
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.