Cynthia Kurtz, whose terrific book, Working with Stories, I blogged about here and who will be featured in a Q&A in December, is making a nice offer to story practitioners who might have case studies to share in a future revision of the book. She says:

I’m looking for some real community case studies to add to the Working with Stories (WWS) book, and here’s the deal. If you are doing a small community project (i.e., not for a giant firm or government agency) and are using the methods I describe in WWS, I’ll spend some time giving you feedback on your plans or looking at your results or whatever (through email/Skype) if you give me a case study about your project when it’s finished. I’ll put your case study (anonymized or not, your choice) on the WWS web site with your name and link (or not, your choice) and the book will be better for it!! If you want to write a case study about a project you’ve already done instead, I’ll help you with another project (same deal, my time for your time).

The case study you provide should be at least one page long and should describe: why you did it, how it got started, what challenges you faced, what decisions you made, how people reacted, how you responded, what surprises you found, what you did with what you found, what other people did, how it turned out, what you might do in the future, what you would do differently the next time, and so on.

This offer is limited to the first several takers, and to the rest of 2008, and to a maximum of 4 hours of my time per project, and of course I reserve the right to choose whether a project fits the book’s audience. Email cfkurtz at cfkurtz.com