What do our graduates say?

I met Etkin İnsan through social media. Their training was the one starting soonest, and once I began, I realized how lucky I was to have chosen Etkin İnsan. I now teach children’s yoga actively and continue working with three separate groups at several institutions. The training I received has become my profession. I made wonderful friendships at Etkin İnsan, and I have a job that is deeply fulfilling spiritually. I am happy with the training I received and with my trainers. I am grateful to Alper Bayraktar, Gönül Şahin Yıldırım and Seray Karakoç. My warmest love and respect to the Etkin İnsan family.

At first I never thought about doing yoga. Becoming a yoga trainer was nowhere on my mind. When I talked about yoga with my friends, everyone said, “this is a field and a philosophy you can do.” Then I saw Etkin İnsan in Instagram ads and enrolled within the same week.

Once you start yoga, your outlook on life begins to change completely. Especially after you start to digest the philosophy, a dissolving happens on its own. If you are ready, yoga takes you in and begins to transform you. Later I felt the need to pass on what I had learned, and the classes began on their own.

In Bursa I teach private adult yoga classes and boutique group classes. I also give private prenatal yoga sessions. On weekends I teach children’s yoga in children’s workshops. I also see yoga therapy clients in Istanbul every 15 days.

Everyone who truly wants to learn yoga, and especially the philosophy of yoga, and to develop themselves should find their way to Etkin İnsan…

I first heard about Etkin İnsan on my friend’s recommendation. As soon as I looked at Etkin İnsan’s Instagram page, I made my decision.

My aim was, first of all, to develop myself, to change for the better and to transform. After I took my trainings, saw the change and realized I had begun to transform, I said “I am ready” and started teaching. While asking myself on this journey, “How can I contribute to myself?” and “What do I need to do?”, I saw beautiful doors opening before me one by one.

After the trainings I took, I saw that my perspective on many subjects had changed, my prejudices had disappeared, my communication had grown stronger and I had become aware of every moment I live. Then, through regular practice, I discovered that my body became more flexible and my mind calmer.

In Konya I teach adult and prenatal yoga in private and group classes. At the moment I teach 9 separate groups. Everyone’s path should cross with Etkin İnsan!

After practicing yoga at home on my own for a while, I decided to take trainer training to take my practice further. I met Etkin İnsan while researching the institutions that offer yoga trainer training online, and, completely by instinct, I decided this was the place I was looking for.

Although I first decided to become a trainer in order to develop myself in this field, once I started giving private lessons and observed the miraculous effect of yoga on the lives of my students, I began to enjoy teaching in a different way. So I set out to reach more people and share my knowledge.

There is truly a very clear line in my life that I can describe as “before the yoga trainer training” and “after the training.” With the yoga training, beyond the physical, I witnessed first-hand the effect of yoga on a person’s spiritual and mental being, and I experienced how, with the right effort and discipline, we can bring out the potential hidden within us.

I teach personalized yoga classes. Because there was no suitable hall for yoga classes in the city where I live, I started by teaching at home and I still continue that way. In private lessons I arrange the classes according to my student’s physical and spiritual needs. Working with people of different age groups and with different physical conditions gives me the chance to increase my own experience as well. So far I have worked with dozens of students. A few months ago I settled in İzmir, and from here I set out to share new experiences with new students.

I am grateful to life that I had the chance to take this step with Alper Hoca and his team, that I listened to my inner voice and that I made my choice for Etkin İnsan without any hesitation. It has been an experience for which I say “I’m so glad” every time, for which I give thanks, and my gratitude grows the more I share it.

I came across Etkin İnsan on Instagram. I had been working in the private sector for 15 years. Two years ago I thought I needed to do something else that would be good for me, my heart and my soul. One morning I told myself: “First learn and practice yoga in the best way for yourself, and then share it and teach it to everyone who wants it.” I left my job as my training was nearing its end. Growth and changes began in my life. I learned to be silent, to see and to listen to myself. Right now I continue to teach yoga classes at two wonderful studios. My private one-to-one lessons also continue. I thank Ebru Hanım, my role model Nehir Hocam and my Alper Hocam, who is a light for all of us.

