What we’re about
In ancient Greece, the Agora was a place where people gathered to exchange ideas, host performances, and engage with their community. Inspired by this tradition, our group is a space for thoughtful conversation, shared experiences, and intellectual adventure.
Whether we're discussing philosophy, cooking a meal together, exploring museums, or traveling to new places, Agora is about connection—with each other and with the world around us. This is a community powered by the people who show up, and everyone's voice helps shape what we create together. If you enjoy deep conversations, meaningful experiences, and the company of inquisitive minds, join us as we create our own modern-day Agora.
Agora isn't just another discussion to join or event to attend—it's an invitation to explore what might be possible for ourselves and the world around us.
REQUIREMENTS
No credentials are needed—just a willingness to share your experiences and ideas and to learn from others. This means listening respectfully even when you disagree, and being mindful not to dominate the conversation. Our goal is to create a supportive, engaging environment where everyone feels heard.
NOTE ON ATTENDANCE
If you need to cancel, please do so as soon as possible to be respectful of the organizer and others who wish to participate. Repeated cancellations or no-shows may result in being moved to the waitlist for future events, with attendance depending on whether spots open up. If you're on the waitlist, keep an eye out—spaces may become available at the last minute!
FEEDBACK
All feedback is welcome, and the organizer checks messages regularly. Agora belongs to its participants as much as it does to the organizer, and the goal is for it to grow into something shaped and co-created by its regular members. If you enjoy your experience and feel inspired, we’d love for you to take part in shaping future events—whether that’s hosting a discussion, organizing a hike, cooking a meal together, planning a trip, or bringing new ideas to the table. If you have something to offer or would like to get involved, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
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Can small groups of people create change?
Pavilon Grébovka, Havlíčkovy sady 2188, Vinohrady, Praha-Praha 2, CZ## What IdeaVerse is about
We meet usually once a month to discuss some of the current challenges as well and perhaps come up with new ideas on how to overcome them. The format of the meeting includes an initial sharing of viewpoints by each participant without judgment, and in the second half we will discuss our ideas and try to find things to learn from each other.
In this next meeting we'll be discussing...
whether small groups of people can bring about change in a world where power structures are increasingly ignoring the needs of the many.
Let's face it, people are losing their trust in both politicians and business leaders to bring about a better future. This distrust leads people to vote less, vote for populists with bold, but empty promises and jump from job to job to milk as much cash from their greedy overlords as they can before retirement.
Few brave souls dare to fight but usually do so by blocking roads and spreading doomsday messages that lead most people to disconnect and distract themselves with social media, travelling and other fun but ultimately meaningless activities.
We want a world where we feel we belong to a community, where we have job security, where we do work we find meaningful, have clean air and leaders we trust to do what's best for the majority of people. But there's so much work that needs to be done to fight wage stagnation, inflation, rising housing costs, sometimes working 2 jobs, that you think you just can't afford to spend any time doing something about it.
Meanwhile, the richest people buy up houses and keep them empty to drive up their prices, or rent them to us - we pay them to keep us homeless basically. Rich people create and destroy jobs in short cycles to maximize profit, making going to college for a job that doesn't exist a futile effort. Rich people who employ you avoid taxes, meaning your pay raise (if you are lucky to get one) just goes back to their pockets.
These are all problems, but in this next meeting we'll be asking and trying to answer a few questions:
1. Is it a good strategy to trust that as middle and lower class people we can still make a decent living with so much accumulated wealth privilege?
2. Can small groups of people make a change fast enough to save the common people from bankruptcy in this current system?
3. What would be the most effective ways to do that?
Some suggested reading/watching:
- The BBC hosted Reith Lectures by Rutger Bregman (4x25 minutes) - a review of some causes for current inequality and political pessimism but also of people who managed to make positive changes. While all are interesting, I hope you at least go through the one with "True Radical Programme" in the title (3rd in the playlist).
- A crash course in making political change (15 minutes) - TED talk on how easy it can be to organize an activist political campaign using social media.
The meeting is free to attend, but please buy a drink or two at our patron's place, to make them happy. They also have food in case you find the meeting too early (see menu).
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