PNI Institute Call: PNI and anthropology OCT 21
On our next PNI Institute call, we will discuss how PNI relates to anthropology. Date Friday October 21 - NOTE - this is one week later than usual Time California 7 00 New York 10 00 London 15 00 Amsterdam 16 00 South Africa 17 00 Melbourne 02 00 (Saturday) Place...
PNI Institute call: PNI and development work
On our next PNI Institute call, we will discuss how PNI is being used in development work.Date Friday September 9Time California 7 00 New York 10 00 London 15 00 Amsterdam 16 00 South Africa 17 00 Melbourne 02 00 (Saturday)Place We use Zoom. Please follow this link....
PNI Institute call: roadmap discussion
It has been a very busy summer for personal and business reasons. So I'm still in the doghouse to do that write-down of the previous call on needs. Hope to finish that before the end of the month. Still all that is no reason not to announce the next call:Date Friday...
PNI Institute call on: needs (continued)
During the last PNI Institute call I said I would do the write-up. This week I was officially put in the Institute's doghouse for failing to live up to that promise. The write-up is maybe finished halfway while the next call is only two days away. I'm sorry about...
Next PNI Institute call: Needs
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...
Next PNI Institute call: Getting people to tell stories
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 zone" of story...
Next hangout: PNI and non-narrative facilitation
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...
Next hangout: Fun in PNI
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 practitioners...
Say that again: another call on PNI and story work
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 "selling broccoli in a candy...
Next PNI2 Hangout: PNI and Story Work
Our last PNI2 Hangout featured a demonstration of the new NarraFirma software. We had a lively discussion about the software and what it can be used for, and some excellent ideas were shared. (The person who usually takes notes was showing off the software, so we...