The modern world is facing a crisis of human-ing -

a fundamental confusion about how to live, how to relate to one another and the living world, how to be human well in times of uncertainty.

This crisis cannot be resolved through technological, organizational, or political solutions alone. It requires a reorientation at the level of philosophy itself: how we understand reality, how we relate to the living world, and how we embody that understanding in practice.

IPeP exists:

1. To practice human-ing as embodied research. We treat our own lives as sites of transformation and realworld laboratories - experimenting with what it means to be human well in a more-than-human world.

2. To develop ekosophy as a rigorous field of inquiry. We advance the theoretical foundations of relational, process-oriented, Indigenous approaches for human-ing well through peer-reviewed research, conceptual frameworks, and post-disciplinary, post-qualitative and post-structural methodology.

3. To create conditions for philosophical transformation. We design environments and practices that enable people to practice human-ing differently, acknowledging that transformation begins with the recognition that reality may be radically different from what we have been taught to see.

4. To mainstream human-ing as essential to addressing the metacrisis. The underlying causes of our current predicaments are philosophical. We work to establish philosophy’s role in shaping healthy futures - supplementing and reorienting technological, organizational, and political efforts.

5. To take more-than-human intelligences seriously. Our research and practice engage the living world as participant, not backdrop - grounding this commitment in both ancient wisdom traditions and latest scientific discoveries.

To that end, we work in three key areas.