Welcome to the Participatory Narrative Inquiry Institute
Advancing the state of the art in PNI
We founded the Participatory Narrative Inquiry Institute so you — and we — can link to other practitioners in the field of participatory narrative and in connected fields. Our ultimate aim is to advance the state of the art in PNI.
This site offers a calendar of our monthly PNI Institute Calls, a blog with short summaries of our calls, some information about the Institute, and a members page.
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Blogs, news and other posts ….
Announcing PNI2 hangouts
Hey everyone. We are excited to announce that, because we have got to (somewhere around) 50 registered members, we are going to start holding bi-monthly "hangout" calls. These will be times to connect and share ideas with each other. Here's the plan. The first Friday...
The intricate art of PNI. Making sense of PNI instruments
The concept of PNI seems to be easily understood by many who are confronted with it for the first time. Simple explanations like asking a question whose answer is a story and asking questions about stories usually do the trick.To explain the method itself, especially...
Receiving the baton
(Note: This post was written by Daryl Cook, who recently joined the PNI Institute as an Associate Member.) Ron felt the ‘whack’ of the baton as it swung up into his hand from the first blogger, Cynthia. He closed his hand around the baton, and sprinted off like mad...
Welcoming Bruce Waltuck
The PNI Institute is happy to announce that Bruce Waltuck has joined as an associate Member. Bruce Waltuck has been helping organizations through the challenges of change for more than 30 years. He co-created and led the U.S. Department of Labor's award-winning...
Complex systems don’t exist
Almost every day, but certainly any week I'm surprised to find people state "this is complex" or "this is complex adaptive system" or "we live in a complex world". It is not only novices in the field, politicians, audience-hungry businessmen or profit-seeking...
Broken commodities
In the Netherlands we seem to have a quite unique habit to call the IT industry the ICT industry, where the C stands for Communication. Personally I don't believe IT helps in any way to improve communication, but one can have contact easier than say two decades ago....
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