Dalai Lama Fellows
Ekin Berk Polat
Leadership Vision
I should let my core values and beliefs shape and change my leadership journey so that I can genuinely be me, and a genuine me will be able to spread the soul of my leadership style to young change makers who value empathy, reconciliation, compassion, integrity, solidarity, and collaboration.
Project Description
My team and I work on refugee crisis and focus on social cohesion and self-development of Turkish and Syrian children in middle schools with our project “Let’s Be United!” since 2018. We conduct workshops based on various game methods and artistic activities to increase their abilities to express themselves in order to understand each other better and be more aware of different communities in society. By improving their communication skills, we want to see them as self-confident and conscious people in societies they live. We are aiming to improve the environment with a sense of unity for students of different ethnic groups by spreading the project all over Turkey.