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Dr. Gabor Maté

In conversation with Afroditi Panagiotakou

Dates

23-05-2026

Prices

10 — 70 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

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Time & Date

Day

Time

Venue

Day

Saturday

Time

19:00

Venue

Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Ticket presales will take place in two phases (A and B), with a limited number of tickets available in the first one.

Price

Full price: 70 €, 60 €, 50 €, 35 €
Onassis Friends: 56 €, 48 €, 40 €, 28 €
Unemployed: 35 €, 24,5 €
Restricted View Ticket: 13,5 €
People with disabilities, Companions: 10 €

Phase A

Onassis Friends presale: from 15 SEP 2025, 17:00
General presale: from 20 SEP 2025, 17:00

Phase B

Onassis Friends presale: from 25 APR 2026, 17:00
General presale: from 2 MAY 2026, 17:00

The renowned speaker and author of five international bestsellers in a healing conversation on psychological trauma, parenting, and the power of human will.

Photo: Gurudayal Khalsa

Dr. Gabor Maté

How does anxiety manifest in the body? How are childhood traumas healed? And why have we normalized the wrong values?

Dr. Gabor Maté comes to the Onassis Stegi to speak about the things we rarely dare to confront: anxiety that turns into illness, the childhood traumas we carry for a lifetime, and the values that make us sick without us even realizing it. The Main Stage becomes a space of care and honesty through a conversation between Dr. Gabor Maté and Afroditi Panagiotakou, the Artistic Director of the Onassis Foundation.

A doctor, bestselling author, and internationally sought-after speaker, Maté has devoted his life to understanding psychological trauma, childhood, parenting, addiction, chronic stress, and ADHD. Through his method of Compassionate Inquiry, he has inspired thousands of mental health professionals to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.

How does anxiety manifest in the body? How are childhood traumas healed?

Dr. Gabor Maté’s appearance at the Onassis Stegi is accompanied by a screening of the documentary The "Wisdom of Trauma" (2022) and the workshop “Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” offering a deeper exploration of the thought and work of one of the most important contemporary thinkers on health and the human psyche.