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QUARTERLY MAGAZINES
The magazine Cooperative Approaches appears four times a year.
Each issue addresses a specific problem of social life in two main parts:
The 1st part analyzes and deciphers the problem with the help of researchers and specialized stakeholders;;
The 2nd part gives a voice to activists from the voluntary sector and the social and solidarity economy who have initiated original and cooperative solutions.
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Educational Approaches n°28 is devoted to the GSEF
From October 29 to 31, 2025, the 7th World Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy was held for the first time in France, in Bordeaux. Approches Coopératives participated, and this issue, produced in partnership with the GSEF (Group for Social and Solidarity Economy), reports on the event through a series of articles and 18 interviews.
The GSEF brought together more than 10,000 people in Bordeaux, including 3,000 young people from 101 countries, to celebrate the strength that the social and solidarity economy now represents everywhere—in France, of course, but also across Europe and the five continents—as a proven driver of justice and economic inclusion.
SPECIAL ISSUES
In addition to the quarterly journal, Cooperatives Approaches publishes special issues on specific themes.
Examples:
Paradigma Fundacion;
Developing critical thinking;
The management of associations;
Young people in the development of the community.
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This special issue of the journal was produced in partnership with UCPA and the Scouts and Guides of France to report on a symposium organized in November 2025 by these two associations.
It brings together contributions from several organizations specializing in critical thinking education:
- The National Institute for Youth and Popular Education
- The Center for Media and Information
- Literacy
- La maison du geste et de l'image
- Cogito
- Enquête
- Les Petits Débrouillards
- Minus Editions
- The Léo Lagrange Federation
COOPERATIVES TOOLS - TRAINING
Cooperatives Approaches produces training tools on different topics that can help activists from the voluntary sector and the social and solidarity economy to master cooperative methods in the form of a visual presentation.
Let’s mention among others:
Analyze relationships within a group;
Systems thinking Knowledge management;
Mental models in organizations;
Appreciative Exploration.
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Appreciative exploration
This training tool helps you to discover and use a method of collective intelligence to imagine and implement, with the greatest chances of success, change projects, either at the level of individuals or at the level of organizations. Those who have done Scouting will easily find themselves there. They have a taste for exploration and take a positive look at the world.
Old Baden-Powell precoded what appreciative exploration is: "There are five per cent good, even in the most bad temper. The game consists of finding it, then developing it to a base of 80 or 90 percent.
The opposite approach consists of paying attention to defects, problems and shortcomings, and it leads to failure most of the time, both in the field of education and in the field of organizational management. It is not a matter of ignoring the problems, but of asking 'what are our strengths to be able to do better?'
Appreciative exploration makes us discover a truth that every leader should meditate on: OUR ABILITY TO CREATE POSITIVE IMAGES, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE, IS A COGNITIVE SKILL WE MUST DEVELOP.
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