On Sunday, December 3, a dozen of participants gathered for a special exploration day. Laurie, Célicia and Nathalie had drafted an invitation to slow down and to turn our attention inwards. To go and meet our deep 'self', the one radiating our being regardless of roles or labels.

The idea was born from our intuition that the community process is…

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…

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…

a Life Circle is a space where we share our dreams and individual life competence practices; we talk about SALT in our lives and about what makes us human; the circles are opened to anyone, so the 'we' goes beyond Constellation or Belcompétence; after a convivial moment of sharing the latest news and simple food that we have brought or prepared together, we sit and talk/listen at the rhythm of the talking piece…

dear friends, thank you for the many collaborations and/or conversations in 2013, all sources of deep inspiration! My wishes for myself in 2014 is to contribute to spreading SALT; …

how to tackle the issue of staff motivation in an organisation (context of a public administration)? that is the question the HR colleagues of this organisation have asked themselves; in other words, how can they contribute, as HR, to create, stimulate, and maintain a motivating and positive working environment?

the (around 25) colleagues sat together: 3 little workshops of 2 hours, one every week;

First session: SALT is introduced, as well as CLCP... Different vocabulary…

a little more that a year ago, in an email, Sandrine Ruppol shared with the friends of Belcompétence her personal practices...

This resonated particularly with Jan, Jean-Louis and me, and we started seeing each other every month. A few months later, Wivine, Marie-Christine, Philippe, and then…