Two Diagrams about the Self-Life-Mind Schema

A short note

This short post is part of the Strategic Developmental Psychology project.

This week, I have been working on a case study of a young female entrepreneur who is in the process of refreshing her life belief system. In her own words, she is “reinstalling her internal operating system” and “updating the underlying logic of her life development.”

I used the World of Activity approach (especially the Flow-Focus-Center-Circle model), the Self-Life-Mind model, and several other related knowledge frameworks to conduct an in-depth discussion of her experience. This was the first time I brought the World of Activity and Self-Life-Mind models together in a single analysis.

After completing the first draft of the research report, I began to reflect on the role that the Self-Life-Mind model played in this case study.

Previously, I had used this model repeatedly, always treating it as a meta-framework. In my manuscript Meta-Frameworks (late 2025), I collected a series of articles about this model, showing the specific contexts in which I had used it. In my manuscript Lake 42 (early 2026), I described in detail how I used Self-Life-Mind to anchor a new creative center back in June 2025. In both cases, the model stayed in the background — once the front-stage work was…