Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques

Name: Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques
Address: Argenteuil, 95100, FR
Telephone: 0130760624

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Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques

Promouvoir le développement de la philosophie en tant que pratique dans la cité et en tant qu’outil p L’Institut de Pratiques Philosophiques (I.P.P.)

est une association 1901. Fondée par Oscar Brenifier, Docteur en philosophie, et Isabelle Millon, documentaliste, sa vocation est de promouvoir le principe de « la philosophie dans la cité ». Depuis une vingtaine d’années, cela signifie animer des discussions philosophiques, ateliers de philosophie ou cafés-philo, dans les médiathèques, les centres culturels, les cinémas, les foyers de jeunes tra

vailleurs, les prisons, les établissements scolaires dès la maternelle, en entreprise, avec les jeunes en difficultés d’intégration. Les publics sont très variés, bien que le souci principal soit de cibler précisément ceux qui n’ont pas l’habitude ou l’occasion d’accéder à la démarche philosophique. Il ne s’agit pas de faire œuvre d’érudition, mais d’apprendre et de pratiquer le « penser par soi-même » ainsi que le « penser avec les autres ». Philosopher signifie dès lors s’initier à la construction de la pensée, à l’analyse critique, au dialogue, pour devenir conscient des enjeux de la pensée et du discours. Reconnu pour ses compétences, L’I.P.P. mène des activités non seulement en France, mais dans de nombreux pays, en particulier pour former des personnes à la discussion philosophique. Oscar Brenifier a d’ailleurs rédigé pour l’Unesco le rapport sur la philosophie dans la cité dans le monde. Il est aussi l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages de philosophie pour enfants, traduits dans plus de vingt langues. Isabelle Millon est co-auteur d’ouvrages d’enseignement de la philosophie pour les adolescents et adultes.

12/03/2026

📣 Our annual Summer Seminar on Philosophical Practice is officially launched! The seminar will be held as the last five previous years, it will be held both offline and online at the same time.

🗓 Dates: August 3rd- 9th, 2026
📍 Location: The philosophical village of La Chapelle St-André (France)

This seminar does not require previous philosophical training. It can be an initiation to philosophical practice, or a deepening of the activity.

Participants come from different parts of the world, and join for professional or personal reasons, in order to work on a practice that is applicable to many contexts: teaching children or adults, management, individual consultations, N.G.O. activities…

https://readingphilosophy.tilda.ws/ippsummerseminar2026

Hope to see you there!

Contact us:
We will be happy to answer your questions.

- For the offline seminar, write to Isabelle: [email protected]
Whatsapp/Telegram: +33603463390

- For the online seminar, write to Leïla: [email protected]
Whatsapp/Telegram: +33768428208

06/01/2026

SOLITUDE

The first relation to oneself is a relation of solitude.
Pleasant, distressing, liberating, or confining, it is always there — omnipresent — even when we try to avoid it, even when we try to drown it in the company of others, even when we are simply with others, even when we are with people we love. Facing ourselves, with ourselves or against ourselves, it is there, like a shadow. Solitude: the other self.

It is a solitude with which we must learn to reconcile, because it is not with others that we will spend our whole life — whether our partner, our children, or anyone else — but with ourselves, whether we like it or not. When we wake up in the morning, the first person we encounter is ourselves. We are with ourselves all the time. We cannot get rid of ourselves. If we feel lonely when we are alone, it means, as Jean-Paul Sartre said so well, that we are in bad company.

Most people do not love themselves. They are never good enough, never satisfied with who they are or with what they do; they are always looking for “something else.” What is it? They usually do not know. A form of greed that can never be quenched — and that creates sadness, frustration, resentment, and anger. How does this happen?

To conclude, here is a beautiful sentence from Hannah Arendt:
“Solitude implies that, although alone, I am with someone — that is, myself. It means that I am two in one.”

And you — what is your relationship with yourself?
Do you enjoy your own company?

31/12/2025

Feeling stuck in your thinking lately?
Repeating the same patterns, the same doubts, the same inner dialogues?
Feeling anxious? Lacking the tools to think well — clearly, conceptually, logically, but also critically?

Well… today is the last day of 2025.
So how about acquiring some new tools for 2026?

Our 3-month IPP course is not about academic philosophy, not theoretical — it’s about learning how to think, and developing critical-thinking tools.
Tools that are deeply needed in this world, for ourselves, and for our relationship to others and to reality.

In this course, we work on different aspects of our thinking:

🧠 How to clarify what you think or believe
🧠 How to question your own assumptions
🧠 How to dialogue without getting stuck or defensive
🧠 How to see more clearly in yourself and in others
🧠 How to read people and situations more clearly

And that’s just the beginning…

You can follow this course for personal reasons — to work on yourself.
You can follow it for professional reasons — to learn tools you can implement in your own practice (whether you work in coaching, education, therapy, or any field involving human relations).
You can also follow it to become philosophical practitionners and counsellors yourselves.
Or, of course, a mix of all of this.

