Before the projects, there was a trajectory.

Before Levis Family Adventure, there was no sudden urge to leave everything. There were two adults already engaged in support work, image, education, transmission and concrete projects.

Julien worked as an AESH in a French ULIS classroom, with children in disability situations. He was not a teacher: he was on the ground, in contact with real needs, adaptations and the small wins that count. In parallel, he was an independent photographer and videographer. Documenting, framing, telling and creating materials was already part of how he transmitted.

It is in this context that HOPLA CHEF was born, before the creation of the association. The project first existed as a concrete answer to a need: making cooking more accessible to young people in disability situations. Collectif Ensemble was then created to structure the action, raise funds, receive sponsorship and give it real development capacity. Julien is a co-founder of Collectif Ensemble and was president for more than a year.

Gwendoline supported children on a daily basis and taught dance. She transmitted movement, effort, confidence, rhythm and a sense of collective. Dance had taught her discipline, the stage, going further than expected, and one simple conviction: we also learn with the body, with experience and with repetition.

We were not out of the world. We had work, a home, children, responsibilities, association projects, commitments, accounts to keep. But one question came back more and more often: does this trajectory still really look like us?

It was not a crisis that triggered everything. It was an accumulation. The feeling that our energy was too often used to hold a life up, instead of building the one we wanted to pass on to our children.