PNI Institute

PNI Call - Resolving conflicts: Dialogue and understanding with PNI
2018-10-10 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
On this call we will discuss supporting dialogue, understanding, and conflict resolution with PNI (“Resolving conflicts”). We’ll talk about:

What we’ve learned about using PNI to help people see things from each other’s perspectives
How PNI connects to other methods of dialogue like Bohm dialogue and Dynamic Facilitation
Ideas for designing PNI projects to resolve conflicts

PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Call - Getting new ideas: Innovation and future planning with PNI
2018-09-12 20:00 - 21:30
On this call we will discuss innovation and future planning using PNI (“Getting new ideas”). We’ll talk about:

What we’ve learned about using PNI to spur innovation and plan for the future
How PNI connects to other methods of decision support such as scenario planning and future search
Ideas for designing PNI projects to support innovation

PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Call - Break: No call for August
2018-08-08 20:00 - 21:30
We will be taking a break from our PNI Institute calls in August.
PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Call - Making decisions: Decision support with PNI
2018-07-11 20:00 - 21:30
On this call we will discuss supporting the decision making process with PNI (“Making decisions”). We’ll talk about:

What we’ve learned about using PNI to help people make decisions
How PNI connects to other methods of decision support such as SWOT, benchmarking, strategic planning
Ideas for designing PNI projects to support decision making

PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Call - Catching emerging trends: Weak signal detection with PNI
2018-06-13 20:00 - 21:30
On this call we will discuss the use of PNI for weak signal detection (“Catching emerging trends”). We’ll talk about:

What we’ve learned about using PNI to discover and make sense of weak signals
How PNI connects to other methods of trend detection such as focus groups and ethnography
Ideas for designing PNI projects to detect weak signals

PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Call - Finding things out: Doing research with PNI
2018-05-09 20:00 - 21:30
On this call we will discuss the use of PNI for research and discovery (“Finding things out”). We’ll talk about:

What we’ve learned about using PNI to discover insights and trends
How PNI connects to other ways of finding things out – qualitative research, for example
Ideas for designing PNI projects to find things out

PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

Trading stories about PNI projects
2018-04-11 20:00 - 21:30
Our April PNI Institute call will be a story sharing exercise! We will trade stories about PNI projects we have done or heard about: the best, worst, most surprising, and so on. Join the call to share and to listen.
PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 14:00 in New York, 20:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI project stories
2018-03-14 16:00 - 17:30
Our March PNI Institute call will be a story sharing exercise! We will trade stories about PNI projects we have done or heard about: the best, worst, most surprising, and so on. Join the call to share and to listen.
PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 10:00 in New York, 16:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Reading Club: Narrative Inquiry (again)
2018-02-14 16:00 - 17:30
We talked about Narrative Inquiry at our January PNI Institute call, but at the end of the call we felt like we wanted to keep talking about the topic, so we agreed to extend our discussion over another call. So, again, in February we will talk about Narrative Inquiry and how it relates to Participatory Narrative Inquiry.
Choosing things to read for these calls has been a difficult task! I need to find things that are (a) relevant, (b) available online for free, (c) a quick read, and (d) approachable (not full of jargon). (If you know of anything we should read that satisfies these criteria, please let me know.)
Last time I chose this paper:
https://academic.oup.com/her/article/20/2/226/712289
and this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfc-akqgNn8
This time, for those who have already read and/or watched my previous choices, you can read or skim two sample chapters of Understanding Narrative Inquiry posted by Sage Publishing:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/understanding-narrative-inquiry/book240868#preview
I look forward to the discussion!
PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 10:00 in New York, 16:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI Reading Club: Narrative Inquiry
2018-01-10 16:00 - 17:30
Our January PNI Institute call will continue our Reading Club series. This time we will read and talk about Narrative Inquiry, one of the two parents of PNI (the other being Action Research, about which we had a call some months back).
There are many resources online for learning about Narrative Inquiry. I chose this paper for us to read because it gives us a real example of practical use to compare to a PNI project. This three-minute video is also worth watching to get a quick overview of the field. We will talk about PNI’s connections to Narrative Inquiry and how it departs from this well-established research paradigm.
PNI Institute calls take place the second Wednesday of each month, at 10:00 in New York, 16:00 in Europe. Please go to https://zoom.us/j/9067497326 to join the Zoom meeting.

