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Dear friends,

I would like to ask your advice about 'How organisations change' when they start using the Community Life Competence Process. The input of this discussion will serve as content for the new Constellation website that will be launched in January.

What changes in organisations when they use the approach?

- increased team spirit
- we move from being experts to being facilitators
- we change our vision about the communities we work with: from beneficiaries to human beings with strengths

What else? Do you have examples that illustrate one of these principles?

Thank you,

Laurence

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Dear friends,

This is the content of the 'organisations change' page so far:

Organisations change

Nurturing team spirit
SALT brings people together. When people listen and appreciate each other, it motivates them to work as a team they connect better on a personal level. That is the power of SALT.

“The new dialogue and the new way of looking for strengths and appreciating each other have healed the division within our organization.” Nonthathon, SWING, Thailand.
"We started from a pattern where everyone complained about what didn't work - and blamed the others. Now we know that we can improve, that we are all responsible and we do our best. My colleague said: "In stead of complaining about the obscurity, it is better to switch on the light!" Without the presence of the facilitation team, we wouldn't have been able to do this." Christoph Boaraeve, lawyer from Belgium


From expert to facilitator
Roles change: from experts, people become facilitators. In their interactions with others, they leave behind their references to a world made of experts and uneducated people, clerics and lay persons, rich and poor, donors and recipients. They then become free to share their experience and to appreciate others.

“The ACP is a very useful tool in order to remind staffs to draw out insights from the communities and look for good things instead of the bad things or the problems. The ACP is an eye opener.” John Piermont Montilla, KGPP, Philippines.

From beneficiaries to human beings with strengths
When organisations use SALT they change their outlook on communities. People recognize that we are all human, moved by similar hopes and concerns. They can then recognize the strengths in others and connect as equal human beings.

"To start implementing SALT was very hard, as I couldn’t see my role in the future. Today I find more space and interest on it as people love, need and request visits that help them feel more capable, important and valuable rather than the boring condition of poor, victim and beneficiary as we are used to make them feel."
Joao Vembane, Handicap International, Mozambique


Response to issues in the work place
Whether you are a private company, a non-profit organisation or a government agency, you can introduce Community Life Competence in your organization. People then open the discussion about an issue of concern, they build a common vision and respond to it together. More about the Community Life Competence Process.

Dr Kamran Hameed of the Aga Khan University Hospital sees the AIDS Competence process as being the catalyst which has brought the diverse elements of the network together. For the first time in his experience, they see a common purpose and a common goal.
The AIDS Competence Process has now been integrated into the policy of AKDN and already practical benefits are being delivered. These range from institutions seeing large increases in the number of staff volunteering to establish their HIV status through to sharing information on access to ARVs.


Do you want to try the Community Life Competence Process in your organisations? More here

What do you think about this? Did I miss some important point?

Thank you

Laurence

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