SPEAKER EVENT: Who Are You, Really?

🧠 Socrates Cafe | Who Are You, Really?
Exploring Identity, Authenticity, and the True Self
📅 Friday, July 19th, 2025
🕛 12:00 PM (noon)
📍 Hideaway Café, Chiang Mai
💸 Minimum spend: 250 THB (food/drinks)

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### 👤 Guest Speaker: Michelle Canann

Michelle Canann is a passionate facilitator, coach, and visionary dedicated to empowering transformation through emotional intelligence and empathic leadership. With 25+ years of experience, Michelle helps individuals break free from limiting beliefs and disrupt recurring life patterns that no longer serve them.
Her work draws from trauma healing, nature-inspired wisdom, and leadership training, helping people step into their most empowered selves. Michelle specializes in helping adults aged 35–55+ who seek personal growth, healing, and lasting change in relationships, careers, and inner life.
Whether through thought-provoking workshops or one-on-one coaching, Michelle guides others toward purpose, alignment, and emotional resilience. Her question for the day:

> "What does it mean to be yourself — and why do so many of us feel like we've become someone else?"

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### 🧭 Topic & Format:

How can we stay true to ourselves in a world that rewards conformity?
This Socratic dialogue will explore philosophical and psychological questions around identity, self-betrayal, and authenticity.
Guiding Questions:

• Is there such a thing as a “true self,” or are we always adapting?
• When does adapting to society become self-betrayal?
• Can authenticity survive in a world that rewards conformity?
• How do fear, trauma, or social pressure shape our identity?

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### 📋 Schedule:

🕛 12:00 PM – Arrival & Ordering
🍽️ Last order at 12:20 PM (min. 250 THB spend)
🎤 12:25 PM – Michelle’s 15-min talk
❓ Q&A session follows
☕ After Q&A:

• Michelle will move to a separate table where guests can join her for deeper personal discussion.
• Others will split into 2 groups to explore questions with written prompts provided by the moderator.

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### 📚 Recommended Reading (optional):

• "The True Self and False Self" – Carl Jung’s analytical psychology
• The Ethics of Authenticity – Charles Taylor

"What does it mean to be yourself — and why do so many of us feel like we've become someone else?" Guiding questions: Is there such a thing as a “true self,” or are we always changing and adapting to our surroundings? At what point does adapting to society become self-betrayal? Can authenticity survive in a world that often rewards conformity? How do fear, trauma, or social pressure shape — or distort — our sense of identity?