Training: Taste of SALT
2021-03-20
Do you want to taste SALT and have a transformative learning experience? During three consecutive Saturdays we will take you on a discovery journey of the SALT-CLCP methodology. With a small group we will go through all steps of the learning process, and we will practice our appreciative way of working. Class in the morning, practice in the afternoon, reflections at the end of the day.
More information and registration: info@the-constellation.org

Package: Three days, intensive for a Taste of SALT
Saturday 6, 13 and 20 March
Price: 300 Euro
Special Student Tarif: 100 Euro

The Constellation Webinar: Person-centered approach to diabetes & hypertension management (India)
2021-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
“Did you know Salt is actually reducing hypertension and diabetes?”
What made communities in Shimla and Udaipur change their behavior?
How did they manage to reach better health and improved NCD care?
The Constellation and partners are inviting you to an interactive webinar:
Lessons from person-centered approach to diabetes & hypertension management in Himachal and Rajasthan (India)

Thursday 25 March 2021
14:00-15:30 CET ** 18:30-20:00 IST

We will learn about and discuss how community ownership of health leads to supportive patient groups, improved health services and better health.
Facilitator: Dr Beryl Leach, Global Excellence and Stature Professor of Practice, University of Johannesburg
Speakers:

Mamta HIMC- Mr Vinayakan E.K., Rajender Bragta & Anil Sharma
CHAI- Mr Mohammed Mateen
RICPHI- Dr Ananth Ram & Dr. Santosh Kumar Kaza, RICPHI
The Constellation- Dr Luc Barriere-Constantin & Rituu B. Nanda

Partners:
Medtronic Foundation (http://www.foundation.medtronic.com/us-en/)
Ramaiah International Centre for Public Health Innovation (RICPHI) (www.RICPHI.org)
MAMTA Health Institute of Mother and Child (MAMTA-HIMC) (http://mamta-himc.org/)
Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) (https://chai-india.org)
The Constellation (https://the-constellation.org)

–> enroll here for the interactive webinar:
https://forms.gle/qe8e6GTeqgHQtTyY6

Go Girl: Virtual SALT visit
2021-04-23 10:00 - 11:30
GO GIRL!
Virtual SALT visit to Babes, Singapore.
We are here to listen, provide emotional support and journey with pregnant teenagers in their time of crisis
https://www.babes.org.sg/

Two years ago Wiwin (SALT-CLCP facilitator in Bandung, Indonesia) visited Singapore and joined in a ‘living room chat’ with pregnant teenagers and their mothers. She remembers it as “we were creating a conducive environment where we can discuss the most frightening”.
The Virtual SALT visit is part of the GO GIRL project of The Constellation.
Old or new SALT-CLCP facilitators who are working with youth on issues related to sexual health and teenage pregnancy (or who are planning to do so!) are all invited.
Santhiya from Babes will share with us how her organisation helps teenage mothers to (re-)connect to love, form support groups and is creating safety for mother and child in the context of Singapore society.
Support, Appreciate, Listen, Learn and Transfer will be our mindset during the visit.
We hope you will be part of the conversation that will take place on zoom.
Please confirm your attendance with Marlou: marlou@the-constellation.org

Online Training: Taste of SALT
2021-04-24
Join the journey, learn the walk and contribute to building a better world
We are excited to let you know that in April and May 2021 The Constellation is starting a new round of online training for connectors and social change makers. Our SALT-CLCP methodology has helped villagers, neighbours, community workers, students, professionals and health centers to find solutions for a better world, locally, with the means they have at hand. In our online training, experienced facilitators of The Constellation work with you, in a fun and interactive way so that you too can get started!

An online training program that fits your needs!

Package 1: Three days, intensive for a Taste of SALT

Saturday 24 April, 1 and 8 May
Price: 300 Euro
Special Student Tarif: 100 Euro

Do you want to taste SALT and have a transformative learning experience? During three days we will take you on a discovery journey of the SALT-CLCP methodology. With a small group we will go through all steps of the learning process, and we will practice our appreciative way of working. Class in the morning, practice in the afternoon, reflections at the end of the day.

