This is a story from two creative people who are associated with Salvation Army UK and have expertise in video documentation- John Anscombe and Neil Maclnnes.  The blog captures their perspective as observers of SALT process in the community. Neil filmed the Glocon in the US. Neil on his return to the UK shared his experience with John. I happened to note their insights!…

NIHEZAGIRE Nathalie

Responsable du Bureau

Racines de l’Espoir

Facilitatrice SALT

Projet d’accompagnement des jeunes ruraux de GIHETA et RUTEGAMA « Le café moteur de développement local au Burundi » financé par la Fondation Roi Baudouin.

Le projet a pour objectif de développer les talents, stimuler les compétences des 100 jeunes à entreprendre des projets qui répondent  à leurs aspirations et aux besoins de leurs proches et de la…

Good morning! I've been invited to share this blog post on listening, so here it is! I hope you enjoy it! I've also been asked by our dear colleague Rituu how I have used listening in my work. As someone dedicated to lifting up other people's stories, listening is absolutely core to my work. My intention is not just to listen for the facts, but the essence, the energy and the possibility in a person's story. I hope to share more about this in a coming blog post. In the meantime, be well!…

L’Institut indien de santé publique, Shillong (IIPH) et la Fondation de santé publique de l’Inde (PHFI), avec le soutien de l’Initiative internationale pour l’évaluation d’impact (3ie), mènent une étude sur comment le support des communautés locales peut aider à accroître la vaccination dans enfants en Inde. L’objectif de cette étude est d’évaluer l’impact d’une approche nouvelle en matière d’engagement communautaire face à un taux de vaccination qui stagne depuis les 5-6 dernières années.…

• Quelle est l’intention qui guide ce que nous faisons ?

Celle d'Influencer les politiques de développement par la redynamisation de l’auto prise en charge et la gestion communautaire du pouvoir de changement

• Qu’est-ce qui vous motive, personnellement, à contribuer à la Constellation? Où trouvez-vous votre énergie pour l'action, et à quoi avez-vous l’impression de contribuer de par votre implication?

C’est d’abord la fierté…

In Peterborough, Canada, we've had a really neat story come to life where some really life-giving, emergent citizen action has converged with the "system" (aka local government) in a really beautiful way. Here's a short story about how this has happened. Folks in this network may be especially interested in how the citizens group is gathering in a unique way and what that's generating: …

July 20, 2016 Durban, South Africa -  Get to Zero and Be a Hero Campaign showcased  at the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban South Africa

Asia Society Young Leader John Piermont Montilla of southern Philippines showcases the Get to Zero and Be a Hero campaign on Human Trafficking, Illicit Drugs and AIDS at the Global Village Program of the 21st  International AIDS Conference held at the International Convention Center in Durban, South Africa.

The biennial…

I remember the words vividly "..happy couples make happy families, happy families make happy communities, happy communities make a happy nation and happy nations make a happy world.." of the song. But there is another saying "..a house is not a home.." When Le Pont du Tamarinier had the opportunity to support vulnerable / marginalized communities with houses, this was what it hoped for, making houses, homes. It dream created with support of SALT is "Equal opportunity for all peoples,…

Molenbeek, a Brussels municipality that has gained international attention for being of the most prolific  breeding grounds for jihadists.  There are many reasons and possible explanations for the genesis of this fact.  I will however, not go into the root causes for this situation.  Instead, what I’d like to focus on here is what citizens are doing to make…

The Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong (IIPH) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) with support from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is undertaking a study involving community engagement approaches for increasing immunization coverage among children in India. The objective of the study is to assess the impact of a novel community engagement approach in improving immunization coverage rate which has remained stagnant over the last 5-6 years. For…

It really is quite amazing what a focus on deep listening can do to shift relationships, communities, and individuals. My colleague, Michelle Strutzenberger of Axiom News has a gentle presence which I have seen open hearts and minds through her work as a Generative Journalist. I had to share her wise words…

Amber was introduced to the ideas of Local Response and the SALT visit by the Constellation in November 2008. At the time, she had worked in the not-for-profit sector for 8 years and she thought that she had lots of experience of visits to communities.

‘We all came with good intentions—to…

Blog publié pour Valerie Wambersie …

As members of The Constellation we aim at making SALT a part of our behaviour. The ‘L’ in SALT stands for listening. But what do we listen for?  There are 3 things that we could listen for:

Listen for feelings:

As a volunteer on a suicide helpline, I am trained in ‘active listening’ where we listen to the feelings of the person who is on the call. The feeling of being acknowledged, listened to and understood is a precious gift that we ‘offer’ to our callers on…

When I saw this title, I immediately reflected on the thought, shared by a colleague;

The problem with listening is that we listen to respond rather listen to understand

This saying brought some deep reflection of how true this seem in daily life. It seem as the ‘root cause’ of so many differences in human interaction. What if we are stimulated differently? Recently, at the concluding…

आज शिक्षा ज्योति एन. जी. ओ. के स्वयं सेवको ने एक साथ मिलकर सूंदर नगरी स्थित एम. ब्लॉक पार्क की सफाई की जिसमे की वहाँ के स्थानीय लोगो ने भी योगदान दिया। 

Today volunteers of Shiksha Jyoti NGO with local people cleaned up the M block park in Sundar…

We at our NGO Jan Jagriti Kendra (JJK) are trying to connect village communities to different government schemes. Then they are less likely to take debt which will reduce their vulnerability to bondage. We are few staff in the office and we want the community to take lead in getting the services. However, when we go to the villagers they say that if we could do it for them as they are uneducated, poor and…

It was my inspiration from the class with Joke D'haese, Gemma van Voorst, Leo D'haese, Suse Meffert, Miranda van Schadewijk among more, that I was urged to write the article. I wrote the second version right after the attacks in Brussels in March.



More than ever, the world needs effective methods to stimulate dialogue and to foster harmonious communities. 

Scharmer & Kaufer wrote (2013): "Everywhere you look, you see remarkable individuals and…

Listening…

Merci à Hervé, Jean-Baby et les autres pour le partage de votre expérience sur l'écoute.

Personnellement, c'est un exercice continu mais j'ai toujours des difficultés. Pourtant dans la tradition de mon pays il y a beaucoup de réussites dans ce domaine:

Les conflits au niveau communaiutaire ne devraient pas arriver dans les cours et tribunaux avant l'intervention des facilitateurs de la résolution pacifique des conflits appelés "Bashingantahe" Avant de donner une sentence…