Thanks to my Doula & Childbirth Preparation Educator and Breastfeeding Consultant certificates, I had started working actively as a consultant. The cases I encountered showed me how important it is to prepare for birth and the postpartum period with prenatal yoga. My research led me to Etkin İnsan.

Alongside my work in childbirth preparation education and breastfeeding consulting, I also planned to teach prenatal yoga to expectant mothers. After completing my training and practicum classes, I began teaching prenatal yoga classes.

I am the only trainer in Çeşme who offers prenatal yoga classes all twelve months of the year. At my Doula Alaçatı studio, I give private prenatal yoga and partner yoga sessions.

Thanks to my trainer Alper Bayraktar, I chose to walk the path of yoga, and I am about to complete my next goal, the 200-hour adult yoga trainer training. I intend to teach classes full of light to adults, just as I do with my dear expectant mothers.

I work as a preschool teacher at a private kindergarten. When I tried yoga poses at home, I saw that my nieces and nephews did them better and more flexibly than I did. I was both very surprised and very happy. So I decided to help all children come to love yoga. I wanted them to build their personalities on solid foundations and to get to know their bodies. Finally I met Etkin İnsan, enjoyed completing my training, and became a children’s yoga trainer.

I have meditated since childhood. I got to know the philosophy of yoga early on, and once I added the practice to my life I realized I was ready and decided to start. While searching online, I came across Etkin İnsan.

My aim was first to practice yoga well myself, and then to spread that light to the people around me. I went deeper in my own practice. Then I taught classes to my friends and family. After that I started giving private lessons. Now I have a yoga studio of my own, where I teach more than 60 classes a month.

I have taught so many group and private classes that I can’t keep count. At first we practiced at my home or at the homes of students who wanted to do yoga. In time, though, my journey outgrew those limited spaces. I have also taught some classes as a volunteer.

There is always more to learn about yoga and about life, and I keep training myself in every sense.

I met Etkin İnsan through social media. After a short search, I got in touch the same day and learned that a 200-hour trainer training was starting in Izmir a week later. After thinking about it for a few days, I registered. My intention was not just to get a certificate but to practice yoga as a profession.

I felt the change that yoga brought, both physically and spiritually. I think I grew during this process. Of course, my surroundings and my life inevitably changed along with it.

After completing my training, I actively started teaching yoga classes for children, teens and adults. I have also given private sessions recommended by a psychologist. We opened “One Yoga Home,” Biga’s first and only yoga studio, and we now hold our classes with our members here. Many thanks to Etkin İnsan.

I met Etkin İnsan on the internet. After my research, I chose Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute for my trainer training because it had the most comprehensive curriculum. My first intention was to have yoga in my life permanently. Now I am working to help others get to know yoga too.

Because I am trying to adapt the “Yama” and “Niyama” steps of yoga to my life, it has become easier for me to stay in the moment, my awareness has increased and my reflex to intervene has decreased. This way I can avoid sudden reactions. I now try to observe more.

I have given individual and group yoga classes to adults. Whenever I get the chance, I try to keep up my yoga classes. I gave a short yoga lesson to a child with cancer. Witnessing the effect yoga had on this child first-hand once again showed me how meaningful and valuable the training I took is.

I met Etkin İnsan through my cousin, who was training there. I am a kindergarten teacher in a small district where there aren’t many activities for children. I decided to become a Children’s Yoga Trainer to develop myself and to help children step away from smartphones and get to know their own bodies. I didn’t stop there; I also set up my own yoga center and started teaching yoga classes.

Many thanks to the Etkin İnsan family, to my trainer Alper and to my trainer Gönül.

