Routes & Roots: A Journey Towards Home

Bir yeri ev yapan nedir? Gittiğimiz yollar bizi nasıl biçimlendirir, yanımızda hangi kökleri taşırız? Atölye İngilizce yürütülüyor ve çeviri yapılmıyor; aşağıdaki tanıtım kolaylaştırıcıların kendi metni.

What makes a place feel like home? How do the routes we travel shape who we become, and what roots do we carry with us?

This reflective and experiential workshop explores the relationship between journey, identity, belonging and home. Through storytelling, paired reflection, guided inner exploration and shared dialogue, participants will consider the places, people and experiences that have shaped them, and whether home is somewhere we return to, something we carry or something we create.

This workshop is for anyone curious about how place, movement and memory shape identity and belonging. You may have moved between cities or cultures, be navigating a transition, or simply want to reflect on what home means to you. You do not need to be a frequent traveller or have previous workshop experience. All you need is openness to reflection, connection and conversation.

Facilitators — Larry Wright is a coach, activist and former local government strategic manager. Trained in Co-Active coaching through CTI, he has worked for over five years across individual and group settings, with a commitment to collaboration and making coaching more widely accessible. His experience includes university wellbeing and internship programmes, supporting the founder of a youth violence charity through the transition from frontline practitioner to CEO, and coaching women studying medicine in Afghanistan through the Linda Norgrove Foundation. An advocate of sustainable choices, Larry is travelling from the United Kingdom to Istanbul by train.

Nilüfer Ağcakışla is a learning and development consultant, facilitator and coach with international experience across Europe and the Middle East. Her work focuses on human-centred learning and experience design, creating spaces grounded in context, reflection, practical exploration and collaboration. With a background in sociology and ongoing graduate studies in Sustainable Tourism Management, she brings a particular curiosity to place, identity, belonging and the ways people make meaning through experience.

Larry and Nilüfer previously collaborated through the Linda Norgrove Foundation, designing a series of online workshops for women medical students in Afghanistan during a period of profound political and personal transition. Their shared approach is grounded in collaboration, cultural sensitivity and a belief in the power of reflective spaces to strengthen agency, connection and possibility.