Abstract
This article presents a theoretical reflection on the study of processes of learning anddevelopment at work in the training environments which intentionally cause trainees toconsider other peoples’ worlds. These environments are based on videos of real work or on thein-situ observation of simulations and/or supported accompanied practices. They solicitarticulation between mimetic, reflexive, projective and play processes. Over the 2011-2020period, three studies on video-training and/or simulation situations in various professional fields(teachers, midwifes and carriage drivers training) were carried out within the framework of theempirical research program known as the “Course of action” (Theureau, 2004, 2006) or as“enactive cultural anthropology” (Theureau, 2015). Theoretical modelling was developed toaccount for these silent and complex social mimesis processes (Wulf, 2007) of linking agents’experiences (immersion, imitation, emulation, “acting similarly to”, representation,anticipation). This theoretical reduction based on the hexatomy of the course of action unit opensup some methodological paths to both better comprehend the implicit dimensions of physicaland sensitive activity, that are very highly active in this relation to the world of others and tobetter understand the conditions of action performativity (mimesis as a creative remake vsmimesis as a copy of reality).