“I was looking for ways to spend quality time with my three daughters and to help them both have fun and learn. It was during this time that I came across children’s yoga trainer training and Etkin İnsan, one of the best in the field, on social media. When I started bringing yoga into my life, I became more at peace with myself and my surroundings. Even though my training is over, I am still a student when it comes to bringing what I learned into my life. On this path I entered for my children, I came across incredible beauty. I said, “I should share what I’ve learned not only with my own children but with other children too,” and I still teach five classes at a kindergarten. I am so glad our paths crossed, Alper. With love and respect…”

She lives in Urla. She joined the Etkin İnsan family in March 2018. Betül completed the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training International Certificate Program and took the first step in her new profession right after finishing her training, gaining her first teaching experience at İnciraltı Montessori Kindergarten with a project called “Welcoming Spring.” She currently teaches all age groups by organizing various workshops at Bizim Bahçe Yoga&Pilates Center in Urla.

Asked what Etkin İnsan has given her, Betül shares her thoughts: “I am living the most peaceful, calmest and happiest period of my life. The training I received helped me think positively and live life with more discipline and just as much awareness. For me, Etkin İnsan is the day I began to breathe. Thanks to the training, I learned to rest my body, to keep my feelings open, and how to pass on the unique knowledge I had learned.”

Betül’s philosophy of life is this: “There are two moments when a person comes into the world. The first is when they are born; the second is when they understand why they were born. So don’t be lazy, don’t postpone, don’t give up!”

We congratulate Betül Gültekin, the newest member of the Etkin İnsan family, on the beautiful projects and posts she has created in such a short time, and we are proud of our student. Here’s to many more...

She lives in central Aydın. She completed the 95-Hour Yoga Alliance Approved Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Certificate Program at Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute. She also began teaching children’s yoga at the private school where she works as a physical education trainer. Nazlı, one of the first children’s yoga trainers in Turkey, also achieved a first in Aydın by getting yoga taught as a compulsory subject at the institution where she works. Teaching 28 hours a week, Nazlı sets aside 1 hour each week to do yoga with her students.

Speaking of our yoga trainer Alper Bayraktar, Nazlı says: “He is one of the most wonderful people I could have met in my life, so I feel very lucky. He lit my way, and I now share the most valuable knowledge he gave me with my students.” She adds that she offers her endless love and thanks to Alper Bayraktar and Etkin İnsan for giving her this opportunity.

We congratulate Nazlı Eyigün, a member of the Etkin İnsan family, and wish that her light and her sharing continue along the path she has chosen.

She lives in Istanbul. She worked professionally in human resources departments at various organizations for nearly 20 years. She came across Etkin İnsan’s Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Certificate Program and realized she was interested in children’s yoga.

Alev describes the process after meeting Etkin İnsan like this:

“I already do a lot of sports. But after I had my daughter, doing some kind of work with children was something I was thinking about. I saw the announcements about children’s yoga, joined Module 1 with my trainer Alper Bayraktar at Etkin İnsan, and got my certificate. I made myself a logo, had business cards printed, and visited the kindergartens in my neighborhood to leave my card. I got good responses. First I gave demo classes. Then I started working with the kindergartens that offered me ongoing work. I currently teach at 2 schools 3 days a week. There are other schools I am in talks with, and I believe that number will grow. I got my certificate in February 2017 and have been working since March.”

She lives in Karşıyaka, Izmir. Arzu had followed Etkin İnsan for many years before deciding to train but had never been able to attend because of her busy work life. After deciding to give her life a new direction, she completed the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training in June. Right after, she began teaching children’s yoga at Mavişehir Pilates House and at the Bfit Yenigirne branch. She currently has groups and two private lessons at these sports centers. She also continues to work with her two sons and her niece or nephew. In September she will start working with 4 kindergartens.

Arzu says: “My aim is to help our children, who have become captive to technology, step away from that world a little and make a positive contribution to their physical and spiritual development. Many thanks to the Etkin İnsan family and to my trainer Mr. Alper Bayraktar for creating this opportunity for me and for giving me a positive outlook on life.”

We wish our graduate many successful and enjoyable experiences in her life ahead.

She lives in Karşıyaka, Izmir. She took the RYT 200 and Children’s Yoga Module 1 trainings at Etkin İnsan. In her new profession, she teaches adult and children’s yoga at a private yoga studio in Bostanlı. She also teaches children’s yoga at kindergartens.

