What Is Positive Deviance Infrastructure?
Positive Deviance Infrastructure means the systems, relationships, opportunities, trusted adults, institutions and local conditions that help positive deviants emerge and grow.
Plain-English answer
Positive Deviance Infrastructure means the systems, relationships, opportunities, trusted adults, institutions and local conditions that help positive deviants emerge and grow.
Key points
- It is not just individual confidence or motivation.
- It includes access, relationships, training, data, permission, institutions and local pathways.
- It asks what needs to exist around people so uncommon success becomes easier to notice, support and scale.
Why this matters
For Positively Devious, the point is not to celebrate exceptional people in isolation. The more useful question is how communities, institutions and programmes can identify what is working and build the conditions that help more people succeed despite barriers.