by Tom Peterson | May 11, 2021 | Positive Deviance
From our friends at the Positive Deviance Collaborative: Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 19, 2020 | Positive Deviance
Maybe there are a few oddballs doing something right. And maybe they can point the way for the rest of us. In facing a tough social challenge positive deviance tells us to look for any outliers who may be like everyone else but who found a solution through their...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 5, 2020 | Leading Causes of Life, Positive Deviance
Thanks to Arvind Singhal for pointing us to this timely TED talk: Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe — for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be able to scale traditional methods of...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 4, 2020 | Leading Causes of Life, Positive Deviance
A conversation about the intersection of Positive Deviance and Leading Causes of Life discussed by: Soma Saha, MD of the Wellbeing in the Nation (WIN) Network Bobby Milstein, the Rippel Foundation Craig Stewart, Warehouse Trust Carla Alvarado, National Academies of...
by Tom Peterson | Oct 28, 2020 | Leading Causes of Life, Positive Deviance
The awakening at the confluence of Stewardship, Leading Causes of Life, and Positive Deviance (Long Read) By Gary Gunderson with Arvind Singhal, Jim Cochrane, Teresa Cutts, Bobby Milstein and Somava Saha* Back before COVID we had planned an UnConference...
by Tom Peterson | Sep 4, 2020 | Leading Causes of Life, Positive Deviance
Inequity to Equity Part Duex: The Leading Causes of Life & Positive Deviance Approach. Produced by Arvind Singhal & Chris Telles This video features the Pathfinder Interview II with Horst Kleinschmidt, with responses from Evance Kalula and Eva Moya… plus...