Category: Culture
Visit to Knights Templar Castle in Tomar and Monastery of Alcobaça (Coimbra, Portugal)
New Acropolis Coimbra organised a tour to to explore Tomar Castle and the Alcobaça Monastery. Tomar Castle is a Templar castle, located in the town of Tomar, on the right […]
Mayan Wisdom – A Way of Being (Chicago, USA)
At its core, the Mayan worldview was, and still is, at least as powerful, meaningful, and viable as our modern worldview. At its core is the experience of a spiritual […]
Online course on ancient Egypt (Prague, Czech Republic)
New Acropolis organized an online course called “The Wisdom and Symbolism of Ancient Egypt”. This course consisted of 3 separate lectures. The first was called “Living wisdom of Ancient Egypt”. […]
Who Am I? A Collaboration with A Local School (Chicago, USA)
New Acropolis Chicago collaborated with Global Citizen Experience Highschool in a workshop with the students in the topic of “Who am I?”. Identity was the focus of the workshop, the […]
Smithery workshop (Plzeň, Czech Republic)
2020 was not only a year of the pandemic, but also a year that gave people an opportunity to learn new skills. Members of New Acropolis Plzeň for example started […]
Online talk: “Pain as a Vehicle of Consciousness” (Guatemala)
The aim of the talk was to discuss practical principles for living our lives based on Buddhist teachings: acknowledging pain as an instrument of learning and exploring the steps necessary […]
American Symbology Workshop (Bolivia)
A workshop was held on the symbolism of pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica and South America as part of the comparative study of different American cultures. A detailed look at American […]
Volunteering as an Attitude to Life (Madrid, Spain)
New Acropolis Madrid organised a workshop on volunteering as a philosophy of life, led by Thiago Thumé from Brazil. The workshop explored the challenges we face today in having to […]
Online Talk: Goddesses in Everywoman (Guatemala)
Online talk about Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book. The focus of the event was to explore the different aspects of female psychology represented in the Greek goddesses who are a reference […]
Stoic Philosophy for Life (Guatemala)
This online talk aimed to explore the teachings of Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus and other Stoics gifted us with precious knowledge to live in a practical and simple […]
