The Agapic Project
The Agapic Project (TAP) is a charitable association which seeks to put agape ethics into practice by loving all creatures and actively trying to improve the world. It’s a group of people collaborating to move more effectively towards this end.
Agape is universal and unconditional love, benevolence, altruism, or active care for the well-being of all. Agape ethics focuses on putting this principle in practice in our lives (for more details, see our introductory blog post and some of our essays on agape).
In the spirit of agape, we recognize its practice is not easy, and therefore give room for compassion whilst we each iterate and learn what is good/loving. In this way, we each maintain a necessarily humble approach to our ethical practices, thus avoiding the vices of egotism and self-righteousness. We strive to practice genuine love towards all, where the striving itself realizes its ends.
Support The Agapic Project!
There are plenty of ways you can get involved 😊
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Follow our social media to stay updated:
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Join our Discord server as a supporter and attend a few sessions or meetings to see what we do and how we work! (see Upcoming Events below)
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Help us by offering up particular skills, such as illustrating for our children’s book!
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Become a member and help with a project or two! For that, we recommend you look at our document "Is TAP For Me?" and get in touch 💚
Events
Weekly:
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Thursdays, 10am QC / 3pm UK / 4pm CEST / 11pm CN:
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Marshall Rosenberg) Reading Group and Workshop
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Mondays, 7am QC / 12pm UK /1pm CEST / 8pm CN
& Thursdays, 9am QC / 2pm UK / 3pm CEST / 10pm CN:
Beyond Beliefs (Melanie Joy) Reading Group
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Thursdays 10-10:30am CEST:
"Resilience to resist" imagery technique sessions
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Date and time TBD:
Agape/Metta meditation
Monthly:
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First Saturday of each month: Delegate meeting — delegates share what they’ve done this month, plan to do next month, and any struggles. All welcome, good place to raise any issues or wanted changes.
> Next one on Saturday 6th June at 2pm CEST
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Second Saturday of each month: Animal Welfare project work session — members involved in this project share any updates or ideas, then work on it together.
> Next one on Saturday 13th June at 3pm CEST
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Third Saturday of each month, times TBD: TAP Talks (previously known as TAP Discussion) — presentation and discussion on a specific topic through an agapic perspective.
> Next one in July, date & time to be defined.
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On demand from anyone (topics and times to be defined): Circle Time sessions — on various topics aimed to help improve personal wellbeing and growth.
Quarterly:
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Date and time TBD: TAP Social (a time to better know each other through fun games)
Find next year's syllabus for the Agape Reading Group.
Find this month's newsletter.
To be added to the newsletter, send an email to this address: theagapicproject@gmail.com