Story-Colored Glasses

For the past two months, alongside various bits of consulting and blog writing, I’ve been working on a new project.

I was in a meeting recently with Mark Stolow of People Before Patients, and he mentioned that Nora Bateson asks the question: “Who can I be when I am with you?”

The next moment of joy I want to contemplate in my work on Participatory Narrative Inquiry is the joy of helping people feel that their perspectives on a topic have been represented, included, and respected, and not trampled upon or tucked away as those of

The second cringe moment I will consider in this series is the moment in which someone says that Participatory Narrative Inquiry “does not scale.”

I’ve been doing a bit of public speaking lately.

Once upon a time, the world wide web was just that: a curated web of hand-built peer-to-peer connections.

As I promised in part zero of this series, because I plan to alternate between moments of cringe (misgivings) and joy (satisfaction) in my work, this post will be about a moment of joy.

One of my misgivings about PNI, and a thought that has always made me cringe, has been the thought that it is “only” anecdotal evidence.

I wanted to start writing something new to feed the long-neglected blog, which has been fed nothing but “what I’ve been up to” posts for a long time.

Here it is Scroll down to the bottom of any page on this blog and find the words “GET THE NEWSLETTER.”