This Erasmus+ training course took place from 12 to 23 May in France.
A Clown's Mind was an Erasmus+ training course, consisting of 10 days of program and 2 travel days.
The objective of this training course was to explore the potential of clowning, movement and mindfulness, employing diverse approaches and modalities, as methods for enhancing the skills and abilities of youth workers.
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This training course was about:
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The ability to play, be, and move with reality, mixing it with fiction, and walking like a tightrope walker on the edge of paradoxes.
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Playing, especially in groups, to collectively create something different from reality, while remaining anchored by it.
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Improvisation frames that push us to "throw ourselves" with the body and the voice, as well as with the mind.
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The discovery of our own "Clown's mind," an attitude of being, way before acting and doing, lightly in balance in the presence.
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Improvisations (with some different "themes," constraints, directions), in which to explore the dimension of "meeting" oneself as a creature free to play, move, express and create with what is available (body, emotions, environment). The clown reveals oneself like an open book (becoming a novel, detective story, poem, or comic strip as he pleases).
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We attempted to repeatedly open the door to the unknown, to find (and find ourselves in) something new every time, to experience how reality, even personal reality (character, cultural background, education, everything that has contributed to making us become what we are...), comes to be more or less consciously the material, the nourishment, or seasoning of the theatrical event itself













Meet the Team
Spaces Holders


Food
The delicious food will be vegan/vegetarian, prepared with love and care by our cook Andréa.
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"My name is Andrea Mendizabal, and I will be cooking for you vegetarian meals during the training course. The meals I prepare are carefully designed to be easily digested by each one of us, with our own caracteristics and imbalances. You will be eating plenty of colors and lot's of love. If you are curious, you can find my creations here : www.panakeiacuisine.com. And you can also find me at my restaurant Tiers-lieu Pachamama's in Strasbourg! "
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In order to provide and keep a safe and focused atmosphere for everybody we invite you to agree with an alcohol/drugs-free policy during the whole training course.