In the summer months, she organized yoga classes for surfers in Çeşme within an initiative called “Yoga for Surfers.” She also taught morning yoga classes at boutique hotels in Çeşme. Elvanlı, who teaches children’s yoga on behalf of the Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey, also gave motivational yoga classes to the foundation’s staff. She continues this work today.

Asked about her philosophy of life, Elvanlı thinks that ‘everything becomes more beautiful with love, and that by bringing out the love and the spirit of sharing within us, and by using our health in the most productive way for ourselves and the other living beings in the universe, we should look for ways to continue our existence as one.’

When we asked what Etkin İnsan has given her, she says: “While I was journeying toward myself, it gave me a new profession. It showed me how to use my energy in a balanced way, how to understand the wholeness of spirit, mind and body, and how they can come together. On this path, it let me meet many lovely people who joined Etkin İnsan like me and make solid friendships, and let me feel closeness and compassion through the warm attitude of the trainers.”

Elif, who practiced yoga on her own, joined the Etkin İnsan family in 2017 with the idea of becoming a trainer. Her path began with the Module 1 children’s yoga trainer certificate and continued with the Module 2 certificate, and she became one of the first trainers in Turkey to earn it. After the children’s yoga trainings, she took the 200-hour yoga trainer training in Olympos. While she started teaching at a private school, she also completed the prenatal yoga Module 1 and Module 2 trainings.

Elif says she came home from her trainings with a great deal of learning, awareness, lovely memories and valued people in her heart. “On this path called yoga, which I set out on toward myself, I thank first my trainer Alper, and then all my fellow trainers, for everything they have given me; each of them was a beautiful story of its own,” she says.

Elif says her philosophy of life used to be “from good to better,” and that she has now added “forget the incident, keep the lesson.”

Today she has wonderful experiences with children at two daycare centers affiliated with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies and at a private school, while also working with nearly 200 women and a prenatal class at a cultural center.

She lives in Istanbul. She combined her 30 years of kindergarten experience with the yoga she has practiced for 20 years and became a children’s yoga trainer. She first took the 200-hour foundation yoga trainer training with Alper Bayraktar, and then the children’s yoga trainer training. She has been working with children at kindergartens in Istanbul for 5 years.

Asked about her philosophy of life, Emine says: “I believe that when we open our hearts to love, sharing and kindness, we can reach what we wish for through the power of positive thinking. A human being is a three-dimensional being made up of body, mind and spirit. Balance in life is the balance of these dimensions.” She also says the training she received at Etkin İnsan has strengthened her determined and balanced stance in life.

She lives in Bursa. She graduated from the English Translation and Interpreting Department at Okan University. She took the Pilates Matwork Trainer Training, Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Module 1 and the Yoga Trainer Training at Etkin İnsan.

Thanks to the trainings she took, she teaches children’s yoga classes at various kindergartens and yoga classes for her own private groups. She also teaches children’s yoga, matwork Pilates and yoga classes at Yotes Yoga and Pilates Studio. She also set a first in Bursa as the first trainer to offer yoga and Pilates classes in English at a studio. She has students from many countries, from Argentina to Germany.

Asked about her philosophy of life, Şehirli says: “My philosophy of life is to stay in the moment and try not to let life slip away. To get closer to the best version of myself, I live every moment fully. To never stray from a lifestyle that is good for my body and soul as much as for my mind, and to discover as much as I possibly can.”

About what Etkin İnsan has given her, she says: “I can say it brought me closer to myself on my journey toward myself. By introducing me to wonderful trainers and wonderful fellow trainees, it opened my horizons enormously. It also contributed a great deal to my personal development and strengthened my sense of self-discipline. With eight years of athletic background, I can say that thanks to Etkin İnsan my hobbies became my profession.”

She graduated from the English Business Administration Department at Yeditepe University. During the period when she was interested in philosophy, she had not yet encountered yoga. After returning to her hometown of Bursa, she opened a consultancy company called “Okuantum Personal and Corporate Development.” While continuing her personal development work, her path crossed with Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute.