For registering to the training, please fill the form: https://forms.gle/HQektFZR9rhtC9wn8
For more information about these possibilities: info@the-constellation.org

Virtual SALT visit: Go Girl Ghana
2021-06-25 12:00 - 13:30
GO GIRL!
We invite you to a virtual SALT visit to Go Girl Ghana
In 2015 Leonie Heppener brought a SALT visit to Kenya. She came in contact with the SALT-CLCP work in the village Kithutuni, where people with HIV/AIDS were the focus. This visit touched her so much that that’s where she decided that this approach would work well for the empowerment of girls in Ghana too. Go Girl Ghana was founded in 2017 and had its first SALT training in 2018. Jeanet, Emmanuel and Leonie from Go Girl Ghana will share with you the story of girls and how they work with them and their families to advocate for social change in equality and education. How they have applied SALT and how they work with communities today.
The Virtual SALT visit is part of the GO GIRL! project of The Constellation.
Old or new SALT-CLCP facilitators who are working with youth on issues related to gender equality, sexual health and teenage pregnancy (or who are planning to do so!) are all invited.

Support, Appreciate, Listen, Learn and Transfer will be our mindset during the visit.

We hope you will be part of the conversation that will take place on zoom. Please confirm your attendance with Marlou: marlou@the-constellation.org

Virtual SALT visit - Shillong
2021-07-23 12:00 - 13:30
Covid-19 measures are preventing the team of Faith Foundation in Shillong, India, to do what they like most: interacting with communities so that they can make progress on issues such as teenage pregnancy, child marriage and access to education.
But the team has not been resting! Team members took the opportunity to make progress in becoming SALT facilitators. They decided to apply the Community Life Competence Process to themselves: they established the dream for their work and have started making progress for example on research skills.
Come and join us for a virtual visit to the Shillong team – and hear more about their dream!
The Virtual SALT visit is part of the GO GIRL! project of The Constellation and five local SALT teams/organisations.
Old or new SALT-CLCP facilitators who are working with youth on issues related to gender equality, sexual health and teenage pregnancy (or who are planning to do so!) are all invited.
Support, Appreciate, Listen, Learn and Transfer will be our mindset during the visit.
We hope you will be part of the conversation that will take place on zoom.
Please confirm your attendance with Marlou: marlou@the-constellation.org

Virtual Global Learning Festival
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-04
The Constellation in partnership with the Kenyan Team
Presents:
Virtual Global Learning Festival 2021

Theme
ANCHORING THE ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE LOCAL RESPONSE
How communities learn and adapt to old and new challenges

This year’s theme is locally set, and globally explored.
Through virtual SALT visits to local communities in Kenya, and from the shared experiences of participants in many other places in the world – we will listen to how they have learned from actions in the past and how they have adapted to old and new challenges. The lessons from those experiences will provide us with answers to what the anchors are for sustainable local response.
We had started exploring the theme of ‘sustainable local response’ during the Global Learning Festival in Bandung, Indonesia, in 2018 and decided that the same theme would be explored in depth and from various perspectives in following Festivals. Meble Birengo picked up the flame in Bandung 2018 and is bringing us this year to the experience of the Kenyan Team.
An interactive programme
Friday 1 October: Karibuni Nyote, Jambo nyote, Salamu kutoka Kenya, tunawapenda ‘Landing’ in Kenya – Getting to know each other – deepening understanding on SALT through shared learning, content formulation, Global reconnection, celebration and diversity integration.
Saturday 2 October: Virtual SALT visits to diverse communities in Kenya who have been responding locally to diverse issues including economic and livelihood development, sustainable women initiated responses, adapting and living with disabilities.
Sunday 3 October: Market Place: Local SALT teams from across the world will present their best practices and lessons learned. All participants go shopping, with their own wisdom as currency. Finding common threads for future partnerships
Monday 4 October: Weaving Pearls of Wisdom: What have we learned together? How can we use that in our own community and how can we share the lessons with others? A festive closing.
Virtual
The world has changed, The Constellation is adapting. More than before we are carrying out our mission to Stimulate and Connect Local Response around the world with virtual means. This also means that our usual highlight of the year, the Global Learning Festival, where we bring SALT-CLCP facilitators and community members together, is shifting to a virtual event. This year therefore a V- is appearing before the usual acronym GLF. We introduce the V-GLF 2021.

