PNI Practicum
These posts are about the PNI Practicum online courses I created to help people learn how to do Participatory Narrative Inquiry.
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The email newsletter is ready
Describing the start of the email newsletter (I have spared you the gory details) and the slow startup of the PNI Practicum courses. Read more
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The PNI Practicum courses are ready
This post describes the new, rebooted PNI Practicum courses. It also talks about the changes I have made in rebooting the courses. Read more
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The PNI Practicum courses are on their way back
I’ve been working my way through rebooting my online courses. I thought I might be ready by March, and then April, but there has been (as always) much more to do than I expected. I now plan to start two new courses in May and one in June. I should have a link to my… Read more
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More course adjustments
Just in case anyone is checking this blog to see how my course preparations are going … they’re going, but they’re going slowly. Decisions take time to make, and I’m working my way through a mountain of decisions right now. I’m firm on some things, but on other things I’ve been waffling back and forth… Read more
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New course schedule and other decisions
I’ve been working on getting my rebooted PNI Practicum courses ready to go, and I’ve made several decisions (and changes to my previous plans). If you are interested in taking one of the courses, you might want to hear what has been going on. TL;DR – A new 4-week Prelude course will be starting on… Read more
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New Working with Stories books; New PNI Practicum courses
I am happy to announce that all four books in the new Working with Stories series are finished and published and accessible in three formats: If you think these books are useful, and if you can afford it, please consider buying at least one print or Kindle book or making a donation. I did not have the… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What if I gave a PNI course?
Now that NarraFirma is out there and usable, there’s an idea for a next step that I’ve been playing with in my mind. I don’t know whether it would work. I don’t know if I should put any more time into it. So I’m asking you. What if I gave a course in doing PNI?… Read more