2018

• 2018-12-28

  A little bit of history repeating

  This blog post has been moved to (and revised for) The Working with Stories Miscellany. You can find it in Chapter 19. Read more

• 2018-10-25

  Guest post – Before anything, storytelling is a conversation

  Readers: I don’t think I’ve ever done this before, but I’d like to do it more often. This post was written by Juan Manuel Rodríguez Bocanegra of the Haki Storytelling blog. I am sure that you will find Juan Manuel’s insights valuable. Last year, I contacted Cynthia Kurtz and asked her to be a guest Read more

• 2018-10-10

  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 Read more

• 2018-08-27

  Story the Future summit Sept 10-30

  So a while ago I got an invitation from David Hutchens, who wrote Circle of the 9 Muses, to take part in an online summit he and some others were putting together on the future of story work. It seemed like a good thing, so I said yes. Then he asked me to tell you Read more

• 2018-08-09

  Works in progress

  This is not a here’s-something-to-think-about blog post; it’s a why-hasn’t-she-been-posting-anything blog post. Just so you know going in. Store-bought stories (yes, still) In between other things, I’ve been working towards finishing the book of essays I started writing almost ten years ago about how we don’t tell everyday stories as much as we used to. Read more

• 2018-05-28

  Underbutterflies are free

  About a year ago I cleaned up my old “butterflies” blog post (one of the most popular) and submitted it to the Journal on Policy and Complex Systems. After acceptance, review, and revision, the journal volume is now out, and you can read and download the improved version of the paper (or read the stand-alone Read more

• 2018-05-10

  Mail bag: On transcribing storytelling

  I’m deep in some intense (and fascinating) reading as I work on the last essays in the “Store Bought Stories” book. But the blog is hungry, so I went looking in my mail bag again. Here’s an anonymized (names and details changed) excerpt from some emails I sent recently to somebody who was working on Read more

• 2018-03-07

  Stories, narratives, and hasty generalizations

  This blog post has been moved to (and revised for) The Working with Stories Miscellany. You can find it in Chapter 16. Read more

• 2018-02-13

  Narratopia in Dutch!

  Narratopia is now available in Dutch, in both boxed (ready to play) and print-and-play versions. The game was translated by Annemijn van Garderen with help from her dad, Harold. Many thanks to both of them for making it happen. If you are interested in helping me translate Narratopia to a language you know well, send Read more

• 2018-01-31

  Mail bag: Dimensional axes for sensemaking

  I get emails pretty regularly from people looking for a bit of focused advice on some aspect of PNI work they are doing. I almost always respond (though usually not immediately). It occurred to me the other day that most of these responses would make good blog posts. So: this is the start of a Read more

• 2018-01-12

  Here I am talking about NarraFirma

  I finally managed to update the NarraFirma introduction video. I’m sure I’ll hate it in a year’s time, but for now, this is as good as it’s going to get. If you have any questions about NarraFirma, be sure to send them along. Read more