Dr Olivia de Bergerac is the founder of the Dolphin Society. She has been in contact with dolphins and whales since she was a little girl with her brother a diver from the Cousteau Team.		Olivia's little girl swam with dolphins while she was in her mummy and she has been swimming with dolphins since she was born in the water in 2004.

The Dolphin Society, established as a not for profit organisation in 1994, was formed with the primary aim to research and develop methods of dolphin assisted therapy to improve the well-being of humans as they interact with dolphins. In recent years, it has become very clear that when humans come into close contact with dolphins they have a profound uplifting effect on the human spirit. Since 1994 the Dolphin Society has recognised that dolphins advance the healing process and the ‘Dolphin Within’ team has worked at overcoming drug addiction, post-trauma conditions of various types, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and stress related illnesses by using dolphin assisted therapy.

The ‘Dolphin Within’ research program, headed by Dr Olivia de Bergerac, is a long-term project studying the impacts on humans being in of contact with dolphins. The central theme of the project is the identification of the physiological, psychological and spiritual changes people go through when they watch and/or swim with dolphins. From assessments of these changes a new form of dolphin-assisted therapy is being developed; one that does not involve captive or wild dolphins but instead creates a simulated learning environment in which people receive, with the assistance of coaching, healing from within themselves.