Working With Stories in Your Community or Organization

Working with Stories in Your Community or Organization by Cynthia Kurtz, 2014

Working with StoriesWorking with Stories is a textbook for people who want to use participatory narrative inquiry (PNI) in their communities and organizations. PNI methods help people discover insights, catch emerging trends, make decisions, generate ideas, resolve conflicts, and connect people.

Participatory narrative inquiry draws on theory and practice in narrative inquiry, participatory action research, oral history, mixed-methods research, participatory theatre, narrative therapy, sensemaking, complexity theory, and decision support. Its focus is on the exploration of values, beliefs, feelings, and perspectives through collaborative sensemaking with stories of lived experience.

The book is Creative Commons licensed meaning that you are free to read and share it with your friends and community. If you find the book of value we recommend supporting the continued work of the author by purchasing a paperback copy or ebook from http://www.workingwithstories.org/

About the author

Cynthia F. Kurtz is a researcher and consultant who has been helping communities and organizations work with their stories since 1999. She has consulted on more than eighty narrative projects for a variety of government agencies and for-profit and non-profit corporations. Working with a series of collaborators, she developed an approach to story work that helps communities and organizations make better, more grounded decisions by making sense of their own stories. She is widely considered a leader in the field of organizational and community narrative. Cynthia lives in upstate New York with her husband, son, dog, cat, forest, and stories.

You can find out more about Cynthia’s work at her web site and blog.

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