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People have the internal wisdom to change their lives when given the right encouragement and resources

A recent article by Eleanor Mill’s in The Sunday Times, ‘Done heroin, had a kid, now she’s hooked on finding a job’ made an incredibly inspirational read. A lady named Jane, who grew up in a family that has depended on benefits for generations, and who found herself spending a decade on heroin ‘just existing,’ [...]

Woodward Lewis provides Positive Deviance insight to the National College of School Leadership Conference

In October, Jane Lewis and Jez Edwards spoke at a workshop for aspiring Directors of Children’s Services at the National College of School Leadership in Nottingham. Woodward Lewis was asked by the NCSL to give an overview of Positive Deviance – a new engagement and empowerment tool that delivers behaviour change within existing resources. The [...]