She joined the 200-hour Yoga Trainer Training led by Alper Bayraktar in Bursa in May 2016. After completing the training, she began teaching in August and still teaches yoga classes actively.

Continuing to grow both herself and her company, Güneş Aras joined the Module 1 Children’s Yoga Trainer Training program with our trainer Alper Bayraktar in Izmir in August 2016. Following this training, she began working with kindergartens. After successfully completing Module 1, in order to be able to work with all age groups she took the Module 2 Children’s Yoga Trainer Training program in Izmir in March 2017, and thereby qualified as one of Turkey’s first International Children’s Yoga Trainers.

With her new profession, Güneş has been teaching yoga classes for 1 year, 3 days a week at her own office, 2 days at a gym and 2 days at a kindergarten.

She plans to take the 300-hour Advanced Yoga Trainer Training with Alper Bayraktar in Olympos in August.

Güneş’s philosophy of life is “Laugh as much as you breathe, love as much as you live, learn and teach.”

Güneş says: "I can describe my philosophy of life as always laughing, loving myself first and then everything in the universe for as long as I live, overflowing with my never-ending desire to learn, and then teaching and spreading it with the same desire and passion.

Etkin İnsan is a human-centered training and development institution. With its respectful and dedicated work, its constantly renewed trainings, the new trainers it brings on board and its human-focused services, it has given me and many others a great deal, and continues to do so.

I recommend the names Etkin İnsan and Alper Bayraktar, with great enthusiasm and confidence, to every person I meet. Every time I call or email, their responses are warm and sincere, so my trust in the institution grows each time. I have never had any difficulty; on the contrary, they did everything they could to make things easier for me every time. I thank them for welcoming their graduates back here."

She lives in İskenderun.

She took the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Module 1 and Module 2 at Etkin İnsan. For the past 2 months she has been actively practicing her new profession with great pleasure at Ecelife Kindergarten and Sevgi Evleri.

She says Etkin İnsan suited her very well and is a place that made her feel she had made the right choice in terms of teaching on this path, where she expects to keep growing.

She lives in Beylikdüzü, Istanbul. She joined the Etkin İnsan family in March 2017. She took the children’s yoga training for ages 2–7 with Alper Bayraktar, and in the first week after receiving her certificate she started teaching at 2 kindergartens. She is now practicing her new profession at 4 kindergartens with more than 100 students.

Having fully committed to this work, she took her first step toward professionalism by setting up a website and Instagram page called “yogiliyoga.” From there she began offering private lessons and group classes. She has made it a way of life to channel her endless energy into projects for children.

Küçükakça says: “I feel very lucky to have combined this right decision I made for myself with the right people and the right institution. My new mission now is this: ‘Happy children pass through @yogiliyoga.’”

She lives in Izmir. At Etkin İnsan she took the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Module 1 in 2016, and the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Module 2 and the 200-hour Yoga Trainer Training certificate programs in 2017. She set up her own business in Alsancak, Izmir, and began teaching children’s yoga and foundation yoga trainings.

Gaye says that as soon as she received her Children’s Yoga Module 1 trainer certificate, an opportunity came her way and she was offered a business partnership; she accepted and opened a personal development center in Alsancak. Adding that Etkin İnsan and Alper Bayraktar were a light for her, Gaye says: “A clean page, a path, was laid out in front of me, and to move forward along it in the best way I try to multiply my experiences and add to them every day. Yoga has brought balance to many of the transitions in my life. Now I do yoga to cope with every experience in life and to bring balance to every experience we have to live through. It is wonderful to be able to make children, and then adults, feel this.”

She lives in Balıkesir. She met Etkin İnsan in 2009 by taking the Yogalates training with Alper Bayraktar. Having made sports her profession for 13 years, Yağmurlu works with a dietitian on one hand and is preparing to open a studio on the other. She also joined Etkin İnsan’s yoga trainer training in Eskişehir in 2017 and continues her personal development.

Yağmurlu’s philosophy of life is to live each moment as it is, to the fullest.

