La méthode de la « trace imaginaire » : une introduction à l’analyse de l’activité en clinique du travail ?

The ‘imaginary trace’ method was devised and tested during an intervention within the clinical approach to work. This intervention was conducted in distant mode, without any traces of activity or access to the field. The context was the COVID-19 pandemic, and the professionals were swimming coaches who presented and discussed their work in remote meetings. The dialogue extracts presented highlight the value of this method for the analysis of these professionals’ own activity and the emergence of the issues that this activity entails for them.