Luis de Miranda is a philosopher, counselor and Associate Professor in Bioethics whose work advances Eudynamic Thinking, ethical inquiry, cognitive science, philosophical practice, and compossible approaches to ethical decision-making, leadership, institutional strategy, and existential health. His SMILE_PH dialogue protocol and the Crealectic method bridges advisory practice, and intelligence integration to…
Eudynamia® & Philosophical Counseling i Saltsjö-boo har betyget 4,7 av 5 från 34 omdömen på Google, där snittet är 4,9.
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Linda Geitner
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More than I could have hoped for! Luis can guide through that extra step that you did not even know existed. Philosophical health is not therapy, it is guidens in a way you did not know you needed. Luis has a lot of experience and it made me feel safe.
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Thank you, Linda, for these thoughtful words. It is remarkable that you experienced philosophical health as an exploration of the unknown. Philosophical dialogue via SMILE_PH is indeed a space for a deeper sense, one brave yet safe step at a time. Best of luck in applying the method to others as a certified counsellor!
Participating in these Philosophical Counselling sessions with Prof. Luis De Miranda has been a truly transformative experience. Having gone through different sessions, each with its own unique focus, I was able to deeply reflect on myself—a process seamlessly supported by a robust theoretical framework and rich, cross-disciplinary insights.
The guidance is both visionary and remarkably grounded, helping me gain a clear sense of purpose and actionable next steps. The original concepts and vocabulary introduced here are brilliant and deeply relevant; they deserve to be understood and practiced by a much broader audience, especially in this transformative era where AI is fundamentally reshaping human society. Highly recommended!
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Thank you, Elaine, for this generous and thoughtful review. It's wonderful that the sessions helped you connect deep reflection with a clearer sense of purpose and concrete next steps. Your point about the importance of philosophical counselling in an AI-shaped society goes to the heart of this work: strengthening our capacity to think, choose, and compose meaningful possibilities together.
Before philosophical counselling, I felt stuck in old patterns of thinking without really understanding why. Working through questions with a counsellor who took ideas seriously, not just feelings, but the actual reasoning behind my choices, gave me a different kind of clarity than I expected. Rather than being told what to think, I was guided to examine my own assumptions, and that process alone was worth it.
Sessions felt less like therapy and more like structured conversations that respected my ability to reason things through myself. We looked at concepts like autonomy, meaning, and what a 'good life' actually means to me, grounded in real philosophical frameworks rather than vague self-help language.
I came away with sharper thinking, more confidence in my decisions, and a genuine sense of having done the intellectual work myself rather than just receiving advice.
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Thank you, Alexis, for articulating so clearly what distinguishes philosophical counselling: a structured inquiry that takes both ideas and the person’s capacity to reason seriously. It is especially meaningful that the process strengthened your clarity and confidence without replacing your own judgement. The aim is precisely to support people in examining their assumptions, clarifying what matters, and engaging with the philosophical work themselves.
The experience of talking with Luis was incredibly helpful in guiding me toward finding my purpose in life. Even after a few months, I still find the conversations we had deeply inspiring, and their impact continues to settle and grow within me in various ways. Although the process can feel a bit confusing at times, you should really trust the journey and trust the reason you are here!
Finishing the counseling doesn’t mean you instantly find an ultimate purpose that stays fixed forever. Rather, it empowers you to embrace your own journey, learning to live your life purposefully and intentionally.
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Thank you, JiaYing, for expressing so clearly how the work continues beyond the sessions themselves. Philosophical counselling does not deliver a fixed answer to the question of purpose; it helps cultivate the capacity to live purposefully, intentionally, and with greater trust in one’s own unfolding path. It is especially meaningful that the conversations are still deepening and bearing fruit months later.
2025 was, for me personally, to become ‘the year of the cipher’ characterized, as it were, by intense personal and professional expansion within the rather broad field known as ‘philosophical practice’.
