The Institute for Metacognitive Education
Preparing Minds for the
Age of Intelligence
For most of our history, the human mind has evolved under natural pressures. Today, technology is drastically reshaping the conditions under which the human mind develops. IMCE explores how education must evolve in response.
A Missing Layer at the Heart of Modern Education
As machines become capable of ever subtler prediction & influence, understanding how our own experience is formed becomes essential to contemporary education. Experience Studies develops students’ capacity to navigate the forces shaping their minds, preserving self-direction, authenticity & depth of experience.
About IMCE →Why Teaching Experience is an Educational Priority
What happens when the environments shaping our attention, judgement & identity become personalised, adaptive & generative? This short film makes the case for training young people to better understand the minds through which they experience the world, & why this task is the educational challenge of our times.
How to Safeguard Depth of Experience & Agency?
We look at how increasingly intelligent environments are reshaping human development, from attention and identity to creativity, judgement and relationships. Our research explores these emerging pressures, the human capacities most affected, and the potential for Metacognitive Education to provide a meaningful response.
Research →Mapping the 'Digital Pressures' that Shape Our Minds
From attention capture & cognitive outsourcing to synthetic influence, a swathe of new pressures are reshaping the conditions under which our minds develop, and our culture moves. We have started mapping these forces to better understand their effects, & design effective responses. A work in progress, but feel free to have a browse.
Issues →Experience Studies & Metacognition Training Tools
Alongside psynapp, we hope to share articles, guides, lesson plans, practical tools, and policy documents. Here we publish our work as it develops, invite exploration and insight, and turn the ideas behind Experience Studies into practical education.
Resources →Imagining Human-Scale Support Infrastructures
We explore how mapping human experience can underpin human-scale support services, from individual learning to psychologically safe well-being agents to private school & community networks, widening access to human support while encouraging real relationships, non-mediated experience & collective participation.
Delivery →Building Experience Studies
At the centre of IMCE’s work is a living, integrated framework for Experience Studies, developed and continually refined through research, design & practice. It maps human experience across interconnected dimensions, from the Body-Mind, cognitive & emotional to the imaginal, energetic, conditioned & scripted, providing a shared architecture through which ideas can be explored, applied, tested and developed.
Experience Studies Handbook
Our first comprehensive framework for Experience Studies, Psynapp maps how awareness, attention, emotion, thinking, identity & influence come together to shape human experience. Through practical exploration, it develops awareness of these processes & helps builds the capacity to navigate life with greater coherence, self-direction & resilience.
Psynapp is launching in January 2027. In the meantime, academics & educators are welcome to request a copy of the current framework.
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The IMCE Family
IMCE’s work extends beyond research into educational frameworks, digital tools, and trusted support systems. Together, these initiatives form a connected ecosystem for developing, delivering, and supporting Metacognitive Education.
A Framework for Experience Studies
A practical Experience Studies framework for exploring how human experience forms, what shapes it, and how increased awareness protects agency.
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Wellbeing Agent & Chatbot Alternative
Off-line, on-device, non-personified ‘Wellbeing Agent’ & experience studies coach, enabling light-touch digital support.
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Non-Extractive Private Support Networks
Private Networks that enables trusted organisations to deliver digital and human to human support infrastructures without data extraction or sharing.
more →Support our Work
IMCE is an early-stage independent, self-funded non-profit public-interest initiative. Your support will help us develop Experience Studies and test metacognitive educational practices through research partnerships, school and community pilots, as well as produce practical educational tools and resources.