Over 3 months, you don’t just acquire tools —
you transform the way you relate to yourself, others, and reality.

If something in you is calling for more clarity, depth, and intellectual honesty, this is probably the right course for you to engage into this new year.

And since today is the last day of the year, we have a special offer for new students who register today by writing to :
– 15% discount on any package of the course

📅 Next edition starts in February 2026
🔗 https://readingphilosophy.tilda.ws/ippcoursespring2026
📩 Write to us for details & registration

🌍 International course (40+ countries)
No need to be fluent, but English should be sufficient for dialogue.
We also offer the course in French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Italian.
Write to for more information.

We would love to share this philosophical journey with you ✨

28/09/2025

🧠 THINKING MARATHON – Oct 3–5, 2025
Want to sharpen your thinking skills & reflect on yourself? 💭
Join our 3-day Thinking Marathon!

How it works:
📅 Every morning at 9 AM (Paris time) → new exercise on Facebook or Telegram (DM us to join the group)
⏱ 20 min to complete & submit by midnight
💬 Personalized feedback from our team
🔄 Apply feedback the next day

BONUS:
🎁 Complete all 3 days → choose between:
1️⃣ Free 30-min consultation (new participants only)
2️⃣ Access to our online seminar weekend, Oct 18–19

📌 IPP Facebook group or IPP Telegram Channel (DM for link)

✨ Invite your friends & join the challenge!

24/09/2025

Hello everyone!

Here is a new IPP telegram channel, dedicated to special newsletters and announcements.
As we often have new updates, trainings, courses, and open sessions, this channel will be for anyone who wants to follow all the news from our Institute, in both English and French.

On another note, as we regularly need participants for our students’ trainings — as “test clients” for consultations, workshops, etc. — this channel will also serve for volunteer calls (only for IPP’s trainings). Whenever we need participants for coached consultations, workshops, or training sessions, we’ll post here. Anyone interested can propose themselves as a client. We’ll try to prioritize new volunteers each time, and the idea will be to rotate as much as possible. But as we often need volunteers, there will be different opportunities with different time slots for everyone.

Note: This will be an announcement-only channel (no exchanges or discussions). It will be used only for newsletters, activities, announcements, and volunteer calls.

For anyone interested, you can join the channel here:
https://t.me/+jbMmItZNUykyZmM0

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Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Voici un nouveau canal Telegram IPP, dédié à nos activités et annonces.
Comme nous avons régulièrement de nouvelles activités, formations, des programmes ainsi que des ateliers ouverts, ce canal s’adresse à celles et ceux qui souhaitent suivre toutes les informations de notre Institut, en français et en anglais.

Par ailleurs, comme nous avons souvent besoin de participants pour les formations de nos étudiants — en tant que « clients tests » pour des consultations, ateliers, etc. — ce canal servira également à lancer des appels à volontaires (uniquement pour les formations IPP). Chaque fois que nous aurons besoin de participants pour des consultations supervisées, ateliers ou sessions de formation, nous posterons un message ici. Toute personne intéressée pourra se proposer comme cliente. Nous essayerons de donner la priorité aux nouveaux volontaires et de faire tourner autant que possible. Comme les besoins sont fréquents, il y aura différentes opportunités avec des créneaux variés.

Note : Ce canal sera réservé aux annonces uniquement (pas d’échanges ni de discussions). Il sera utilisé exclusivement pour les newsletters, activités, annonces et appels à volontaires.

Pour toute personne intéressée, vous pouvez rejoindre le canal ici :
https://t.me/+jbMmItZNUykyZmM0

25/04/2025

CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING!
4-DAY SEMINAR ON CRITICAL THINKING AND THE ART OF QUESTIONING

From May 8th to 11th, 2025 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Are you interested in the art of thinking? How can you distinguish weak from strong arguments? How can you build better questions? How do you recognize problems in people’s speeches, and in your own? How can you communicate more clearly with yourself and others?

Join Leila Millon, from the Institute of Philosophical Practices (France), and her colleague Ariane Van Heijningen, from Denkplaats (Netherlands), for a 4-day seminar in English dedicated to critical thinking and philosophical practice.

This seminar will be an opportunity to exercise your thinking and challenge yourself through engaging exercises and workshops.

This seminar does not require previous philosophical training. Whether you want to begin philosophical practice or deepen your engagement with critical thinking, this seminar is for you.

Information here: https://readingphilosophy.tilda.ws/rotterdamseminarmay2025

DM us if you have any question!

04/03/2025

No Self

If you grew up in the West, chances are you think of the self as something distinct, indivisible, and unchanging. From Plato to Descartes, we inherited the idea of an immortal soul, separate from the body, immaterial, indivisible. Over time, this morphed into a modern, secular notion of the self as an independent, individual entity.

