma, Dr. Marich is not affiliated with Gracie University.
In this open-ended questionnaire, you will be asked to share some information about your personal background, and then you will be asked some questions about your experiences with the WE program. All of these questions allow you to share as much or as little information as you are comfortable sharing. Even if your responses are brief or you choose not to respond to certain questions, your overall participation is a benefit to this study. If answering the questions online is not possible, you will be able to participate via a phone interview. You may also have negative experiences to share about the WE program or the instruction you received; please feel free to share these experiences as these will also be beneficial to this study.
The survey generally takes anywhere from 15-45 minutes to complete depending on how much detail you want to give in your responses. Please don’t see giving short answers or taking little time to fill out the questionnaire as wrong in any way. You may consider tying your responses out in a separate document if they are long and then cut-pasting them into the online portal.
ELIGIBILITY: You must be at least 18 years old to participate. You are eligible to participate in this study if you have participated in at least ten WE classes taught by a certified instructor. You are not required to identify your name to participate in this study. You can use the online portal that lead investigator Dr. Jamie Marich has set up for this study to input your responses and submit them anonymously. We do offer an option that allows you to be contacted via email or phone if you’d like to give a more detailed interview at a later date. No member of the Gracie University staff will see your name directly attached to any part of this study. If you are unable to complete your survey in an online format for any reason, we can arrange for you to be phone interviewed. Please contact us by email at the address provided below or you may call 330-881-2944.
By sending your response back, you are giving your informed consent to participate in the study. If at any time you want to withdraw from the study, or if you do not want your responses quoted, simply contact lead investigator Dr. Jamie Marich at support@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com. Please bear in mind that no actual names will be used in any way as we share the research. The first phase of the research will be written up for the purpose of an academic article possible future writing by Dr. Jamie Marich and her team on the role of martial arts in embodied trauma recovery. Assistant investigators on this study are Pamela Ebert and Anna Pirkl. As a matter of disclosure due to Anna’s involvement with Gracie University, Anna will only be given access to the data collected in this first component of the study, not any of the names or corresponding identifying detail to the responses.
All of the responses will be stored for a period of seven years in security-guarded software in Dr. Jamie Marich’s home office and will be destroyed if you choose to withdrawal from the study.
Thank you for your willingness! If you choose to participate please give your consent by following the steps below, then you will be directed to the survey. Keep this page for your records if you need to contact us in anyway, especially if you decide to withdraw your response at any time.
After clicking SUBMIT, you will be led directly to the survey. If you anticipate needing extra time to take the survey or giving longer responses, please consider entering them in a separate document and use cut/paste. It is best to enter all of the responses at once and, we can not prevent all glitches. Contact us at support@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com if you have any questions or if the link to the survey went missing.