Healing Divided America — Restorying Narrative Wounds in
          Families, Communities, and Organizations by Dr. David Boje

Healing Divided Families, Communities & Organizations (2026) by David Boje

Transform conflict through microstorying, antenarrative mapping, and restorying — proven methods from 45+ books and decades of organizational research.

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In the early 2000s, my mother Lorane pulled a shoebox from a closet, opened it, and let me see what was inside: photographs of people I had never met and places I had never been. Her father Gerald, standing sober beside a livery stable in Goldendale, Washington. Her grandmother Virginia, holding a baby who was Lorane herself. Faces from the 1920s and 1930s, looking into a camera that no longer existed.

Then she threw them away. Not all at once—she let me see them first, one by one, sometimes offering a sentence of context. Then she put them back in the box, and the box went into the garbage. “Why do you care,” she said. “I hate all this.”
That moment prompted in me what I can only describe as a mood of care in my deepest Self. Something in me understood that these fragments—the photographs, the terse sentences, the silences between them—were not garbage. They were evidence. Evidence of lives that the family’s official story had either smoothed into a hero narrative or erased entirely. And they were being destroyed in front of me.



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Introduction to ESP Metaphysics

With the discovery of quantum locality, there has been a shift in our understanding of ESP.

Quantum locality is defined here as the ways things are influenced by their local environment, and how information travels faster than the speed of light, thereby preceding effects within spacetime regions. Quantum locality is linked to Einstein’s theory of relativity.

How can objects at one point in spacetime affect objects at another spacetime? This is ‘Quantum Non-Locality’ (QNL), which I define as mediators of entangled systems where faster-than-light communications and instantaneous interactions regardless of distance are possible.

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is about the local interactions in spacetime between fields of energy, where spatially and temporally separated events cannot influence one another.

In summary, quantum locality keeps physics "local"—meaning actions are only affected by nearby, immediate QFT actors—whereas quantum non-locality  (QNL) refers to correlations between separated entities that violate classical, intuitive notions of locality.

QNL has been practiced for many millennia under different names. I have organized it into chapters under the general heading, ESP: Intuition,  foreseeing the future (I, for example, practice Jain-seeing), clairvoyance or precognition, telepathy, mindreading, Reiki, Shamanism, Chakras, Remote Viewing, Autowriting, Premonition, and so on.

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Dr. Boje explores his theory for healing divided families and communities with microstorying and conversational storytelling inquiry.

The Microstorying Intervention

A four-phase methodology to transform systemic polarization and "us vs. them" conflicts into community coherence.

The Action: Facilitators create "story circles" where residents and participants share microstories on sensitive issues. The goal is to triangulate polyphonic voices — ensuring multiple perspectives are heard rather than a single dominant view.

Core Aim: Prioritize marginalized "little stories" (embodied, local experiences) over grand political stances, preventing these voices from being colonized by the official narrative.

The Action: Using the Wheel of Life as a diagnostic tool, the community identifies "antenarratives" — fragmented pre-stories and raw materials of reality that exist before a polished narrative is formed. This includes identifying "Little Wow Moments" (LWMs), instances of grace that contradict the conflict's status quo.

Core Aim: Expose hidden tensions and systemic issues before they harden into manifest conflict, and prevent cherry-picking of facts by including the antenarrative inconveniences that grand narratives usually discard.

The Action: The community actively constructs counter-narratives and synthesizes shared meanings — weaving fragmented stories from Phase II into a new, shared narrative ecology.

Core Aim: Build a strategic defense against dehumanizing ideologies and establish a collective narrative that respects individual differences while fostering belonging.

The Action: This phase involves sensing multi-temporality and temporal entanglement. Facilitators help participants recognize that past, present, and future coexist and influence one another simultaneously.

Core Aim: Achieve deep social healing by helping the community understand that the future is acting upon the present — for example, how ancestors' survival (past) and children's hopes (future) are both actively shaping current resistance (present). This dissolves the static linear narrative and replaces it with a living, entangled reality.

Four Narrative Weapons Driving Division

Boje identifies these patterns turning everyday disagreements into a public health crisis — with one in five family estrangements now directly tied to political differences.

Divides the world into "real Americans" versus enemies. An ontological script that tells people they exist only in opposition to a threat, demonizing the adversary rather than engaging in policy debate.

Policies and rhetoric that treat human beings as expendable objects. When family members view this cruelty as "justified" while others see it as "intolerable," it draws a non-negotiable moral line that ruptures relationships.

Vocabulary like "infestation," "poisoned," or "vermin" that assigns sub-human status to others. When used, it turns family gatherings into referendums on whether certain people are fully human, making shared connection impossible.

Constant crisis talk and claims of victimization that create an environment where compromise is viewed as moral weakness and listening to the other side is seen as treason — making ordinary disagreement feel like war.

How the Intervention Works

Dr. Boje listens to all sides, assembles a team of conflict management coaches, and conducts assessments using original decision tree software.

Dr. Boje meets with all sides individually, taking detailed notes while maintaining strict confidentiality. This creates a safe space for honest expression before any joint sessions.

A specialized team of 2–7 conflict management coaches is assembled, drawing from volunteers in the Insight community, local universities and colleges, and Boje's network of trained coaches and consultants.

Each participant completes assessments using Boje's Decision Tree Software (versions 1.0–5.0), providing structured input on their experience, metaphysical orientations, and desired outcomes.

