Flora Bernard

Flora Bernard is a philosopher and practitioner and co-founder of the Thaé philosophy agency, which she has run for over thirteen years. Driven by the conviction that philosophy is not reserved for amphitheaters but that it can nourish daily action, she supports leaders, managers and teams through reflections on the meaning of work, cooperation, trust and major contemporary challenges.

With an approach that is both demanding and accessible, she also works in schools, leading philosophical workshops for children, in order to help them think about essential issues such as freedom, friendship, living together or truth, and to develop a culture of dialogue and listening.

She is the author of Managing with the Philosophers (Dunod, 2016) and, with Marion Genaivre, Decision-making: a bit of philosophy for professionals who want to decide differently (Dunod, 2021).

Trained in Social Therapy Intervention, the Human Element and Non-Violent Communication, Flora Bernard combines intellectual rigor and a humanist approach to make philosophy a concrete lever for individual and collective transformation.

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During the philosophy residency at La Rocabella, Flora Bernard will offer support focused on the living practice of thought, by exploring the theme of the quest for meaning through concrete philosophical methods and collective dynamics.

She will guide residents in times of structured reflection, inspired by applied philosophy practices: questions, reasoned dialogues, conceptual clarification exercises, and reformulation of ideas. Far from abstract jousting, it will encourage everyone to question their intuitions, their contradictions, and their commitments, in an approach that is at once demanding, benevolent and rooted in reality.

Thanks to her experience with diverse audiences — leaders, children, teams in transformation — Flora will create a space for co-reflection where residents can refine their posture, their message, and how they embody philosophy beyond the classroom.

It will also propose tools from non-violent communication, the human element and social therapy, to explore the link between thought, emotion and action, and to allow everyone to make their philosophical speech lively, committed and daring.

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