The Professional Codevelopment Group was developed by Adrien Payette, then professor at the National School of Public Administration, and Claude Champagne, industrial psychologist and specialist in organizational development, in Quebec, Canada, in the 1980s.

 

Two general objectives:

1. Understand and act better to improve one's professional practice and/or one's mastery of a profession or an art;

2. Understand and act better in order to learn how to better solve complex problems.

 

The dimensions of co-construction, collaboration, sharing, individual and collective reflection of co-development are at the center of this approach, based on the idea that one can "learn on one's own practice, by listening and helping colleagues. to progress in understanding [individual and collective reflection] and the effective improvement of their [professional] practice" (Payette & Champagne, 1997, p. 8), always based on real-life situations.