Yağmurlu says: “Etkin İnsan changed my view of healthy living and sports, introducing me to sports and to a happy, healthy life. It raised my quality of life. Etkin İnsan is a solid institution that raised my awareness and helped me reach my good goals for the future.”

She lives in Istanbul. After completing the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training Module 1 with Alper Bayraktar in Istanbul, she began teaching children’s yoga classes for preschool children at the “Happymoms” event house. As of September she will begin teaching at a new school and continue to grow her work.

Çetiner’s philosophy is “to enjoy every moment and to share love.”

Çetiner says: “As a mother of 2, while enjoying the pleasure of doing yoga together with my children, I thank my trainer Alper and Etkin İnsan for helping me find a profession I will do with love. I am eagerly awaiting the Module 2 training.”

She lives in Istanbul.

She took the Children’s Yoga Module 1 training at Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute in December 2016, and her world changed.

Although not much time has passed in her new profession, she has had the chance to gain a great deal of experience in a short time. In the first months after the training, she took advantage of opportunities that came her way at different institutions, both short-term and as a volunteer. Her aim was to start working with children without losing time, while her excitement was still fresh. Soon after, she began working as the Children’s Yoga specialty trainer at Avrupa Elit Kindergarten. She says she is very happy that this profession, which she has been practicing for about 4 months, has brought good feedback with it. “I believe that everything we plant a seed for in life will surely come back to us in a good way,” says Sedef Besen.

Sedef’s philosophy of life is “creating”…

Sedef Besen says:

“Consuming without producing was never for me. Although my private-sector experience in different fields, both in Turkey and abroad, since my high school years has given me many good skills, with Children’s Yoga I realized that I was truly where I needed to be, and that the best way for me to create is to work with children. If every person’s philosophy of life were to leave a lasting mark in this life by doing the work they love, instead of making money, the world could be a much more livable place.

Above all, Etkin İnsan gave me the opportunity to meet our esteemed trainer Alper Bayraktar, who made me love Children’s Yoga and put all his sincerity into making sure we were properly equipped. If I had taken this training from someone else, I would have lacked the belief that I could really do this work well. In July 2017 I will also join the Children’s Yoga Module 2 training in Istanbul.”

She lives in Izmir and Istanbul.

She took Life Coaching, Education Coaching and the 200-hour international Yoga Alliance approved yoga trainer training at Etkin İnsan. At the end of this summer she plans to take the 300-hour advanced yoga trainer training.

After meeting Etkin İnsan, she began doing the job of her dreams. At the Luminy Life Coaching and Health Center she opened in Güzelbahçe, Izmir, she did many things related to personal training, Pilates, life and education coaching, health and sports. At various shopping malls and on radio and television channels, she combined life and education coaching with sports, giving seminars and trainings on self-coaching and on achieving the wholeness of mind, body and spirit, and organizing talks. She was invited as a guest to various places, including TRT Kent Radio, Radyo Pause, Kanal35, Izmir Optimum Mall, and Rotary and Rotaract projects. She helped many people look at health and sports from different angles. She says her life is now entirely oriented toward yoga, thanks to the yoga trainings she took from Alper Bayraktar. She is currently running yoga and art therapy camps in Turkey, but says her dream is to organize yoga, art and wellness camps with larger groups in more tropical places abroad, and to open an organic, nature-based yoga and wellness camp hotel.

Canan’s philosophy of life is to work so that all of humanity, starting with herself, can reach the best version of themselves without harming others (other people, animals, plants and so on). To be whole and free. To work to come one step closer, and to bring others one step closer, to understanding the true purpose of life, existence, what goes on around, in the mind, soul and body, and this unique universe.

She lives in Adıyaman. She is the president of the Adıyaman Branch of the Turkish Women’s Union Association.

İpek, who says she loves sports very much, decided to turn her love of sports into a profession. She joined the Pilates Matwork Trainer Training Certificate Program that Etkin İnsan held in Gaziantep in 2017 with Jale Aydın as the trainer, and as a Pilates matwork instructor she turned her love of sports into a profession.

