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Michel Lobrot was born on January 22, 1924 and died on March 21, 2019 he was a psychopedagogue, philosopher, the introducer and the founder of Interventional Non-Directivity (NDI).

BIOGRAPHY
Michel Lobrot was born on 22 January 1924 in Paris. He become member of the Dominicans in 1943, and atheist in 1949. From 1951 to 1956, he was a professor of literature, Latin and philosophy at Neuilly, at Domfront, in Strabourg, and at Gérardmer. He graduates philosophy in 1956. From 1956 to 1958, teaches psychopedagogy at Ecole Normale d'Arras.

From 1958 to 1969, he teaches children's psychology at the National Center for Special Education in Beaumont-sur-Oise (CNPS), founded in 1947 and discontinued in 2002. This institution offered education to teachers for children with disabilities and discapacities. In this center they worked with pedagogical practices based on the Rogerian psychology. He participated in one of the currents, animated by Raymond Fonvieille, for institutional pedagogy with Georges Lapassade and Rene Lourau. His firts book was published in 1966 by Gauthier-Villars editions and is titled ''The Pedagogical Institution. Scale versus autogestion'', with a preview of Jacques Ardoino. In parallel, he is French civilization professor in the Sorbonne.

In 1969, he was professor in the Departement of Sciences of the Université de Paris, at the Vincennes Experimental University Center, dedicated not only to the Institutional Pedagogy, but also to non-directive facilitation of groups.

Between 1968 and 1973, he participated in Spain, after the request of the head of the mission of Unesco in Madrid, to the Institutes of Education Sciences for the establishment of free and compulsory education.

He retired early in 1986. He then concentrated on lectures, training seminars, treatment groups and expression groups in France, but mainly abroad: first in Mexico, in Canada, in Greece, then in Argentina. He later worked in Italy, Morocco and Algeria.