AGILITY WITH NO BORDERS
Agility at the service of all, without limit.
WHO ARE WE ?
To enable disadvantaged people to achieve a life of greater dignity for themselves, at the end of 2019, we created the Agility With No Borders collective, with the desire to make our skills available as part of socio-humanitarian missions.
We are seasoned practitioners with 25 to 30 years' experience, both French and English-speaking, who have worked on agile organizational transformations. We use a multi-disciplinary approach based on a variety of postures at the service of the human being: innovative playful facilitation, inverted pedagogy, solution-oriented mentoring, brief coaching and agile management.
We are united by a singular approach that is our signature: "dialogic" accompaniment: we encourage learning, appropriation, creativity, a critical eye, autonomy and collaboration, because we don't force change.
We invite stakeholders into solution-generating spaces, fostering appreciative and constructive dialogue.
We are also particularly sensitive to the development and reinforcement among young people of the essential 21st century skills identified by the World Economic Forum, such as: critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity/innovation, collaboration/group work, adaptability, initiative-taking, persistence, etc...
Our main experiences
2020/2021 – Youth mentoring, via the dema1n.org platform
2021/2022 – Teaching French to adult migrants with our dialogic approaches
2023 – SRI LANKA, MASKELIYA, in collaboration with the local NGO TEA LEAF VISION
(support for disadvantaged young people from tea plantations)
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Master-class with teachers to transmit to them our 'dialogical' pedagogy approaches, ie participatory and emergent rather than instructional
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Agile management 3.0 master class with NGO supervisors
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Employability and micro-entrepreneurship workshops with young people aged 19/26
2024 – NEPAL, in collaboration with the local NGO NEEM, in the Chapakot region,
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Workshop with rural women's community to improve their cooperative's income
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Workshop in a primary school to stimulate creativity, collaboration and work in small groups
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Dialogic workshop at a tailor, with several women to learn how to make reusable sanitary napkins (in collaboration with the “Soie Rouge” association).
2024 – SRI LANKA
(project currently being developed for our second visit in July)
We are looking for / We offer
We would like to join projects where our skills would be useful, for example on the following topics. We are of course open to any new ideas.
For young people aged 16/25
Employability and
micro-entrepreneurship
Goals
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Facilitate access to employment.
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Make them want to set up their local micro-enterprise.
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Allow young people to stay close to their family and support their loved ones.
Program
Course of 4 to 6 workshops of 3 hours
(followed by local or remote support) for
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take stock of themselves, their motivations, their values, their abilities, their desires
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shape their projects,
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practical notebook provided
For women in rural communities
Economic, social and economic empowerment = dignity.
Goals
Allow women in rural communities to live with dignity, by achieving economic independence, while having their identity and social status recognized.
Program
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Facilitation of 'dialogical' workshops to allow these communities to imagine/decide/implement initiatives by themselves.
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Transmission of our animation techniques so that they become autonomous.
For NGO staff members
The dialogic approach to creating generative spaces for creativity and engagement
Goals
Here, we share with you all our ingredients to support diverse populations, with an “off-center and influential” posture. You encourage the search for solutions by people, considered experts in their subject, within spaces for structured, appreciative and constructive dialogue.
Program
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Master-Class of 4 to 8 modules of 3 hours depending on your availability: the dialogic versus diagnostic approach, the posture, the 'contract', ludinnovate facilitation techniques, solution-focus language,...
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Local or remote support
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Super Practical Guide (in French or English)
For local teachers
Posture & techniques of collaborative and generative teaching
Goals
Provide alternatives to traditional, primarily “instructional/top-down” teaching, limiting the acquisition of essential 21st century skills , such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity/innovation, collaboration/teamwork, adaptability, taking initiative, persistence, etc.
(*) according to the World Economic Forum, the OECD, the EEC
Program
Master-Class of 4 to 6 modules + local or remote support
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Posture for creating and leading generative learning spaces: HOST LEADERSHIP
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Appreciative and constructive facilitation techniques: the FOCUS SOLUTION
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Fun and pragmatic workshops: LIBERATING STRUCTURES
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Practical notebook provided
For kids ...and adults
To bridge
the digital divide
(Digital Literacy)
Goals
Bridging the digital divide among disadvantaged populations, through the discovery and mastery of digital essentials: use of a computer, the Internet, Office-type applications, communication tools. Awareness of data protection and security basics. Discovery of AI.
Program
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Up to 8 modules of 2 hours, adapted according to the audience (children, young people, adults)
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Optional: modules to learn how to develop simple games or applications in a fun way, without code
For NGO managers
Agile culture for NGO++
Goals
Motivate employees, create autonomous teams, embrace complexity, stimulate learning and continuous improvement, etc. thanks to the contributions of agile culture
Program
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Master-Class of 4 modules of 3 hours
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Local or remote support
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Super Practical Guide (in French or English)
How do we do ?
OUR “DIALOGIC” SIGNATURE
We have integrated 100% pragmatic practices from our 30 years of experience as change leaders, as part of major agile transformations of various organizations.
Over time, we have observed that dialogue is ultimately the best tool that humans have to develop solutions, learn in depth, build skills, develop critical thinking, etc. Here we find the essential skills of 21st century identified by major institutions such as the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, the OECD, the EEC, etc.
Stimulated by continuous research and development, in 2018, we crossed paths with other followers of similar practices, having formalized the “dialogical development of organizations”.
For the record, their work is based on the constructionist movement (philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, etc.) of the 1950s, advocating dialogue as a vector of generative, stimulating, empowering and long-term change, in opposition to classic practices. of prescribed change, top-down, short-term and doomed to failure.
We therefore claim a strong membership in these approaches, using major standards from various communities (agility, brief therapy, narrative practices, etc.)
Our ingredients, our references
(for the curious)
Depending on the situation, we use the following ingredients, in a 100% frugal and invisible way - apologizing for the technical vocabulary, but don't worry, it's behind the scenes which remains invisible to the people you we accompany.
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The friendly family of “LIBERATING STRUCTURES” workshops by Henri LIPMANOWICZ and Keith McCANDLESS to facilitate fruitful interactions
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HOST LEADERSHIP by Mark McKERGOW, to create generative spaces for creativity and engagement
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the SOLUTION FOCUS language, from brief therapy, to cultivate appreciative and constructive interactions
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the NARRATIVE practices of Michael WHITE and David ESPSTON, to repair stories,
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REVERSE PEDAGOGY by Sharon BOWMAN to switch from an instructional pedagogy to an inverted pedagogy, maximizing learning ("Training from the Back of the Room")
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The Golden Circle, by Simon SINEK to quickly frame a business idea,
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Ash MAURYA's LEAN CANVAS to facilitate the emergence of new activities/services
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the MOBIUS LOOP by Gabrielle BENEFIELD as an engine of continuous evolution
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MANAGEMENT 3.0 to install agile leadership
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HEART OF AGILE by Alistair COKBURN to benefit from the benefits of agile culture
Our publications
Depending on the audience, we provide “Super Practical Guides”, in French or English, to extend the experiences we give them.
