Are knowledge management and narrative approaches at odds?
If there is one subject in this series of calls on PNI applications that can spark a controversy, it is the forthcoming one on Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning. The KM notion is probably in the top 3 of most abused terms in the recent history of management theory and practice. It has lost most of its meaning, just as happened to sustainability, impact assessment and complexity. In this blog I try to make a modest start to polishing it up a bit. I hope it helps to continue that process in our call next Wednesday.
PNI2 Call Recording October 10, 2018 – PNI to bring people together (dialogue)
On our PNI Institute call on September 12, 2018, we talked about the use of PNI for dialogue, or bringing people together. Tune in to listen to the discussion. We've been collecting some things to talk about before each call, sometimes drawing on other people's...
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....
PNI2 Call Recording July 11, 2018 – PNI to make decisions (decision support)
On our PNI Institute call on July 11, 2018, we talked about the use of PNI for decision support. Before the call, I had been poking around on the internet and found four frameworks or sets of criteria for talking about decision support, so we used them as a sort of...
PNI2 Call Recording June 13, 2018 – PNI to catch emerging trends (weak signal detection)
Our PNI Institute call on June 13, 2018 was the second in our "uses of PNI" series. We talked about the use of PNI to catch emerging trends, or for weak signal detection. We started by talking about how the term "weak signal detection" is not one we'd rather use,...