Dare to take up space
November 3 to 11, 2025, in Lussas (France)
Training, accommodation, meals & travel fully covered!
✨ This training is open to youth workers from France and Italy: women, LGBTQIA+ people and people questioning their identity, who are involved in social, educational, artistic or activist projects with youth (ages 12–30).
🌟 WHY JOIN?
Because many of us deal with internalized barriers, social norms, and daily sexism that affect our ability to take space.
👉 This week will offer a safe, supportive and collective environment to explore ways of affirming ourselves and empowering the young people we work with.
🧭 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
🧠 Reflections on power dynamics and gender norms
🕺 Body-based workshops, life stories, games, movement
💬 Theory & practice sharing moments
🏙️ Exploration of public space and how to claim it
🛑 Work on personal and collective boundaries to experiment safely
📌 PRACTICAL INFO
📅 Dates: November 3–11, 2025
📍 Location: Lussas, Ardèche (France)
👥 Participants: 8 from France + 9 from Italy
🗣️ Languages: French, Italian, English – interpreters and language facilitation tools provided
👉 English is welcome, but not required.
💸 Fully covered by Erasmus+: training, food, accommodation, travel
📬 Questions? Contact us at: international@lafougue.net
Goodbye sexism
In 2023 la Fougue organized for the 1st time a Erasmus+ project for youth-workers of all ages called Goodbye sexism.
It allowed 20 people from Italy, Czech Republic, Belgium and France to meet, share and experient together around the idea of pedagogy and non formal education can be antisexist.
In 2024 we are on our way to plan a new project that will be called « Dare to take up space ». The activities will be design for a group of persons who identify as women and /or LGBTQIA+ people.
This will be a week to approach the idea of appropriation of space in our lives and our societies, to strengthen ourselves, build trust and mutual support. We will take the time to observe in what ways we are constrained as minoritized people, identifying the power relationships that are at play.
Through the activities proposed, we will try, we will allow ourselves, to take up space, to experience different ways of taking spaces…even public spaces. The idea is to allow ourselves to occupy this space with our bodies, our matter, our presences and our voices. We will go through activities of storytelling, games and propositions based on the gaze and movement, times of discussions, reflections and dive into a little bit of theory. We will work on the notion of individual and collective limits and needs so that everyone can dare to take their place, deploy and experiment without struggling
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