Shaneika (not her real name) from a community that is engaging SALT. She would meet Sandrine occasionally different places. This time there was the opportunity to have a conversation. ‘You know, I appreciate this SALT that YOU do.’ Why?” Sandrine asked “It really made a difference in my life. My Mother-in-law were not on speaking terms…….now we are close friends…..SALT conversation offered us opportunity to talk to each other, while in small groups and that changed…

In February 2016, our friends from the group of « Amitoyens » in pays de Gex called us again in order to further extend the Amitoyen’s idea through application of CLCP and SALT with more people as their project is about to scale up. After a brief accompaniment of a small group in 2014, the project successfully grown and moved a few steps ahead with administrative issues - owing to the power of SALT. Their enthusiasm allowed them to identify around 60 more families interested…

I am sure you will enjoy this song 

The song tells the story and dream of the Amitoyens, in the Pays de Gex, France.

If you don't understand the French you can stil enjoy the music and voice of Lorenzo…

The primary purpose [so there is another purpose!] for the ‘Ready Pull’ is to stimulate cooperation, unity, team effort and this is achieved. Doing this is simple, as follows:

‘Ready Pull’ exercise:  The idea of this exercise was to stimulate a mindset that would relax the participants and make them comfortable to accomplish the intended purpose. An exercise where participants are placed into…

[Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) with support from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) will undertake impact evaluation of Constellation’s SALT approach for  community involvement in increasing immunization coverage in three districts of Assam in India. Today the project kicked off to share and receive inputs from   government officials at an event held in Guwahati. During the meeting, Dr. Biraj Kanti Shome, Consultant, Community Processes (Regional…

Our Reflection for 2015

Communities are messy. They have to be otherwise they would be organisations. An organisation is a member of a community; either defined by place, association or other kinds of identity.  Yet many organisations are established to organise a community; to serve it or to change it in some way.  Hence, a part sets the agenda for the larger whole. In a community there are usually several such…

Nous avons découvert l’approche SALT avec l’équipe de la Constellation à l’occasion d’un projet de santé mené par Médecins du Monde Belgique dans la région de Gafsa (Tunisie) durant la période allant de mai 2013 à mars 2015. Cette approche a totalement influencé notre façon de réfléchir, d’agir ainsi que nos relations avec notre entourage.

Sept mois ont déjà passé, non seulement nous continuons à sentir SALT en nous, mais nous apprécions la facilité de partager et de transmettre ce…

Here is The Constellation 2015 report!

The theme of the report is : “In our differences we grow; in our sameness we connect” 

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Voici le rapport de la Constellation pour l’année 2015!

Le thème du rapport est: « Nos différences nous font grandir ; nos ressemblances nous lient. »

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The impact of SALT

Jan Jagriti Kendra is a NGO in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh State in India. We work for rights of bonded labourers. 

Earlier when we used to get any case on bonded labourers, our legal adviser used to go to meet the government official.  SALT training was held with our staff, field workers, and volunteers. The transformation has been dramatic now the community volunteers have started to come forward to go and meet the government…

ईंशान जब धरती पर जन्म लेता है तब प्रकृति ने उसके पास एक रंगमंच(stage) रख देती है और बोलती है बेटा इस रंगमंच में तू कुछ भी अभिनय(acting) कर सकता है| तू स्वतन्त्र रूप से कुछ भी,कोई भी अभिनय कर सकता है,बीना रोकटोक के | और ईंशान अपनी क्षमता के अनुसार अपनी अभिनय चुंनता है | और अपना अभिनय करता है |जब अभिनय समाप्त हो जाता है तब परिणाम की बारी आती है | उसी परिणाम के स्वरूप मनुष्य के उम्र का निश्चित्‌ किया जाता है | अर्थात जो ब्यक्ति जितना अच्छा समाज सेवा करेगा,अच्छा कर्म करेगा,अपने दिल में ईंशानियत…

Mercredi dernier a eu lieu le premier parcours commenté du projet MobilAccès porté par 3 lycéennes du Lycée Saint-Sauveur à Redon.

Le projet à pour objectif de recueillir lors de parcours commentés les éléments positifs et négatif liés à l'accessibilité directement auprès de jeunes en situation de handicap.

Les difficultés liés à la méconnaissance entre jeunes en situation de handicap et lycéenne a entrainé des difficultés au démarrage du premier parcours :

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As facilitators, we often talk about the consequences of applying SALT with a group. But what happens when SALT is the way of working within a group and you are part of that group? How does it feel to be part of such a group? I would like to give some personal reflections on this experience.

What happens when you deliberately support, appreciate, learn and transfer AND when you feel supported, you feel appreciated, you feel that others recognise that you have something that they can…

              As I said in my previous blog that “SALT” is the key of people hearts to communicate them and I have an example of this when we are in our awareness program and we are organize meeting in villages when we are told to labor to collect in a place they are not interested at this but when we are do a program to home visit of labors and using with them SALT then they are listening our…

When creating the space for communities to come up with their own strengths-based responses to local issues, a big question has to do with telling the story of what's unfolding as the communities move forward. What's the best way to do this storytelling?…

I drew up this comparison when I wanted to choose between Peer Assist and Knowledge Fair techniques.

Comparing when to use Peer Assist and Knowledge Fairs

Comment l'échec à ONUSIDA mène à la réalisation du rêve à la Constellation!
Oser rêver, reconnaître l'échec et se réorganiser en conséquence...
Merci à Célicia, Claude et Hervé pour vos interventions ce jour-là! On vous voit, mais on n'entend que moi ;)

                          when I was joined a SALT training Program at Jan Jagriti kendra Pithora, Dist. Mahasamund (CG) who is work for Brick Kiln worker, and  to aware the Rights of Human, woman and children's. this training given by Rituu B Nanda, I am feeling that SALT is the key of the people hearts and I am also do this with the community and this is realy effective when we are go any community to be a human than people come…

I would like to recommend a Ted Talk by Hilary Cottam called ‘Social Services are broken. How we can fix them.’

https://www.ted.com/talks/hilary_cottam_social_services_are_broken_how_we_can_fix_them?language=en

If you don’t have 17 minutes to listen to the whole video, try the first 5 minutes.

If you don’t have 5 minutes, you can read the transcript of the…

We (Eden, Vittoria & Loïs) are three friends that met through our studies at Amsterdam University College. To complete our bachelor, we are required to do a Community Project. This project does not per se have to be linked to our respective majors, but should enable us to engage at local and global levels and to demonstrate personal and social responsibility. As we were already familiar with the Constellation’s approach and some of us already applied it to a certain extent both locally…