We were supposed to talk about PNI and start-with-a-list methods on this call, but we had a new member join in, and he was thinking about PNI in support of citizen participation, so we talked about that instead. (I"m not sure we will ever talk about PNI and...

Our September call was our first "PNI Reading Club" call. We all read some papers in the field of action research and talked about how PNI relates to it. These are some of the things we discussed: The great extent to which PNI is related to action research, and how it...

In our June call, we went through the Tipu Ake ki te Ora Leadership Model with respect to participatory narrative inquiry. Here's what we came up with. The Tipu Ake model is "An Organic Growth View" people use to "consider growth within the rich interdependent...

Continuing our discussion of diversity in PNI, we discussed the need for a model of what is and is not PNI. We considered various types of model, finally settling on the Tipu Ake ki te Ora model, which we will fill in with respect to PNI next month.

On our next PNI Institute call on April 14, we will discuss diversity in PNI (what is and is not PNI).

On our next PNI Institute call on March 10 we will discuss diversity in PNI projects (scales, goals, topics, participants, etc). See sidebar on the right for details on the next calls. On the last call on February 19, we talked about points of connection between PNI...