Strengthen what is alive. Within Yourself. With Nature.
About us
EPIQ Health Strengthening Foundation is a non-profit organisation focused on building the resilience of people, communities and the environment.
We combine research and social approaches to help people withstand the challenges of modern civilisation — stress, isolation, climate change and health crises. Our goal is to build infrastructure (such as Origin House) that delivers practical, everyday support.
- We help people and communities recover their natural rhythm of health, emotional balance and sense of agency.
- We build places that serve mental, social and ecological renewal.
- The Foundation's flagship initiative is Origin House — an acoustically silenced, glare-free space with a single chair in the centre and no technology, designed for simple solitude, silence and rest from sensory overload.
Przemysław Samociak with the design team
President of the EPIQ Health Strengthening Foundation
Our goals
Strengthen personal health and resilience – developing the capacity for self-regulation and recovery in everyday life.
Support resilient, empathetic communities – connecting residents in actions that strengthen health.
Protect the human–nature relationship – building environmental resilience and biodiversity awareness as part of health.
How we work
We design and run spaces and tools for resilience – including Origin House centres.
We deliver research and social programmes – with universities, local governments and health organisations.
We strengthen the health culture of the future – educating, publishing reports and creating models that integrate health, environment and local community.
A vision of strengthened health
A return to the natural capacity for self-regulation, recovery and compassion — in both body and mind — is possible. In a world full of stimuli and tension, we restore the harmony between the biological, emotional, relational and environmental. Our vision is a person rooted in nature: aware, resilient, capable of compassion and of acting in coherence with themselves and the world.
Body
A source of energy, resilience and the sense of "being within myself".
Mind
A space of calm, decisiveness and conscious presence.
Relationships
A return to authentic contact, trust and agency.
Environment
Immersion in the rhythms of nature, silence and biological diversity.
Origin House
Origin House is a silenced, glare-free space with a single chair in the centre and no technology — designed for simple solitude, silence and rest from sensory overload.
Its acoustic and sensory architecture creates conditions for deep recovery, quieting and self-regulation, while also serving as a research and training base for scientific centres and health institutions.
How does it work?
Each OH cabin acts as a place to awaken the personal instinct for health — a space that activates the body's natural self-regeneration mechanisms and stimulates the body, mind and nervous system.