Founder's Message
Everyone helps others in their own way.
Some give food, money, clothing or other belongings. Others give a listening ear or their time. Some give someone a chance.
I was in Year 7 when I was voted the most helpful student in the school. I was genuinely surprised.
I didn't think I was helping anyone. I just loved solving problems.
Years later, I realised that these two things are really the same. Every meaningful problem we solve improves someone's life, whether that improvement is small or large.
This realisation shaped my entire journey.
For the first twenty years of my career, I solved complex industrial problems for a living. When a system, or part of it, stopped working, treating the symptoms never provided a lasting fix. The first question was always: How does this system actually work?
Only once I understood the underlying mechanisms could I produce a lasting solution. Over the years, another question began to occupy my mind: if every complex system can be understood, why should the human mind be any different?
Wherever I looked, I saw people carrying emotional pain, wrestling with limiting beliefs, and struggling in difficult relationships. They were unable to reach their full potential. People were putting in enormous effort to change. Some made progress for a while. Others struggled.
At the time, the state of the science mostly told us to 'work with what we have'. The tools available for facilitating real transformation felt limited. However, I couldn't accept that unnecessary suffering had to be one of humanity's permanent conditions.
I believed that a happier world was possible and wanted it so much.
Just as every other complex system has underlying mechanisms, I believed that transformation must have discoverable patterns too. This belief changed the direction of my life. Once you truly believe in something, it's hard to stop.
Stage O
2006-2013
Long-term research. Discovering the patterns.
I dedicated the next twenty years to one mission:
Understandingh these patterns.
Some were relatively easy to grasp. Others, I was told, might remain unknown for years to come.
When you have a meaningful goal, every first step shapes the next, and each subsequent step naturally follows the one before — as long as you keep going. I decided not to stop until I found what I was looking for.
Problems exist to be solved, and human suffering is no exception. The better we understand the mechanisms behind it, the better we can support people through their transformation and help build a better world, one life at a time.
Yes, it took years. Yes, it was exhausting, but it was a happy exhaustion. It was probably the hardest work I had ever done, but also the most meaningful because I was no longer trying to solve an industrial problem — I was trying to understand something deeply human. I was trying to understand something deeply human.
Today, I can share something I once only hoped for — we have made real progress.
We now have a much deeper understanding of how life experiences can lead to emotional pain and of how the mind can become trapped in unhelpful patterns.
More importantly, we have found practical ways to help shift those patterns. However, understanding was never my ultimate goal — knowledge only matters when people can put it into practice.
That's why I developed this new way of understanding into a structured method, creating a safe and consistent process. I tested it with around a hundred volunteer participants, and the results from the very first sessions were more encouraging than those of more traditional approaches.
I was hopeful that these results would hold up over time. Hope is valuable, but patience is even more so. So, over the following five years, I followed up with participants to see if the results genuinely lasted. I developed the ReBrain DIY format, which enables people to help themselves, and published it—along with its theoretical foundations and practical steps—in my book Sırrın Fizigi (The Physics of the Secret.)
Stage I - II
2014-2018
Standardized protocol.
Tested with 100+ participants.
Of course, achieving results was rewarding, but it was never my ultimate goal.
Not everyone may be inclined to help themselves. My goal was to enable a practitioner who is well-versed in the subject to bring about the desired transformation in people who need support in the safest way possible. To teach prospective practitioners how to apply the ReBrain-Pro method—which is designed to help others—in the most effective and responsible way, I developed a streamlined training system so they wouldn’t have to repeat the long journey I went through. Another goal of this training was to demonstrate that the methodology works regardless of past experience.
Stage III-IV-V
2019-2026
Teaching practitioners. Testing real-world effectiveness.
Tracking -sustainability.
For this reason, I initially entrusted this work to people with no professional background in mental well-being or coaching, etc.
Provided they had a genuine passion for helping others, the necessary skills to facilitate effective transformation can be taught through a well-structured training program, regardless of prior experience.
I trained practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds who had no prior expertise in this field. Their paths were different, but they shared one thing: a sincere passion for safely helping others lead more peaceful lives.
They all successfully completed the training. Even while still in training, they achieved encouraging and meaningful results with their clients. They were the first pioneers, and I am proud of each and every one of them.
These powerful results gave me real hope that the progress they made with their clients would be long-lasting. It is important to look ahead, but patience is even more important. That is why, ever since our first graduation in 2019, I have been monitoring its sustainability.
After completing the training, they started working with young people and adults. They maintained the same level of success after the training. The positive feedback they received proved the success and sustainability of the methodology.
Today, ReBrain is entering its next chapter.
Until now, I have kept the number of participants in the training program small so that I could closely track outcomes.
We achieved our goal of training 20 practitioners, and we have confirmed that the skills they acquired and the results their clients experienced were meaningful and sustainable.
Now, we're opening our doors to more people who share our ethical values.
After all, a better world can never be built by a single founder. Nor by a single discovery.
It is built by the hundreds and thousands of people who choose to use their knowledge to improve the lives of others. It's built by everyone who helps bring about positive change.
That has always been my dream. Not to build a business. Not to gain recognition. Rather, I want to contribute to a future where mental well-being is more accessible to everyone.
I believe with all my heart that a world is possible where people can fulfill their potential and grow. It's a world where people find fulfillment through living with purpose and peace and by caring for one another in homes, schools, on the streets, and in workplaces.
Expanding Stage V
2026-
With non-professionals: Expansion
With professionals: A new beginning
I would also like to extend a direct invitation to researchers and academic institutions. I would be delighted to collaborate with scientific partners willing to bring together a broad group of non-professionals for training. These partners will be able to independently evaluate the training outcomes, the success of training participants with clients during the training, and the results achieved by trainees with volunteer clients in the subsequent periods. I do not want the value of this work to rely solely on my words or those of our practitioners. When given the choice, I would prefer that the confident clarity of this work not be based solely on my own words or those of our practitioners. I prefer that it be examined, measured, and verified by independent third parties.
To this day, I have only imagined things I wholeheartedly believe in.
I envision a future where people have easier access to emotional well-being than they do today. That future isn't as far away as it might seem. It's a goal we can work toward together, one step at a time.
Some of you will be able to say, "I was part of that change." Regardless of whether you're involved, is there a more meaningful way to spend our time on this planet than by helping to build a future like that?
If you want this kind of future for everyone, and if the idea of being among the pioneers building the path to this future excites you, I sincerely invite you to take the first step and join us. Even if you don't want to be a practitioner, you can still support this movement in other ways. Please feel free to reach out.
Together, we can make a meaningful difference, not just for ourselves and our loved ones, but for a wider circle as well, because we have the necessary tools and a clear, determined vision.
Step by step and one life at a time, we can contribute to building a better future for everyone.
Welcome to ReBrain.
Founder, Nese Akan