İpek owns a beauty salon in Adıyaman and continues to teach at the salon as a Pilates matwork instructor. We congratulate İpek, who joined the Etkin İnsan family in 2017, and wish her many successful and enjoyable experiences in her new profession.

She lives in Istanbul. She took the Children’s Yoga Trainer Training with Alper Bayraktar at Etkin İnsan. She teaches yoga classes to 4-, 5- and 6-year-old classes at 3 private kindergartens and at the kindergarten of a private school.

Asked about her philosophy of life, Karaman says: "As a healthy and happy person passing through this world, I aim to make some contribution to my surroundings and the people around me with a philosophy of zero harm and plenty of healing.” Saying that children come first in this context, Karaman states that thanks to the training program she took at Etkin İnsan she has gained a profession in which she is happy and which brings her closer to the philosophy of life she aims for.

She lives in Istanbul. She completed all of the coaching trainings at Etkin İnsan. Uçar says, “Because I am a teacher, the school became a wide field for me, and in this sense I urged young people, in the liveliest time of their lives, to put something into their saddlebags, and, even if not right away, to add to it along the way.”

Noting that, outside of school, coaching is the greatest tool with her children, her spouse, her friends and at every point she touches, Uçar says she never said “How could it be better than this?” or “Come, let me coach you,” that she touches whoever is by her side on the coaching journey and that she never gives anyone the impression that “we are going to the wrong place.”

Nilgün Hanım’s philosophy of life is, in her own words, “smiling at the stone, the soil, the trees, the birds. Smiling at the sea and the mountains, spreading love.”

She says Etkin İnsan frames the potential that already exists within a person and teaches how to use it and, most importantly, how to take action and step forward.

Our interview with our graduate Nuray Köse:

Education Coach, graduate of Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute.

Manager of Language Courses at the Goethe-Institut Izmir.

She explains why she took Education Coaching as follows:

I started in order to help my daughter, who was going to take the university entrance exam, during that period. My second aim was to use it at my workplace for my students and teachers. During my internship I coached my daughter and her friends, my nephew in the family who was preparing for the TEOG exam, and everyone in my circle of relatives and friends who needed coaching. After my internship ended, a few students still continue to receive coaching from me. Of course I use it at work too, but I carry it on mostly at home. I have worked and still work mostly with students who will take the university entrance exam. I found it very useful when setting goals. I gave my colleagues at work a short training on coaching...

What is your philosophy of life?

There is truly nothing we cannot achieve if we really want it. A German proverb says:

“Faith moves mountains.” We only need to want it and keep going on our way, focusing on the hows without getting stuck on the whys. Every problem has a solution, and that solution is within us. Let us become aware of this and be open to change.

What has Etkin İnsan given you?

Thanks to Etkin İnsan, first of all I discovered the potential within me. I was already very open to personal development. At work I am always known for thinking positively, and my colleagues would say they felt relieved after talking to me. With this training I took last summer, I truly discovered myself. My second gain came through my daughter. A student was needed for demonstrations during the training. Our trainer Barış held two demo sessions with my daughter. My daughter discovered the department she really wanted to study, and after that she worked towards her goal.

And of course, thanks to Etkin İnsan, I have a new job, like a hobby, that makes me happy. For all of this I thank the Etkin İnsan team very much, especially my trainers İsmail Barış Özpazarcık and Arzu Özpazarcık.

Life Coach, graduate of Etkin İnsan Institute.

After France, Ankara and İzmir, she now lives in Istanbul.

Years ago she completed trainings in Life Coaching, NLP Practitioner, Hypnosis, Sports Coaching and Children’s Coaching Game Tools. She is now doing a master’s degree in psychology.

She put her name to widely noticed work with the “Transformation with Love Workshop.”

She runs Parenting Workshop, Communication and Relationships Workshop trainings. Alongside professional counseling and training, she has taken part in many social responsibility projects.

“Be Reborn with Love” is a motto she often uses.

Her philosophy of life is “being the best version of yourself.”

“I love helping people express themselves in the best way between where they are now and where they want to get to. Being yourself is the first thing we need to do on earth,” she says.

She lives in Denizli.

