2016

• 2016-12-20

  Conference report, part one: Red Blue Dictionary

  When I started this blog post, it read: “This past weekend I went to the 2016 conference of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD).” That was in October. Many things have happened since then that prevented me from writing down my experiences about the conference: another conference just after it, the start of Read more

• 2016-09-14

  Liminal Thinking

  So about a year and a half ago, Harold Jarche introduced me to Dave Gray, whom he met at a conference. Dave was writing a book about agility; Harold told him about my work; Dave wanted to talk. He was interviewing lots of people for his book. I said yes, and thus began a fascinating Read more

• 2016-08-05

  The neverending story of personal storytelling (part three)

  This essay is in three parts, of which this blog post is the third. Click these links for parts one and two. What Mr. Coreander’s choices tell us about personal storytelling I said above that I was going to work my way through the significant choices made by each of six functional characters in The Read more

• 2016-08-05

  The neverending story of personal storytelling (part two)

  This essay is in three parts, of which this blog post is the second. Click these links for parts one and three. What The Neverending Story tells us about personal storytelling Now that we’ve worked our way through all the elements of The Neverending Story, I think we are ready to explore what the book Read more

• 2016-08-05

  The neverending story of personal storytelling (part one)

  This essay is in three parts, of which this blog post is the first. Click these links for parts two and three. I’ve been waiting a long time to write this essay. I thought of it four or five years ago when I was writing a series of posts about natural storytelling. I never wrote Read more

• 2016-05-24

  Where is the participation in PNI?

  Here’s a thought. I saw a reference to participatory narrative inquiry recently that said it’s participatory because during the return phase of a PNI project, stories return to the community. I thought: that’s true, but the return phase isn’t the only place a PNI project can be participatory. There is a place for participation in Read more

• 2016-04-15

  Progress on NarraFirma

  Hey folks. I wonder if people might have wondered what happened to NarraFirma. Here’s an update. After the software’s initial release last October, we found ourselves pretty busy for a while. My husband got busy looking for a job, and now he’s hard at work keeping the job he found. I experienced an uptick both Read more

• 2016-03-10

  A Connection Language: Dialogue, Methods, Collaboration

  A few of you might remember that when I posted my observations from the NCDD conference in October 2014, I mentioned the idea of a “connection language” to interpolate between different dialogue methods. I’ve been playing with that idea ever since. I’ve told about a dozen people about it and gathered feedback. Based on that, Read more

• 2016-02-03

  Course developments

  I have succeeded. My original design for the possible on-line PNI course I talked about a few months ago now looks unbearably stupid. Progress! And how are you? Well, I hope. So what happened was, just as I was working on that blog post in December, I was approached by a Ph.D. student who wanted Read more