Narrative and Cultural Change
Türkiye Care Culture Report
Care is shaped not only by services and policies but also by the norms, rituals, values, and everyday practices that influence how people relate to one another. The Türkiye Care Culture Report: Norms, Rituals, and Systems Change explores how care is understood, practiced, and reproduced within the cultural context of Türkiye. By examining the social expectations, assumptions, and cultural patterns that shape care, the report makes visible the often-unseen forces that influence who provides care, who receives it, and how care is valued. It invites readers to consider care not simply as an act of individual sacrifice, but as a social relationship that sustains collective life, while exploring how culture shapes care and how care, in turn, can become a force for cultural transformation.
Narrative and Cultural Change
Care Narrative Change Guide
The stories we tell about care shape how care is understood, valued, and organized. Today, care is often framed as personal sacrifice, family responsibility, or an individual burden. This guide explores the narratives that commonly influence public conversations about care and invites readers to consider more equitable, inclusive, and transformative ways of framing it. Throughout the guide, care is examined through the lenses of rights, relationality, shared responsibility, collective wellbeing, and systems change. Rather than prescribing a single “correct” language, the guide encourages critical reflection on what our words make visible and what they leave unseen. Because meaningful change often begins with changing the stories we tell.
Narrative and Cultural Change
Care Narrative & Social Change Monitoring Report
How do we talk about care in Türkiye? Too often, care is discussed behind closed doors, framed through individual sacrifice, family obligation, or moments of crisis. The Care Narrative & Social Change Monitoring Report 2025–2026 offers a different perspective. By examining the language, norms, policies, media narratives, and everyday practices that shape how care is understood, the report traces care’s role within the social fabric of society. It invites readers to rethink care not as a burden, but as a vital infrastructure that sustains individuals, communities, and collective life. Where are we in the broader transformation of care, and what will it take to build a more just and caring future? This report explores the stories, shifts, and possibilities shaping that journey.
Narrative and Cultural Change
Care Practices Library
The Care Practices Library is a growing collection of practical ways to embed care into everyday life, organizations, and communities. It brings together care rituals, facilitation methods, organizational practices, meeting formats, and community-based approaches that help turn care from an abstract value into everyday action. By making diverse practices visible and accessible, the library supports people and institutions in building more caring cultures, relationships, and systems.
Narrative and Cultural Change
Co-Nurturing Narratives: Making Care Visible Together
Care is more than a private story of sacrifice unfolding behind closed doors. It is a vital infrastructure that sustains our lives, economies, and communities, yet it often remains invisible in public conversations. Journalists, editors, artists, storytellers, and cultural workers play a critical role in shaping how care is understood, valued, and represented. Through this initiative, we invite creative practitioners to help develop new narratives that recognize care as a shared responsibility, a social good, and a foundation for collective wellbeing. By working together, we can challenge limiting assumptions, broaden the public imagination around care, and contribute to cultural shifts that support more caring and connected societies.
Narrative and Cultural Change
Collective Care Memory
The Collective Care Memory is a living archive of how people understand and experience care in their everyday lives. By bringing together lived experiences, stories, reflections, and personal insights, it helps make visible the knowledge that emerges through caring relationships and daily acts of support. The initiative creates space for diverse experiences of care to be documented, shared, and remembered, revealing both the differences and common threads that connect our experiences. Through this collective memory, we contribute to a richer understanding of care and preserve the stories that often remain unseen in formal accounts of social life.
