[In-person] Curiosity Café: Regret

Do you have any regrets? We all move through our lives changing, growing, and with the capacity to reflect on the past. Some argue that this means we open ourselves up to regret, perhaps unavoidably. Others swear up and down they have “no regrets,” and might even go as far as to say that regrets are a waste of time. If regret knocks on your door, do you let it in, or push it away? At our next Curiosity Café, we’ll explore regret and our relationships to it together, asking:

• What is regret?
• Does regret imply free will — in other words, must it be the case that you could have acted otherwise in order to regret what you did?
• What is the difference between regret and remorse?
• What is your relationship to regret? Does it influence how you live your life?
• What, if anything, might the value of regret be?

Join co-moderators Tony D’Amato Stortz and Sophia Whicher to discuss these questions and more at our last café of 2025. We promise you won’t regret it 😉

Space is limited! Please obtain a “Pay-What-You-Can” ticket from Curiosity Café at this link (click here) to attend this event. You need a ticket to be admitted. See the above link for more info about tickets and other options including a limited number of free tickets. Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 6-6:30pm. Our structured discussion will run from 6:30-8:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle.

Hope to see you there!

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This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.

By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Find out more about Being and Becoming here.

About the Curiosity Café Series:

For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.