We mirror the real time Global Learning Festival – online

Even online, we want to make it a refreshing experience, where people feel listened to and realise the importance of their local action.
For who?
The V-GLF is an event where different groups, teams and members of The Constellation come together, for learning and mutual inspiration. The event is rooted in SALT-CLCP – and is linked to The Constellation ways of working. Those who are engaged in local response and community action in their own country, come together, virtually. Those who are wanting to learn about SALT-CLCP and community action are welcome as well. You can register as an individual, or with your team of 3. Partner organisations are invited to send their teams as well. Teams will be asked to present their experience at the Marketplace on Sunday.
Costs
Participation Fee includes full participation in facilitated interactive events from 1-4 October; access to documentation during and after the event and a unique V-GLF 2021 Participant Package will come your way.

Individual participants: 50 Euro
Local SALT teams (3 persons): 100 Euro
Organisations (3 person teams): 250 Euro

We want the Virtual Global Learning Festival to be an inclusive learning opportunity for all. Therefore, we count on solidarity. Be in touch if you cannot afford the full registration fee, or if you can support the participation of other individuals or teams.
Registration
Last minute registration possible until 30 August 2021

Individual participants: https://forms.gle/r7joEVsMCJ7RAX9o9
Local SALT teams (3 persons): https://forms.gle/2e1SL9LLAxRPsfpw9
Organisations (3 person teams): https://forms.gle/3qFc17TBY2FKVtCg9

Webinar - part 2: Flourishing Neighbourhoods
2021-11-25 12:00 - 13:30
Let us discover the sparking magic in connecting with people around you for a common purpose.
During two consecutive short online webinar sessions we will learn from neighborhood experiences in The Netherlands, Belgium and Singapore. Jan Somers, an experienced coach/facilitator from Belgium, will help all participants to learn from their own experience and from insights shared by others.
In your agenda:
Online session one: Tuesday 9 November 2021 – from 12.00 – 13.30 h (Belgium time/CET).
Online session two: Thursday 25 November 2021 – from 12.00 – 13.30 h (Belgium time/CET)
This webinar is organised by The Constellation – the global network that helps local responses to face old and new challenges.
Costs: We ask you to pick a contribution fee that fits you best. Standard this webinar is free. Your support contribution however will help The Constellation to cover its cost and keep their programmes open to many people and communities around the globe. Your contribution can be made here: https://the–constellation.org/get–involved/donate/
Language: The seminar language is English. The Constellation will organise translation in French and Dutch.
register here: https://forms.gle/EYZZzevcitb1oNLTA

A conversation on Funding Community Led Responses
2022-01-18 14:00 - 15:30
The Constellation and the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association organise a joint webinar: A conversation on Funding Community Led Responses. Speakers are Philip Forth, (UK) Trust for Local Response; Corey Oser (US) Global Fund for Children and Nisha Dhawan (India), EMpower
Moderator: Ian Goldman, Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR Anglophone South Africa
Register here.

Dream Building Go Girl lAfrikana
2022-05-20
‘Where do we want to be’: Go Girl Facilitation team in Nairobi will take a next step in the Community Life Competence Process. Training in Dreambuilding! The Constellation coach Onesmus Mutuku will join our partner lAfrikana in working out the next step with facilitators and in the neigborhood.

