Yesterday, in the train, on my way from Brussels to Amsterdam,

I met 3 traveller coming from Dubai;

originally they are from Syria;

we had a long conversation;

they talked about their beloved country; about the thousands of people dying or escaping, family members or friends; about their beautiful villages and cities destroyed; about the culture of tolerance and co-existence of religious traditions; about simplicity and aspiration to live a good life;

'what…

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Dear Friends of the Constellation

Our Voting Members recently elected our new Board, composed of April Foster, Autry Haynes, Gaston Schmitz,…

I share this blog on behalf of Jean Baby Fulama, facilitator in DRC:

The Knowledge Fair in the Kalenda Health Zone went well, and we have almost finished our report. The support team of the GCSE project of the Zone will soon send me the contribution of some villages who are applying SALT.

Here is a small thing that I would like to share with you: I say in my report that the Knowledge Fair should, in my opinion, be prepared from the start of a project, at the same time as the…

Je partage cette histoire au nom de Jean Baby Fulama, facilitateur en RDC:

Une petite histoire (anecdote) qui corrobore le concept PAF, en soutien à la définition élaborée à partir des propositions avancées par les collègues facilitateurs de RDCCompétence :

La PAF est une action concrète et mesurable, significative et pertinente, entreprise pour introduire un changement. Il peut s’agir d’un changement d’habitude.

La PAF est facile à mettre en œuvre avec…

I share this story on behalf of Jean Baby Fulama, facilitator in DRC:

A little story which corroborates the concept of PAF in support of the definition developed from proposals by colleagues, facilitators of RDCCompétence:

A PAF is a concrete and measurable action, meaningful and relevant, implemented to introduce a change. It can be a change of habit.

A PAF is easily implemented with the available resources, without outside…

Je partage cette histoire au nom de Jean Baby Fulama, facilitateur en RDC:

La foire d’échanges de la Zone de santé de Kalenda s’est bien déroulé et avons quasiment fini notre rapport. Il nous  reste le complément de quelques villages touchés par le SALT que l’équipe de soutien du projet GCSE (Gestion Communautaire de la Santé de l’Enfant) de la Zone va bientôt m’envoyer.

Un petit partage : je dis dans mon rapport que la foire d’échanges devra à mon avis être…

We are meeting the Country City Community this Wednesday, March 25.

Tomorrow is the date when we will officially apply to get a piece of land in order to finally build our co-housing home. Stay tuned for news on the subject!

Amitoyennement yours,

http://amitoyens.blogspot.fr/…

Hello dear community members!  

We are meeting the Country City Community this Wednesday, March 25.

Tomorrow is the date when we will officially apply for a piece of land in order to finally build our co-housing home. Stay tuned for news on the subject!

Amitoyennement yours.

http://amitoyens.blogspot.fr/

The Amitoyens group, visting a co-housing home in Geneva, 2011 :…

Le cercle de parole est un outil merveilleux. Prenons-en soin comme l’artisan  prend soin de ses précieux outils. 

C’était à St Paul de La Réunion.  Invités par l’IREPS, nous en étions à la quatrième journée d’une semaine d’apprentissage et de partage de l’approche SALT avec des personnes engagées dans la promotion de la santé.  Nous nous étions débarrassés d’emblée de nos titres et chaque jour la pratique du  SALT nous rapprochait. La veille nous avions développé le rêve de La…

"When you come back....." more a statement than a question was the remark of Nadia to the After Experience Reflection question with Persons on Methadone Therapy. You would gather that they had agree that we come back for more SALT action. (^_^). So when the question was finally asked "do we come again?" there was a resounding yes. Her statement was related to the thought of what other exercises will we do the next time. She continued.."What I like is the "pulling of the paper" that made a…

How do we get better at storytelling? This article suggests five types of stories, with case studies, that every charity should be telling. They includes stories about ethics and values, social proof, founders, improvement and impact.

Geoff

Les organisateurs m'ont demandé de place la "leçon inaugurale" dans le contexte des attaques terroristes à Paris de janvier. Voici ce que j'ai dit. Je suis persuadé que je n'ai pas convaincu tout le monde, mais la Maire adjointe de Rennes a repris les thèmes de la confiance et du rêve dans ses conclusions...

The School invited me to place the  introductory lecture, in the context of the early January terrorist attacks in Paris. This is what I said. I am pretty sure not everyone was convinced, but the vice mayor of Rennes, came back in closing on the two themes of trust and dream.

Unique centre prenant en charge les femmes touchées par la drogue et la prostitution, Chrysalide fête ses dix ans. Cinq cents femmes comptant parmi les plus vulnérables de la société y sont passées. Quelques-unes s’y sont mues en beaux papillons. Les responsables du centre ont compris qu’il leur faut constamment se réinventer face à la complexité du problème.

Il fait peut-être un peu chaud, mais une bonne tasse de thé ne se refuse pas sous la varangue créole de Chrysalide à Bambous.…

Elles sont femmes et mères et luttent pour faire vivre leurs enfants. En amont de la Journée Internationale de la Femme qui sera célébrée le 8 mars, une autre date est à marquer dans les agendas : le 3 mars, Journée Internationale des Travailleurs du Sexe.

 In April 2013 I completed a SALT weekend in Amsterdam with lots of fun. Inspired , I went  back to work in our welfare organization in the south of Holland in Kerkrade. My dream was: A SALTY welfare organization . Big and bold! My dream and enthusiasm helped me to spread SALT slowly and let people around us have positive experiences with it. 2 of my colleagues were then infected with SALT virus, and also joined a weekend in Amsterdam. They helped…

I as a youth took this initiative to empower senior citizens by making a group of likeminded colleagues with a common vision and mission. We then started organizing awareness program through signature campaign against elder abuse, awareness program in schools and colleges and finally with some fundraising initiative we started Nepal’s First Day care and Lifelong Learning Center. I have been mobilizing local resources ( human resource, fund, donations) and coordinating with various…

The result of a six day CLCP learning event in Ambon Indonesia is overwhelming. We count thirty confident facilitators, two potential coaches who can support the new facilitators, and a local partner organisation that is turning into a SALTy organisation. Three action plans are ready for implementation and three communities in a village developed their dreams and exchanged among the teams about possibilities and non possibilities for further…