Series of blogs on PNI tools
The PNI Institute is currently formed by members that run their PNI practice and strive to improve PNI methods via this platform. Choosing where to publish advancements and where to discuss them is and should be a topic of constant debate.For the moment we've come to...
Less is More
Last Friday, in Preston, UK, I was helping to teach engineers 'how to facilitate TRIZ workshops' as part of Oxford Creativity's five day TRIZ training course.Priding ourselves in maintaining as experiential a day as possible, after an energiser, we start with an hour...
Researching means to therapeutic ends*
In this article I explore how we may set up our PNI projects in a way that deepens the benefit that participants gain from the process of contributing stories. What if the research we conducted moved beyond an extractive paradigm towards a participatory approach? What...
Ron’s voyage of discovery into PNI
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself...
In love with SPSS
As a psychology student I was one of a kind. My favourite school subject was Methods and Design of Research, and even more rarely, the school subject SPSS (a program to do all kind of statistical calculations). We started to work with SPSS in DOS and it cost a lot of...
Circling around what we do (my past and future with PNI)
To start off our pni2.org blog in style, we thought we would recount our histories with participatory narrative inquiry (PNI) and our hopes for the future. Into the past How can I describe my journey with PNI? I can't, because it hasn't been a journey. I've never been...
A provenance into Participatory Narrative
A famous Indian saying states that it is impossible to step into the same river twice. The idea behind the saying is that the river changes all the time. In the same vein it's hard for me to say when my journey into PNI began because there are so many things that...
Aiden’s journey into PNI
What's in a word? A world! - Michael White Hi there My name is Aiden and I'm based in a town to the east of Johannesburg called Benoni. I currently run The Narrative Lab, a small organisational development and applied research consultancy that uses narrative...