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.
Want to join? Registration is free. Want to know more? Get in touch.
Blogs, news and other posts ….
How to Cook Pasta
Would you like me to tell you how to cook pasta? No? Pretend you do for a minute so I can make a point. It's about stories, I promise.First, choose a pot with a good thick bottom. If the pot's bottom is thin, the water will not boil evenly, and the pasta will clump....
Where to drop the pebble
I was looking back at some of my personal blog posts and discovered this one entitled 'Where to drop the pebble' from October 2011 which I thought was worth sharing here on the PNI2 site more than three years later as every word is still very relevant, and little did...
Open membership
We are happy to announce the opening of membership in the PNI Institute. For more information, please see the new "About membership" page. We look forward to seeing new members join and help PNI grow. Our goal in the next few months is to get to at least 50 members.
The role of PNI in Natural Capital
Earlier this month I ran a PNI-based workshop at the Valuing our Life Support Systems Summit #VOLSS at the British Library in London.The summit, hosted by the Natural Capital Initiative (NCI), brought together 250 scientists, policy makers and business representatives...
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...
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