Venezuela Relief · Active campaign
One mission completed. The next leaves in September.
In July our team spent a week in the camps. We delivered infant formula, rehydration salts, food, and medicine, and we painted with the children of Ojitos de Chávez. The families living in tents are still there, many with small children and grandparents. So we're going back.
- Completed
- July 13–20, 2026 · Valencia, Caracas, La Guaira, and the Ojitos de Chávez camp
- Next mission
- Departing September 15, 2026
Independent Nonprofit · Est. 2026
The science and practice of intentional human development.
The Institute for Human Evolution takes what peer-reviewed research says about cognition, emotion, and relationships, and turns it into practice people can learn. And when a community needs direct help, we bring the same seriousness to the field.
We do not believe humans are unfinished, broken, or in need of redesign.
Read our missionBy the numbers
What exists today
3
Published frameworks
Perceptual Practice, Emotional Architecture, and Intentional Partnering. Each one states plainly what it does not claim.
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Focus areas
Behavioral science, emotional regulation, relationship science, and cognitive skills.
200
Pilot participants planned
The first year of MindWorkIn, our cognitive skills program now in pilot.
1
Relief mission completed
July 2026: Valencia, Caracas, La Guaira, and the Ojitos de Chávez camp.
Focus areas
Four areas. One principle: skills, not diagnoses.
Behavioral & Decision Science
How biology, environment, and learned patterns shape the decisions we make. Tendencies, not fixed laws.
Emotional Regulation & Skill-Building
Understanding, modulating, and integrating emotion as a trainable skill. Closer to exercise than to treatment.
Relationship Science & Intentional Partnering
What makes a partnership healthy and durable, and how to choose a partner deliberately.
Cognitive Skill Development
Strengthening attention, perception, judgment, and awareness of one's own thinking.
Guiding principles
Evidence over assertion.
Autonomy first.
Transparency throughout.
A program succeeds when participants gain the capacity to form their own visions, not when they adopt ours.
Fund the work. Or build it with us.
Individual donations sustain research, program scholarships, and the Venezuela relief fund. Foundations and institutional partners can review our governance, evidence, and budgets.