✨ CTF strengthens social circus 🎪

🍾 As we celebrate the completion of Circus Transformation in Action 9, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Erasmus+ Youth Accreditation and the @Erasmus+ Finland, Sweden, and Ireland for supporting and funding the program’s four international training modules 💪

Through Youth Accreditation, young people and youth workers have opportunities to travel, learn, and develop professionally in different cultural contexts across Europe. CTF 9 is a powerful example of how international mobility can strengthen individuals — as well as the organizations and communities they return to 🌍

Across the four modules, participants:
🫶 Deepened their sense of belonging to the social circus sector.
🌐 Developed international professional networks.
🛠️ Gained new skills and perspectives to support their work as circus trainers.
💁‍♂️ Shared knowledge and experiences across cultural and national borders.

The impact of this learning will extend far beyond the CTF program. The young people and marginalized communities that participants work with locally will benefit from their strengthened skills and confidence through more inclusive, creative, and high-quality circus experiences🌟

🙏❤️ We are deeply grateful to Erasmus+ and the National agncies for investing in learning through mobility, international exchange, and youth work — helping to strengthen the social circus sector across Europe.

Thank you for making these opportunities possible! 🎪

#ErasmusPlus #YouthAccreditation #SocialCircus #CTF9 #CaravanNetwork

Learning also means choosing the right toolbox 🧰

The Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) program brings together circus professionals from across Europe and immerses them in social circus contexts — encouraging them to question some of the assumptions and certainties shaped by their previous training.

📋 Across 4 modules in a year long, each led by two different trainers, participants learn how to design an educational journey that responds to the specific group they are working with 🤝

To do this, they explore several dimensions of learning:
🧠 The cognitive level — understanding concepts, knowledge, and reasoning.
💙 The emotional level — building confidence, perseverance, and a willingness to challenge oneself.
❤️ The social level — developing communication, collaboration, and interaction within the group.

🤹 The technical level — strengthening physical, artistic, and psychomotor skills.
These dimensions do not exist separately. They must work together, supported by creativity, to create a coherent educational approach that responds to the needs of each group 💡✨

🤝This is what makes social circus so powerful: it can transform the experience of the people taking part, while also transforming the circus professionals who choose to work in this field 🎪

And the participants from CTF 9 have a few reflections to share about their experience.

Let’s hear from them! 💬

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What connects daring and learning? 🎪✨

🎓During the Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) programme, participants are invited to try the very exercises they will later ask their own groups to perform.

By experiencing these activities themselves, they gain a deeper, more embodied understanding of what they are asking from their learners — including the challenges, emotions, and sense of achievement involved 🤝💡

This approach directly supports several competencies within “The Act of Teaching,” including:

🎯 Defining achievable objectives adapted to the target group and context.
🔧 Creating, adapting, or using educational tools to prepare, monitor, and evaluate a project.
🎣 Choosing the most appropriate format for a project’s final presentation.
🎭 Establishing clear guidelines for being on stage.

Participants also develop their ability to create, develop, and implement an educational project as a team — a key competency within “Steering Teaching” 🌍

🚀 Through this accumulated experience, they can build a more empathetic and learner-centred teaching practice. By becoming more aware of their students’ perspectives, they can better encourage them to take risks, express themselves, and dare to create ✨

And we have a few testimonies that show this process in action.

Let’s hear from the participants! 💬

#CaravanCTF #SocialCircus #CircusEducation