Her world changed after she took the Student-Family Coaching Certificate Program, the Speed Reading with Comprehension Program, the Memory Techniques Program and the Children’s Coaching Game Tools Training at Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute.

She started working professionally with students and families.

Her whole work calendar is now full of students. Every day is filled with training.

She gives trainings in “Communication and Body Language,” “The Power of Positive Thinking,” “Speed Reading” and “Memory Techniques.”

Yasemin’s philosophy of life is dedication.

Yasemin Selin Başak says:

“When you are willing, the work comes by itself. Effort is very important at the beginning. You first decide to follow the path to success whose techniques we learned in coaching training, and then success follows you.”

She lives in İzmir. She first took the “Children’s Yoga Trainer Training” at Etkin İnsan. She started her new profession as a children’s yoga trainer at a private kindergarten in Gaziemir. Aiming to develop herself and her work further, she came to Etkin İnsan again and completed the “Trainer Training in Coaching Game Tools for Children Aged 5–12.” After completing this training too, she began “Coaching Games” activities with her students at the kindergarten where she works, in addition to children’s yoga. Having recently started the Professional Coaching training at Etkin İnsan as well, Özge continues to invest in her development.

Özge’s philosophy of life is built on “Balance and Awareness.” She expresses her philosophy as follows: “I think every emotion and situation exists in life together with its opposite. For me, what matters is to establish balance by gaining awareness in our lives.” She says that helping children realize their potential and be at peace in balance while preparing for their future goals is her main motivation in life.

When we asked what Etkin İnsan gave her, she answered: “While I was trying to find the real me, Etkin İnsan became the guide who gave me this awareness, in a way even my life coach. When I think about it now, I say I’m so glad I came across the light of Etkin İnsan.”

She lives in İzmir. She completed her Education (Student) Coaching training at Etkin İnsan in 2017. She works as a trainer at Turkcell Global Bilgi. She is responsible for planning the technical and competency training of newly hired employees, getting teams ready for work and following their development. Buse, who accompanies the employees she is in constant contact with in their lives and careers, says that, besides the in-house training she received, she chose Etkin İnsan to improve her work and put it on a method.

After completing the 60-hour education coaching training, she continues her work with a coach identity in line with the standards she has set. She says that, given the positive feedback she receives from her clients and the development-focused changes she sees, choosing Etkin İnsan was a very right and important step.

Asked what Etkin İnsan gave her, Buse says: “In a world that is developing, changing and transforming so rapidly, a concept that used to be a luxury is about to become a necessary field of work for organizations, and I wanted to apply techniques with clear standards, follow them, and observe and measure change in people more professionally. In doing so, it was very important to me to have been trained by an accredited institution, to have the institution work in accordance with ethical rules and to be a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). On the other hand, feeling comfortable and safe, being involved, and being able to learn not only in theory but by living and experiencing were also among my first priorities. And when I set out with these priorities, I found myself at Etkin İnsan Gelişim Institute. I am so glad I had the chance to work with and meet my trainers of this expertise here. Endless thanks to all our valuable coach advisors in the design and delivery of this wonderful program.”

She lives in Antalya. She completed the Coaching Game Tools Trainer Training in İzmir in March 2018. Sarıoğlu, who is also a Life Coach, began giving one-to-one coaching games training in her own office in Antalya shortly after completing the Coaching Game Tools Trainer Training.

Starting her Coaching Game Tools work one-to-one, Sarıoğlu gradually began giving trainings to groups at private schools. Sarıoğlu’s philosophy of life is “living in the moment and being happy, living without dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.”

Noting that Etkin İnsan, above all, enabled her to include younger age groups in her student coaching range, Sarıoğlu said she learned while introducing coaching games that there is a great need for the 5–12 age groups in Antalya. She also added that she had the chance to meet wonderful trainers and friends and to share a lot of knowledge with them.

We congratulate Huriye Firdevs Sarıoğlu, a fresh member of the growing Etkin İnsan Family, for making a difference in a short time as a Coaching Game Tools Trainer and for her contributions, and we wish her many more shared moments.