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• 2024-02-23

  New paper, new network name

  Hey everybody. I wanted to tell you about a new paper on Participatory Narrative Inquiry that has just come out. Written mostly by my colleague Rachel Colla (though I helped a little), the paper makes a strong case for the use of PNI in Wellbeing Research. I was so impressed by how Rachel pulled together… Read more

• 2021-01-18

  Introducing the Participatory Narrative Practitioner Network

  Today I want to talk to you about the PNI Institute, its history, its ending, and its successor. (Book update: I am still working on the last chapter. It is shaping up well, though more slowly than expected. I hope to be ready to send the book to my early readers in the next 3-4… 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

• 2017-02-01

  Conference report, part four: Cross method mapping

  This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about two conferences I attended this fall (NCDD and NYSDRA). Now I’ll talk about Cross method mapping with the Group Works cards. As some will remember, I first started thinking about a way to connect the hundreds of methods and approaches that surround the practice… 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

• 2015-06-02

  Let’s talk

  Over at the PNI Institute, we are holding our very first “Hangout” this Friday, July 5, at: Our hangouts will be: To avoid the inevitable problems using Skype with more than a few people, we will be using our new Mumble server. For details on how to connect, and to read more about what we… Read more

• 2014-10-04

  Introducing the Participatory Narrative Inquiry Institute

  Well, folks, I’ve gone and got myself mixed up in another crazy scheme to save the world. The PNI Institute is a new membership organization for people who are enthusiastic about growing and improving participatory narrative inquiry. It has been created as a collaborative effort by Aiden Choles, Ron Donaldson, Harold van Garderen, and myself.… Read more

• 2014-08-17

  Dialogue, deliberation, and stories

  Now that the (first) book is finally done, I’ve been starting to pick up my head and look around me at what the rest of the world has been up to. One of my book-finishing cheerleaders (thank goodness for these people) brought my attention to the US-based National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, and to… Read more