Some of the most important questions we are exploring require perspectives and expertise beyond our own. We welcome conversations with researchers, educators, foundations, philanthropists, and technology organizations interested in exploring the role wisdom and inner development might play in human flourishing, education, and emerging technology.
A comprehensive body of knowledge developed over decades, a living founder, hundreds of credentialed teachers, thousands of practitioners, and an established international network.
Philanthropic resources, project-development capacity, and the ability to support work across organizational and geographic boundaries.
But the questions we are now exploring require expertise beyond our own — research, educational science, evaluation, artificial intelligence, measurement, independent perspectives. We are not looking only for organizations that want to support our work. We are looking for people and institutions that can help us make it better.
We welcome researchers and academic institutions interested in wisdom, human flourishing, inner development, learning, contemplative research, and adult development. Collaboration might include conceptual research, measurement development, pilot studies, or independent evaluation.
We welcome universities, schools, learning scientists, curriculum specialists, teacher educators, and educational networks. Partnership might involve framework development, curriculum design, teacher preparation, pilot programs, or evaluation.
We welcome AI researchers, laboratories, evaluation teams, universities, and technology organizations interested in wisdom reasoning, human flourishing, values, expert human evaluation, and responsible AI.
We welcome foundations and philanthropists interested in supporting research, Wisdom-Based Education, Wisdom & AI, evaluation, and the global capacity underlying this work.
We test our assumptions and change our thinking in response to what we learn.
Promising ideas should be studied and strengthened before widespread implementation.
We value partners who bring knowledge we do not possess ourselves.
We seek approaches that cross boundaries while respecting local differences.
The development of human wisdom is not a short-term undertaking.
The most valuable collaboration may not fit neatly into one of the categories above. You don’t need a proposal — a conversation is enough to begin.
Tell us a little about you and what’s on your mind we’ll follow up to set up a conversation.
