Dramatic Life Pattern

A concept of Strategic Developmental Psychology and Cases exploring dramatic patterns in human lives.

Revisiting, Rebuilding, Re-engaging with Past Selves

Furthermore, once Past Selves are established as a legitimate theoretical category alongside Present Selves and Possible Selves, a new possibility opens up: the three can be curated together into a coherent, dynamic framework of creative identity development.

Revisiting-Rebuilding: Agency Cascade and the Transformation of Self

When a creator returns to earlier work and rebuilds it from a more developed standpoint, they are not just producing a better theory. They are enacting a relationship between their past self and their present self — a diachronic Self-Other structure that drives the Transformation of Self.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: The Significant Themes Framework (2015–2026)

The 2015 deck was a Curation act...., and one of its compressed components could be extracted and independently rebuilt (the Significant Themes R-R).

Culture as Anticipatory Activity

This article integrates three recently developed concepts—Mindentity, Folkentity, and Worldentity—through the Agency Cascade model, and reads this integration against the background of the "Culture as Thematic Enterprise" framework.

Thematic Development Study

The purpose of the article is to define it as a new form of research practice and methodology.

A GAP Project and a Generative Confluence Journey

Anchoring the Center refers to searching for a meta-framework to support a potential focus in transforming into a creative center by curating relevant creative elements together.

Revisiting and Rebuilding: The LARGE Method (2018-2026)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Oliver Ding's LARGE Method as a second case study, tracing its 8-year trajectory from 2018 to 2026.

Education as Anticipatory Activity

As we continue to develop the Anticipatory Cultural Sociology approach, education serves as a rich domain for exploring how human beings collectively navigate uncertain futures through the creation, curation, and transformation of concept systems.

Creativity, Curativity, and Theoretical Activity

In this article, I will introduce the Weave-the-Theory framework to discuss a special type of activity: Theoretical Activity.

Developmental Service Design (DSD)

The notion of “Developmental Service” refers to a special type of service such as educational services, summer camps, adult life development programs, life discovery activities, etc.