When team building becomes a social and solidarity lever

Halage: growing integration through nature and floral culture

In Île-Saint-Denis, the Halage association transforms urban wastelands and abandoned lands into productive gardens and learning spaces. Since 1994, it has relied on the environment to support people in social or professional difficulty, offering them technical supervision and practical training in horticulture, landscaping and local flower production. Within Fleurs d'Halage, flower cultivation in Île-de-France becomes both a sustainable economic activity and an opportunity for integration for people far from employment. The projects and training offered allow the development of real skills while participating in a collective project that respects nature.

For companies, Halage opens the door to a different team building: your employees can immerse themselves in the soil, plant, cultivate and understand the issues of floral relocation while contributing to a solidarity project. An experience that combines team cohesion, practical learning and tangible social impact.

La Cravate Solidaire: reinventing image for better integration

Since its creation in Paris in 2012, La Cravate Solidaire fights against obstacles to employment related to appearance and self-confidence. Present in around fifteen French cities, the association organizes workshops called Ateliers Coup de Pouce, where job seekers benefit from image advice, interview support, and appropriate professional attire, often from clothing collections conducted with companies and individuals.

This concrete system – from coaching to photo sessions – allows participants to leave not only with an outfit, but also with greater confidence to face the job market. For company teams, engaging with La Cravate Solidaire can go well beyond a simple philanthropic gesture: organizing a clothing collection or leading workshops in pairs with beneficiaries brings employees together around a strong objective: promoting access to employment for people far from opportunities.

Big Bloom: thinking together to act even better

At the crossroads of social innovation and the collective, Big Bloom offers companies applied collective intelligence formats, such as solidarity hackathons, collaborative workshops and training that put participants' talents at the service of a beneficiary association. Through structured creativity methods, Big Bloom helps organizations generate concrete ideas, solve social challenges and strengthen employee engagement.

With more than 15,000 employees involved and hundreds of events to its credit, each Big Bloom session is designed as a learning experience: participants not only exchange, they produce useful and mobilizable solutions for the benefit of general interest actors.

When team building is reinvented for the benefit of the collective

These three initiatives – both social, local and deeply human – show that team building can go beyond simple entertainment. At Halage, La Cravate Solidaire or Big Bloom, companies find formats that resonate with their CSR values, while offering their teams enriching experiences that are meaningful and transformative.

Whether it's rolling up your sleeves in a flower field, accompanying a person to their first job, or thinking together about innovative solutions for a cause, these solidarity paths become unifying moments where team cohesion and social impact go hand in hand.