Our approach

Communities think and act for and by themselves.
Facilitators stimulate  action through an approach called SALT
that appreciates strengths and fosters local ownership.
In order to achieve ownership, communities walk through a rigorous
action-learning cycle called the Community Life Competence Process.

About us
The Constellation is a registered Belgian non-profit organisation. We are bound by our belief in the strengths of individuals and communities to 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.

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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?

​As You Open Your Eyes Documentary First episode ​coming up soon!
Common Ground project
“We left Aleppo behind us. Our home and neighbourhood was completely destroyed. There was fire, destruction, despair. Now, here in Amsterdam, we look out of our window and we see the new future taking shape.”
 
One process in the partnership between the VluchtelingenWerk (Dutch Council for Refugees) and the Constellation is the "Common Ground" project: tandems (a Dutch who took refuge in the Netherlands and another who was born and raised there) make home visits to new residents of Amsterdam in a spirit of inclusion and living together in diversity.
​This initiative of openness toward others and more in the March newsletter.

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