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The Metapattern Institute is a Montreal-based independent research and knowledge mobilization organization focused on health, technology, and public life.

The Institute works at the intersections of research, professional practice, and institutional decision-making. Drawing on the digital humanities, information science, applied human sciences, and related fields, it examines how technologies, organizations, and knowledge systems shape the conditions of human flourishing.

Much of contemporary knowledge is produced within highly specialized disciplines, professions, and institutions. The Institute is particularly interested in what happens between them: where knowledge becomes fragmented, difficult to translate, disconnected from practice, or poorly integrated into organizational learning and decision-making.

Its work combines research, digital curation, knowledge mobilization, public scholarship, and knowledge brokering. This includes translating research across fields of expertise, developing and curating knowledge resources, supporting interdisciplinary collaboration, and helping organizations interpret and use complex information more effectively.

Rather than operating within a single disciplinary or institutional lane, the Institute seeks to function as a bridge between researchers, practitioners, organizations, and the wider public—creating contexts in which different forms of knowledge can be brought into productive relation and applied to real-world problems.

Erik Haines is a Montreal-based researcher and knowledge mobilization specialist whose professional background spans the nonprofit and community sector, information technology, knowledge management, and financial services. He holds a degree from Concordia University in Religious Studies and Applied Human Sciences.

His work grew from longstanding interests in interdisciplinary education, organizational development, behavioral health, and how knowledge moves into practice. After Concordia, he pursued these questions through independent research, professional work, and dialogue with researchers and practitioners across these fields.

As Founder and Director of the Metapattern Institute, Haines leads its organizational development, research infrastructure, knowledge mobilization, and collaborative work. His role is concerned with building the institutional conditions through which research can be developed, connected across fields, translated into practice, and brought into dialogue with professional and public audiences.

Alongside his institutional role, Haines conducts independent research on human flourishing under contemporary technological and institutional conditions. His philosophical work is anchored in integral facticity and enactive fallibilism, two foundational concepts through which he is reformulating integral humanism for contemporary conditions. Together, these concepts provide a framework for understanding human beings as situated yet capable agents, whose knowledge and judgment remain partial and open to revision, and whose action is embodied and relational. The work develops through a broad interdisciplinary dialogue spanning philosophy, critical theory, contextual behavioral science, and post-secular public theology. 

As an applied dimension of this research, Haines is developing the Integral Awareness & Commitment Training (IACT) program, a praxis-oriented behavioral health program informed by contextual behavioral science and his work on integral facticity and enactive fallibilism. IACT focuses on psychological flexibility, adaptation, values-guided action, and prosocial development, using practice and experience to test and refine the framework. It is also being explored for organizational applications, including stress management, professional development, collaboration, and collective learning.

In 2022, Haines launched the Integral Facticity Podcast, producing 21 episodes of scholarly dialogue with researchers and public intellectuals.