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.…

I want share this wonderful article made by Charles Elliott. It is probably one of the best stories about how to build community life competence ever written.

Generative%20conversations%20Charles%20Eliott.doc

I want to share a small introduction to the art of asking questions inspired by Appreciation.

I think all appreciative questions always refer back to the purpose of what we are doing. So in the words used in the introduction, I believe you should always start with a generative question and ask for real human experiences.

Getting started

If you want to start asking appreciative questions you should use these questions:

1. What is the…

 I am happy to share my recent Podcast with Robyn Stratton-Berkessel as part of her "Positive Strategist" series. We talked about innovative, strength-based business-education approaches and how we bring the appreciative mindset into our work. Listen to Podcast here and I look…

Our Speed Dating Forum occurs annually. No romance involved! It creates opportunity for community professionals, community groups, individuals and businesses to meet and share what it is they do and what their concerns are.

This year the discussion will be on homelessness. Australia is perceived as a wealthy country and it is but as with many wealthy countries the wealth seems to congregate in certain corners and leave many families with few resources.

In the outskirts of a…

One of our key messages is creating safe communities for children. We have a Safe T Net project which includes a website development with children where they can consider what being unsafe feels like, who do I talk to and who do I call?

In a country so focussed on material goods we have high levels of social isolation which is not safe for anyone, particularly…

Avec tous les mouvements de soulèvement contre les sensibilisateurs, comme le vécu de la scène de tuerie à womey en Guinée forestière.

As a young public health enthusiast, my literature review of ebola virus six years ago was interesting as I studied the zoonotic disease with keen curiosity. But the recent outbreak in West Africa brings more…

Life has been described in many ways: A roller coaster, two edged sword, a teacher, a school ...name them, but really: LIFE IS THE PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS BECOMING... 

You are not today where you were yesterday. By the time I finish writing this, I will be older than the time I began writing. SO WILL YOU BE BY THE TIME YOU ARE DONE READING.... You are continuously becoming something: Good or Bad. Nothing stagnates, even dead rocks get weathered, as other life forms evolve to…

Ce lundi 8 septembre, nous sommes un petit groupe de sept, réunis autour d’une proposition : activer notre créativité pour explorer nos rêves individuels et collectifs.

Nous sommes à Grez-Doiceau, lors de la semaine de « bien vivre » organisée par le programme communal de développement rural. Dans la matinée les gréziens ont pu découvrir un atelier de massage pour bébé, la veille ils goûtaient au yoga, à…

Every morning one lady bike rider passes me when my bus gets stuck in the jam on the way to my office. She goes ahead to her destination by driving her Scooty easily and naturally on the wide and narrow spaces on the road as like as a man. Every day when I see her I give her a salute and admire her courage because it is Bangladesh, a moderate Islamic country by the constitution, where a big part of the people do not support from their mind to let the women go out from home for working…

 Today, Institute of Applied Manpower Research invited me to facilitate a session of Community life competence and SALT with a group of government officers from Jammu and Kashmir. The participants found it very hard to answer the question- what are you proud of? If you ask us what are your failures are it is very easy to answer. We are not used to this question. Concluding remark was that if one is appreciated one is more likely to take action!

Here is the…

 While engaging over 150 youths, instead of doing "hopes n Concern" which would have been too tedious for the volume of people. We did four drawings: [1] a smiling sun, [2] clouds with rain, [3] a mixture of rain and sun, and [4] a large circle. We placed each drawing strategically so there was enough space for the youth to congregate and asked the youths to consider their inner feelings about the institution where they were and if that feeling related to any of the drawing, go there. One of…

Si, comme moi, vous avez parfois des difficutlés à partager ce qu'est la Constellation, cette note du blog vous aidera! Merci Nicolas Cordier pour cette note simple, pertinente, efficace!

Vers la note de blog

Can news media actually help build community? If so, how? Take a look at this video and then let us know what you think. Axiom News created this video of a session co-hosted by CEO Peter Pula at the Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany this summer.