Welcome to the Participatory Narrative Inquiry Institute
Advancing the state of the art in PNI
We founded the Participatory Narrative Inquiry Institute so you — and we — can link to other practitioners in the field of participatory narrative and in connected fields. Our ultimate aim is to advance the state of the art in PNI.
This site offers a calendar of our monthly PNI Institute Calls, a blog with short summaries of our calls, some information about the Institute, and a members page.
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Sharing stories with strange people
In our monthly Zoom calls this year, we have been going through a list of the uses of participatory narrative inquiry. To support our discussions, I've been taking some time each month to think about the topic of the next call. I have no particular process in doing...
Dialogue and conflict during the PNI stages
A bit over a month ago I published a blog post called Complicating the narratives with PNI in preparation for this month’s PNI call on dialogue and conflict resolution. It is about the role PNI can play in constructive journalism. The PNI process itself is however also full of conflicts. So this blog will be about the dialogues and conflicts encountered during the PNI stages: Planning, Collection, Catalysis, Sensemaking, Intervention and Return.
PNI2 Call Recording September 12, 2018 – PNI to get new ideas (innovation)
On our PNI Institute call on September 12, 2018, we talked about the use of PNI for innovation. Before each of these calls, I've been trying to (a) write a blog post about the topic and (b) find some things (ideas, frameworks, papers, etc) we can talk about during the...
Story the Future Summit Sept 10-30
Anyone interested in learning more about the broad landscape of story work will want to check out the Story the Future Online Summit taking place September 10 to 30. I (Cynthia Kurtz) contributed a half-hour interview, as did something like 30 other people in the...
Complicating the Narratives with PNI
Helping people see the world through each others eyes, overcoming personal barriers and connecting people to prevent or solve conflict is one of the core propositions of PNI (working with stories). So it is for good reasons conflict resolution will be the October topic in our 2018 series of monthly PNI talks. So there must be a good reason to blog on this now. Well, there is ….
Tell a story that must never happen
I've been making an effort each month to see if I have anything useful to say about the topic of our upcoming Zoom conversation. Our next topic is the use of participatory narrative inquiry to support innovation. (Yes, that call is in September, and it's August now....
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