Western culture glorifies the individual, rather than the collective. We see ourselves as separate from others. People may influence us, but they cannot change our true self. “To thine own self be true,” says Polonius in Hamlet.

And yet, how often do we feel we have lost ourselves? We go on holidays to “find” it again- as if we somehow misplaced ourselves somewhere on a Pacific island or in a hippie commune in Goa.

But what if the self is an illusion?

Buddhism and the Illusion of Self

According to Buddhism, what we call the self is just a collection of five aggregates:
✔️ Body
✔️ Sensations & feelings
✔️ Perceptions
✔️ Mental activity
✔️ Consciousness

When these elements come together, we think of them as “me”- but this is just a construct. There is no permanent self that owns these things.

The Milindapañha compares it to a chariot:

A chariot consists of a frame, a seat, wheels, but there is no chariot apart from these parts. We say a chariot has wheels, yet there is no mystical entity called chariot beyond its components.

The philosopher David Hume said something similar:

“When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other… I never can catch myself at any time without a perception.”

Liberating Ourselves from the Self

Perhaps it’s time to free ourselves from this selfish prison. To stop obsessing over “finding ourselves” and start seeing ourselves in others.

Je est un autre.

No man is an island.

03/03/2025

“The challenges of thinking”

There are several challenges we face when working on our thinking.
➡️ We encounter our own emotional resistances—the fear of being perceived as unintelligent, the desire for perfection, the fear of making mistakes or not being good enough, the fear of the unknown, the fear of letting go, the struggle to trust ourselves and others, and the difficulty of accepting the limitations, rules, and constraints that thinking requires. Engaging in this process is an invitation to reconcile with the present, to stand before ourselves, and to contemplate emerging ideas with detachment and lightness. It requires us to stop worrying, to resist fleeing into the future or taking refuge in the past.
➡️ We must let go of our obsessions and embrace uncertainty, disorientation, and even the dizziness that comes with deep thinking. As Plato suggested, one must detach from personal emotions and subjectivity. In doing so, we step out of the darkness of our own cave and gain the opportunity to contemplate the bright world that emerges when we confront and transcend the shadows—shadows that have kept us unknowingly captive to our own and others’ propaganda, manipulation, and ignorance. Thinking critically is a journey of self-knowledge, one that forces us to reconcile with ourselves and the finite nature of our human condition.
To work on our thinking means to be strong enough to detach from the rocks of our convictions, beliefs, and opinions—to dive into the open sea, to swim with abandon over the abyss of madness and chaos, and to explore the unfathomed depths of thought.
🦾 Overcoming these difficulties transforms what was once a source of anxiety into a source of pleasure. We find ourselves without defenses, yet without anything to defend. We observe ourselves with detachment, creating space for transformation.
Curious to experience this for yourself? We offer a 1:1 trial session to show you how we work and help you develop your own thinking. DM us!

01/03/2025

Why am I so angry? Why do I keep fighting with my partner? How can I be more confident? What do I want to do with my life?

Sometimes, we sense that something is wrong - in our lives, our relationships, our work, or within ourselves. But identifying exactly what it is can be difficult, as it often remains an intuition, a vague feeling rather than a clear realization. And, of course, self-awareness is not easily accessible without a daily practice of introspection. To see clearly, one must first learn to observe - identify the problem, clarify it, question its origins and its consequences. This is the foundation of philosophical practice.

Through precise and methodical questioning, we uncover perspectives and possibilities we might not have reached on our own. And sometimes, when our minds are too scattered, too consumed by emotions, we need guidance - a structured way of thinking that allows us to step back and analyze, rather than remain trapped in confusion.

Philosophical practice offers the tools to become aware of our own speech, our own thoughts, and of others. It teaches us which questions to ask depending on the issue at hand, the difference between a solid argument and a weak one, how to recognize emotions without being controlled by them.

You learn how to navigate everyday problems, whether they are your own or those of others. And when you think clearly, you are more at peace with yourself. Because you understand. And when you understand, you are no longer merely reacting, merely surviving.

Would you like to start living? Learn how to think, and daily struggles will no longer weigh so heavily. You may not eliminate suffering, but at least, you will not be enslaved by it.

17/10/2024

I will go to South Africa and Mozambique next January. I will hold a 5 days-seminar on critical thinking in Johannesburg with some colleagues from there. You will find the announcement below. All the information is indicated.

I will also hold workshops in both countries, mostly with people involved in education and students. If you are interested for a workshop or training session, please contact the following email: [email protected]

For Turkish speakers only.A new program starting next Wednesday, October 16th.Contact: felsefidanismanlikturkiye@gmail.c...

10/10/2024

For Turkish speakers only.
A new program starting next Wednesday, October 16th.
Contact: [email protected] / [email protected]

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