The Role of Knowledge Management in SALT-CLCP:

Without KM there is no SALT or CLCP! Accordingly, this section proves that an effective KM is the very…

Introduction:

Transparency has different definitions linguistically, literally, dictionary wise, socially, traditionally, and sometimes based on a specific context say like in Community Life Competence Process (CLCP). Herein we attempt to give all these definitions; acknowledging that the list is incomplete, as other definitions could be present. Further, we attempt to explain how the meaning of Transparency in a CLCP team, is quite different from the meaning it has in…

Alternative Title:  How good are our Icons?

Many are the stars in The…

Alternative Title: How varied are we?

The Membership types are of a broad category including various stakeholders who interact with the CoP, to influence its outcomes directly or indirectly. This Incomplete list of members for a Community of Practice (CoP) that practices Life Competence, with a brief definition each could be:

1. Community Member:…

Abstract:

This paper argues that The Constellation, as a network of Communities of Practice (CoPs) guided by the Community Life Competence Process (CLCP), can only achieve its full potential when true community ownership is realized. This necessitates a paradigm shift where communities, as the fundamental building blocks of The Constellation, have the ultimate decision-making authority over all aspects of their engagement and development. By recognizing and empowering…

Hook, Line, and Sinker: Ever since Rev. Fr. Macedo, a Jesuit priest,  who was my teacher for more than a decade in my school, asked me to define a student, and etched in my brain that the student was someone who studies or is studying; and as the word studying is the present continous form of the verb study, and so, should I not be continuously learning, revising, studying, without ever stopping?; I was gone, hooked for life, as a student of life for life!…

Authors: Every member of the WhatsApp group of the Competence Community at https://tinyurl.com/3myn6rx4  

Abstract

This paper argues that in Community-Led Development (CLD) programs like the Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) and within Communities of Practice (CoPs), experiential knowledge residing within community members constitutes the true source of power. By prioritizing community ownership…

For earlier or 2011 thoughts on this article on Why CLCP is far better than Targeted Interventions (TI) see Part II and Part I



The following table made in Nov 2024 was created to provide a…

As this post is only a draft do suggest all the changes, edits, and corrections in your comments.  Thanking you in advance.

Core Concepts:

1. The Constellation: A global network of individuals and communities working together to promote community-led development using a set Way of Thinking, SALT as Way of Working and the Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) principles.
2. Community Life Competence Process (CLCP): A cyclical…

SALT ignites experiential learning:

Punam by applying SALT as  Support, Appreciate, Learn, and Transfer, as the Way of Working or WoW, among school children has listed the gamut of emotions the children experience in their interactions within their Community of Practice (CoP). Accordingly, the children drew an apple tree to depict this list of emotions with each apple bearing the name of an…

The Constellation's Theory of Ownership by Philip Forth was in Google sites at the link

https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/theory-of-change-for-the-constellation/home/draft-theory-of-change-for-the-constellation

till end 2023, but in Feb 2024 these pages are not anymore on…

Members of the Thanjavur Medical Journal (TMJ) Community, had its first online meeting about a week ago. The main point was to discuss sources of funding to start the Journal. 



After this online meeting, I posted the points discussed in the TMJ WhatsApp groups of over 460 doctors, which sparked of a series of discussions. Presented is one of the…

Are not our dreams meant to pull us out and forward through our 3Fs?

I heard many famous lines for the first time in my life in school, which I shall carry to my grave. One was when our NCC Navy lead fell out of step doing the semaphore flag signalling drill to welcome the Chief Guest to our School on NCC Day. Our Math’s Teacher in…

Dr. Jean Louis and me have over the past few days developed the COVID-19 Self Assessments for the Individual and Community levels respectively. These are only at a draft stage as they have just been pilot tested.

These Self Assessments (SA) consists of a list of practices: 14 at the personal or individual level and 12 for the resident groups or communities.

The lists of practices is just a suggestion of what we developed and has proved useful to us. We are sure this list of…

A Taste of SALT: Intro session of 'Support, Appreciate, Learn and Transfer' (SALT) for ASHA or Ward Counselors as they are now re-designated, at the Family Health Center, Noolpuzha, Wayanad. This group of Ward Counselors will practice and facilitate SALT and Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) in their work and life to achieve the dreams of their…

Though Beatrice hails from Namisindwa District in the Eastern Region of Uganda, she is working and living presently at Masaka, in Central Uganda. Beatrice is a social worker working for the older persons in the organization called: Support the Elderly Persons (STEP), Uganda. 



Why Older Persons?

STEP is her own initiative. As there was…

On the sleepy afternoon of 12 August 2017, four ladies and a dozen children of the nondescript New Harijan Colony, in Peroor Village of Ettumanoor, gathered in their spartan Community Hall and drew, wrote, and sang their dreams impossible!

For Chinju, Jismi, and Deepak from Archana Women's Center, egging and encouraging the dreamers to dream the impossible…

Anu Sieberk, a journalist from Estonia, who interviewed me writes:



"Mohamed Rafique is an Indian doctor and a senior citizens' care home owner. He encourages communities to dream: "We should not be shy of dreaming. Always go for the uncomfortable and the unachievable dream." When visiting communities, he has found that there is an unexpected gap between what you thought you should be looking for and what the members actually wanted to share. Rafique believes that there (in that…

4 July 2017: Ajinlal Joseph parked the vehicle in a corner of the shuttle badminton court in what he said was called New Harijan Colony in Peroor Village hardly a couple of kilometers from Ettumanoor Town. The badminton court had on its four sides a spacious Community Hall,  a large Banyan tree with small idols forming a temple, a large concrete stage, a couple of…