Thus, as of April 2025, I completed my training in the SMILE_PH Method (‘Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health’), being the first Dane to obtain certification. A couple of months later, I embarked on yet another journey, this time grappling with the Crealectic Method (‘Crealectics’ being an acronym of ‘Creativity’ and ‘Dialectics’) and receiving my certificate in November 2025. As such, I became the third philosophical practitioner worldwide to make my way through the entire C.I.P.H.E.R. Model (‘Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Eudynamic Realities’), a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework developed by Dr. Luis de Miranda.
The training model has been the same for both courses.
Each one has taken me systematically through the successive steps of the model in question. For the SMILE_PH Model, these were the six senses of philosophical health, i.e. bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and the philosophical sense. Likewise, for the Crealectic Method, it was the five phases of resetting, crealing, profusing, compossibilizing, and realizing. During these steps, I, the trainee, was also the counselee, i.e. the one being counseled by dr. Luis de Miranda.
Apart from sessions on the six senses and the five phases just mentioned, each course started with an introductory session and ended with a concluding one. In between the successive steps were a corresponding number of meta-sessions during which we reflected on the counseling sessions by applying both theoretical and practical perspectives.
This approach through both cycles of development has been profoundly transformative for me on both a personal and a professional level.
First off, the courses themselves are very well thought through, starting, as they both do, from a first-person phenomenological angle, tapping into the pre-reflective ‘always already’ aspects of being human, then slowly and seamlessly proceeding into conceptualizing and the search for coherence. Also, the two courses eminently complement each other with the SMILE_PH Method building our capability for existential sensemaking while the Crealetic Method follows up by expanding our capability for existential innovation and cosmogonic co-creativity.
Secondly, Luis is a very competent and approachable trainer who manages to walk the fine line between challenging and empathizing, demanding and giving, critiquing and supporting, sticking to the structure and keeping track of time while allowing for personal space and individual adjustments.
Finally, I’d like to highlight his effort and ability to gather kindred yet diverse spirits from across the world, thus allowing certified members to explore synergies and share experiences within the framework of the global community that is Philosophical Health International.
In conclusion: What a ride it has been (and continues to be)!
I highly recommend taking this dual trip under the guidance of Dr Luis de Miranda.
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Thank you, Mads, for this remarkably thoughtful and personal account of the full CIPHER journey. Your description captures the intended complementarity between SMILE_PH as a discipline of existential sense-making and Crealectics as a practice of existential innovation and realization. It is especially significant that you experienced the training as transformative both personally and professionally, while also contributing, as the first certified Danish practitioner, to the growing international community of Philosophical Health International. What a journey indeed, and one that continues through practice, dialogue, and shared creation!
Luis is a rare character, exhibiting openness, curiosity and humility, combined with a profound understanding of the history of ideas and philosophy. His SMILE_PH Method is a genuine world first, having demonstrated efficacy in various settings and presenting us (the world) with a framework that may well existentially enliven millions (over time). Working with Luis, both as a participant in the method and becoming certified to use the method in my own philosophical counselling work has been an absolute privilege. I can't recommend Luis and his work highly enough.
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Thank you, Nathan, for this deeply generous review. It is especially meaningful that you have experienced SMILE_PH both as a participant and as a certified practitioner. Your recognition of its potential to bring greater existential vitality to many lives speaks directly to the wider ambition of the eudynamic approach: to make rigorous philosophical reflection accessible, practicable, and holistically transformative across diverse settings.
Great experience with Dr Luis de Miranda, we are now conducting together the SMILE-PH Journey for Fighters and Martial Artists ! Please get in touch if interested !
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Thank you for bringing SMILE_PH into the world of spiritual martial artists. This collaboration opens an important space for exploring discipline, embodiment, courage, purpose, and philosophical health within embodied practice.
Being the first certified practitioner of the SMILE_PH method in France, I can say the this has been a transforming experience. Thinking is healing !
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Thank you, Nuria, for marking this important first for philosophical health in the nation of Descartes, who was the first philosophical counsellor of modernity... here in Sweden. It is remarkable that the SMILE_PH journey has been transformative both personally and professionally. “Thinking is healing” captures the conviction at the heart of the method: eudynamic reflection can clarify, reconnect, and restore purposeful movement to a life.
