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We are two researchers from the CIRNEF (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Normand en Éducation et Formation) of the University of Caen Normandie who have worked for five years with professionals from an Educational Success Programme. Based on a set of shared actions, initiated by a request for training, we have built relationships that have led us to share our professional otherness and to bring our two professional worlds closer together. It is the story of this involvement that we are proposing here, which through its analysis aims to contribute to the reflections that animate researchers on their relationships with the people they work with, within the framework of research or training. The type of commitment described here is neither about research, training, nor action-research, it defends the status of proximity researchers who are part of the anthropological exchange tradition as well as of a hybrid form falling somewhere between intervention, accompaniment, partnership and research.