by Cynthia Kurtz | Apr 8, 2016 | Announcements, Events
What do the people involved in story projects need? What do you need as a facilitator? Did you get permission from anyone to do the project? Did you get funding? What do those people need? What do the project’s participants need? What are the needs of people who...
by Cynthia Kurtz | Mar 23, 2016 | News
Our next PNI Institute call will be about getting people to share stories. We’ll talk about expectations of what stories are for, how personalities and identities influence what people think about sharing stories, and how we can get people “into the...
by Cynthia Kurtz | Mar 1, 2016 | News
Our next PNI hangout will be about how PNI relates to non-narrative approaches that bring people together to do things. People call these activities by many names: brainstorming, design work, decision support, and just plain old facilitation.Non-narrative...
by Cynthia Kurtz | Jan 22, 2016 | News
Yes, our next hangout is going to be a lot of fun. We’re going to talk about fun in participatory narrative inquiry. What makes a PNI project fun – for its participants, for the people running it, for the whole community or organization? How can we as...
by Cynthia Kurtz | Dec 31, 2015 | News
Our last call, on December 11, was about how PNI fits into the larger milieu of “story work.” We had a lively discussion that I’ve mostly forgotten. The things I remember are:How getting people to think about listening to stories is like...
