A way for practicing
wisdom
We are a post-disciplinary research and education institute dedicated to cultivating wisdom as a way of life for personal & planetary transformation.
Why IpeP exists.
The modern world is facing a crisis of wisdom.
Wisdom understood as the ability to change - to think, be and act - in attunement to the whole.
While psychological and developmental approaches in the context of climate change, species extinction, and many other of our current predicaments are becoming increasingly recognized and understood, practical philosophy and the role of wisdom are under-represented and under-researched in the context of how change happens. IPeP closes this gap with the following five main goals:
Enhancing wisdom-ing as a meta-technology for transformation - personal and planetary.
Facilitating the integration of inner (philosophical) dimensions to foster healthy futures, supplementing technological, organizational, and political solutions.
Mainstreaming and educating about the significance of entangled wisdom-ing in addressing the underlying causes of the challenges of our times.
Establishing a robust framework for wisdom and its role in shaping healthy futures through peer-reviewed publications.
Developing a post-disciplinary, post-qualitative and post-structural research approach to measure wisdom as a process.
To that end, we work in three key areas.
WISdom
is the way
for personal & planetary
transformation
Our three key areas
Science
We create conceptual white papers, books and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
You can find our latest research results here.
Public Awareness
Wild:philosophy is our weekly exploration of entangled wisdom-ing.
Transmission from the emergent edge. We share essays and explorations that weave together philosophy, culture, and ecology to illuminate a practical path for personal and planetary transformation. No easy answers, only better questions.
Practices
We currently offer two formats.
PhilosophyGyms: for the interested public as well as for organizations. These are spaces for people to stretch their thinking, stay supple with uncertainty and practice philosophy as a way of life.
Life as a Lab: a seven week course that is best understood as a way of life rooted in the ongoing inquiry into what it means to be human-ing. It’s a place where deeply ingrained ways of life-ing are repatterned in the way of wisdom
Why Eko?
ego + eco
radical self-authorship (ego) + radical love for the whole (eco)
