boston conference
Cheryl Honey
wecare at familynetwork.org
Wed Apr 13 06:01:44 PDT 2005
Funda:
Please share with us your meaning and intention of "welfare" .
I have a friend in Burundi who puts his life on the line every day
rebuilding houses that have been destroyed from the Tutsi/Hutu skurmishes.
He taught me that welfare is not a one way street. It's a reciprical
exchange that benefits both parties.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: boston conference
> Lisa,
>
> We don't need your ideas...what we need is welfare....if you really want
to
> help us.
>
> Funda
> from a so called developing country.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lisa Kimball" <lisa at groupjazz.com>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: boston conference
>
>
> > Thank you, Masud, for the references to the work of Mohammad Younus and
> > Akhtar Hameed Khan. Are there some articles or other sources that would
> > give more information about their work?
> >
> > Too often I think we have the idea that we need to send ideas from the
> west
> > (north) to help others and we forget that we could learn from ideas
coming
> > FROM developing countries.
> >
> > * lisa
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Masud
> > Sheikh
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:48 AM
> > To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [OSLIST] boston conference
> >
> >
> > Dear Lisa,
> > This is wonderful. I was particularly struck by the comment:
> > "It use was pioneered in developing countries and has led to sustainable
> > improvements in seemingly intractable organizational and social issues."
> >
> > Two examples immediately came to mind: Mohammad Younus in Bangladesh on
> > micro-credit. A great man (Akhtar Hameed Khan) now deceased, who
pioneered
> > some wonderful examples of self-help & community building in Pakistan,
and
> > earlier in then "East Pakistan" (now Bangladesh).
> >
> > While I will be unable to come to this conference, I shall probably come
> to
> > the OS on OS in Halifax, on the east coast of my new homeland - Canada.
I
> > have no idea how OS on OS runs, and have hardly any real experience of
OS.
> > But to know more about OS, I can think of nothing better than meeting
with
> > people who seem to live and breathe OS.
> >
> > Are you planning to come to Halifax?
> >
> > Take care, all of you
> > Masud
> >
> > In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth while the
learned
> > will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no
> > longer exists - Eric Hoffer
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Lisa Kimball [mailto:lisa at groupjazz.com]
> > >Sent: April 11, 2005 11:15 AM
> > >Subject: boston conference
> > >
> > >Hi! I thought you might be interested in a very intriguing conference
> > >coming up in Boston in June . This 'positive deviance' approach shares
a
> > >lot of theoretical roots with appreciative inquiry and complexity
> > frameworks and I think is very aligned with some of our thinking in open
> > space too!
> > >
> > >From the Inside Out: Uncovering Solutions to Intractable Problems
> through
> > >Positive Deviance
> > >Tufts University, Boston, MA
> > >June 28-29, 2005
> > >http://www.plexusinstitute.org
> > >
> > >Positive Deviance, an approach developed over the past fourteen years,
> > >demonstrates that isolated examples of success can be tapped to
benefit
> an
> > >entire community or organization. Accomplishing this requires a
radical
> > >departure from "benchmarking" and "best practice" strategies of
change.
> > >
> > >Plexus Institute and The Positive Deviance Initiative at Tufts
> University
> > >invite you to explore Positive Deviance with Jerry and Monique
Sternin,
> > >leading Positive Deviance (PD) authorities and pioneers, and Arvind
> > >Singhal, a scholar-practitioner on social change, and join with others
> who
> > are searching for solutions to some of the critical social and
> > organizational challenges facing us today.
> > >
> > >The PD approach builds on successful but "deviant" (different)
practices
> > >that are identified from within a community or organization. It is
based
> > >on the observation that in every group there are certain individuals
> whose
> > >uncommon, but demonstrably successful practices or behaviors enable
them
> > >to find better solutions than their neighbors or colleagues who have
> > access to exactly the same resources. It use was pioneered in developing
> > countries and has led to sustainable improvements in seemingly
intractable
> > >organizational and social issues.
> > >
> > >The Harvard Business Review features PD in its May 1, 2005 edition.
The
> > >approach has also begun to penetrate the corporate consciousness. It
was
> > >employed at Goldman Sachs and was instrumental in transforming the
> > >behavior and practice of its nationwide force of investment advisors.
It
> > has been used to tackle gnarly technical challenges at Hewlett Packard,
> and
> > >hospitals have begun to use PD to address quality improvement
> challenges.
> > And a PD workshop was just held at the January 2005 World Economic Forum
> in
> > Davos. PD is unlike traditional expert-driven models for social and
> > organizational change. Like the human immune system, individuals and
> > institutions reject what is perceived as "foreign matter". When
"experts"
> > provide "best practice" strategies for organizational changes, which are
> > externally identified, and "not invented from within", they face
> rejection.
> > The Positive Deviance approach provides an antidote to the immune system
> > defense mechanism; the solution and the host share the same "DNA" and
the
> > change comes from within. Those in a community or organization are
helped
> to
> > discover the positive deviants in their midst, understand the strategies
> > they employ and then create among themselves a process for enrolling the
> > larger community in the desired change. Change is from inside out. This
> > workshop will provide an overview of how and where PD has been
> successfully
> > used to address problems requiring social or behavioral change. All
> > participants will learn the 4 steps of the PD process design to nurture
a
> > PD-based change initiative on an issue of importance to them.
> > >
> > >I'd be happy to share more info if you're interested!
> > >
> > >* lisa
> >
> > >Lisa kimball
> > >Group Jazz, Suite 440
> > >5335 Wisconsin Ave NW
> > >Washington, DC 20015 USA
> > >P: +1 202.686.4848
> > >F: +1 202.966.3772
> > >E: lisa at groupjazz.com
> > >www.groupjazz.com
> > >
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