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After studying psychology, Dominique became a School and Professional Guidance Counselor in the National Education.

He then held national and international responsibilities in the Youth and International Solidarity Movements: National Animator then General Commissioner of the Scouts of France, Director of recruitment and training at the French Association of Volunteers for Progress,

Director of the European Scout Bureau, then Director of Educational Methods and Deputy General Secretary at the World Scout Bureau. In the last 10 years, he has been an international consultant responsible for programs of emancipation and social and professional integration of young adults. He lives with his wife in a small village in the Alps (Haute-Savoie).

Dominique is passionate about drawing, watercolor painting, photography, hiking, life in nature and cooperative pedagogies.

Larry has been working in the fields of adventure and experiential education for over 30 years. As a trainer and senior consultant, he applies immersive and experiential approaches to the challenges of team and organizational development.

Authentic and relational, Larry fosters awareness and connection while addressing themes of team effectiveness, emotional intelligence, culture and conflict. He also specializes in supporting clients in adapting their own facilitation and teaching practices through experience.

He is also a writer, speaker and social entrepreneur. He has launched, developed and documented various initiatives in hundreds of schools and organizations. Its clients, from urban and rural school districts to small and large businesses and non-profit organizations, are local, national and international and cover all five continents.

Larry also teaches courses accredited by Plymouth State University, in partnership with the association Project Adventure, as part of their master’s program in adventure education and experiential learning and development.

He holds an MSc in International Administration from the School for International Training/World Learning, a BSc from Middlebury College and is accredited in a wide range of conceptual models for human and organizational development.

Passionate about social justice and the environment, Larry has been a consultant to immigration organizations and has volunteered on several boards of directors of non-profit organizations, including the NGO Tassaght in Mali, of which he was one of the co-founders.

He currently lives in the hills of western Massachusetts with his wife, where he enjoys outdoor sports, dancing, gardening and occasional visits from their two adult sons

Roland has held important responsibilities in the associative life and especially in Scouting, to which he feels personally very indebted.

If he had not crossed paths with the ”Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France” (non-denominational French Scout Association) during the four years he spent in his youth at the Ecole Normale d'Enseignants and if he had not been allowed to take on responsibilities very early on, he would probably not have had the chance to give the same meaning to his life and to realize a professional career that is fascinating because it is rich above all in human relations.

Indeed, seconded by the Ministry of Education, he successively held the responsibilities of regional coordinator for Alsace and Lorraine, of secretary general and then of general delegate at the national level in the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France.

He ended his career as Director of Programs and then Director of Volunteering at the Association Française des Volontaires du Progrès (AFVP), now France Volontaires.

For the last ten years, in the early stages of his retirement, he has worked as a consultant for the associative world and the solidarity economy.

On a voluntary basis, he was president of the Union Nationale des Centres de Plein Air (UCPA) and general treasurer of the Jeunesse au Plein Air (JPA).

Alain is currently a consultant in the management of associations and establishments in the health, social and healthcare sector within the framework of the company Réseau Jannoy.

He is also a clinical psychologist at the multidisciplinary health center in Grignols, a rural commune in southern Gironde. He is also passionate and a professor of aikido, a martial art that is also an art of peace.

Previously, he learned a lot as part of the Scouts of France movement where he was responsible for the national animation of the elder branch, then engaged in the medico-social sector: prevention of drug addiction, socio-professional integration of young people, director of an educational and pedagogical therapeutic institute for young people with behavioural disorders, general manager of an association bringing together health, social and medico-social establishments.

With Magali, general manager of an Association of the Lot et Garonne, he lives a small house in the Landes surrounded by woods and meadows, with some horses and space to welcome friends.

Born in Paris in 1973, she develop very early a global vision of the world thanks to her travels, making her aware of inequalities and cultivating a deep feeling of empathy. 

After ten years as a rescuer at the Red Cross, she carry out relief, logistics and development missions in Indonesia, India, Cambodia, and Algeria where she meet the director of the Palestinian Red Crescent.

In 2002, she made her first humanitarian report on paramedics in Ramallah, awarded the Care International Prize. Follow other reports, notably in Khan Younes and in Bosnia.

Faced with ecological and human disasters, she turns to the environment and solidarity economy. In 2010, she founded the non-profit organization Wake Up! in Brussels and creates the Green Up Film Festival to raise public awareness of environmental and social issues. Design, sponsors, partnerships, contracts, communication, website, she managed the entire project alone.

In 2016, Anne-Laure collaborated with Greenpeace for a 100% online version of the festival, which reached nearly one million spectators in 139 countries in 2019.

Since 2020, she has been training in permaculture, phytotherapy, and naturopathy, while sharing her time between France and Crete.

During his studies, Patrick was a volunteer member of the national team of the senior section of the Scouts de France (the Compagnons - 17 to 21 years old).

He began his professional life at the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education (INJEP), where he was in charge of studies on youth policies. In 1987, he became editor in chief of the magazine "Les cahiers de l'animation".

In 1989, he was placed at the disposal of the French National Commission for UNESCO and, in 1991, he was elected Secretary General of the WFUCA (World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations) where he initiated a new policy for the training of managers.

From 2006 to 2012, he joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement to work on the Centenary of Scouting and its follow-up.

Since 2013, he has served several terms on the NGO Liaison Committee to UNESCO and the Association of Former UNESCO Officials.

