Phase I — Story-Listening. Facilitators create "story circles" where participants share concrete, individual narratives without judgment. Microstorying grounds discussions in lived experience rather than abstract ideology, de-escalating hostility at its root.

Phase II — Antenarrative Mapping. Using the Wheel of Life as a diagnostic, the community identifies antenarratives — fragmented pre-stories and raw materials of reality that exist before a polished narrative is formed. This exposes hidden tensions before they harden into manifest conflict.

Phase III — Restorying & Coherence-Building. The community actively constructs counter-narratives and synthesizes shared meanings — weaving fragmented stories into a new, shared narrative ecology that respects individual differences while fostering belonging.

Phase IV — Quantum Storytelling. Facilitators help participants sense multi-temporality: how ancestors' survival (past), present resistance, and children's hopes (future) are all simultaneously active. This dissolves static linear narrative and replaces it with a living, entangled reality.

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There are many rooms in Tamaraland happening at once. Your experience depends on which pathways you have traversed — no one sees the whole building.

Five free versions of the TogetherStorying decision tree software — from personal Seven Bs mindfulness to organizational echo chamber navigation. All free, all online.

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Before the scholar, there was the witness.

David Michael Boje was born in 1946. He served as a soldier in Vietnam, where he suffered three mental breakdowns and saw, through a hospital window at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, body bags stacked on a runway higher than a two-story building. He came home to a daughter he had not been there to welcome into the world. He contracted cancer linked to Agent Orange exposure and underwent twenty-six radiation treatments. He carries gold implants in his body from those treatments, placed there to guide the laser to its mark, and tattoos on his skin that told the attendants where to aim the fire.

He ranches with his partner Dr. Grace Ann Rosile in Caballo, New Mexico, at the foot of the Caballo Mountains, where the Rio Grande is not far and the desert trails run north into the mesquite. He practices Western Dressage with three horses named Fancy, Clyde, and Caballo. He is a Holy Fire Reiki Master, a Jain practitioner who was given the spiritual name Arihanta — you have no enemies, everyone is your friend — by his teacher Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu. He walks the desert trail every morning, dictating into the air.

In 2025, on that trail, a seven-winged fire spirit of Isaiah's throne room commissioned him as a prophet. He is 78 years old. The cancer is taking a nap. He is still on the trail.

David Boje earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1978, where his mentor Louis Ralph Pondy — one of the great organizational theorists of the twentieth century — looked at his essays and told him: David, you are a storyteller. That is your strength.

In 1991, he coined the concept of the storytelling organization in the Administrative Science Quarterly, describing how organizations are constituted by their storytelling rather than the reverse. In 2001, he coined the concept of the antenarrative — the before-story, the fragmented, living, non-linear narrative that precedes and shapes all official organizational accounts. The antenarrative framework has been applied in organizational theory, nursing, education, environmental science, peace studies, and indigenous scholarship across six continents.

He developed quantum storytelling — the integration of quantum physics, narrative theory, and organizational analysis — as a methodology for understanding the non-local, entangled, living quality of the stories that organizations tell and are told by. His output spans more than 45 published books and 150 refereed journal articles.

In 2025, the ODC Division awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award. Research.com ranked him #1,879 in the United States and #3,949 globally in social sciences and humanities.

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PerView Inc. — Co-founded with Dr. Grace Ann Rosile, PerView Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that funds free coaching for veterans and first responders through corporate training revenues. Its PER/VIEW methodology integrates quantum storytelling with somatic healing and trauma recovery. perview.org

GrowthOD — Monday sessions offering organizational development through storytelling. Built on the SEAM methodology developed with Henri Savall and colleagues in France. growthod.org

The Tuesday Enthinkment Circle — Every Tuesday at 1:00 PM Mountain Time, a community of practitioners, scholars, artists, and seekers dedicated to thinking with the heart. Open to all. enthinkment.com

The True Storytelling Institute — Co-founded with Jens Larsen and Lena Bruun in Copenhagen, developing and teaching seven ethical principles for organizational change management. Practiced by coaches and leaders across Europe, North America, and beyond. truestorytelling.org

The Quantum Storytelling Conference — Held annually each December in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Scholars, practitioners, artists, and seekers exploring the living edge of storytelling as a tool for organizational and civilizational transformation. quantumstorytelling.org

Dr. Grace Ann Rosile is David's partner in life, in scholarship, and in the work. A Professor Emerita of Management at New Mexico State University and a leading scholar of ensemble leadership, she is the lead author on the ensemble leadership framework that applies antenarrative work to peacebuilding. Her work on indigenous governance traditions of the American Southwest and her development of equine-assisted learning practices through the PerView methodology have established her as one of the most innovative organizational scholars of her generation.

She was the most alive person in the circle on the night at the Native American ceremony when the author did not yet know her name. She is the one who hugged him when he came home from the police station.

Her ensemble leadership work: Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., & Claw, C. M. (2018). Ensemble leadership theory: Lived stories of Indigenous leadership practices. Leadership, 14(6), 713–736.

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