[Case Study] When the Circle Changes the Center
It is presented here as a case study in Supportive Life Discovery (SLD) — specifically as an instance of the Achievement Chain in action.
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
The World of Activity Toolkit (v2.0, 2026)
The simple four-part schema that began as a descriptive map of ecological forms has grown into the primary organizing structure of an entire approach to creative life development.
A Chronicle of Revisiting–Rebuilding Practice (September 2025 – March 2026)
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.
A Watershed of Creative Life
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.
The "Theme–Concept–Framework" Transformation (2023–2026)
The map updated today reflects a knowledge enterprise that has grown from a focused exploration of themes and concepts into something broader: a theory of how concept systems develop across individual and social life, supported by a coherent ontology of the social world.
[Meta-frameworks] Six Faces of the Concept System
The article identifies six types of concept systems situated within the HLS framework. This is not a simple typology, but a dynamic map of evolving concept systems.
The World of Activity of Mid-life
Throughout the editing of this collection, I kept thinking about a project I had abandoned in 2024: the Mid-career Curation Program... Coming back to it now, through the lens of RR practice, I see it differently. This epilogue is that return.
The Landscape of Strategic Developmental Psychology (v1.2)
What was once a method for building sociology has now become the foundation for a new Strategic Developmental Psychology—a transition from understanding how we create culture to understanding how that creative identity, in turn, develops the self.
Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Strategy for Creative Identity Development (Possible Book, 2026)
The possible book is organized to reflect these three dimensions — temporal structure, creative strategy, and identity development — across six parts.
Weave the Theory: A Case Study of the Revisiting-Rebuilding Practice
... taking Revisiting–Rebuilding as the starting weave-point — the Theme — and then asking what larger theoretical context surrounds it.