From 1977 to 2014, he was also a regular lecturer at the University in contemporary history and cultural policies.

• 40 years of experience in the design, development, implementation and monitoring-evaluation of financing systems for development.

• Economist from the University of Vienna (Austria) MBA (ESSCA Angers).

• Works in 5 languages.

• Managed a hospital in the Brazilian Amazon.

• Worked in European solidarity and social investment organizations: Head of the Africa Department of CCFD, in the 1980s. Executive Director of RAFAD/FIG, Geneva in the 1990s, then 2001 at SIDI and for which he was responsible for solidarity investments until 2015 in areas as varied as Latin America, the Sahel, illegally occupied Palestine, southern Africa as well as relations with continental solidarity finance networks.

• Directed the SIDI www.sidi.fr from 2022 to 2025.

• Still sits in a dozen governance of networks of solidarity actors including the GSEF, the FEBEA, the RIEH but also in that of institutions from the South, in Lebanon (FTL) in Palestine (DAMAN), in Burkina Faso (UBTEC-Naams), in Malawi (Centenary Bank), in Peru (ProEmpresa) but also in the North (Philea, Geneva) or On.Capital (Paris), which allows to create numerous synergies.

Dante has spent most of his professional career in the field of international solidarity and more particularly in the field of volunteer work.

After studying agricultural development, he spent two years in Senegal as a volunteer on a rural development program in a small town in the Sine-Saloum region. This was a powerful experience that marked his career and allowed him to discover other people, other places and ultimately himself.

After resuming his studies in socio-economics of development, he joined the structure of the French Association of Volunteers for Progress and was posted in different countries (Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Senegal) in charge of accompanying volunteers and monitoring projects.

In the 2000s he returned to the Paris headquarters of the association where he successively held the positions of Director of Volunteering and then of Development. In 2004, he was appointed to the position of General Delegate until 2014 when he retired.

During these 10 years he led the transformation of the association which became France Volontaires, a platform for French volunteering and an operator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also took part in the implementation and management of the civic service. He has also worked with various institutions and ministries, as well as with associations dedicated to international solidarity and youth issues.

Because of his family history and his personal and professional career, Dante has always been a committed person and continues to act as a volunteer in different associations at the local, national and international levels.

He has also been involved in the local community in his small southwestern commune.

Psychologist and facilitator in popular education, she is deeply convinced of the power of the collective. With a professional background in South America, Mexico, Africa, and France, in contact with diverse populations, facilitators, volunteers, professionals, executives, and managers, she has acquired rich experience that combines the social, the individual within the collective, and the individual in the face of their own contradictions.

She is convinced of the power of collective intelligence to change the world. Carolina is a creative, curious, active and committed person.

She currently resides in the French Alps with her husband and two children, who have brought light to her life and to the world.

Michel was born in Nice in 1941 where he studied and read extensively in his father's bookstore.

He taught in the Berry region, in Alès and in Nice.

In the 70's, he was part of the national team of Scouts de France as Deputy General Commissioner and responsible for the elder branch.

Living in the hinterland of Nice, he contributes to local magazines, has published short stories, three "Niçois polars" and recently Le jeu du jour, 365 jeux pour sourire chaque jour de l'année (The game of the day, 365 games for smiling every day of the year) and two volumes of Les Associés du Grand Platane (The associates of the Great Plane Tree), the generous and exciting adventures of the pupils of the Cours Moyen de l'école des Collinettes (Middle School of the Collinettes).

Michel lives since 2017 in the Périgord noir, in Dordogne. He was born in 1948 and he has been retired since 2008. He has three children who are in their 40s and two grandchildren under 10 years old. He currently lives alone.

His training and militant experience are very important to Catholic action and the CFDT.
During his professional life, he was successively an adult educator, confederal secretary at the CFDT, a senior manager at the ANPE, and a consultant in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility.

In retirement, he studied Arabic language and civilization at the INALCO then he engaged as executive secretary of the International Network for a Human Economy (www.rieh.org).
He is an active member of the Pacte civique, a member himself of the Pacte du pouvoir de vivre.

He also tries to contribute to making the Périgord noir a territory of cooperation between all those who want to exercise their power to live well together, among human beings and with the living.

He believes it is urgent and vital to carry out a cultural action or popular education to resist the wave of anti-humanism which wants to impose the law of the strongest and richest and build the common home that all people of goodwill desire.

For many years, Francis has cultivated a deep commitment to education, cooperation, and human development.

Trained early on in leadership and pedagogy within the Scouts of France, he guided young people in learning responsibility, community, and autonomy.

This formative experience continues to inform his approach today: sharing knowledge, clarifying information, and empowering everyone.

Throughout his professional career, he has dedicated his skills to training, team support, and prevention, with a constant focus on the human and educational dimensions of organizations.

Known for his ability to make complex issues accessible, he champions an approach based on understanding, participation, and cooperation. Actively involved in community organizations, he continues this mission today as a trainer and consultant, committed to the quality of relationships, pedagogy, and knowledge transfer.

Sensitive to approaches that respect living things—organic beekeeping, oenology, bonsai cultivation—he cultivates a patient, attentive, and profoundly humanist vision.

He joined APAC in 2025 as secretary, convinced that cooperative approaches are an essential lever for strengthening education, solidarity, and the capacity for action of individuals and communities..