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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PNI Institute call: roadmap discussion
It has been a very busy summer for personal and business reasons. So I'm still in the doghouse to do that write-down of the previous call on needs. Hope to finish that before the end of the month. Still all that is no reason not to announce the next call:Date Friday...
PNI Institute call on: needs (continued)
During the last PNI Institute call I said I would do the write-up. This week I was officially put in the Institute's doghouse for failing to live up to that promise. The write-up is maybe finished halfway while the next call is only two days away. I'm sorry about...
Next PNI Institute call: Needs
What do the people involved in story projects need? What do you need as a facilitator? Did you get permission from anyone to do the project? Did you get funding? What do those people need? What do the project's participants need? What are the needs of people who...
Next PNI Institute call: Getting people to tell stories
Our next PNI Institute call will be about getting people to share stories. We'll talk about expectations of what stories are for, how personalities and identities influence what people think about sharing stories, and how we can get people "into the zone" of story...
Next hangout: PNI and non-narrative facilitation
Our next PNI hangout will be about how PNI relates to non-narrative approaches that bring people together to do things. People call these activities by many names: brainstorming, design work, decision support, and just plain old facilitation.Non-narrative...
Next hangout: Fun in PNI
Yes, our next hangout is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to talk about fun in participatory narrative inquiry. What makes a PNI project fun - for its participants, for the people running it, for the whole community or organization? How can we as practitioners...
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