Dear All I am going to West Sumatra (different parts this time) in Indonesia next week to continue the process of introducing OST to university lecturers and students in the field of health care.
http://openspaceworld.ning.com/forum/topics/sewing-seeds-for-ost One of my former PhD students and I will do this together. He will add his considerable experience with PD which can be seen to be a complement to OST in particular contexts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Deviance and http://www.positivedeviance.org/about_pd/index.html Which means that not only will participants become aware of how to engage with communities about their perceived needs for health services. They will also come to appreciate that there may already be effective strategies in place within communities on which to build, eg local initiatives in child care that health care practitioners would not know of unless they looked out for them. Further, how to encourage the invention of such strategies through conversation, and story telling of successes elsewhere, about possibilities. *I wonder if anyone has had experience in using OST in conjunction with Positive Deviance? * Along with our friends Henri Lipmanowicz, Lisa Kimball and Joelle Lyons Everett, all of whom were present at the wonderful WOSonOS in Marysville, near Melbourne, in 2002. * And who are among the contributors to the new book 'Inviting Everyone - Healing Healthcare through Positive Deviance'. Looking forward Go well Alan * Sadly, as you may be aware, the lovely hotel which was our residential venue and most of this country town were destroyed in a bush fire last year. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
