Amateur's practice, as it is taught at the ENACR, is above all else a “school for life”. Participants are supposed to develop their capacity to share, their feeling for solidarity and responsibility. They are meant to acquire qualities, which might change their approach to every day's life.

Furthermore, the various educational acts are supposed to increase the capacity to observe, to sharpen the spectator's look, to enable her/him to become an attentive and active member of a show's public.

The whole apprenticeship is based on the sensation of pleasure. It should stimulate a pleasure of inventive playing, of intense physical work, of partaking with others. Practice for amateurs, as it is understood at the ENACR, is not limited to learning techniques. It also aims at expanding ones capacity of listening, of observation and concentration. One discovers one's endurance and one becomes aware of the importance of the other in the creative process.