Les décisions collégiales lors de la covid-19 : témoin d’une sollicitude collective ?

During the period of the first lockdown in France, the mobilization of the caregivers was strong. Collegiate decisions were reached to reorganize certain care activities and review our ways of doing things. It seems to us that we were able to show “collective solicitude”. First, we determine what constituted this movement of solicitude. We use Paul Ricœur's definition in his book Soi-même comme un autre, and in particular the importance he gives to self-esteem. We also situated the fundamental place of the other in the construction of solicitude and more broadly in the care relationship. We then sought to know if this mobilization could be shared. We offer some possible answers and, above all, lines of reflection. How can we define a “we” in care other than what the institution offers us? In Ricoeur's work, the institution is defined as a place where interpersonal relations are set aside. What then are the resources, the conditions for succeeding in “being one”? This period was characterized for the caregivers by marked recognition of their function but also by considerable vulnerability. Finally, we endeavored to show “active solidarity”.