Axiom News interviewed Jean Louis Lamboray briefly last week during the festival on what he sees both this gathering and the Community Life Competence process being a story about. Thanks to Jean Louis for taking a few moments for the conversation, and to Rituu for arranging this.

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As I reflect on the last week at the Global Learning Festival at Chennai, images, thoughts and feelings crowd in.

The overwhelming feeling left with me is that it was extraordinary how people felt so full of hope, joy and solidarity. People from across continents, speaking totally different languages could bond together, and feel such a sense of harmony and connectedness. I too felt so connected with myself and with others

What was the magic? What happened in those 5 days that…

On paper, our pursuit of economic growth, self-reliance, and social justice in Swaziland is very much in line with the Busan principles. In practice, there is another story.

In 1988, the Swazi government embarked on a comprehensive planning system designed to meet emerging and serious challenges such as poverty and economic instability. Now complete, the Swaziland National Development Strategy (NDS) articulates the country’s…

There is something interesting related with our capacity to express curiosity. In my culture, curiosity has been considered a tendency that needed to be controlled, specially among women. Still today it is considered as an intrusion into other people's lives, and a behaviour to be avoided for a good social interaction.

I haven't thought very much about it until I went to visit this small community affected by the tsunami in the region of Tamil Nadu, India. And curiosity is what…

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As part of the Global Learning Festival in Chennai, India we were invited to a field trip to visit a community that has been exposed to the SALT process.  I was intrigued by the openness of a small village far far away from civilization.  When working with the business sector I rarely get exposed to a community so up close and personal.  The…

I ended my previous, and first, blog entry with a mention of the cultural event that was about to begin when I made my post. All I can tell you now is that it was one heck of an evening! It started around 7.30 pm and went on till midnight, with just half an hour’s break in the middle for dinner. I mean it very sincerely when I say that the talents we were witness to yesterday were so amazing that they could give the people on TV talent shows a run for their money!

Mahesh Iyer and team…

Hi, everyone! I am Aniruddh, and I am new around here. I am in Mahabalipuram at the Global Learning Festival, learning, sharing, documenting and translating. Since so many of you could not make it here and are eager to know what is going on, I thought I’d share with you some of my notes from Day 3 of the event.

We started the day with the appreciation of good music. Alli Sudar, a visually challenged artist, played a short melody on his flute, thus setting the right mood for…

Fabian, a member of BelCompetence in Belgium, has asked me to share his story with the participants of the Global Learning Festival. He tried to post a video but had technical issues, so below is a written summary.

Feel welcome to share your comments,…

In early 2012, a group from the Global Support Team came together to see how we could help equip Constellation members to carry out fundraising to fund their travel and attendance at the Global Learning Festival. One of our strategies was to encourage groups to come together and hold creative fundraising events - anything ranging from dinners to fun runs to flash mobs!

We were lucky enough to come across Michael, an artist based in UK who had a dream to build his first…

I was contacted by Eva-Lena, who comes from a community of 800 people living in a rural village in the Arctic Circle, in Sweden.

It's hard to write an intro to such an incredible video except to say - be warned... YOU WILL BE INSPIRED AND ENERGISED! What a community!

The community are not yet members of NING, but have said that they'll join us very soon. I promised to share this blog for the Global Learning Festival so that we can start some dialogue with…

This is a video shared by Constellation Coach and GST member, Virgilio, who is based in Mozambique. Virgiio talks about the application of SALT and Community Life Competence in his context, and some lessons learned from Mozambique.

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First over....how do we behave as Facilitator???

Do not assume, however, that we can get prepared "once and for all." We facilitators are continually learning more and more ....... It is a never ending process, and we will be doomed to failure if we ever think we know it all and it has a big impact on how the Community gonna act.

When we start talking about community problems, and asking what their priority problems are, there will be a tendency to assume that we are there to…

We would have wanted to fly to India and be part of the fun in the Global Learning Event, but fund constraints will not stop us from sharing with you our experience.  Here are some lessons from PinoyC (this is our group's nickname).  This is a compressed version of our journey so if you are interested to know more, give us a shout. The development of this presentation, is a journey and a wonderful realization in itself.  Through the years, it felt like the group was going thinner and thinner…

We discussed how facilitators from diffferent approaches facilitate and encourage communtiies to take action on issues of their concern and how community life competence approach can learn from others experiences and improve on it. 130 people shared in 10 different languages.

The highlight for me was when a private sector participant said- I had forgotten that I was a human being in corporate settings…

Dear friends,

As we are about to start our Global Learning Festival:

The energy levels are wonderful, as people are happy to meet face to face!

To all of you ho couldn't make it,  I just to say that you are with us

JL

Sometime back Rituu and I connected, and are now in ongoing conversations about a variety of things. I'm with Axiom News, which is very interested in strengths-based community thriving, so that's one of our connect points. A group of us, including Rituu, are also now looking at the possibilities around co-creating a life-giving news network for and with renewed and thriving youth worldwide, which is very exciting. But the reason I'm posting today is Rituu invited me awhile back to post a…

Constellation with SIAAP and India Competence is organising the Global Learning Festival -20th to 24…

Red Ribbon Clubs gear up for upcoming World AIDS Campaign.

Every day 2400 young people aged 15 to 24 are infected with HIV around the globe, which represents 40% of all new infections among adults. “Getting to Zero” the theme of World AIDS Campaign echoes the UNAIDS vision of achieving “Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.” Under this the key goal is to halve new infections among youth by 2015 for which the AIDS control programme aims…