Participants from different fields, including the company, non-governmental employees, social entrepreneur academicians, and trainers, came together on the Collaboration Day to examine “meaningful work,” their place in the system, and their roles. The departments of the participants were quite diverse, including sustainability, communication, informatics/software, personal development, human resources, sales, marketing, finance, and training.

They stated that they participated in the Collaboration Day to be inspired by many ideas and practices, to listen to change stories, to build new connections, and to spread the culture of collaboration.

They listened to each other’s stories while investigating where they were and their roles in the cycle of change (Two Loops). They shared the elements that intrigued and challenged them regarding the place they want to be.

“What attracts me” where I want to be…

• Freedom, self-expression, meaningful work, compromise, working while enjoying
• • Opportunity to influence people’s lives. Continuous Feedback. Spiritual satisfaction. Enjoying my job
• • Excitement and satisfaction
• Believing in the system
• Ensuring the consolidation and strengthening of the new system
• Leading and helping to spread and accelerate the transformation. Being satisfied by shining light
• Working with people who believe in the same things as me, nurture from the community, and presenting the positive attitude as an invitation
• Accompanying, understanding, doing together, sharing with everyone
• Enabling more people to earn and succeed by transforming resources
• A place where I can transfer all my talents and skills
• Moving on to the next step, progressing and developing A desire to make dreams come true
• Interacting with more practitioners. Having a community of practitioners that will prevent the new system from turning to the old system
• Learning from the community, nurturing, shedding light on others by being open to transformation where I believe. Being enlightened from the light of others

“The thing that forces me” where I want to be…

• • Intensity, responsibility. Not everything always goes the way we planned. External factors. Truth about Turkey. Resistance to change
• • Time and energy criteria. My perspective
• Am I late to assume a role in change? Concerns about the living standard. What if I don’t succeed?
• To be a narrator. Striving to convey the solution can be challenging.
• The experiences and concerns of people who are where I want to be right now
• The unwieldiness of the current system often hinders my journey to create my dream world. I am not progressing fast in terms of implementation.
• Transforming the resources of the existing system can be challenging
• Taking the role of a bridge in forming a new system is a compelling and facilitating action. Being a facilitator requires being able to follow the movement of each point in the system. Most of the time, it requires moving away from the individual perspective and acting with a collective view.
• Very few people in the internal audit field want to move away from vocational training and create a new education system. Trainees comprehend that the old classroom style, PowerPoint-based training is not helpful, but they are afraid to try something new.