December 30, 2022
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Open To Public
In December, CreativeMornings Istanbul will take place physically at ATÖLYE. At this month’s event, we are hosting Ahmet Türker with the theme of “Abundance”. At the event, Ahmet will talk about how the theme resonates with his personal and professional journey.
Schedule:
09:00-09:30: Welcoming and Breakfast
09:30-10:00: Talk
10:00-10.30: Q&A and Networking
*This event will be held in Turkish.
About the Speaker:
Ahmet Türker completed his undergraduate education in Visual Communication and Design at Istanbul İletişim University in 2008 and his master’s degree in Business Administration at Okan University in 2012. He completed his doctorate in Management and Organization at the same university in 2020 with the thesis “Conceptual Dimensions of Social Entrepreneurship and Creating Social Value in the Context of Social Responsibility: An Application” in the field of Management and Organization.
Ahmet started to work full time in HÜRSES newspaper in 2010. Since 2011, she has volunteered to help stray animals, poor neighborhoods and the homeless. Between 2013 and 2015, he visited the elderly living in the Darülaceze with voluntary communities, mobilized his environment, and organized supplies for poor families and educational aid to the provinces in need. Since 2014, he has started working on homelessness and has been involved in voluntary activities of associations working on homelessness, and on the one hand, she started to examine the problem of homelessness. He started to take part in the initiative of Çorbada Tuzun Olsun and the Çalıkuşu Association as a volunteer. He voluntarily participated in the establishment of the Giyim Bank and in the Istanbul coordination of the activities carried out for the flood disaster in Hopa. In the same period, he started to teach at Şişli Meslek School as a lecturer.
In 2017, he was among the founders of the Çorbada Tuzun Olsun Association in order to produce sustainable solutions for the homeless and was elected as the chairman in the first ordinary general assembly. He was involved in the establishment of the Disaster Platform on behalf of the Çorbada Tuzun Olsun Association and still takes part in this platform to represent the association. Ahmet currently works as a founding partner at Tasaran Reklam ve Medya and continues to serve the society as the president of the Çorbada Tuzun Olsun Association.
December ’s Theme is Abundance.
Abundance is a state of plenty. In an intensely competitive society, we often feel like we have the opposite. Capitalism breeds a mentality of scarcity — it’s hard to feel like we have enough when we’re constantly trying to accumulate more.
Gratitude magnifies our experience of abundance. When we marvel at the taste of ripe summer fruit, juice bursting from its skin. When we set a table, a seat for every person we cherish, and bathe in the radiance.
Generosity multiplies abundance. When we prioritize mutual flourishing over private stockpiling, plant ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer posits, “the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away.” Once you stop hoarding what you fear to lose, you find that the more you share, the richer — in community, in wellbeing — you become.
What would it take for us to feel like we have enough? What does it take for us to unclench our fists and share our overflowing bounty?
Our Santa Fe chapter chose this month’s exploration of Abundance, Neebinnaukzhik Southall illustrated the theme, and Mailchimp is presenting the theme.