International WomenChoir
2022-05-20 20:30 - 22:00
Celebration time as Vrouwencafé is making one of their dreams come true. On Friday 20 and Saturday 21 May women from Amsterdam will perform music and stories from strong women that are Heroines to them.

Voice Link and Learn: Global Dream
2022-08-25 11:00 - 14:00
This year and during 2023 The Constellation facilitators from Asia and Africa are helping grantees from the Voice programme to link with each other for learning. The Facilitators are accompanying the grantees as they discover their strengths and their dreams so that they come well prepared to joint learning events.
Each grantee has developed an inspiring dream, which was brought together in three regional dreams during the month of June.
On the 25th of August representatives of 19 multi-country grantees of Voice come together, online, to build one common dream for an inclusive world.

SALT learning festival, Algeria
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-14
Around 50 new SALT facilitators from five different Algerian towns will come together for a Learning Festival. In and around a colourful marketplace they will share their experiences with the use of SALT and CLCP in their work with vulnerable groups. The Learning Festival is the last event in one year training and accompaniment of health staff and civil society in Algeria delivered by The Constellation team with facilitators Taha, Dolores, Luc and Marlou, with the aim to improve access to health for migrants and other vulnerable groups.

ABCD Unconference
2022-10-05 - 2022-10-07
Three SALT experiences will be shared during interactive sessions at the ABCD Unconference https://www.theunconference.net/ .
Besides two Indian experiences, The Constellations Go Girl Team from Indonesia will host a session, named: ‘Equipping Youth to address teenage pregnancy’.

Go Girl Kenya: Self Assessment training
2022-11-03 - 2022-11-04
‘How are we doing now?’: Go Girl Facilitation team in Nairobi will take a next step in the Community Life Competence Process. Training in Self-assessment and Action Planning! The Constellation coach Onesmus Mutuku will join our partner lAfrikana in working out the next step with facilitators and in the neigborhood.

The Constellation 18 years celebration
2022-12-09 12:00 - 13:00
The Constellation celebrates its 18th anniversary!
You are invited!
The Constellation members, facilitators and supporters join in a festive online celebration.
We will also be forward looking: how can you contribute to The Constellation at adult age?
Wear something festive, prepare your own glass (with or without bubbles) and show your best smile!
Register here 👇 by Wednesday 7 December latest
https://forms.gle/pfCbuR9JZrhBBbAU6

Voice: Asian Link and Learn Festival
2023-01-20 - 2023-01-22
Representatives from Voice multicountry grantee project in Asia gather in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Constellation is facilitating their linking and learning. On the programme are a Marketplace where participants shop for experience, Learn visits to neighbouring communities and capturing joint knowledge.

SALT-CLCP training, Belgium
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26
BelCompetence (The Constellation Belgium) organises a weekend of SALT-CLCP training from Friday, the 24th of March 2023, at 6 pm, to Sunday, the 26th at 5 pm.
For more information and to register contact Anne Brouha: abrouha@gmail.com.

C20 - Poster Presentations on SALT-CLCP and NCD's
2023-04-07 - 2023-04-09
The Constellation is showcasing its work at the Civil 20 Integrated Holistic Health Summit happening at Faridabad, India, from the 7th to 9th of April, 2023. We are thrilled to showcase the Udaaharan (best practice case study) from the application of SALT and CLCP to NCD’s in India with patient groups (Healthrise project) an in Uganda with Older Persons (Health Nest Uganda).

