Our actions
To accompany you on your journey towards the realization of your housing co-op
We provide you with key insights to start your collective project with confidence: a clear framework, concrete tools, and technical support—easing your mental load.
We support emerging projects in establishing a shared language and structuring a path toward long-term anchorage. LPS Academy acts as a true nursery: when the wind gets too strong, we help adjust the course.
You take ownership of the tools: we provide a safety net while you move forward at your own pace. The collective takes root, gains autonomy, and becomes a living project capable of evolving over time.
Draw on the experiences around you and find original solutions to real-world challenges—you are no longer alone on the path. When the time is right, you can help other groups take their first steps.
Groups and collectives
accompanied in France and internationally
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We shepherd projects towards collective ownership, sELF-GOVERNANCE
and non-speculation.
Sustainability
The project is designed to outlast its founders and remain resilient through changes.
Cooperity
A continuous search for equilibrium: honoring the individual “I” and creating the collective “we.”
Governance
Solid foundations to set a robust framework for harmonious co-living.
Transformation
Adapting or transforming existing structures to improve their functioning.
Our approach
Our heartfelt mission is to simplify complex concepts and reproduce them with clarity so that they may reach the widest possible audience.
Simple and accessible
simplifying the complex—so it can be appropriated by everyone
Human-centered
moving forward together in diversity
Empowerment
demystifying concepts and giving you the tools to become autonomous
TAILORED
personalized documents adapted for diverse needs
Joyful and playful
if it’s not fun, it’s not sustainable! Joy is our compass.
FlexibilE
rules are for the present, but they're not rigid—because everything is in motion
Diversified
group sessions, individual support, online or in person
trust
They didn't know it was impossible; so, they did it!
PATHWAYS
Pathways adapted to every stage of your project.
FIRST STEPS
FREE
This module includes videos, documents, and practical resources to help you discover housing cooperatives.
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Explanatory videos, documents, and practical resources
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Introduction to participatory housing in cooperatives
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Practical information about purchasing a property
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Guidance on creating your association
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Discovering the Les Pas-Sages approach
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Examples of existing supported projects
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Opportunity to schedule a meeting with the team
Discover the
LPS Housing Cooperative
A short module (7 videos) introducing key principles and offering a first glimpse into our philosophy and coaching approach, ideal before getting started.
The Les Pas-Sages Approach
Legal principles
Financial mechanisms
Fundamentals of Governance
Purchase of the property
Signing of the preliminary sales agreement
Make Your Collaborative Housing Project
a Reality
The LE PASSAGE coaching and support program in 6 steps
for groups wishing to create, finance, inhabit and enliven their LPS housing cooperative.
Only available in french !
Co-Existing Path
This module was co-designed with Audrey Gicquel, a facilitator and trainer specialized in group dynamics, communication, and conflict transformation. It explores the human dimension of collective projects: the one that is not always visible, but that makes all the difference along the way.
NewCOMER PATH
A process to enable a new person joining your project to have the same understanding of the Cooperative as the collective they are joining.
Access to the online platform
Access to Pas-Sages Academy content
Here, you will find access to the Discover the Cooperative module, the content of your cohort (if you are currently being supported), as well as spaces containing all documents and forums.
Have you received support from us before the online version was launched? Request access to discover all the updated resources and forums.
The LPS ACADEMY team
We’re passionate about cooperity. We love to share in our joy surrounding the varied aspects of housing cooperatives; so that they may become accessible and reproducible en masse!
Discover us!
Mate
Mate
A social entrepreneur passionate about community development, driven by a strong interest in the intersection of non-speculative structures and regenerative development rooted in the local area. He enjoys working with the land, caring for natural spaces. His background includes a bachelor's degree in sociology of regional development, a master's degree in human ecology, permaculture design, and community facilitation.
Löwenherz
Germany
Gabriel
Gabriel
Manager, designer, and facilitator of collaborative processes, specializing in horizontal governance inspired by holacracy and sociocracy. With a background in business and design, an MBA in leadership, and a master's degree in human resources, he supports social impact organizations, co-founds initiatives in Brazil and Europe, and contributes to strengthening their models.
Catfarm
France
Sigata
Sigata
A management controller by profession, I am the treasurer of LPS Academy. I work to secure and direct our resources towards actions that reduce inequalities, combat insecurity, and strengthen mutual support. My ambition: to transform every euro into a measurable impact and every encounter into a bridge between worlds that don't communicate enough.
France
SANDRa
Sandra Rueda
A former executive, I embraced a new path by becoming a doula. By joining Les Pas-Sages, I hope to contribute to democratizing a more collective and resilient way of life, developing a concrete alternative to societal individualism and social isolation in France and internationally.
