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I offer support services to consultants who help organizations and communities conduct projects in which they collect diverse perspectives and experiences, discover patterns, make sense of the patterns they see, make decisions, and plan for the future. 

I also do original research and write papers related to narrative inquiry, decision support, and complexity. My original background is in evolutionary biology and software design.


My free online book Working with Stories is for people who want to help their own communities and organizations by doing story projects.


This year I am starting a new project called Rakontu. It is about developing a set of free and open-source software tools that communities can use to share and work with their stories.

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