Dear friends,

Greetings and trust you are well!

May I kindly share with you this short paper that largely draws learning from Mauritius in the first quarter of our partnership with MCB FF in the context of applying CLCP/SALT in the issue of drugs.

We explored the power of appreciation and its impact on stigma among people using drugs and their families. In the spirit of appreciation, enormous strengths of reconciliation were evident and over flows to neighborhoods were…

ABOUT TRANSFER - When the Constellation team shares its excitement about its approach and the impact it has on their lives, some people want to apply it in their context, and invite us to facilitate them. Together with them, we transfer the approach. The TRANSFER function organizes (at scale) the response to invitations of people and communities to apply the appreciative way of working (SALT) and the CLCP learning cycle.

9 Months after arriving on this Paradise Island, we…

I will share my experience on importance of creating a connection between the NGO with donors.

I don’t see a time in my life when I have not known the non-profit sector… I was indoctrinated into it. My mother was the director of a small nonprofit organization. After graduate school, I got a job in a grantmaking organization where I worked to support more than 60…

I am so pleased to share with all of you the news of the opening of the new David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry, an AI-focused academic center that the Stiller Family Foundation established and named in Cooperrider’s honor located in the Robert P. Stiller School of Business at Champlain College, in Burlington, Vt.,



The center was dedicated during a ceremony at Champlain College on Nov. 8th.



“To be sure,” Cooperrider said, “this is not…

last Thursday, we held in Brussels a 'Competences or Sharing Circle';

this gathering was initiated by a post of Laurie about an exchange system in Bogota (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7RkUYi8RUU); it was opened to anyone: invitation was sent to the Belcompetence members, with extension to their friends;

we came together and shared personal practices: Laurie guided us through the preparation of vegetarian recipes…

Rupesh, 27, Civil Engineer, has two sisters and one brother. From his 13 up until his 22, he was committed to sports. He even used to play for the Mauritius national team. But with sports you can’t earn a living in Mauritius. When Rupesh began working at the age of 22, he earned a lot of money. He made very long working days and put aside his sports.…

Good morning,

As many of you know, we at Axiom News have also stepped up to use our media assets in order to highlight the promise we see in enabling a local, strengths-based response to Ebola. The story continues to make its rounds.

Warm regards,Michelle

Bobby Zachariah, Coach, The Constellation for Community Life Competence  

Nabesh Bohidar, Care India

Rituu B. Nanda, The Constellation

HIV is a significant issue impacting India, especially among its migrant populations. In this short article, we describe a strength-based facilitative intervention designed to reduce HIV vulnerabilities among those groups.  This action, applying a participatory Community Life Competence approach, was developed and carried out by…

Another field visit has passed like the wind. It left rich learning behind for all of us: for you and me. It’s been a pleasure really to hear local facilitators in Guyana, Cameroon, South Africa and the Philippines reflect on the legacy and sustainability of Participatory Video in their communities, alongside Jay Mistry from…

Please join us in South Africa in July 2015 for the World Appreciative Inquiry Conference! Proposal submissions are due Jan 15, 2015  and the Early Bird Registration closes January 31..  

WAIC Website Link

 Hope to see you there!

Les habitants du village de Grez-Doiceau (Belgique) développent leur rêve commun et utilisent leurs forces et compétences pour agir ensemble!

Pendant deux jours, 45 habitants de la commune de Grez-Doiceau, ont partagé leurs rêves pour mieux vivre ensemble, ont noué des liens entre voisins pour construire ensemble leur village de rêve. A l'initiative d'un groupe d'habitant, les habitants de ce village ont été invité à…

This morning when I googled "local response" + "ebola", here's some of the headlines I found:

Nurse's visit spurs Ohio Ebola fears 

Florida: County and hospitals prepare for Ebola

As KU Hospital tests patient with Ebola-like symptoms, Lawrence agencies coordinate response

Denton City Council to be briefed on virus…

Hi All,

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to community development, as well as a way of thinking and seeing.Here's a great clip explaining ABCD through animation - it's great!

I'm going to use it often when people ask me, "What do you actually do for work?"…

When you believe People can, They  can!

Two weeks ago, I joined some enthusiastic community volunteers from Flacq on a visit to  Etoile d’Esperance. This is an organization in Mauritius, working to help women with alcohol addiction and other related problems to take treatment and transition to a new life. It offers a residential programme for fifteen women apart from day care and after care.

The visit was special. The residents showed us around in small groups,…

Grez-Doiceau in Belgium is dreaming and planning this weekend.

Belcompétence is demonstrating again the example of what is possible, enjoy this vidéo:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=281792792017085

Good luck to the team of facilitators!!

Marlou

Au travers les compétences face à Ebola, un groupe encadré par la mission Philafricaine  applique SALT par le porte à porte.

Hi All,

I recently added a blog post to the ABCD Asia Pacific site which you might be interested in!

It discusses the importance of starting small - one conversation at a time!

We can hear a lot from people by having Learning Conversations and discovering what they truly care about...

You can find the blog …

Samraksha is a development organization which has been working with communities for more than two decades now. Samraksha started its work in the field of HIV and reproductive sexual health, and has always been committed to working with the communities in order to prevent the spread of HIV and reduce its impact on the affected people. In order to do this, we have always used strengths based approach and worked with different communities – communities of identity like those of women in sex…

This was the conversation we had on facebook and I'm sharing here. I shared an example of community responding to Ebola which sparked a conversation and we all concluded that engaging communities in response to Ebola is critical to saving lives.…