Around the workshop "contact with the best of ourself" in Istanbul...

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Friday, we found ourselves with Katibe and Juli to make some copies of the invitation to the workshop on "contact with the best of ourselves."

All small actions that we will do for the diffusion of this workshop was inspired by the research to make unitifs acts ...

Initially we have printed only a few copies in English, because we had no turkish friends available to attend the workshop and especially let a phone contact in the leaflet to inform people who might call.

With a few copies in English we go,  joyful and decided to visit some cafes, cinemas and cultural spaces to leave invitations.

With Katibe “in charge of communication”, we met various officials of these places to present our flyer / invitation and ask if it was possible to leave some leaflets at the entrance to their establishment.

All were agreed.

Quickly we felt the need to have invitations in Turkish, we returned to the Salita to get the invitation in Turkish with Katibe phone number as a contact.

Then we returned for leaving invitations in Turkish in different places (nevzemin café, cinema and cultural space).

Then we went into a restaurant that Juli knows, and whose boss is a friend of Canan. Here we left some invitations in different tables and we were surprised to meet Jenk with who we had a joyful saluting

Finally we went to the IMGE  book shop (where the book of Silo's Message is on sale) to deposit a number of leaflets.

A day walking through Kadikoy, leaving in us the register that "things are well when they move together and not in isolation."

Each of us putting forward its best qualities forward in our project to share the experience of Silo's Message.

Saturday we went with Juli to take a walk along the sea and in our random inspirations we gave some invitations to the people we met.

At one point we gave the invitation to two young people sitting in the grass, and asked them if they spoke English. The answer was yes and they invited us to join them for having more information on this workshop.

Then we quickly had deep exchanges around the meaning of life, violence and absurdity of this system and the birth of a new sensibility, this clamor which seeks the path to express itself with force in the world ... Unfortunately our two new friends, Onur and his brother could not be in Kadikoy Sunday to attend the workshop.

Upon arrival, our small team in a short time we made ​​several attempts to disseminate the invitation to the workshop (Invitation online with couchsurfing, broadcast in various public places and direct connection with people in the gardens ...).

On Sunday we shared a simple and profound workshop with Juli and Katibe. We will want to repeat the experience with more friends and of course new people.

At the end of the workshop we were been in touch with our friends in Ankara, who also conducted the workshop.

We concluded the workshop with a nice walk around the Kadokoy port accompanied by our best qualities and a gentle force that pushes us toward  future actions with faith ...

Big Hugs

Christophe