June 2010
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Better confluence diagrams
A comment on my last post (thanks commenter) was that the scan of my 2001 diagram for the confluence model was unreadable. (That’s because my chicken scratches were barely readable to me and I was embarrassed to show them in detail!) So rather than put up a bigger scan, I copied it over to PowerPoint. Read more
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Confluence
Here is a series of recent discoveries regarding models and frameworks for narrative sensemaking. I’ll tell it as a story. (Narrative sensemaking, for those unfamiliar with the term, is where people, usually a group of people, begin with stories, or elements of stories, and consider them in such a way that larger patterns emerge among Read more
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Participative Narrative Inquiry
Recently I’ve started moving “into the onion” on writing the third edition of Working with Stories (I’m calling edition two the addition of the case studies last year, otherwise I’d get too mixed up). And I’m now in the process of forcing myself to confront some of the book’s shortcomings (having completed all possible stalling Read more
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New ideas for emergent constructs
One of my favorite narrative exercises is what I call the derivation of emergent constructs (and some call archetype construction or two-stage emergence). This is a technique for producing representations of shared understandings about aspects of told stories. Note: I later decided to call these things story elements. In the emergent constructs exercise, people either Read more
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Rakontu lessons learned
Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve wrapped up the Rakontu project, updated the web site, closed down the beta sites, and written a lessons-learned document. Rakontu is the free, open source software I wrote last year to help small groups share and work with their stories online. I finished version one of Rakontu in the Read more