Our Speakers

Jiří Šupa

Jiří šupa works as a psychotherapist with people who have serious mental illnesses. In his practice, he learnt that sometimes it is not enough for change to happen in a person with a mental illness. Sometimes what needs to change is society's attitude. He takes an interest in schizophrenia and supports a change in the health care system concerning people with serious mental illnesses. He enjoys looking for ways how to make things better. He is particularly interested in changing individual processes, groups, and institutions. He works in Práh Association and also has a private practice. He teaches about working with people who have serious mental illnesses at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. During his studies, he became fond of postmodern approaches to social work that include the sensitivity towards the social context concerning health care for people with mental illnesses.

Martin Hak

Martin Hak lives on live story telling, which, in his mind, is somewhat similar to archaeology - he, too, puts fragments together, imagines possibilities, and seeks for links. To him, live storytelling is the most amazing way of making oneself understood. He gives lessons on storytelling to parents, teachers, poets or pastors.
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Lenka Papadakisová

Lenka Papadakisová does business, educates, travels, and seeks wisdom. She initiated several social-educational projects that aim to bring principles of usefulness, balance, simplicity, and humanity into business. She perceives the change of business culture as a way to make all of society healthier.
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Adam Herout

Adam Herout is the deputy head of the department at the FIT at Brno University of Technology. He is engaged in the research of computer vision and image rendering. He co-founded the Click2stream company where they teach cameras to understand what they see. With seven years of psychotherapy training, he also coaches people to tackle the world.
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Pavlína Kvapilová

Pavlína Kvapilová seeks new models based on the renaissance of journalism. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Brussels for Czech Public Radio; she co-created the interactive programme Hyde Park for Czech Public TV. She was dismissed from Czech Public TV last year following a public dispute over the case of Daniela Drtinová and the way news is covered.
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Petr Nálevka

Petr Nálevka is a technology geek. He is obsessed with examining how new technologies can be used in everyday life. He created one of the first online games, Red Dragon, on the Czech Internet scene. These days he works as a freelance mobile developer. His health or user interface apps are sold all over the world.
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Gary Edwards

Gary Edwards is friends with 82 clowns. He founded Zdravotní klaun (Health Clown) in the Czech Republic. Together with Red Noses International, he has helped to develop humour in healthcare projects all over the world – he has travelled and trained clowns in New Zealand or Palestine for example. In 1998 he settled down in the Czech Republic.
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Dorota Barová

Dorota Barová is one-of-a-kind musician in the Czech scene. This singing cellist performs in the band Tara Fuki or Aneta Langerová's acustic project Pár míst (A Couple of Places). She received a Thalia Award for the music she composed for Neslyším (I Don't Hear) theatre. She also worked as a music dramaturg of the Brno jazz café Podobrazy.
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Tomáš Staník

Tomáš Staník is interested in using modern technologies to help people with visual impairment. Since 2013, he has been fully dedicated to the development of a mobile application that enables blind people to use their friend's eyes remotely through video and location.
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Václav Dejčmar

Václav Dejčmar is an economist, philanthropist, and a renaissance man. He is a shareholder in the brokerage firm RSJ, co-owner of a modelling agency, business accelerator TechSquare or the centre for contemporary art DOX Prague, and director of I am Fishead documentary film about the role of psychopaths in business and politics.
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Helena Máslová

Helena Máslová is interested in psychosomatic medicine. Mostly, she deals with psychogynecology, women's health and reproduction from the psychosomatic point of view. She founded the Psychosomatic Treatment Centre, and is a mother to three children.
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Jan and Jana Mokří

Jan and Jana Mokří pursue production in the motion theatre genre. Jana works with dance and theatre as a pedagogue, Jan is a social worker and uses dramatics in the form of forum theatre in his profession. In the summer, you can meet them wandering in the south of France where they endeavour to restore the fame of street theatre.
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Ondřej Havlík (en.dru)

Ondřej Havlík alias en.dru is a beatboxer, singer and vocal improvisator. He has been into beatbox since he was 12 years old. In 2012, he became the vice-champion of the world in musical looping. His beatbox show is an improvisation of various musical styles (electro, hip-hop, jazz, funky, ethno) with beatbox effects, musical instrument imitation or rap.
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Štěpán Hájek

Štěpán Hájek is a priest of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. He organizes pub religious services in Desert Club where preaching is accompanied by music bands and artists. He teaches interpretation of biblical texts at Theatre Faculty of JAMU.
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Bohumil Robeš

Bohumil Robeš is a participant of the anti-communist resistance movement for which he was arrested at the age of 23 and imprisoned for 13,5 years. Beside other places, he served his sentence in one of the most feared jailhouses of the time, Leopoldov. He works as a regional chairman of the Political Prisoner Confederation, and published two books of memoirs.
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Jiří Šupa

Jiří Šupa is interested in schizophrenia and works as a psychotherapist for people with serious mental illnesses. He supports a change in the health care system of people with mental illnesses based on the principle of sensitive perception of social context. He works in Práh Association, has his private practice, and teaches at Masaryk University.
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28 | 6 | 2014
Divadlo Reduta, Brno