The Constellation for AIDS Competence

What we do SALT Visits Nancy Maina of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi view transcript of video clip Would you like to join us for a SALT Visit? Check the events Contact us "The way that you ask questions is fundamental. If you ask appreciative questions, the self confidence of the community will grow and you will learn more about the people's strengths." Joe Rwomushana, Uganda.	SALT is a way of thinking and relating ourselves to a situation. SALT is the DNA of the Constellation. S is for Support...Stimulate A is for Appreciate...Analyse...Action L is for Listen...Learn...Link T is for Transfer...Team Team members Stimulate further action through their appreciative questions, Support each other in the Appreciation of individual and community strengths, exchange their perspectives about what they have Learned from each visit, and prepare to Transfer lessons learned to their own context.
	Support Team members support each other in choosing 'the other way': seeing strengths in circumstances where our first instinct would be to judge and to look for needs and shortcomings.	Stimulate By revealing community and individual capacity, we stimulate further action both locally and in our own context.
	Appreciate/Analyse The foundational attitude of a SALT team is appreciation of people's strengths: their hopes and concerns, their ability to learn, change and grow. "Communities have capacities waiting to be revealed and nurtured", says Usa Duongsaa of the AIDS Education Programme, Chiang Mai, Thailand.	Learn After each visit, the SALT teams take the time to reflect and exchange perspectives on lessons learned, using the four questions of the After Action Review: What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? Why was there a difference? What can we learn for this?
	Transfer Something else happens during SALT visits: we progress on our individual journeys. “I have been personally transformed through this visit”, says Zahid from Bangladesh. We transfer lessons learned into our own environment and community. Learn more about SALT Visits Record of SALT Visits to Northern Thailand (Word Document) A Methodology for SALT Team visits (pdf file)