Working with stories
Book: Working with Stories in Your Community or Organization by Cynthia Kurtz, 2014 URL: http://www.workingwithstories.org/
Description "Working 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."
Similar: Harold van Garderen, an acquaintance of yours and a colleague of mine, has already created a page on the P2P Foundation wiki for Participatory Narrative Inquiry, the approach described in my book. http://p2pfoundation.net/Participatory_Narrative_Inquiry
Print and Kindle versions of the book are available at: http://www.amazon.com/Working-Stories-Your-Community-Organization/dp/0991369408
PDF and ePub versions are available at: http://www.workingwithstories.org