Deep Thought series

Funding and organising
progressive survival and resurgence 

with Andreea Petre-Goncalves

Ideas / Conversations | Sat 24th Jan | 5-7pm

Join us for a hopeful conversation with Andreea.

How many breathtakingly godawful, surreal news headlines did we wake up to in 2025? Nobody knows anymore. Short of running into the woods screaming, this is a good time to plan for a future that is not societal breakdown, mass hallucination and apocalyptic conflict.

The world as we know it is already gone. A small number of humans hold disproportionate power over technology, capital, politics and our collective war capabilities. Our societal arrangements have long favoured the powerful, and now we’re in vulgar inequality dystopia, our livelihoods precarious and minds warped by technology-enabled mass delirium. This needs knocking over before it’s too late. 

The far right have known it a long time, and have put in the hard work and investment to reap the rewards. They have funded political parties, community building, think-tanks, rent-a-gobs. We need to be just as diligent.

It’s time to get serious about funding and organising a progressive societal resurgence, and look ahead to 5, 10, 15 years from now. A progressive army will march on its stomach, not only on sarcastic memes, funny though we are. The infrastructure of change (places like Full Circle for instance) can’t survive on air and positivity alone. New societal principles are within our reach, as is a new paradigm that will replace the set-up that has landed us here. We need to fund and organise the path to this in a committed, abundant and strategic way. Those who hold resources have moral and strategic responsibility to fuel our collective recovery.

Tall order? No, the alternative is worse.

Join us to discover the movement building already happening and find your own space.

Open to everyone

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ABOUT THE HOST

Andreea Petre-Goncalves was 8 years old when totalitarian Communism collapsed overnight in her native Romania. She saw then how quickly yesterday’s absolute truth can become tomorrow reviled atrocity. She knows that societal narratives can shift fast, and when they do, they make deep system re-set possible. For two decades she worked for international development, human rights, health and sustainability in the EU institutions and international NGOs. In 2019 she set up Flare, a Brussels-based think-and-do tank that experiments with practical ways of shifting the collective ideas we hold of what is normal and desirable. This work builds on 15 years of her researching and writing about societal narrative shifts. She is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader and a member of Global Diplomacy Lab.

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	ACCESS
Bar & snacks	Small (10-15)	Available on request