Social circus training for trainers

October 2015 to September 2016

The training is based on our Guidebook for Social Circus Trainers, which is the outcome of a 5-year European research carried out by 2 universities, 8 Caravan members and the Caravan office. The training took place in 4 different places, 4 sessions of 5 days. The 1st session will took place from 26 – 30 October 2015 in Stockholm and was be delivered by Cirkus Cirkör. The 2nd session took place from 15 – 19 February 2016 in Tampere and was delivered by Sorin Sirkus. The 3rd session took place from 6 – 10 June 2016 in Brussels and was delivered by Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles. The last session took place from 19 – 23 September in Belfast and was delivered by Belfast Community Circus School in collaboration with Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde. Each session was focussed on specific TLUs or Teaching/Learning Units of the Guidebook for Social Circus Trainers. The first session dealt TLU E « Foundations » and TLU D « Circus Techniques & Creativity ». The second session dealt with TLU B « Act of teaching ». The 3rd session dealt with TLU C « Management / Steering of teaching ». The 4th session dealt with TLU A « Social context ».