ReConnect 2025
Compassionate Inquiry Experience Romania
October 18-19, 2025 | Aula Magna, Polytechnics University Bucharest
What is ReConnect?
When we speak about addiction, we are really speaking about a disconnection from ourselves, a way we cope with overwhelming events and experiences in our lives. Whether it’s substances, alcohol, work, social media, or other behaviors, the underlying need remains the same: to be accepted as we are and to belong.
Dr. Gabor Maté invites us to shift the question. Don't ask yourself Why the addiction? Ask Why the pain?
At our ReConnect event, part of Compassionate Inquiry Experience, we invite a new perspective: instead of reinforcing isolation or stigma, we gently explore the pain beneath our coping strategies.
We bring together national and international leaders, practitioners, and changemakers to reflect on what isn't working, and to ask what we might do differently, as individuals and as a society. Through honest conversations, practical workshops, and live demonstrations, we explore both what we can offer ourselves and how we can support family members or others in pain. We create a space for new ideas, perspectives, and genuine connection to emerge.
Key partners
What you’ll experience
-
Presentations from national and international experts
-
Experiential workshops based on the Compassionate Inquiry® approach, created by Dr. Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur ND
-
Group sessions led by Certified CI practitioners
-
A safe, supportive space to explore emotions, patterns, and the healing potential within
-
Opportunities to reconnect with your authentic self and a compassionate community
-
Inspiration from our special guests with a vast expertise in the mental health field and the Compassionate Inquiry Romania team
Live interpretation in Romanian will be available throughout the event.
ReConnect 2025 Speakers
- Sat Dharam Kaur - Beyond Addiction, Co-Creator of Compassionate Inquiry®
- Wendy Harris - Antioch University, California, SUA
- Marc Lewis - Canadian author and neuroscientist
- Robert Pătrăncuș - European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
- João Castel-Branco Goulão, Creator of Portugal's National Drug Policy
- Giovanna Campello - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Victor Nistor - Deputy Director, Romanian Directorate for Organized Crime
- Anca Ghinea - Anti-Drug Specialist, Romanian Directorate for Organized Crime
- Paul Olteanu – Mind Architect
- Romanian Government Officials (to be confirmed)
- General Inspector of the Romanian Police
The event's agenda
ReConnect 2025 tickets
Ticket for October 18
900 lei
The price includes
- Access to all public events on Day 1
- Two coffee breaks
- Access to the full event recording for 30 days post-event
Ticket for October 19
900 lei
The price includes
- Access to all public events on Day 2
- Two coffee breaks
- Access to the full event recording for 30 days post-event
Event Pass (October 18 & 19)
1680 lei
The price includes
- Access to all public conference events
- Two coffee breaks
- Access to the full event recording for 30 days post-event
VIP Ticket
2400 lei
The price includes
- Access 18th – 19th of October
- Reserved front-row seating at the conference
- Gala dinner at Artmark Bucharest alongside event facilitators
- Goodie bag
- Personalised event tote bag
- Limited to 50 seats
Why Join ReConnect?
- You will learn to recognize and gently address the patterns that once served as survival mechanisms
- You'll explore practical tools to bring more clarity, compassion, and presence into your life
- You'll connect with a supportive community guided by values like authenticity, safety and acceptance
About the Compassionate Inquiry® approach
Created by Dr. Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur ND, Compassionate Inquiry® is an innovative therapeutic approach that invites us to explore the deeper origins of our behaviors, conflicts, and pain. The method supports the patients understand that many present-day difficulties are adaptive responses formed in childhood, and offers a safe container where healing and transformation can unfold.
Meet the Creators
Dr. Gabor Maté
Bestselling author, internationally renowned speaker and retired physician, Dr. Maté is the creator of Compassionate Inquiry®.
Dr. Maté developed his therapeutic approach over the course of a 20-year personal journey. It emerged as a synthesis of his work with patients in family practice, palliative care, and addiction rehabilitation. He later refined and expanded the system through integration workshops focused on healing trauma with the support of psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Sat Dharam Kaur ND
Co-Creator and CEO of Compassionate Inquiry®, Sat Dharam ND is a naturopathic doctor and author with a focus on addiction, mind-body medicine, and women’s health. She is the lead facilitator, mentor, and practitioner within the global Compassionate Inquiry community.