Shifting Knowledge Power: Pathways towards more equity in learning processes
2023-04-20 12:00 - 14:30
The international solidarity sector is gradually taking a more proactive approach to local communities by supporting local civil societies. Addressing this burning issue involves localizing aid for strengthening systems and organizations, as well as questioning partnerships and governance in organizations.
But is this sufficient ?
The way in which organizations design, monitor, and evaluate actions is not neutral and should be also questioned. More specifically, the methods used in our sector reveal unequal patterns of knowledge production and use that maintain inequality and injustice since they don’t acknowledge all types of knowledge. As a result, Indigenous communities and other knowledge holders from the global South, such as women and youth, are de facto excluded from learning practices.
How can affected people be really empowered through recognizing their situated knowledge? How can International solidarity organizations facilitate this process by revisiting their methodologies and learning processes? How can we shift the power in knowledge production and use ?
See you on April 20th, 2023, to share about your experiences and reflect on practical approaches to bring about change in current practices.
The workshop will be held in French, English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation, from 12:00 to 14:30 French time.
Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/iMZx4a7uL8 (please notice you can select English language on the top of the form).
This workshop is taking place within the Social Change Workshop program. It is being held in cooperation with the global Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community of practice, the Asia-Pacific Evaluation Association and The Constellation.

Go Girl Ghana - SALT-CLCP training
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-18
Go Girl Ghana has been using The Constellation SALT-CLCP methodology since 2018 to enhance ownership by girls and their surrounding communities of issues of concern to them, especially teenage pregnancy and access to education. In 2018 a coaching team of The Constellation trained a core group in Awutu-Senys West district.
Now, Go Girl Ghana has started their activities in a new area, namely: Gomoa East district. One person, Comfort Nukpeta, has already been trained online in the approach during 2021 and together with Leonie Heppener she joined exchanges with facilitators from four other countries where the Go Girl focus was adopted. In 2023 Go Girl Ghana wishes to have a larger facilitation team able to accompany community conversations and actions through SALT and CLCP.
For this purpose, The Constellation will organise a four day training, facilitated by a team of a coach (Onesmus) and a facilitator (Quintonne) from Kenya. Comfort and Leonie will join the facilitation team as well. The trainees will consist of community leaders, community members and teenage girls.

Launch: TUNAWEZA_Raising Awareness About Albinism
2023-06-13
In Tanzania, the African Albinism Network is raising awareness about Albinism. Their lesson: “Albinism is not a problem. If we emphasize love in the family and in society, people with albinism reach their goals”. This Visual Journey gives the self-filmed story by people with albinism. It is a co-production of the African Albinism Network, The Constellation and Visual Development in the context of the Voice Link and Learn process for Multi-Country grantees. Funding: Voice.
Launch on International Albinism Day, in a stage where also Tanzanian National Action Plan on Albinism(NAP) will be launched.

Learn Visit: Temedt - Mali
2023-06-26 12:00 - 14:00
Voice Linking and Learning: Learn Visits
Presents: Temedt
Face to face and online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89426987067?pwd=[REDACTED]
Register here: https://forms.gle/YjP4RpXu8MTX5hTq8
Created in 2006 in Ménaka, following an assembly of over three thousand people from all over the country and abroad, Temedt is the first Malian human rights association to tackle the practices of descent-based slavery that are rife in all communities. Its main objective is to combat slavery throughout the country.
“After twenty years of struggle, we have made significant progress: the taboo of slavery has been broken!
Come and learn with Temedt on how to break the taboo on slavery, and more!

African Link and Learn Festival
2023-07-24 - 2023-07-27
The Constellation facilitates a Link and Learn event for ten Voice multi-country grantees, in Nairobi, Kenya. On the agenda: Bonding, a Market Place to share experience, Learn visits to grantee projects and communities, Community of Practice at Work and reflections on What did we learn? What will we do…

Learn Visit: Deaf Youth Baking
2023-08-27 10:00 - 11:30
Who doesnot like a good cake for a Sunday break?
Join us for a visit to a youth group in Vietnam. They may not hear so well, but baking they can!
PARD Vietnam, partner in the DeafLoud! project funded by Voice is inviting us to an online Learn Visit where they will talk about their experience on a true rightsholder led initiative.
Wiwin Winarni and Margaret Musumbi from The Constellation will help support the conversation where the international audience will Appreciate, Listen and hopefully transfer some new knowledge or skills back to their own context.
Voice Learn Visits are intended at Voice Multi-Country Grantees. All others who are interested to learn are most welcome!
International sign language and spoken French interpretation will be provided.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83811155548?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 838 1115 5548
Passcode: [REDACTED]

