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Life works. 

Life - energy that runs up, finds a way, expands into every corner. 

The “Leading Causes of Life”  ...
asks what's generative for persons, communities, and our world.
Briefings
LCLI Fellows
​ LCL Explained​

'Flip to Life' Videos (click [ ] for full screen)
- Basics -
Leading Causes of Life
Positive Deviance
LCL & PD Perspectives
What Joins us?


'Leading Causes of Life' - General
On Iniquitous Mortality Rates
Being  Neighbour & Justice
Challenges for Public Health
Equity, Justice & Eugenics


'Opening Up Conversation'
'Community Mobilization'
'Importance of Agency'
'Critical Care & Inequity'

Some  'positive deviance' examples
'Mother Teresa, Ella & Mae'
 'We did it ourselves' 
'Women in rural India'
'Sites of Subjugation'
'Where civilization starts'
'Enhanced Resilience'
'Bedouin children in Negev'
'Case Managers - Differently'​
'Managing diabetes positively'

Full LCL/PD Zoom UnConference recordings

Positive Deviance &
Leading Causes of Life


A First Conversation

The full video exploring the interface of “leading causes of life” (LCL) and “positive deviance” (PD). 

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Pathfinder Interview

Inequity to Equity #1
​Prof Kanwaljeet 'Sunny' Anand, Kevin Barnett, Lucia Dura & more . 

  🎥   click here for ☞  video
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Pathfinder Interview


Inequity to Equity #2 
Horst Kleinschmidt,
​Evance Kalula, Eva Moya and others.


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El Paso files | El Paso docs​ 
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​Agency
Coherence
Hope
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Connection
Intergenerativity​
(or Blessing)​
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- thinking differently on the rich com-plexity of human action to help us see where/how to act in life-giving ways.

EL PASO GATHERING
OF LCLI FELLOWS
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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.

The Barefoot Guide 6:
Generative Leadership


 NOW AVAILABLE FREE

 Click for Online download 

Drumbeat:
Musings from our fellows

Life has a way of rolling, not unlike a 'murmuration,' something starlings and
​other birds do.
Creating life together
by Gary Gunderson
It can all fall apart, this democracy thing. It’s not like gravity that makes rocks fall, even if youdon’t believe in it. Democracy only lives in the mind and spirit and evaporates when we forget it. .....
​Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems
by Charmian Love and Rachel Sinha
     
About capturing the energy to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system ... seeking unusual solutions  that acknowledge the complex interconnected issues that make a failing system so hard to transform.

​3 LCLI-related books

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