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• 2023-11-29

  The open source PNI Practicum courses are ready to go

  Hello everybody. My free and open-source PNI Practicum courses are finally ready for you to use. As of today, any interested group can download the materials, form a cohort, schedule some meetings, and get started. The courses now require a minimum cohort of at least seven people, at least one of whom is comfortable facilitating Read more

• 2023-08-30

  The PNI Practicum is free, and I’m looking for a job

  Okay, folks, it’s time for my biennial “well, that didn’t work” blog post. I have been attempting to make a living as an independent consultant and author for about 22 years. Sometimes my work has brought in an income, and sometimes it hasn’t. Granted, for a large portion of that time I was working various Read more

• 2023-08-22

  Two weeks until the PNI Practicum

  There are still two weeks left to sign up for a PNI Practicum course! The next round of courses will begin (if enough people sign up) on 5 and 7 September 2023. Here I am answering another question people often have about participatory narrative inquiry.  Join us in a PNI Practicum course and learn how Read more

• 2023-08-16

  Three weeks until the PNI Practicum

  Hello again good people of the internet. My next PNI Practicum courses start on 5 and 7 September 2023. Here I am answering a common question about the PNI Practicum: who is it for?  No new signups this week, but there are still three weeks to go! If I get enough signups to run these Read more

• 2023-08-08

  Four weeks until the PNI Practicum

  Good news! As of this moment, ten people have indicated a strong interest in taking one of my September PNI Practicum courses (which start on 5 and 7 September 2023). I cannot yet promise that the courses will happen, but I can definitely say that it is looking increasingly likely. Here I am explaining what Read more

• 2023-08-08

  Five weeks until the PNI Practicum

  (The title of this blog post is not correct. I started posting these videos only on LinkedIn, but decided on the third week to post in both places at once.) Hello good people of the internet. My next PNI Practicum courses start on 5 and 7 September 2023. In preparation, here I am answering another Read more

• 2023-08-08

  Getting ready for the next PNI Practicum Courses

  Hello good people of the internet. My next PNI Practicum courses start on 5 and 7 September 2023. I rarely promote my work, but if I want to give these courses, I had better find people who want to take them. So I am posting new FAQ and testimonial videos once a week until September, Read more

• 2023-05-31

  My next courses will begin in September, not July

  Please excuse me while I learn how to run international online courses. After much feedback, I have decided to move my next set of PNI Practicum courses to begin in September instead of July. This is mainly to accommodate the many people who don’t work (or work much) during some or most of July and Read more

• 2023-05-01

  New course and book developments

  I have updates for you.  Working with Stories is changing I spent most of 2022 writing materials for my new PNI Practicum courses (about which more below).  Both of these resources have been appreciated by my students. However, I don’t want to keep them behind a paywall. It’s not how I do things. So this Read more

• 2023-04-10

  Here I am talking to Madelyn Blair about stories

  Hey everybody. Recently I had a wonderful conversation with Madelyn Blair, one of my role models in getting out there and doing things in the world. It was about stories and working with them, and it was part of an episode of her Unlocked TV show. (Watch out, the music starts suddenly. Made me jump.) Read more

• 2023-02-01

  I Made a Story Journal

  I like to watch YouTube videos in which people do things I like to do – woodworking, photography, crochet – so I can learn. Lately I’ve noticed an interesting trend. People keep giving their videos titles that are condensed stories, like “I Built a Cabin” or “That Rescue Turned Out Differently than I Expected” or Read more

• 2022-11-18

  Getting ready for the first PNI Practicum courses

  Hello people of the world. So I have these two online courses coming up in January, project-based courses in participatory narrative inquiry. I’m pretty excited about them. If you don’t know about them already, you can read about them here. To my surprise, seven people have signed up (or just about) for the PNI Practicum Read more

• 2022-10-04

  Announcing the PNI Practicum

  Hello everyone. People have been asking me to give a course in Participatory Narrative Inquiry for ages. Well: I’m finally doing it.  Some may remember that I started playing with the idea of giving PNI courses way back in 2015. I’ve been encouraged by many of the people I’ve talked to about it, so I Read more

• 2022-03-10

  Cleaning the office again (and what stories are for)

  So I’m working on another crazy new business venture (you’ll find out soon enough), and when I start a new venture I always feel the need to clean my office.  What are stories for? Here’s a thing I came across in my cleaning that I thought you might like to see. Years ago, I wrote Read more

• 2022-02-25

  Mail bag: How many stories?

  Last week somebody asked me a question via email that I’ve already answered lots of times: How many stories should a PNI project collect?  I was about to say “it’s on page whatever in my book,” like I usually do, but then I thought — why don’t I write something new this time, just to Read more

• 2022-01-06

  Narratopia is an open source game

  Two blog posts back, I said I was going to work on Narratopia again. I said I planned to work on two tasks: (1) trim the print-on-demand version of the game to make it cheaper, and (2) make the game easier to translate.  I did try. For weeks. But both of the tasks turned out Read more

• 2021-12-09

  The Confluence Workbook, among other things

  Readers, I have several things to tell you about: a workbook, a podcast, a FAQ, sales, plans, and reviews.  The Confluence Workbook As I worked on Confluence over the past two years, thinking my way through the examples you see in the book (and many other examples that didn’t make it into the book), I Read more

• 2021-10-26

  We Are Now Leaving NarraFirma (for a while)

  As you may know, my husband and I started working together on NarraFirma, our open-source software for participatory narrative inquiry, in 2014. We put out our first release in October of 2015. Since then I have tried to work on the software for at least a month every year. All in all, I would estimate Read more

• 2021-09-24

  NarraFirma 1.5.0 is out

  All righty then. I’ve been working on the latest pulse of NarraFirma development for about two months, and I’ve got some things to show you. I’ll just show you a few of my favorite changes here. For more detail (than you could ever want), visit the NarraFirma blog. Better surveys The surveying part of NarraFirma Read more

• 2021-07-28

  A New Journey to NarraFirma

  Hello everybody. After nearly two years, it’s finally time to go back to work on NarraFirma. I am now beginning a new development pulse. Hooray! In fact, I have already released a new minor version. You can read about the changes in version 1.4.2 in the narrafirma.com blog post announcing the release.  Now here’s my Read more