Are you focused on a difficult social problem, looking for a strategy to make an impact?  Have you pondered how to change the focus from what is going wrong to what is going right?  Come join our free webinar to learn about Positive Deviance (outliers) as a strategy for addressing social problems. 

As described in the Positive Deviance book, this concept “is founded on the premise that at least one person in a community, working with the same resources as everyone else, has already licked the problem that confounds others.”  Positive Deviance offers a method for identifying what makes this difference, and much more importantly – how to help this knowledge spread effectively in a community.

The positive deviance approach does not seek to identify new solutions or external best-practices but seeks to identify existing community resources and solutions that have proved successful in solving community problems.  The core of the Positive Deviance approach is how it engages and transforms the social dynamics in a community that have kept things stuck and allowed problems to persist.  And because Positive Deviance focuses on solutions already proven within a community as opposed to importing external solutions, the community is more likely to accept the change strategy as it comes from within and the solution is more likely to be sustainable.

Come join our free webinar to find out more about Positive Deviance including case studies and current initiatives.  Webinar information and registration is available online at http://www.solvingsocialproblems.ca/webinar-positive-deviance/

We will also be hosting additional webinars in June on topics such as hope as a root cause of health and well-being, a lean approach to public policy, and trauma as a root cause of health and well-being that may be of interest to those working in community.  Find out more about these webinars at http://www.solvingsocialproblems.ca/webinars/