A reflection on Chapter 4 of our shared dream

“No learning unless you act.”

Here is a short extract from Chapter 4 of ‘What makes us human?’

 “To reassure themselves about the superiority of their way of life, Westerners are content to accept negative representation of poorer countries by their media.”

I want to give a different perspective to Jean-Louis here.

If Westerners are prepared to accept a negative…

Je m'appelle Lysiane.

J'ai 31 ans et j'habite à Briançon (Alpes, France).

J'ai eu la chance d'être formée à l'approche du CLCP en 2016 par le programme Triade (avec Luc et Laurie) et me voici facilitatrice apprenante.

J'accompagne un groupe de personnes qui font partie d'une SCOP (Société Coopérative et Participative) qui gère un magasin de produits biologiques.

Nous nous sommes vus sur trois sessions de 2H à 2H30 depuis Novembre 2016. Les deux premières sessions…

Participants: Laurie Khorchi, Sirinate Piyajitpirat, Sandrine Lo Hun et Jean Baby Fulama.

Questions/Réponses :

1 - En tant que membre d'une équipe d'animation locale, quels sont vos souhaits et aspirations de ce réseau?

 R/ Qu'il soit progressivement mis en place des réseaux locaux d'échange permettant un contact direct et soutenu entre acteurs/Facilitateurs de différents horizons en vue d’un partage mutuel de…

With a view to learning from the good contribution of the Mayor and his staff for the proper use of Health Services.

The story from the meeting:

The Mayor and his executives have repeatedly said that they consider all the health structures of the commune as their properties. This is the reason why they take part in all meetings related to health and they are sometimes present at the monthly or quarterly meetings of the sub-prefectural and prefectural…

Les cadres de la commune rurale  de Diécké ont accueilli la visite SALT le 25 Mars 2017

Dans l’optique d’apprendre de la bonne contribution de Monsieur le Maire et de son staff  pour ce qui est de la bonne utilisation des services de santé.

La petite histoire tirée de la rencontre :

Monsieur le Maire et ses cadres n’ont cessé de dire à plusieurs reprises, qu’ils considèrent toutes les structures de santé qui sont dans leur commune comme leurs propriétés.…

When Arthur and Edward from Health Nest Uganda (HENU) picked me up at my hotel the day after our SALT visit to Katabi (see Ubuntu on the bus) they had exciting news. Both had independently started their day with the yoga exercises I had shared with the Katabi group! This was so encouraging that we repeated these exercises during the…

From the Constellation 2016 Report, p. 32.

En français dans le rapport 2016, p. 32.

Support team: Maluku…

I have been a way for long and good to be back.

If you have been following the news, Nigeria has been trending in terms of suicide and kidnapping

In the past three weeks, more than 20 people have committed suicide and the number keeps increasing everyday. Nigerians are very strong people with so much energy to build resilience against any form of threat, but today we losing all that.

Causes of occurrence have ranged from Depression, Poverty, Retrenchment at work, Poor…

En préparation de la visite SALT des jeunes de RUTEGAMA et GIHETA,nous n' en avions pas l'idée des jeunes que nous allions faciliter.

From the Constellation 2016 Report, p. 17-18.

Read the whole story in the report of Roots of Hope (in French), by Eric Uwintwaza 

En français dans le …

From the Constellation 2016 Report:

En français dans le rapport 2016, p. 41.

In 2016, the SALT approach continued its way, step by…

This past weekend Veronique and I both facilitated the training weekend for a second group of community facilitators for the city of Vilvoorde.

The two days happened in a great learning and SALTy way. The participants of this small group were very eager to learn, to experience, to share and to brainstorm.

At one stage during the training weekend we asked the participants to go out on the streets and have SALT conversations with people on the streets about their dreams for…

En 2015 j'ai proposé à une paroisse protestante de les accompagner dans l'élaboration d'un projet d'église en utilisant l'approche SALT.

Nous avons fait tout le processus au cours d'un WE avec un groupe de 5-8 personnes, et le tout a été présenté à une majorité des paroissiens et sympathisants qui nous ont rejoints pour la célébration du dimanche matin.

La paroisse a commencé à mettre en œuvre leurs actions mais tout s'est essoufflé suite à un accident, une grave maladie, etc.…

And the story continues...

The mamas (care workers) at the Orphanage St Enfant Jésus of Abomey (OSEJ) are celebrating. Grouping and taking action(meeting with their superior) to improve their working status has finally brought the results they wanted!

After a first negative response from their superior, she has finally accepted to subscribe the mamas in the social security! They will have official contracts and they will be able to benefit from medical…

In December I began a more formal application of SALT in the community I am working in. Up to now, I have been practising my communication techniques in how I interact with the wonderful residents on the urban inner city London estate on which I work. Our project is an informal, ABCD project where, a couple of days a week, we hang out at a borrowed social housing flat, inviting residents in for cups of tea and letting the ideas they naturally begin to speak…

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March 1, 2017

Do we  Europeans behave like the legendary frog? You know the story: the frog was living in a pond whose water was heating so slowly that it noticed nothing until it died in boiling water. Is our fixation on “the economy” so strong that we pay no attention to the fate of fellow human beings? Are we so mesmerized by the current US excesses that we leave unnoticed the gradual abandonment of our own values? Not long ago, I was proud to belong to Europe, a beacon of human…