{"id":21335,"date":"2026-10-26T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/cynthia-kurtz-on-pni\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:39:26","slug":"cynthia-kurtz-on-pni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/cynthia-kurtz-on-pni\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Kurtz on PNI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOpFQYF5leA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Cynthia Kurtz posts in a row!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participatory Narrative Inquiry has been a very powerful way to connect my own facilitation, evaluation\/research and change work in my practice. We&#8217;ve done PNI projects that have lasted from a few days to five years. Narrative capture and sense making creates a grounded and co-owned process for planning, creating change, adjusting strategy or simply understanding a current state. &nbsp;It works with the capacities and capabilities of the people in the organization or community themselves to do the work and so it is a good way to suspect the lure of the intervenor. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storycoloredglasses.com\/2026\/10\/here-i-am-talking-about-pni-and-knowledge.html\">Cynthia&#8217;s approach to the work is so clear and approachable<\/a>, which is remarkable for such a wide reaching and deep body of work and practice. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LOpFQYF5leA\">Here is a new interview<\/a> where she talks about using PNI, the challenges that it poses and why &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; the biggest problems are with the practitioner&#8217;s own positioning of themselves. Using PNI in practice I think helps groups to see what they already know and how much they are capable of, AND, if you come to the work honestly, it will make you a better practitioner too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Cynthia Kurtz posts in a row!&nbsp; Participatory Narrative Inquiry has been a very powerful way to connect my own facilitation, evaluation\/research and change work in my practice. We&#8217;ve done PNI projects that have lasted from a few days to five years. Narrative capture and sense making creates a grounded and co-owned process for planning, creating change, adjusting strategy or simply understanding a current state. &nbsp;It works with the capacities and capabilities of the people in the organization or community themselves to do the work and so it is a good way to suspect the lure of the intervenor. &nbsp; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-evaluation","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-5y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21336,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}