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For... what?

Agility With No Borders is an NGO created in 2019 by Laurent and Sophie Sarrazin to develop social, financial, professional autonomy, and dignity for different audiences: disadvantaged people, professional transition, young dropouts.

 

Who we are

We are a collective of experienced practitioners in supporting organizations, teams and individuals, applying the best practices of the agile culture, solution-focus coaching, narrative practices.

 

What we do

We intervene, in France and abroad (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cape Verde, etc.) in the following areas:

  • Youth Employability

  • Agile Micro-Entrepreneurship (young people, adults)

  • The Awakening of 21st Century Skills (Teachers, Youth)

  • The useful adoption of AIs (young people, adults, caregivers

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Our signature

  • A so-called "dialogical" posture, by creating spaces for generating solutions for the audiences concerned.

  • Courses in the form of pragmatic, appreciative and constructive workshops

  • A collection of "SUPER PRACTICAL GUIDES" given to participants to extend the experience

  • Universal Benchmarks: The World Economic Forum's 21st Century Core Competencies, the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals

  • We pass on our knowledge to local NGOs/Organizations to scale up the impact independently.

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Our main experiences

OUR ACTIONS

 

2025

FRANCE

Accompaniment of young people at the local intercommunal mission of Sartrouville (78)
Accompaniment of refugees who are new entrepreneurs (The Human Safety Net Program, with LA RUCHE

 

 

CAP-VERT

  • [Agile Entrepreneurship] Support for young people to develop their micro-business manufacturing furniture from pallets

  • [Women Programs] Reusable sanitary napkin creation workshop

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2024

2024 – PIVOD78 – France, le Vésinet

Master Class 'Agile Entrepreneurship' for people in career transition

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SRI LANKA, TEA LEAF VISION, Sept/Oct - 3 weeks (Maskeliya et Nuwera Eliya)

  • Dialogic Teaching, for 2023 Teachers + New Teachers + Teachers Trainers, with the new "SUPER PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR DIALOGIC TEACHING"

  • Employability and micro-entrepreneurship workshops with young people 19-26 years old, with 2 classes + the new "SUPER PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR AGILE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDS"

  • Agile Bootstrap of the entire NGO to implement their strategic plan with agile approaches (60 people, 2 days)

 

NEPAL, with the local NGO NEEM, in rural Chapakot,

  • Workshop with the rural women's community to improve the income of their cooperative

  • Workshop in an elementary school to stimulate creativity, collaboration and small group work

  • Workshop to design resusable sanitary pads

 

2023 – SRI LANKA, MASKELIYA,
in collaboration with the local NGO TEA LEAF VISION (support for disadvantaged young people from tea plantations)

  • Master-class with teachers to transmit to them our 'dialogical' pedagogical approaches, i.e. participatory and emerging rather than instructional

  • Agile management masterclass with the NGO's supervisors

  • Employability and micro-entrepreneurship workshops with young people 19-26 years old

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2020/2021 – Mentoring of young people, via the dema1n.org platform ("1 young person 1 solution")

 

2021/2022 – Teaching French to Migrants with Our Dialogical Approaches – Association AVEC, Houilles 78

We are looking for / We offer

We work on 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

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Goals

  • Facilitate access to employment.

  • Make them want to set up their local micro-enterprise.

  • Allow young people to stay close to their family and support their loved ones.

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Program

Course of 4 to 6 workshops of 3 hours
(followed by local or remote support) for

  • take stock of themselves, their motivations, their values, their abilities, their desires

  • shape their projects,

  • practical notebook provided

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For women in rural communities

Economic, social and economic empowerment = dignity.

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Goals

Allow women in rural communities to live with dignity, by achieving economic independence, while having their identity and social status recognized.

 

Program

  • Facilitation of 'dialogical' workshops to allow these communities to imagine/decide/implement initiatives by themselves.

  • Transmission of our animation techniques so that they become autonomous.

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For NGO staff members

The dialogic approach to creating generative spaces for creativity and engagement

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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.​

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Program

  • 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,...

  • Local or remote support

  • Super Practical Guide (in French or English)

For local teachers

Posture & techniques of collaborative and generative teaching

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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

  • Posture for creating and leading generative learning spaces: HOST LEADERSHIP

  • Appreciative and constructive facilitation techniques: the FOCUS SOLUTION

  • Fun and pragmatic workshops: LIBERATING STRUCTURES

  • Practical notebook provided

For kids ...and adults

To bridge
the digital divide
(Digital Literacy)

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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.

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Program

  • Up to 8 modules of 2 hours, adapted according to the audience (children, young people, adults)

  • Optional: modules to learn how to develop simple games or applications in a fun way, without code

For NGO managers

Agile culture for NGO++

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Goals

Motivate employees, create autonomous teams, embrace complexity, stimulate learning and continuous improvement, etc. thanks to the contributions of agile culture​

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Program

  • Master-Class of 4 modules of 3 hours

  • Local or remote support

  • Super Practical Guide (in French or English)

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How do we do ?

OUR “DIALOGIC” SIGNATURE

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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)

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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

  • HOST LEADERSHIP by Mark McKERGOW, to create generative spaces for creativity and engagement

  • the SOLUTION FOCUS language, from brief therapy, to cultivate appreciative and constructive interactions

  • the NARRATIVE practices of Michael WHITE and David ESPSTON, to repair stories,

  • REVERSE PEDAGOGY by Sharon BOWMAN to switch from an instructional pedagogy to an inverted pedagogy, maximizing learning ("Training from the Back of the Room")

  • The Golden Circle, by Simon SINEK to quickly frame a business idea,

  • Ash MAURYA's LEAN CANVAS to facilitate the emergence of new activities/services

  • the MOBIUS LOOP by Gabrielle BENEFIELD as an engine of continuous evolution

  • MANAGEMENT 3.0 to install agile leadership

  • 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.

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