Think of us as your

friend of virtue-

here to help if you are interested in

transforming yourself & the whole.

WHY IPeP exists.

We Design resources, practices & events to help people Wisdom-ing.

science based, no-nonsense.

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 wisdom-ing are under-represented and under-researched. IPeP closes this gap with the following 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-ing and its role in shaping healthy futures through peer-reviewed publications.

Why Eko?

ego + eco

radical self-authorship (ego) + radical love for the whole (eco)

Why it matters

People want to live a fulfilling, meaningful, effortless, resonant, peaceful, fun, joyful, embodied … life that is in service to Life and that aligns with social and ecological challenges. Wisdom-ing - as a way of life - can help them with all of that. It’s not an end goal, but a lifelong learning process that is no-nonsense, that is deep and leads to real transformation, not just surface level changes. It goes to the heart of our being, thinking, and acting, turns it upside down, inside out, disturbs, desconstructs and reconstructs it in a new way (even if subtle) that gets people to the life they want - personalized, not like someone else is prescribing it for them. And its also not just about them as an individual, but about the individual in their context - as a participant on this Earth, the entangled self. Everyone’s story, life, soul - if we will - is unique. So will everyone’s life-long growth and learning process be. Only each person by themselves know how they want to live … what we (IPeP) know is that there are better and worse ways to go about exploring this - how wisdom-ing works. We offer guidance, exercises, and a space in which to explore and learn how to live and be differently. By focusing on the process and trying on different thought styles, ways of feeling, and ways of being, we offer a dynamic and flexible path, not a method or tool. The processes we teach is for life, no matter what one’s goals may be and how that may change.

OUR APPROACH.

  • Life as a Lab: we see philosophy as a practice and with life itself serving as the living laboratory for this practice. Philosophy must be entangled in everyday life.

  • Rewilding Philosophy: we include voices in the philosophical discourse that are often largely overlooked. This includes not only Indigenous knowledges and the perspectives of marginalized human groups but also insights from the more-than-human world. For instance, what can water teach us about how to show up in life. We also include other ways of knowing beyond the conceptual and analytical.

  • ekoPhilosophy: we belief that any healthy philosophy must be grounded in: relationality, post-humanism, indigeneity, multispecies approaches, developmental approaches, process philosophy, new materialism, 4(+2)E cognition, interbeing, quantum physics and biosemiotics (among others).