Virtual and/or on-the-ground workshops are conducted first with each side, creating space for processing, reflection, and preparation for dialogue.

After respective coaching sessions, facilitated workshops bring everyone together for together-listening, finding common ground, and co-creating new possibilities.

Using the decision tree software, pretest and posttest measurements assess shifts in storying, together-listening, ability to find common ground, and mutual understanding. For larger populations, representative samples are used.

Financing: Funds are raised through Boje and Rosile's certified non-profit PerView Inc. [501(c)(3)] to cover expenses such as airfare, meals, hotel, and workshop materials.

TogetherStorying Decision Tree Software

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Focuses on individual transformation through seven dimensions: Beneath (unconscious patterns), Before (past narratives), Bets (future possibilities), Being (present awareness), Becoming (transformation), Between (relationships), and Beyond (transcendence).

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Designed for quick intervention in crisis situations, helping individuals and teams rapidly shift from stuck stories to new possibilities through streamlined antenarrative work.

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Explicitly acknowledges that American Pragmatism emerged from Indigenous intellectual traditions. Integrates Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) with seven pragmatist principles, honoring land-based wisdom and seven-generation thinking.

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Bridges Western philosophy (Heidegger, Pondy) with Indigenous ontologies, creating pathways for cross-cultural understanding and transformation that honors multiple ways of knowing.

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Models the fragmented, simultaneous nature of organizational reality where multiple echo chambers operate at once. Provides navigation through factorial complexity — for example, 10 simultaneous "rooms" or contexts creates 3,628,800 permutations.

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Seven True Storytelling Principles

The foundational principles guiding authentic narrative work.

  1. You yourself must be true and prepare the energy and effort for a sustainable future
  2. True storytelling makes spaces that respect the stories already there
  3. You must create stories with a clear plot, creating direction and helping people prioritize
  4. You must have timing
  5. You must be able to help stories on their way and be open to experiment
  6. You must consider staging, including scenography and artefacts
  7. You must reflect on the stories and how they create value

About Dr. David M. Boje

Vietnam veteran. Agent Orange survivor. Stage IV cancer survivor. First-generation college graduate turned distinguished professor. Pioneer of antenarrative theory.

  • 2025 Organization Development & Change Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Ranked #1,879 US Scholar / #3,949 Global Scholar
  • Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University; Visiting Professor, Fisk University
  • Author of 45+ books and 150+ articles on storytelling organizations and conflict spirals
  • Co-Founder: True Storytelling Institute, GrowthOD, and PerView Inc. (501c3)
  • Coaching certificate from Genius Unlocked
  • Insight Meditation Training — Insight I, II, & III graduate

Boje asserts that political division creates a public health crisis characterized by:

  • Depressive Symptoms & Hostility — Parents in chronic family conflict show elevated depression and hostility
  • Heightened Anxiety — Persistent worry after political conversations and heightened general anxiety
  • Emotional Burnout & Withdrawal — Loneliness, social withdrawal, and crushing isolation as people avoid loved ones
  • Physical & Sleep Issues — Trouble sleeping and a sense that relationships are beyond repair
  • Impact on Children — Increased global distress and anxiety even when conflict is strictly political

Solutions to Divided America

Free monthly webinar — 1st Friday of the month, 90 minutes on Zoom.
Why does collaboration across difference feel harder than it should? It's not a skill problem — it's a sensemaking problem. Different stories, different rooms, different effort expectations. We mistake difference for defiance and effort for resistance.

Next Session: Friday, March 6, 2026
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Upcoming dates: April 3 · May 1 · June 5 · July 3 · August 7
Co-hosts: David Boje, PhD · Tanya Akins Cane, CCMP™ · Doug Breckenridge, MS
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Tamaraland — Seeing the rooms we're actually standing in, and why others see something completely different. Organizations aren't one story; they're buildings with many rooms happening at once. You never see the whole building.

Quantum Storytelling — Holding multiple truths without forcing premature agreement or collapsing complexity. Your presence changes what becomes speakable; multiple story-states coexist; people resist being finalized.

VuJaDé™ Effort Charts — Making the real cost of collaboration visible so we prepare instead of blame. Effort is normal when difference exists. The danger isn't effort — it's unexpected effort.

Together: Story tells us where we are. Quantum coaching tells us how to hold it. Effort Charts tell us what it will cost.

These sessions draw directly from Dr. Boje's new 2026 books:

Healing Divided America — Restorying Narrative Wounds in Families, Communities & Organizations. A four-phase microstorying intervention (story-listening, antenarrative mapping, restorying, quantum storytelling) to transform polarization into community coherence.

The Seventh Room — Seven Tamaraland Principles for Awakening from the Architecture of Psyops, and the Future We Are Building. Seven principles for navigating the rooms, hallways, doors, and empty chairs of organizational and family life.

Storying the Future: AI, Echo Chambers, and the Art of HHT Ensembles — Explores how AI and echo chamber dynamics intersect with storytelling, and how HHT ensemble methods can help us navigate the emerging landscape. Read a sample →

Veterans and family members navigating division. Teams and organizations where collaboration feels harder than it should. Communities caught in friend-enemy frames, cruelty normalization, or permanent-emergency rhetoric.

Coaches, consultants, and facilitators learning to hold difference safely. Anyone who wants to stop mistaking difference for defiance.

Nothing here requires belief — only attention.

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Is Your Family, Community, or Organization Trapped in a Conflict Spiral?

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