Writing here and there

Lately I've been writing less here because I've been writing more there. On the PNI Institute blog, that is. So right now, if you want to read the new stuff I'm writing, go there.

Why am I writing more there? This year, in our monthly Zoom calls, we've been going through the purposes of participatory narrative inquiry, as described under "Why work with stories?" in Working with Stories. To prepare for the calls, I've been trying to write blog posts about each of the PNI purposes. I haven't managed to do it every month, but these links show what I've written so far, as well as our discussions.

• April - Finding things out: Research and discovery with PNI (no post) (call recording)
• June - Catching emerging trends: Weak signal detection with PNI (post: A signal is a choice) (call recording)
• July - Making decisions: Decision support with PNI (no post) (call recording)
• September - Getting new ideas: Innovation and future planning with PNI (post: Tell a story that must never happen) (call recording)
• October - Resolving conflicts: Dialogue and understanding with PNI (post: Sharing stories with strange people) (call recording to come soon)

These calls are yet to come (and hopefully to be written about):

• November - Connecting people: Community building and maintenance with PNI
• December - Helping people learn: Knowledge management and organizational learning with PNI
• January - Enlightening people: Advocacy and education with PNI
• February - Combinations of purposes

I'll post those links here later (or you could just go and look at the blog there). Calls take place at 2pm New York time on the second Wednesday of each month, here. Everyone is welcome to join us, and calls are recorded and posted as well.

Since my method in writing these posts is to just sit and wait for a while to see what ideas rise to the surface, the posts are starting to form a sort of update to WWS, in the sense of new things I've been thinking about lately with regard to the uses of PNI. So if you are interested to see where PNI is going right now, these posts and discussions might be interesting to you.