Hi! I am Eda, a storyteller originally from Istanbul, Turkey in the city where stories are born and where east meets west. 💫

Now the new chapter has began in my journey! I have moved to another great city which has cool stories in it. London 🇬🇧

My passion is to listen stories all around the world. This passion changed my life, I quit my job and started my own entrepreneurship. Now I am the co-founder of Storytelling Academy and serve delicious stories to people. 🌍

As the mytologist Joseph Campbell said— 'The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.'
I am interested in leaving my comfort zone and explore new caves.🧚🏻‍♀️

I believe that we are all connected, like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep with stories.
As Muriel Rukeyser said “The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” universe 🔮

Once upon a time...
Our stories may come across. Who knows? 🙃

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am so interested in learning new cultures and listening stories from the people and I think this is one of the best way to learn.

Interests

philosophy, psychology, storytelling, social entrepreneurship, futurism, coaching, peer education, theatre, improvisation, creative writing, dancing

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen

Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”

― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

• writing
• education
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• psychology
• travelling
• storytelling
• stories
• learning

Music, Movies, and Books

music; jazz, rock, classical music, traditional musics,

Teach, Learn, Share

Stories
Storytelling and games
Playing kalimba instrument-(not professional, improvising:)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey, United Kingdom