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The Metapattern Institute is a digital humanities research and knowledge mobilization organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, operating at the intersection of health informatics and integral human development. 

Erik Haines is an independent knowledge management specialist and digital humanities researcher whose work draws on Canadian philosophy, integral humanism, and contextual behavioral science. His research examines how digital tools and information systems shape human development and meaning-making, with an applied focus in health informatics. He holds a B.A. from Concordia University in Applied Human Sciences and Religious Studies, and brings over fifteen years of professional experience in information technology, knowledge management, and financial services.

In 2022, Haines founded the Metapattern Institute and launched the Integral Facticity Podcast, producing 21 episodes of scholarly dialogue across Canadian intellectual history, integral philosophy, critical theory, and political theology. 

The Metapattern Institute investigates how digital tools and information systems shape human development and meaning-making — examining structures of knowledge, governance, health, and technology that serve or fail the complex reality of human life.

The Institute's research is grounded in Integral Facticity: the recognition that all human development proceeds within irreducible conditions — biological, psychological, historical, social — and that integral inquiry must begin from those conditions rather than attempt to transcend them. Auto-ethnographic field methods produce longitudinal data on how psychological flexibility operates from within this facticity. The work prioritizes human persons over technocratic or material forms of reductionism, and treats theoretical claims as provisional and subject to revision through what is encountered in lived practice.

The work proceeds from a post-secular, integral-pluralist orientation toward human flourishing, articulated across six axes through the institute's theory [+] praxis — each pairing a domain of digital-humanities inquiry with a philosophical or methodological frame.