Against the cold running down of entropy, life is the energy that runs up, finds a way, expands into every possible crack, raises up a generation beyond itself. Life goes on. And it goes on in any of your or my short, peculiar and particular span of years.
Yet we mostly pay attention to “death” — what harms, damages, or kills us.
What if we were to focus at least as much on life?
The “Leading Causes of Life” sets out to do that ...
... focusing on what's generative - for individuals, communities, and our world.
Yet we mostly pay attention to “death” — what harms, damages, or kills us.
What if we were to focus at least as much on life?
The “Leading Causes of Life” sets out to do that ...
... focusing on what's generative - for individuals, communities, and our world.
Arvind: “My hope it that this ‘record of our communion’ can create
the enabling container for more such conversations to happen.”
Positive Deviance and Leading Causes of Life
- A First Conversation -
Zoom "UnConference" #1
(by Tom Petersen)
What do you get when you mix PD with LCL?
That’s what 75 people from a dozen countries—from India to South Africa to Nicaragua and the
Netherlands—sought to find out. Hosted from El Paso, Texas, the socially-distanced gathering explored
the synergies and opportunities between “leading causes of life” (LCL) and “positive deviance” (PD).
The online conversation that was originally scheduled to take place in El Paso used Liberating
Structures processes, so at points many smaller conversations were going at once.
Positive deviance says that every community has “certain individuals or groups (the positive deviants),
people whose uncommon but successful behaviors or strategies enable them to find better
solutions to a problem than their peers” (from the Positive Deviance Initiative).
The group included a number of LCL fellows, leaders in a variety of fields who share a conviction
that we should pay greater attention to things that bring life. The day was co-hosted
by Jim Cochrane, Gary Gunderson and Arvind Singhal.
click here for ☞ video
Kudos to Chris Telles and Arvind Singhal who squeezed several hours of conversation
down to this great video summary!
the enabling container for more such conversations to happen.”
Positive Deviance and Leading Causes of Life
- A First Conversation -
Zoom "UnConference" #1
(by Tom Petersen)
What do you get when you mix PD with LCL?
That’s what 75 people from a dozen countries—from India to South Africa to Nicaragua and the
Netherlands—sought to find out. Hosted from El Paso, Texas, the socially-distanced gathering explored
the synergies and opportunities between “leading causes of life” (LCL) and “positive deviance” (PD).
The online conversation that was originally scheduled to take place in El Paso used Liberating
Structures processes, so at points many smaller conversations were going at once.
Positive deviance says that every community has “certain individuals or groups (the positive deviants),
people whose uncommon but successful behaviors or strategies enable them to find better
solutions to a problem than their peers” (from the Positive Deviance Initiative).
The group included a number of LCL fellows, leaders in a variety of fields who share a conviction
that we should pay greater attention to things that bring life. The day was co-hosted
by Jim Cochrane, Gary Gunderson and Arvind Singhal.
click here for ☞ video
Kudos to Chris Telles and Arvind Singhal who squeezed several hours of conversation
down to this great video summary!
El Paso files | El Paso docs |
Click for the Leading Causes of Life: Statement
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The five 'causes' of life - an innovative, dynamic, concretely relevant way of thinking differently about ourselves, our practices, organizations, institutions and societies.
Each 'cause' interacts with the others - reflecting the rich complexity of human action, helping us see where and how to act in life-giving ways. |
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EL PASO GATHERING
OF LCLI FELLOWS April 16-19 at the University of Texas in El Paso MEETING WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS SARS-CoV-2 Some 40 of 60 LCLI Fellows were to meet in El Paso, including some from South Africa & elsewhere, at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), hosted by Prof Arvind Singhal and his "Positive Deviance" (PD) team. Two Zoom 'UnConferences' have since taken place. The first is described above, where the curated, abridged video of its substance can also be found. Life is what it is about
I want no truck with death. – Pablo Neruda A wonderful example of emergent, dynamic complexity unexplained by inorganic or linear logic, only by life.
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