The Three … Musketeers? Little Pigs? Stooges? Together in London

Further to yesterday's post about the upcoming courses with Cognitive Edge, diaries have worked out such that Washington DC (Details here) will be a two-handed affair with myself and Dave Snowden teaching, while London (Details here)will be a unique one – three different presenters: Dave, Michael Cheveldave and myself passing Read more…

UNDP Sensemaker story triad

Patterns of voices from the Balkans – working with UNDP

The past couple of days, therefore, has been an interim stage – the first workshop and subsequent work was about getting narrative projects designed and collection started, this workshop was about starting to understand what the narrative was revealing and how to use it with different groups to engage and move to actions. … One of the many reasons I like using SenseMaker® is that, while it starts as a research tool in its initial stages, the real potential lies once we’ve gathered material – then it can morph into a monitoring system, knowledge-sharing facilitator, learning tool, innovation catalyst and much more.

The App is landing – collecting stories though apps in Rwanda

We’re preparing for a bigger project later in the year, but the past few days have been getting some of the team up to speed and testing how we’re going to gather the narratives. Field collection of narrative is always fun – we were doing it on paper in Bangladesh before Christmas and previous projects have seen it done via websites, voice recorders and laptops.

Silence

Long overdue to post some in-depth pieces following recent discussions/conferences. But this week I’m in Kigali, Rwanda helping put together a project with GirlHub. On Sunday I had time to go out to the Genocide Memorial Museum. Some places should be visited in company, but this was somewhere that benefited Read more…

Understanding narratives – the reality of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency

The Prime Minister, towards the end of his initial comments, said: “In sum, we must frustrate the terrorists with our security, we must beat them militarily, we must address the poisonous narrative they feed on, we must close down the ungoverned space in which they thrive, and we must deal with the grievances that they use to garner support. … Pre-defined categories and questions can be too directive – gaining us at best answers that fit within our previous suspicions, at worst allowing the people we’re hearing the opportunity to give us the stories they think we want to hear. (cf The Hoaxing of Margaret Mead) The poisonous narrative is a tempting but dangerous notion.

Evaluating impact through stories

How alternative storytelling can help impact evaluation It’s a great, plain English description of the method (something I rarely manage to produce, slipping into jargon too often). … Instead of looking for ways to “prove” x or y has happened, it offers a means to create a continual feedback loop where information is flowing in to help adjust delivery of programmes as time goes on.

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