about

philosophy but practical

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paradigm shift

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everyday life

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life as lab

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philosophy but practical * paradigm shift * everyday life * life as lab *

Why we exist

IPeP teaches & researches philosophy as a practical response to the crises of our time. We believe that many people are living with a fundamental confusion about how to live ethically, morally, and sustainably. Our approach is to treat life as a lab, conducting experiments that shift philosophy from an intellectual exercise to a

practice of personal and social change.

Through rigorous science, self-experiments, guided courses, and thought leadership, we help people treat their own lives as sites of transformation — not just of self, but also of the collective.

How we work

LIFE AS OUR LAB.

We treat life itself as a site of research and transformation. We experiment with forms of Lebenskunst — not theoretically, but through how we actually live. Our own life-worlds serve as living laboratories, grounding scholarship in our daily practice of living. This means radically testing theories on ourselves.

SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION.

The etymology of science is scientia — knowing. We practice a science of experience and participation that takes lived, first-person inquiry seriously as a mode of knowing. To do that, we develop a science of transformation where knowledge is not only measured but also encountered — and therefore not owned by institutions, but participatory by nature. This expands who can do science and shape what counts as knowledge. We see science as a participatory becoming that activates attention, responsibility, and agency.

REALITY AS RELATIONAL.

We engage more-than-human intelligences as participants. The living world is not a backdrop to human activity but a co-participant in the process of knowing. Our research and practice ground this commitment in both ancient wisdom traditions and latest scientific discoveries.