Case Studies

Capturing the Essential Difference of a Theoretical Tradition

What I did not expect was that, years later, my own explorations in this direction would lead to a similar situation.

The AAS case adds a methodological contribution that none of the previous cases feature. It demonstrates the Aspects-to-Approaches crossing as the originating move of theoretical work — a crossing that happened in less than a month ...

The present article adds a third application to the Dramatic Life Pattern series: Weave-AA, the alternating dance of Advancing and Analyzing woven into the structural space of Weave-the-Theory.

Each time, the word "watershed" appeared as a natural descriptor for a structural moment that changed the shape of what came before and after. In this article, I formally name and develop this pattern as Creative Watershed.

This chronicle is organized around a single watershed: October 2018. That month marks the moment when sustained theoretical book-writing became the primary creative mode — the transition from a practitioner identity to a theorist identity.

In A Chronicle of Revisiting–Rebuilding Practice (September 2025 – March 2026), a series of RR practices is organized around a single watershed: October 2018. December 2025 marks a new watershed in my creative life.

... taking Revisiting–Rebuilding as the starting weave-point — the Theme — and then asking what larger theoretical context surrounds it.

A Meta-Analysis of How Theories Come to Be and How They Are Presented

The expansion proposed here — from self-referential to other-directed RR practice — opens the theme of Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Strategy for Creative Identity Development onto the social space of Self-Other relations that is foundational to the Agency Cascade model from which it derives.