PNI and start-with-a-list methods (again)
2017-12-13 16:00 - 17:00
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On this call we will discuss the relationship of PNI to methods that start with the enumeration of things: forces, factors, strengths, opportunities, threats, assets, and so on. We will discuss how PNI can “ground” such methods to mine experiences rather than simply calling things to mind (which can insert limiting assumptions). We will also talk about the barriers to using PNI to enhance start-with-a-list methods and how we might be better able to overcome them in the future. (Note: We had planned to talk about this before, but we didn’t have the meeting for various reasons. Let’s try again folks!)

PNI and Start-with-a-list methods
2017-10-11 16:00 - 17:30
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On this call we will discuss the relationship of PNI to methods that start with the enumeration of things: forces, factors, strengths, opportunities, threats, assets, and so on. We will discuss how PNI can “ground” such methods to mine experiences rather than simply calling things to mind (which can insert limiting assumptions). We will also talk about the barriers to using PNI to enhance start-with-a-list methods and how we might be better able to overcome them in the future.

PNI Reading Club: Action Research (Yes again)
2017-09-13 16:00 - 17:30
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Our August call was cut short due to (a) some people not being able to come, (b) some people having laryngitis, and (c) some people not having remembered to read the texts. Let’s try again in September! Remember, read something before the call even if it’s only for five minutes!
This call begins our every-other-call PNI Reading Club, where we will read and discuss writings on topics that form the foundations of PNI. (All readings will be available on the internet and will be short enough to read (or at least skim) at the last possible moment.)
This month your assignment is to go to the resource page of Action Research International, peruse the list of (mostly short) writings there, choose one or more, read them, and come to the call prepared to talk about what you have read. (Also: This seminal paper is worth a look.)

PNI Reading Club: Action Research
2017-08-09 16:00 - 17:00
Please follow this link to join the Zoom meeting.
This call begins our every-other-call PNI Reading Club, where we will read and discuss writings on topics that form the foundations of PNI. (All readings will be available on the internet and will be short enough to read (or at least skim) at the last possible moment.)
This month your assignment is to go to the resource page of Action Research International, peruse the list of (mostly short) writings there, choose one or more, read them, and come to the call prepared to talk about what you have read. (Also: This seminal paper is worth a look.)

PNI and labels
2017-07-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
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The topic of this call will be the terms we use in our projects influence success in PNI. Some terms we might talk about would be:

story, anecdote, narrative, etc
analysis, data, results, etc
sensemaking, patterns, emergence, etc
question, survey, information, etc

We’ll talk about our experiences using particular terms and what sorts of general principles work for choosing terminology to use – and with whom – in PNI projects.

Mapping PNI
2017-06-14 16:00 - 17:00
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In this call we will use the Tipu Ake ki te Ora leadership model to map what is and is not PNI. (Yes, we were going to do that last month, but everyone was too busy or too sick to have the call.)

Exploring PNI using the Tipu Ake leadership model
2017-05-10 16:00 - 17:00
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In this PNI call we will build on last month’s call where we decided to explore the Tipu Ake leadership model for innovative organisations. We fill in this model with three versions:

PNI as a field
A typical PNI project from the POV of the facilitator/practitioner
The diagram as a PNI elicitation device.

You can help by attending and joining in in the discussion.

Diversity in PNI
2017-04-14 16:00 - 17:00
The topic of this call is what does and does not constitute PNI.

Diversity in PNI projects
2017-03-10 16:00 - 17:00
In this call we will talk about variety across PNI projects – in scales, goals, topics, participants, etc.

Performance Storytelling
2017-02-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
On this PNI Institute call on February 10 we will discuss what PNI can learn from performance storytelling.

Continuous PNI
2017-01-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
This PNI Institute call we will discuss continuous PNI, or PNI that depends on the ongoing daily collection of stories (usually with periodic catalysis and sensemaking).
