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 ….

Storytelling is the new normal?

Storytelling is the new normal?

Sometimes one gets an opportunity to use a channel to put things forward to an audience one never thought one would meet. Such an event happened last week when I was a guest for the second time in the GloComNet webinar series on Complexity and Uncertainty. The webinar is recorded in a brand new TV studio which can livestream 4K content. The webinars recordings have audiences up to 1500 people, so it was a real honour to be a guest.

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Narrative Knowledge Management

Narrative Knowledge Management

We have been told by economic leaders, macro-economic models, the press, and politicians that we live in a globalized world, run by “hot money” capital systems, political superpowers, and large corporations. Dissident voices exist (see for example Doughnut Economics), but the globalised view is the dominant view. In everyday life, however, I observe something completely different. There, local forces and context matter. In this post I want to lay out a different image of the world, one that is more hopeful and human.

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PNI call January 10: PNI and Narrative Inquiry

PNI call January 10: PNI and Narrative Inquiry

Our PNI Institute call on January 10, 2018 continued our Reading Club series and focused on a paper and video on the subject of Narrative Inquiry. I (Cynthia) started the discussion by noting something that had struck me as curious. When I was looking around the...

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We are growing

We are growing

The PNI Institute now has 85 members! That's an exciting number. Also: we recently discovered that the forms plugin we were using to register new members was not sending out the registration email it was supposed to. So if you registered and didn't get an email,...

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