Enjeux, like most training organizations for young people, offers academic catch-up programs and practical training situations in companies. But the great advantage of Enjeux is its use of sports as a lever for re-mobilization.
"The young person comes to us primarily because sports will attract them, as they think they can do sports half the day, and that can motivate them for what comes next, to work on a professional project,” explains Marie Landay Le Moing.
Thus, the program is structured as a half-time academic catch-up and a half-time sports schedule.
“I observe them a lot on the field, in sports, as this is where we detect weaknesses and the levers we can use to try to bring out the best in each of them and work on their skills, their strengths, which we then transfer to the professional world,” she specifies.
For this, team sports are essential. Here, football provides insights into managing frustration, failure, and teamwork. Plus, it’s a universal sport.
Enjeux alternates with other team sports like handball, basketball, futsal, and volleyball, but also includes individual sports to reveal other aspects, to work on the young person's ability to mobilize themselves, to seek the taste for effort and self-overcoming.
For this, young people will have the opportunity to practice boxing, but also pickleball, a discipline that combines elements of ping-pong, badminton, and tennis, golf, and soon sailing or surfing.
A 6-month training program that quickly transforms these young people positively. “98% of them arrive with a significant lack of self-confidence,” says Marie Landay Le Moing. “Not to mention the series of academic failures that have also led to constant devaluation. So the primary goal is for them to regain confidence in themselves, to feel good, and to be able to reach out to the outside world.”
A particular focus is also placed on autonomy and interaction with others. External speakers come to teach self-defense and self-confidence, and a mental coach discusses motivation levers. These exchanges quickly succeed in alleviating the fear of others, adults, and the unknown. "We can already see, after just a month, the exceptional work they have done on themselves,” enthuses Marie Landay Le Moing.
"We want to prepare them to be ready to follow a training program, to be able to make an effort, both academically and professionally. And the young person knows that they are entering a family with us, and that we will continue to help them, even later, in case of a slump, they will always know where to find us,” concludes Marie Landay Le Moing.
