how to share a cake?
A participatory workshop on fairness, equality, needs and responsibility — using one cake as a shared question.
We share things all the time:
space, attention, decisions, care, and of course—food.
But how do we share them? Equally? Fairly? Reciprocally? And how do we understand fairness, equality, or sharing? How often do we actually talk about these ideas? Where, and when, do such conversations happen?
“How to Share a Cake?”
is a workshop that invites participants to think and talk about the concepts that shape our decisions and our ways of seeing the world—collaboratively, caringly, creatively, and critically.
What this workshop offers
This workshop creates a gentle space to slow down and look at the everyday things we do—sharing, deciding, listening, letting go—and explore what they mean for each of us.
Participants will:
- speak about concepts with a beginner’s mind, without pressure to “know.”
- notice how their thoughts run faster than their words, and practice giving language to inner ideas.
- try thinking in ways they may not have tried before.
- learn to hold space for ambiguity — the cake is never just a cake.
- explore the politics of everyday life through a playful, edible scenario.
- gain insight into your own values
- build relational courage: speaking, listening, changing one’s mind, and staying in dialogue.
- understand that collaborative decision-making is a skill that requires practice — and this workshop offers a safe place to practice it.
- leave with a deeper awareness of how they share, how they decide, and how they relate.
Why join?
Because small decisions are never really small.
Even when we’re just sharing a cake, something moves inside us:
who speaks first, who waits, who gives up, who thinks quietly, “that slice was actually mine…”
This workshop exists to slow things down a little and look at what we already do every day— sharing, listening, deciding— and to think about them together.
Maybe you’ve thought about these ideas a lot but never had a space to say them out loud.
Come, and let’s practice turning thoughts into words.
Maybe these concepts feel far away and you feel like you “don’t know.
Come, listen, and share whatever shows up in you.
This workshop aims to give you a gentle space to: notice your own reactions,
see why you compromise or why you don’t,
walk with an idea for a while, then maybe leave it behind,
really hear what someone else is saying,
and feel comfortable being part of a group.
And most importantly:
it’s not a debate.
it’s a picnic of ideas.
How we do it
The discussions are facilitated using tools from P4C (Philosophy for Children/Communities).
These tools help support the natural flow of conversation—sustaining it, pausing it, deepening it, or gathering it together when needed.
Practical Info
The workshop is offered in Turkish or English for age groups 8–10, 10–12, 13–15, 15–18, and adults.
If you’re interested in joining, leave your email and we will contact you when the new season begins.
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