Sosthène Deshoullières

Current occupation

Trainer and Projects coordinator

Work experience

From September 2024, I'm participating in ToT (SALTO) and will develop in partnership with the French National Agency a Training Course on "Gender-based approach in mobility projects" (ESC/E+).

Since 2018, I'm working as mentor, tutor, projects coordinator, trainer in an organisation accredited for both E+ and ESC projects.

Between 2021 and 2022, I have conducted a research project on Gender Equality within ESC/EVS programs.

In terms if recent training activities, to give an overview, since January 2024 I have been part of the team for:

1 - International Training Course “Mentors I” (Lefkosia, Cyprus - 9 days - January 2024), as a co-trainer. Training course aimed at developing competences for new mentors of ESC volunteers, with an introduction to the model of competences for Youth Workers, and exploring tools for mentoring. This event was a part of a broader sequence “Making Magic in the Kingdom of Volunteering”, aimed at improving the quality of ESC projects, designed and organised by a consortium of international trainers : Panayiotis Theodorou, Markus Rebitschek, Corina Pintea, Salvi Greco and myself.

2 - Mid-term training for long-term ESC volunteers (Marseille, France - 5 days - March 2024), as a trainer and coordinator of the event. Hors Pistes, as lead organisation, coordinates the hosting of around 30 or 40 ESC volunteers per year, which allow us to develop our own training courses twice a year, at the arrival and at the mid-term. My role was to design these trainings in complementarity with the seminars organised by the french NA. The specific objectives of this mid-term training were : allow the volunteers to develop and facilitate non-formal education based workshops in their hosting organisations (methods of facilitation, support to create their own workshops) and to work on valorisation of their projects : recognition of learnings, evaluation of the impact from the volunteer’s perspective, planning on future projects. The training was co-facilitated by myself and 3 colleagues from Hors Pistes.

3 - Training course on ”Interculturality, Sensitivity and Diversity” (Arles, France - 2 days - April 2024). This training is organised each year for the students for DEJEPS (future facilitators, trainers, project managers in the fields of youth work, non-formal education, and sport) with the objective of enhancing a critical reflexion on the youth worker’s approach towards identity, interculturality, diversity, and to identify and work on the stereotypes, bias and microaggressions in the field of youth work and non-formal education. This training was co-facilitated by myself and one colleague.