Margaux Richet

Trainer background

Current occupation

I am a free lance intercultural trainer and a story-teller.

Work experience

Some examples of my work

***Sensibilisation to languages:

-language animation for adults to prepare them to work in France (through art, exhibitions, cooking...) - 2011

- language training for children (french) in a european school in Berlin - 2011

- Circus-language Workshops for school classes / January 2009 / Berlin : trainer for the French-German Youth Office during the French-German week

- Theatre-Dance Language Workshops for children - Berlin 2007

*** Trainings and Youth exchanges with local or international partners

- life-long trainings for intercultural competences for the Firemen, Berlin - 2011

- life-long training for a sensibilisation to diversity and intercultural understanding - Model project in the KulturBrauerei with night clubs, Berlin -2011

- youth-exchanges - preparation and evaluation seminars of the voluntary service abroad: intercultural learning, Germany - 2011

- Training Course for trainers and multipliers in 2008, Erfurt, Germany : “Creativity – Art- YOU!” - Dance and Dance-Theatre as tools for intercultural awareness in peer education and intercultural exchanges

-“International contact-making seminar for the development and the promotion of intercultural artistic youth exchanges” in 2007, in Erfurt, Germany

- European youth project in July 2006 in Erfurt, Germany : "Come together to the European Dance Summer Project: Expressions of Identity, Borders and Conflicts by Youth, Germany”.

*** "Intercultural creative Workshops" for small groups:

- Workshops using tools and exercises from dance, theatre, music / Berlin June and July 2008

***Festivals:

- Avel Nomad festival July 2008 - France : cultural festival to raise awareness on the Mongolian nomadic way of life - Intercultural games, language animation and lectures of stories from Armenian, Japan, India, China, Algeria for and with the public

***Arts

- Story-teller: story-telling of old stories from all over the world in Cafés and Galeries in Berlin - since 2009

- "Museum of the lost dreams" 2006 : a creation of an artistic event in cooperation with Circus Cabuwazi. Invention of a French-Japanese culinary creation.

-International Youth Circus Festival 2005 : organisation of the intercultural circus workshops and participation to the creation of the collective circus show - Circus from Russia, Estonia, Israel, Palestine, France, Germany, Poland

- German-Russian and German-Polish Circus exchanges 2004 : St-Petersburg in Russia and Brodnica in Poland

Educational pathway

I was born in France in 1979. I've been living in Berlin since 2004. My wish to discover languages and cultures comes from what I can remember from my childhood in Africa (Lagos, Nigeria) and Asia (Seoul, South-Corea).

My love for travelling and learning has continued to push me towards the discovery of cultures, languages, landscapes. Building dialogue among different forms of understanding the world has become my main passion in life, which has later led me to study international business, humanitarian and social work and geopolitics in France.

I had some working experiences in international companies and NGOs like Amnesty International in San Francisco where I worked for instance for the non formal education of Human Rights at schools and universities.

In 2004 I became a European volunteer in Berlin working with children and young people in the Circus CABUWAZI's project. This experience has greatly fostered my knowledge of alternative, playful methods applied to the field of intercultural dialogue, the role of the body in the communication and the power of art to connect people.

I have also become fully aware of the challenges posed by immigration, and the relevance of integration processes to actually bring some groups into the society they live.

Thanks to a Trainer from Iran I discovered the meaning of the intercultural work during a seminar for European voluntary service in Weimar, in Germany, in 2005.

And that was it! I wanted to work with people from different cultures on important topics in a non formal, funny and creative way. For I have always been interested in different forms of artistic expression such as dance, theatre, pantomime and music, these became naturally part of my work.

I have also been inspired by other colleagues and my personal international experiences to develop my own understanding of methods.