SALT-CLCP training in Kakuma Refugee camp
2023-09-04 - 2023-09-07
The Constellation Facilitation team with Onesmus and Aaliyah will travel to Kakuma refugee camp during the first week of September. They will start the transfer of the SALT-CLCP approach to the team of Faulu productions – who had been inspired by The Constellations Go Girl project.
Faulu productions is a community based organization based in Kakuma refugee camp (team on the picture). Their mission is empowering and bettering refugee lives through equity, integrity and inclusion. Their vision is creating a sustainable refugee community where everyone realizes their value and where non-violence , women rights protection and empowerment are in place.
The Faula team intends to mitigate and eradicate the early pregnancy and forced marriage observed from teenagers in most camp based communities. They reached out to The Constellation for inclusion in the Go Girl programme. The Constellation will provide an introductory training in the SALT-CLCP methodology to a team in Kakuma. The methodology will support girls and people around them in finding solutions and establishing behaviour change so that their health and safety are improved. The training will take place from 4-6 September 2023 and will be facilitated by a team of a coach and a facilitator from Kenya, with experience in the Go Girl project at l’Afrikana in Nairobi.
The Constellation has started the Go Girl project in 2021 in communities in five countries, where young girls were especially vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic and teenage pregnancy and school drop out became a bigger problem.

SALT-CLCP training AGUIDE - Guinea
2023-09-12 - 2023-09-14
The Constellation is providing a SALT-CLCP training in N’Zérékoré, Guinea, within the NGO AGUIDE (Association Guinéenne pour le Développement Économique). Participants in the meeting are staff and volunteers of AGUIDE.
AGUIDE plans to develop the SALT approach in the implementation of its activities throughout Guinea. The group to be trained is a multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled team working in several fields: Community Health, Entrepreneurship and Governance, Environment and Sanitation, Rural Economy and Agriculture, Education and Human Rights.
SALT-CLCP Facilitators for this occasion are Pasteur Edmond and Alain Kolie Ouo Ouo (voting member of The Constellation).

Taking the Camera and Microphone in your own hand
2023-10-18 14:00 - 15:00
Since 2022 The Constellation is facilitating the Linking and Learning between grantees of the Voice programme. One element in the process includes the community led filming of good practices. Join the film teams in their conversation about what this is bringing to them and their communities, at the occassion of the yearly ABCD Unconference.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/AXGRUbrjkeDMkca79

Launch Visual Journey: AMANO
2024-04-19 12:00 - 13:30
Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network Visual Journey Launch.
KINDLY Register here for better planning
https://bit.ly/amano2024
Synopsis
Sitio Gayaman, a community facing significant educational challenges, lies in the heart of Tarlac. Despite this, a beacon of hope shines bright through the collaborative efforts of its residents. Led by dedicated ALC teachers, the young and old Aetas embark on a journey towards inclusive education. Profiling parents’ educational backgrounds reveals a stark reality: many are elementary school dropouts, some unable to hold a pencil. Consequently, children struggle with their studies and lack parental support. However, the establishment of the Aeta Learning Center sparks newfound optimism. With unwavering determination, community members contribute their time and effort to building a school from scratch. Through the selfless dedication of volunteer teachers, the ALC becomes more than just a place of learning—it becomes a sanctuary of opportunity and empowerment.

Voice: Global Learning Festival
2024-04-22 - 2024-04-25
The Constellation organises and Facilitate a Global Learning Festival for Voice Multi-country grantee partners.
Theme: Now Us!
Celebrating our contributions towards an inclusive society.

This is a closed event.
