Jean Louis Lamboray, Chair of the Constellation, was invited to speak to students of 'Community Health Interventions' at Vrije University, Amsterdam, in January, 2014.  He spoke about 'Transfer' as a strategy for spreading competence from community to community.

IAMR invited me to orient government officers from Jammu and Kashmir on community life competence and SALT. There were 22 officers, young group. It was last day of their five day training and they were to leave in the evening. 

We spent the beautiful morning discussing what makes us human. Out came many virtues, values, emotions, the sharing was deep. We are in no hurry for the tea break, they said! We shared stories and identified strengths in each other.…

Une constellation connectant poussières d’étoiles et galaxies… Mais qui est cette étoile ? L’être humain dans la totalité de sa force et de sa vulnérabilité…

 « C’est magique ? » demande Jean-Louis Lamboray, « Bien sûr, puisque c’est humain ! Cet humain dont le fond, je n’ai pas peur de l’affirmer, est toujours bon* ».

 L’histoire que Jean-Louis nous dévoile au fil des anecdotes et des…

Over 10 years ago, a group of practitioners helped conceive a concept of community theatre for development which was named Magnet Theatre. I participated actively in its experiments, recorded its philosophies and implemented it across many communities in Kenya. With the lessons, I finally wrote the manuals and training guides via which the method was introduced in several African countries and India. In 2007, PATH, C. Y. Gopinath and I were awarded the AFRICOMNET Annual Awards for…

In November 2012, we became concerned about food security in our Nguuni village in kithituni community, we experienced drought consecutively as result of lack of rain for two seasons. We started talking as brothers /sisters affected, what could we do to address the problem? We realized other farmers in our neighboring communities were doing something and they…

Mr. Ovid Williams,  member of Guyana Competence for years now, although he was not trained in clcp, always had a heart for SALT.

In his new assignment with the Multi Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD) process he recognized the opportunity to apply SALT in his work. The MSD is the key strategy to satisfy the objectives of the Chainsaw Milling project (2007-2015). The…

a Life Circle is a space where we share our dreams and individual life competence practices; we talk about SALT in our lives and about what makes us human; the circles are opened to anyone, so the 'we' goes beyond Constellation or Belcompétence; after a convivial moment of sharing the latest news and simple food that we have brought or prepared together, we sit and talk/listen at the rhythm of the talking piece…

I have been asked about "integration of CORE Approach into CLCP and PAR Process" by many members and I greatly apologize for not being able to respond to you all in this regards. I commit myself that I will share my view point on how the integration could be taken place in my next article.



Nevertheless, I would like to share with you that the CORE Approach (Collaborative for Resilience) is a complimentary method to CLCP or PAR by which CORE Approach more focuses on Conflict…

Over the past month, the LEARN team for 2014 have shared personal dreams and a shared dream for LEARN in 2014.

Our dream as the LEARN team is to work from the strengths of each member in order to expand our wealth of knowledge. To develop tools that can be used for capturing valuable lessons from our experiences through a process that inspires more sharing, and developing the expertise of the wider coaching…

I have invited to conduct training to SOS Cambodia's staffs in topic of Youth issue and solution.

I decided to chose two tools from CLCP that are potential and fit to cope with this issue. The main issue is that, youth can not do right decision making in their career and drop school, poor school performance, and behavior problem.

In order to solve problem above, I have link psychology and CLCP.

Psychology: I have lectured and provide psycho-education…

Community Hive Organisation volunteer staff facilitating community on Community Life Competence towards improving hygiene and sanitation among older persons in Sitabaale village, Busukuma Sub-county- Wakiso District, through inter-generational approach.CHO is now much convinced that this community has the potential to disseminate CLCP concept to benefit other communities through conducting activities that address issues of poor hygiene and sanitation for older persons.…

‘When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on’ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The world has been metaphorically referred to as a battle field, and we are the fighters. As it is in every fight, there are winners and losers. The line between winning and losing is a thin one. Whether we are on the winning side or the losing side is largely dependent on how long we are ready to hold on without losing sight of the results we want even when they don’t seem to be…

Hello to all CLCP members! 

My name is Gemma Todd and I am the co-founder and co-director of Tanzania House of Hope, a local NGO based in Mwanza, Tanzania. 

After an inspiring introduction to CLCP by the facilitation team in Uganda early this year, we have remained adamant to understand how we can apply and effectively implement CLCP in our developmental work. As an organisation we are empowering the rights of older people, however, we do so through a intergenerational and…

After three intense days of dialogue in early April, the team that had gathered to create a vision and plan for the future of the Constellation's Share function had formed a
collective dream. In this video, MariJo Vasquez shares about the dream, which was also captured graphically. Enjoy!

Just one Small Simple Idea ended my long time annoyance with neighbours 

On the 9th of Feb, my young boy and I decided to show love to one small piece of land by our house. A little land now used by neighbours as a dumping ground. [click …

Women for a Change (WFAC) Buea's e-advocacy and SMS advocacy creates impact during 08 March activism

As you know, over the years WFAC advocacies has always been person-to-person and electronic. For The first time, it has to used…

Thought you'd all be interested in this - African community-based approach: http://www.thp.org//what_we_do/key_initiatives/community_centers/overview