Story-Colored Glasses – Page 2 – A blog about organizational and community narrative

2024-11-03

Progress + gratitude

Hello everybody. I have just finished rewriting the 9th chapter of Working with Stories. I have 5 chapters left to go. The writing is going well, and I am gaining confidence in my hope that WWS4 will be more helpful to people than WWS3 has been. I’m wrapping up my gift to the world, and… Read more
2024-07-23

Surgery

Major surgery. Not for me. For Working with Stories. Lately I have been expanding my book Working with Stories into a four-book series: Recently I finished writing Working with Stories Simplified, which I started working on two years ago when I was building my online courses. Next on my list was the updating of WWS… Read more
2024-07-06

One down, three to go

I have just uploaded my finished book manuscript for Working with Stories Simplified. You can download it on the “More” page at workingwithstories.org. Now an update and an explanation. When I wrote here last, I was looking for a job, having given up on making (enough) money from consulting and online courses. I looked for… Read more
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
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