Possible Together: Living with Differences, Listening and Understanding 12 July 2025

Training Name: Possible Together: Living with Differences, Listening and Understanding

Trainer: Irmak Basoglu

Date: July 12, 2025

Purpose of Education:

The aim is for participants to experience community art by developing a collective and creative form of expression using a common material; and to be involved in improvisation, observation, imitation and creation processes in a safe, free and participatory environment.

Content of Training:

  • Meeting on the Surface, Contact with Differences Deep Down

Opening & Warm-Up: “Name Stories”

Game: “Same Room – Different World”

Group Work: “Unseen Layers”

  • Confronting and Expanding Through Experience

Empathy Game: “Switch Places”

Reflective Exercise: “Complete This Sentence”

Breath Break & Silence Area

  • Naming, Re-Looking, and Living Together

Group Work: “Conditions of Living Side by Side”

Play: “I Changed As I Hear”

  • Closing Circle

Gains:

  • He thinks about his own identity and belongings.
  • Recognizes how differences exist within the group.
  • Questions how prejudices are formed.
  • Tries to think from another person's perspective.
  • Feels the impact of hurtful and exclusionary words.
  • Recognize what nonviolent communication is.
  • Produces solution ideas about living together.
  • Expresses himself/herself more easily within a group.
  • Gains awareness about rights-based thinking.
  • They experience that they can share their feelings without being judged.