This is a curated list of people and groups who I think are doing good work in areas that are connected to the work I do, either closely or in a more distant way.
People I know who also have bookmarks pages (wouldn’t you like to be listed here…)
- Chris Corrigan (Canada)
People who do Participatory Narrative Inquiry (sometimes mixed in with other things)
- Rachel Colla (Australia)
- Ashley Cooper (US)
- Chris Corrigan (Canada)
- Ron Donaldson (UK)
- Tatiana Feitosa Correa Lima at Set Consultoria (Brasil)
- Shirley Giroux (Canada)
- Marco Koning and Erwin Duurland at StoryConnect (Netherlands)
- Laurent Stoffel (France)
- Aleesha Towns-Bain (US)
Some videos on PNI and projects from the people in the list above
People who do story work that is not PNI but is (mainly or mostly) participatory
- People who do Appreciative Inquiry (International, but here is a center in the US)
- Mary Alice Arthur (Australia)
- Louis Bickford (US)
- Paul Costello (US)
- The people behind Fambul Tok (International)
- People who do Narrative Therapy (International, but the Dulwich Centre in Australia is a good resource)
- Stephen Sillett (Canada)
- People who do Theater of the Oppressed (International, but here’s a group in New York City)
People whose work includes storytelling, story exchange, and story listening
- Madelyn Blair (US)
- Karen Dietz (US)
- David Hutchens (US)
- Artem Mushin-Makedonskiy (Russia)
- Thaler Pekar (US)
- Annette Simmons (US)
People who do story work occasionally while generally doing things I think are useful
- The people in the Art of Hosting group (International)
- Marcella Coulson (US)
- Tom Graves (Australia)
- Stefan Morales, Susan Basterfield, Elena Denaro at GreaterThan (International)
- The people in the Group Pattern Language Project (International)
- The people in the Liberating Structures group (International)
- Mark McElhaw (UK)
- Rob Peagler (US)
- Caroline Rennie (Switzerland)
- Bruce Waltuck (US)
- Helen Kuyper and Lily Martens at the WE Programme and Bring on the Zoo (Netherlands)
People who do collective intelligence and citizen dialogue work
- Tom Atlee (and others) at the Co-Intelligence Institute (US)
- Rosa Zubizaretta-Ada (US)
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (US)
- The National Equity Project (US)
Some blogs I think are interesting and worth checking out, though they are not closely related to my work
- How to Save the World – Dave Pollard’s blog (US) on societal collapse, why that’s bad, and what we are doing about it, among other things
- Heroes not Zombies – Bob Leckridge’s blog (UK, France) about lots of things, including photography, health care, science, nature, complexity, and life
- The Memoir Revolution – Jerry Waxlers’s blog (US) on exploring life through memoir writing
Let’s rebuild our hand-built web!
You can read about my rationale for building this curated list, and my plea to everyone else to do the same, in this blog post. If you would like me to consider adding your link to this page, or if you have a bookmarks page you would like me to list here, send me an email at cfkurtz@cfkurtz.com.