What is the Constellation?

Our approach

Change is only real when it springs from within.
Which is why the facilitators and coaches of our network stimulate individuals and communities to take action
through an approach (SALT) that appreciates strengths and fosters local ownership.
In order to achieve ownership, people walk through a rigorous action-learning cycle
called the Community Life Competence Process (CLCP).

About us
The Constellation is a network of individuals, groups, communities and organisations all over the world working hand in hand to help people flourish and contribute to the world we want to live in. To support this network, "The Constellation ASBL" was set up as a registered Belgian non-profit organisation in 2005. We are bound by our belief in the strengths of people to come together, co-create a common vision, address their own challenges, act and adapt.

Our experience

Since 2005, the Constellation has successfully facilitated local responses in more than 50 countries and through over 100 partnerships with governments, international and national organisations but also small groups of people who have found in SALT an inspiring and effective methodology.

Get support

We give you the tools to help you facilitate local responses in your own context. We connect you with local responses and facilitators worldwide for collective learning and progress.

Stories of transformation

A 'positive epidemic'
 “I find the people here racist, but what does that really mean? Maybe they're like that because they do not know us? Maybe we must first respect them for who they are? … As time goes on and contact is established, stereotypes are attenuated, mine as well as theirs ... To restore movement, the easiest way is to change our own outlook because it is also a way of changing others.”

Louis-Marie Butoyi, Director of a Centre for asylum seekers of the Belgian Red Cross.

Quote courtesy of n’GO magazine by Echos Communication. Full article (page 25) here.
“We have done a lot after our mindset shift from being entirely dependent on agricultural extension officers for their interventions to believing that we have our experience and strengths that we can use to take charge of our issues/concerns as farmers... We improved in food production and diversification as well. Group members were sharing increased income at household levels and how this had improved their lives.”

Abednego Kitheka Mutungwa, Kenya.

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"We started from a pattern where everyone complained about what didn't work - and blamed the others. Now we know that we can improve, that we are all responsible and we do our best. My colleague said: "Instead of complaining about the darkness, it is better to switch on the light!" Without the presence of the facilitation team, we wouldn't have been able to do this."

Christophe Boeraeve,
​Belgium.

What can you do?

Our online community
As Constellation members are spread around the world, we have an online community of
practice which provides a sharing platform for more than 2000 members.

What's new?

BURUNDI - FRANCE
“Together, we walk to support reconciliation in Burundi"
The 25th of May, 2 groups in 2 different continents, under the same sky, started to walk a march for peace. 
​Sebastian Kizito, mobilized in Bujumbura (Burundi) youngsters from all around the capital, starting from the football pitch of  Kinanira with slogans and posters, toward the Mpimba prison, carrying needs in bicycles to support prisoners. Meanwhile, in France, Dolores Rey, Luc Barriere-Constantin and their friends, started the Saint Jacques walk to Compostela, 8 days, 1374000 steps (25 km/day).
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Read about the project Reconciliation in Burundi in the annual repport of 2018, in the online community and in the following document from the Constellation.
Reconciliation in Burundi
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We invite you to contribute to the fundraise to start the Reconciliation Project in Burundi.
You can do this through the Constellation website or through the following link.
More photos in the online community here and here.
WASTE TIME!
A World Environment Day Event: Five premieres of ‘WASTE TIME!’,
​the third episode of the Constellation’s ‘As You Open Your Eyes’ documentary series.
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​This event and news from Belgium, Burundi, France and India in the May 2019 newsletter.

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