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A unique communication and connection experience where, in complete darkness, participants temporarily set aside their sense of sight to engage in and enjoy an honest, distraction-free conversation. Blind lawyer Vaggelis Avgoulas moderates the discussion around social issues alongside invited guests from the fields of arts, culture, journalism, and public life.
In “Voices in the Dark”, the audience does not remain passive. Participants actively contribute through questions, reflections, and interventions, helping to shape a dynamic and collective experience. Darkness becomes a shared space: it removes images, roles, and preconceptions, creating the conditions for meaningful and conscious communication.
Corporate Applications
The event can be delivered flexibly across Greece to meet different organisational needs:
- As a public event, open to audiences and featuring guests from the arts, media, and cultural sectors, supported by the sponsoring company.
- As an exclusive internal event for a company’s workforce, featuring senior executives with key leadership responsibilities or respected professionals from the organisation’s sector. Suggested discussion themes may include corporate culture and values, collaboration, innovation, psychological resilience, inclusion, decision-making, and broader social issues such as workplace inclusion.
How Can It Be Used?
- Team Building and Leadership Development: In darkness, we rediscover one another beyond our professional roles, fostering empathy, active listening, conscious communication, trust, and understanding.
- Employee Engagement: We strengthen the sense of belonging by removing visual cues and social labels.
- Customer Experience: We invite clients, suppliers, and business partners to participate in a distinctive experience of dialogue, connection, and mutual understanding.
- Conferences and Corporate Events: We experience a different and memorable dimension of conferences, kick-off meetings, and corporate celebrations.
ESG Impact
The event may be incorporated into an organisation’s ESG initiatives, as its proceeds support:
- The nationwide disability awareness school programme delivered daily and offered free of charge to pupils and educators throughout Greece.
- The preservation of employment opportunities for disabled people through the NPO.
Voices in the Dark So Far
“Voices in the Dark” has welcomed distinguished people from the worlds of art, music, journalism, and theatre, creating a unique space for meaningful encounters and conversation.
- “When Art Takes a Stand: The Responsibility and Insecurity of Public Honesty” with Aristotelis Rigas and Pygmalion Dadakaridis.
- “Women’s Voices: Women, Visibility, and the Art of Speaking When You Are Told to Remain Silent” with Natassa Bofiliou and Natassa Giamali.
- “Creating Against the Current: The Persistence of Substance Amid the Noise” with Lina Nikolakopoulou and Miltos Paschalidis.
- “The Cost and Value of Saying No” with Giannis Kotsiras, Evelina Papoulia, and Anna-Maria Papacharalampous.
- “The Subtle Power of Storytelling: When the Voice Creates a Space of Togetherness” with Martha Frintzila and Maria Papageorgiou.
- “Between Seriousness and Humour” with Dionysis Atzarakis and Thanasis Alevras.
- “A Talk in the Dark” with Stefanos Xenakis and Apostolos Koumarinos.
To date, our experiences in darkness have welcomed more than 3,250 participants, creating memorable opportunities for connection and reflection.
Give your team the opportunity to learn through darkness and make inclusion second nature.
Contact us today to plan this unique experience for your organisation.
General information
- For more information about our corporate programs, contact us at info@meallamatia.services or +30 210-2627385.
The current health protocols are followed.
