<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hello All</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Further to my being in West Sumatra in May of this
year to give a keynote address at an international conference on ‘The Health
Care Revolution in Indonesia’ …at which I suggested that OST is a very effective means by which to enable communities
to communicate their perceived needs for health care services. See:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://openspaceworld.ning.com/forum/topics/sewing-seeds-for-ost">http://openspaceworld.ning.com/forum/topics/sewing-seeds-for-ost</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The organizer of the conference was Prof Dr Elfindri (like
many people in Indonesia he has only one name) who was one of my PhD students
when I was an academic nutritionist in a medical school in Australia in the
early 90s. While his background is in economics he wished to better understand
the relationship between the nutritional status of communities and their
productivity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the course of his studies I passed on to him the concept
of Positive Deviance (PD). He used this approach in the field work for his PhD
thesis and subsequently in further studies. So successful did this prove that
he published widely on the approach and also set up his own publishing company
to produce books on the topic. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Elfindri is now a well respected and well connected
person in Sumatra and beyond in Indonesia. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He invited me back late last month
to present, jointly, a series of seminar/workshops on OST and PD in several
cities around this island, all to audiences comprising mainly staff and
students of private universities. My role was to cover matters to do with OST, his
on PD. We both also introduced our respective perspectives on ‘soft skills’ or
‘people skills’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here are brief points about these elements
of our presentations:<span style=""> </span>‘Experiential' OST,
PD, roles of Dania Pratiwi.<span style=""> <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style=""><br></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1. ‘Hands on’ experience with OST</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In only one of the four sessions was there opportunity
to provide this, given limitations of time and space. Nonetheless I touched on OST
as a means of communicating with communities and its potential significance for
health care practitioners wherever possible. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the first of the presentations, scheduled for a
morning only, in Padang, while 500 participants were expected 1300
materialised. No possibility! In two others the time was even more limited and
so no prospect either. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the one where there was an opportunity (a full
day event in Pekanbaru, in Riau province), the time allocated was two hours
only. And with an audience of some 250 - in a theatre with fixed seats that did
not swivel - there was no possibility of having a circle! This audience
comprised staff and students of nursing, midwifery and health education. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Very briefly – the OST experience happened and
happened well. I had mentioned in a talk in the morning that it would take
place, immediately after lunch, and what the potential value to them could be. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And had shown </span><a href="http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/john-engles-short-sweet"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">John
Engle’s lovely video</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> at the Mennonite Health Assembly Open
Space. (Also to the 1300 strong audience earlier). John, even while you and
your family are in a precarious situation in Haiti your influence is
percolating nicely in Indonesia. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In introducing the ‘hands on’ I:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. suggested to the audience that they imagine that
they were in a circle! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. walked up and back up the centre isle of the
theatre, in lieu of the circle, making eye contact with as many of the audience
as possible. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. spoke to the principles and associated ideas which
Dania – see below – had produced beautifully and which were on display on the
front of the stage. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. indicated that the theme was ‘How may health care
practitioners improve the nutritional status of children?’ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. also indicated that there was time only for one
breakout session of about 75 minutes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. invited everyone to come down to the front where
there were paper and pens, and write what they thought was important to
explore. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. encouraged those who had a topic to offer to come
to the front again to announce it. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whoosh! Immediately I had finished saying these
things about 15 people from all parts of the audience ran (no leaped!) down,
picked up their paper and began to scribe furiously.<span style=""> </span>And then came forward to announce – through a
hand held microphone – their topics. Having done this they pinned their papers
to a board. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What to do next? With only about 75 minutes for the
break out session and about 15 topics I suggested that we pick five of them,
randomly, to become the agenda items. These were then typed up by Dania and
projected onto a large screen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Once this was done I invited the proponents of each to
come down the front and allocated them a number from 1 to 5. I then asked them
to follow me up the centre isle, where I ‘deposited’ them - each holding a
piece of paper with their number on it- about 10 metres apart. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When all were in position I invited everyone to go
to join with the person whose topic attracted them, find a place to gather and
get on with it! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(As an aside I would add that, while this was
happening, I felt a totally unexpected attack of diarrhea coming on. The food
in Sumatra – similar for every meal of the day – is very spicy, normally no problem
for me.<span style=""> </span>Having finally said ‘go to it’ I
had to dash and only just made it!).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On my return, much relieved, to the hall I found
that all the groups were sitting on the floor between the stage and the first
row of seats, and were thoroughly engaged.When the time was up I asked them to hand in their
reports. At least one of these was ‘voluminous’ in that the scribe had recorded
several pages of notes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And then invited anyone to come down to the
microphone to express their experience of being a participant. <span style=""></span>As this was all done in Bahasa Indonesian I
did not follow the details. What I did gather were three comments:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. Until this experience I had always thought that
only the most intelligent members of a class were capable of coming up with
ideas on a topic such as the one we addressed. Now I know that anyone may do
so. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. When my colleagues and I do research we usually look
at the negative side of issues. I can now see that looking for positive aspects
would be very valuable. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<span style=""> </span>I have
never before imagined myself coming forward to talk to an audience this large.
Today I have done it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Who knows what the principals of this private
university made of their observations of this event? (The three of us had to
leave immediately after to appear in a live local TV program). In my
experience the chances of receiving direct feedback are not great. Nonetheless
I always invoke my own primary measure of success: It happened! <span style=""> </span>Being invited back would be another indication
of impact.</span>
</p><h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">2.
Positive Deviance </span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Referring
to my post: ‘OST and PD (Positive Deviance)’ 11 Nov 2010 and the comments on
this:</span><br></h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While PD and OST are highly complementary
they are different approaches. PD, in my understanding, provides a powerful
framework for conceptualizing what is ‘working’ well, what to look out for and
how to use insights and knowledge of why some people do better than others in
seemingly similar situations. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Implementing such knowledge in particular
contexts requires a different skill set from facilitating OST forums. Joelle
Lyons Everett, in Seattle, does both and says that her background in OST serves
her well for her work as a coach of PD in addressing MRSA infections in
hospitals.<span style=""> </span>I suspect that Henry Lipmanowicz
and Lisa Kimball would say the same, <i style="">nes
pas? <br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i style=""><br></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3. Roles of Dania Pratiwi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dania, a recent graduate from the University of
Indonesia in Jakarta, was the ‘logisitics’ person on this enterprise. See </span><a href="http://conversare.net/?p=448"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://conversare.net/?p=448</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
for more information on how this came about and to gain a sense of who she is. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She was the most personable and capable person
imaginable to do this. She took everything in her stride, mainly translating
what I was saying but plenty more, as an integral member of ‘The Three Amigos’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Something which I learned during our several most
enjoyable days together was that Dania’s one and only experience of OST to date
was at the <a href="http://www.imamsetrabbins.org/en/congresses/detail/1/10/7">Second
World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace</a> in Seville, Spain in March
2006. This was as a 19 year old member of an organization called ‘Children of Abraham.’
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There she met Harrison who facilitated an OST
session. And also, for the first time in her life as a Muslim, Rabbis. “I met a
lot of Great Imams and Rabbis there and learned a lot of things from them. I
learned that we can always turn our enemies into friends. I also learned that
we may be different, but inside we are brothers.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This experience prompted Dania to join the
OSlistserv, which is how she came to offer her assistance when she saw that I
would be working in Indonesia in May of this year. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As you may surmise doing this work with Elfindri and
Dania </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was likely to be eye-opening for
many people, and certainly </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was truly wonderful experiencing for us. The portents are that there will be follow-ups next year. <br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Go
well</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Alan<br>
Hong Kong </span></p>
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