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What Makes Us Human? Paperback – October 25, 2016

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"Me, I'm a gangster. The police know me. Until recently, my job was to rob banks and to rape girls. Now, I realise that my life is more important than that!" This is Kasure talking. He lives in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
What caused this change?
When Jean-Louis Lamboray and 11 people from all continents launched the Constellation in 2004, they took the prism of our shared humanity to challenge the status quo. They dreamed of a world where communities would take charge of their own lives and connect for sharing and support. They would not teach nor preach but appreciate community strengths. They would not evaluate communities, but communities would assess themselves and learn from their actions.
At the outset, Jean-Louis and his friends could only count on their own strengths to inch towards their dream. Now they celebrate a "positive epidemic" as in more than sixty countries thousands of communities mobilise their own strengths to address their concerns, shape their dream and act to fulfil it.
Told with the simplicity of troubadours and of African storytellers this story of stories invites you to reflect and to trust in your own strengths as you join others to address collective challenges. And this is only the beginning of the journey...

"Jean-Louis Lamboray is one of the world's most impressive public health doctors. Lamboray's ideas are original and brilliant, and they've worked in practice." Richard Preston, contributor to The New Yorker, currently working on a successor book to The Hot Zone.
"At the Ministry of Health of Senegal, we try very hard to stimulate community ownership of health issues. Jean-Louis's book will help us take further action." Awa-Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Senegal.

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110 pages
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October 25, 2016
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6 x 0.28 x 9 inches
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1504363728
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BalboaPress (October 25, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 110 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1504363728
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1504363723
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Tine to learn anew how to be Human

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2022

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Jean-Louis has done a great service to humanity by making plain what’s hidden in plan sight - the essence of being human is being in relationships! The healthier the relationships the greater the wellbeing for all!

Required reading for all who are dreaming of global equity for a healthy planet!

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I read the book before joining the Constellation, and ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017

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I read the book before joining the Constellation, and in many ways it is because of it that I ended up joining. The biggest gift to me was inspiration: as little as I was I could connect with my profound aspirations, with others, and together we could effect the transformation we wished to see in the world around us. This wasn't yet another book complaining about what was wrong around us, rather it nudged the readers to find deep inside themselves where it is we could contribute to the world- being who we are and harboring the experience/talents/skills we have to offer. The book gives a lot of hope for people be they at the beginning of their journey (of "transforming themselves and thus the world") or well along.

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Love and Appreciation show the Way

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016

Following recent years’ dramatic events, in particular on a political level, one of the questions we must ask ourselves is: “Where are we all going with this?” Have we all become victims of age-old and engrained political and economic systems, created and maintained by those who hold the power (read: the money) and who are covering up their real needs with the trappings of this power?
So, then what is the alternative? Fights, fueled by red-hot hate, against those who we hold responsible for the latest expressions of a deep desire for change? Sadly, as human history has shown, hate begets hate, and a guaranteed downward spiral is as certain as night after day.
And yet, no matter how dark the night, there is always a glimmer of light of hope. And it comes in the form of a testimonial given in the excellent book What Makes us Human?—The Story of a Shared Dream by Jean Louis Lamboray, the co-founder of The Constellation, a non-profit organization originally created to end the AIDS/HIV crisis in the world. The stories in What Makes us Human ? reveal to us what happens when we look another human being in the eye and see his struggles, his strengths, his goodness, the qualities that he can bring to the world and infuse him with pride and the knowledge that he too, can be an agent for positive change in his own world and the world around him.
Imagine if, instead of blaming those who, in their despair resort to violence, destruction and destitution, we brought out the best in them, their inherent confidence (no baby has ever struggled with lack of confidence) and instead make them understand how many competences and how much power they do have to turn their lot around. To illustrate, here is a short section from the book:
“Me, I am a gangster. The police know me. Until recently, my job was to rob banks and to rape girls. Now, I realize that my life is more important than that!” This is Kasure talking. He lives in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Someone asks, “What caused this change?”
“For twenty years, NGOs have come to tell us, ‘Abstain! Be faithful! Use condoms!’ We barely listened. Then a team of the Constellation came and told me my strengths. Nobody had ever told me that I had strengths ... So now I use them!” Now Kasure visits people with AIDS and encourages young people to take responsibility for HIV.”
This is only one example of thousands and of hundreds of different scenarios. What does it teach us? As the experiences with the work through The Constellation have shown, it does not matter what the situation, people have the power to create new realities for themselves and their communities. All they/we need is an encouraging regard and a process that systematically reveals to them/us the diamond within and helps them/us to polish it.
With his book, Jean-Louis Lamboray shows us how . . .

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016

Absolutely captivating and inspiring piece! I was welcomed into the world where challenges are resolved through an internal strength and appreciation. Working as a tennis coach allows me to practice an active mindset everyday. Being active and taking charge of my own life is a choice that goes far beyond any physical effort. For me, to be active means to commit to a present moment with my every sense. Following book describes how different communities all around the world have indeed actively taken control over their own destiny and start to dream and act together in order to fulfill their goals. They are led by a clear shift of attention from challenges and external tools to internal possibilities and strengths. As energy starts to always flow in the area where the attention goes, the core strength of every human being can be released.

Thank you!

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Another reality is possible

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017

This book is about what we really can do as human beings sharing a common world. It is about the joy of feeling that our neighbours are really there when we look at them, and that people from other parts of the world are also our neighbours. This book breaths out hope and confidence in our inherent ability to see and understand human relationships in a way that is sustainable of humanity.
You can read it all in one breath, but then you feel the need to go back to it again to have a longer taste of those situations, attitudes, words that make a person contemplate different possibilities that allow for a life change. It is like paying a visit to all the people that contributed to it, visiting them at home and listening to them as old friends.
A lot of fun and tenderness inside.

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the result may be different from your best dream – but there is always a solution to ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2017

The book tells the story about WHAT IS POSSIBLE. There is always a solution. You need to work hard, the result may be different from your best dream – but there is always a solution to live your full potential while facing the challenges on your way.
It is an example of resilience of people and communities. It describes through different stories what happens when we work from our own strengths and take action on WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR US. Small and big things.
Besides, it also clarifies the way of working of the Constellation. It’s the story of the Constellation told through stories of communities in the Constellation.

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Want harmony & peace? Want communities and citizens to ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016

Want harmony & peace? Want communities and citizens to be agents of their own change? Then the book is a must read! To build teams, nourish organisations, strengthen relationships this is one to reach out for. Going beyond work space it is also about self, and families as we begin to relate to our own lives through the stories. Simple yet interesting writing style which keeps you engrossed till the last page...Read it at one go!

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A must read !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2017

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It is a wonderful true story about how Jean-Louis Lamboray and the other members of their association (The Constellation) succeeded in helping populations in poorer parts of the planet to develop their own, local solutions to the terrible challenges they face.
The book shows how they took distance from the usual ‘we know what’s good for you’ approach and progressively developed an alternative way to help others (called SALT).
The beauty of it is that it is extremely simple, profoundly humane and respectful for all parties and applicable in all situations where we just want to help others. I absolutely don’t work in the humanitarian sector and still I can easily see how I can use what I have learned in the book in my life and in my work. Just loved it!

Yeruva Anthony Reddy

loved to see familiar names mentioned in the book

Reviewed in India on May 18, 2017

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Must read for social workers who intend to make difference among people we work with. SALT as a way of working can make a huge difference among people. As I had part of the community life competence group, loved to see familiar names mentioned in the book.

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