The Positive Deviance Initiative has set up a discussion group on Google Groups. The group constitutes a valuable resource for individuals and organizations seeking to apply PD. If you want to join the group, please email us at positivedeviance@positivedeviance.org
Jerry Sternin talks to Tufts e-news about the role of positive deviance in poverty alleviation. Link to e-article
Plexus Institute and Leading Edge Semiars invite you to explore Positive Deviance with Jerry and Monique Sternin, the leading lights of the Positive Deviance Initiative. This training workshop is being held in Toronto from November 3rd to November 4th 2005. Join them and others as they strive to address the social and organizational challenges being faced today. More details on the workshop is available at the Plexus Institute and at Leading Edge Seminars
Michael Bungay Stanier is the Principal of Box of Crayons. This Rhodes scholar is an eclectic mix of Organization Change consultant, adventurer, and "life-long learner", and has helped organizations and individuals "get unstuck, get going on the stuff that matters". He also publishes a monthly newsletter called Outside the Lines. The April 2005 issue of the newsletter presents Michael's journey into Positive Deviance.
Plexus Institute and The Positive Deviance Initiative at Tufts University completed a workshop from Tue, Jun 28, 2005 through Wed, Jun 29, 2005 to explore use of Complexity and Positive Deviance. The report of the workshop will be available soon.
The PD Initiative conducted an Orientation session on Positive Deviance on January 27th 2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Update from the field: Child Nutrition in Mozambique.Tom Davis and his team at Food for the Hungry carried out an extended PD study to assess the determinants of child food insecurity in Mozambique. Read his excellent report
Update from the field: Preventing girl trafficking in Indonesia. Click here for the report.
A CORE (Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group) meeting is planned for this week in Washington, DC to review the PD hearth approach in nutrition to date. Check back next week for full reports.
Update from the field:Fighting Goitre in Indonesia The Indonesia PD Network, comprised of six International NGOs and their counterparts, published their 4th bulletin, with articles in both English and Bahasa Indonesian focusing on on-going PD informed-projects addressing goiter and iodine deficiency, among others
Update from the field: Resolving Conflict in Ethiopia An international NGO, Mercy Corps, is using the PD approach to minimize conflict in Ethiopia. A very interesting appliation of PD!
Indonesia PD Network:Presentation of the activities of the dynamic Indonesian PD Network