Colmeia 62
Portugal
Serena
Serena Magnani
As a trainer and facilitator of participatory projects, after having worked as a teacher, I help turn collective intentions into reality by sharing the essential tools for coordination, facilitation, and successful collaboration.
France
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the coaches
A team with complementary skills to support you on organizational, legal, financial and technical fronts. Our diverse expertise is in service of the autonomy of residents’ groups; enabling them to successfully carry out their projects.
Discover us!
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Bastien
Bastien Beuret
A professional construction engineer, Bastien worked for eight years in the Île-de-France region in the real estate industry, where he developed expertise in managing complex projects. In 2022, he redirected his career towards creating more sustainable and equitable housing and workspaces. A resident of Héder, a participatory housing project south of Quimperlé, he is also a facilitator in shared governance, trained at the Université du Nous.
Heder
France
Vincent
Vincent Rueda
A former industrial engineer, I changed careers to dedicate my energy to the common good with Les Pas-Sages. What drives me? Contributing to the emergence of new ways of being in the world and in relation to life. Since 2020, I have been putting this vision into practice in Portugal and supporting the emergence and connection of non-speculative common goods in France, Europe, and beyond.
Colmeia 62
Portugal
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Mika
MikaWsen, born Jean-Michel
Lawyer, real estate professional, Participatory Housing mentor and coach specializing in housing cooperatives and amicable conflict resolution in collectives.
Joy is my compass.
Argoumbat
France
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Ingrid
Ingrid Avot
Trained as an architect and urban planner, Ingrid Avot led urban projects for ten years at the Nicolas Michelin agency before founding A-Tipic in 2012, dedicated to supporting participatory housing projects in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Drawing on her dual professional and practical expertise, acquired notably through the UNISSON project in Montreuil (93), which she initiated and supported, she provides project management assistance (AMO) and project management support (AMU), in collaboration with a network of partners, and is a member of RAHP.
A-Tipic
France
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Guillemette
Guillemette de Monteil
An architect-activist since 2002, she spent ten years in Quebec working on participatory housing projects, a formative experience focused on the role of users in the design process. Back in France, she also works with the ACAtryo group, combining skills and experience to facilitate group dynamics, co-programming, architectural co-design, and governance, in close collaboration with users and professionals.
A-Tipic
France
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Marine
Marine Guezennec
Having been involved for several years in facilitating the local participatory housing network and a happy resident of a project near Caen, I support groups of residents in fully taking their place as leaders of their collective and real estate projects. My goal: to support the emergence of participatory housing and experiment with design methods that integrate the collective from the outset, in order to build living spaces managed collectively in a spirit of joy, conviviality, and solidarity.
Participe Présent / ARDES
France
They took the step
A perfect blend of professionalism and enthusiasm. Always the right answer combined with joy.
What a great support on a daily basis! They know how to convey a new paradigm in a concise, concrete and simple way.
Infinite gratitude.
La colline d'Arcadie
"Clarity in the vision of cooperation and the sense of implementing it on a legal and financial level. A network and expert advice on crucial technical points."
Michael
Aérium
"Fantastic help regarding the legal structure and, above all, a beginning of understanding the relational and human issues that underlie the life of a collective."
Cécile
La ferme de Rangarnaud
"We started with values, from way up high, in a creative, almost spiritual process. And then we descended into the concrete and little by little, we arrived drafting our internal regulations and statutes. We could have taken any statute from the internet, but it would not have been confronted with (and made stronger by) our specific difficulties and enriched by all you brought us. And that is truly precious."
Pascal
Projet Kironia
"Les Pas-Sages brought us group cohesion, maintaining our mobilization during a period of 'slowdown'."
Marion
Transalpin.es
"I don't know how we would have managed without them... In terms of mediation and legal expertise."
Françoise
Hameau des Buis
"First, help to overcome our fears: yes, setting up a legal structure was within our reach. Then the technical means to do it and finally a collection of useful experiences to go faster while avoiding errors!”
Maison de Rochebelle
"A straightforward view of risks with safety nets and good support for the sustainability of the project "
Michel
Les Jardins de Miramont
Weekly meeting to answer your questions
Every week Friday at
5 PM Central European Time (Paris Madrid)
4 PM UTC (London/Lisbon)
11 AM Easter Time (New-York)
8 AM Pacific Time (California)
Curious and got some questions? We invite you to join our call—we’ll happily answer any queries you might have and help you uncover potential next steps. See you there!
