FOUNDATIONS
Scholarship in service of becoming.
Life Framing is evidence-informed, grounded in scholarship from psychology, cultural identity, cognitive science, semiotics and cultural dynamics. Its originality lies not in any single theory, but in their integration.
Situate — How have I been shaped?
Understanding the stories and cultural forces that have shaped who you are.
Dan P. McAdams
Narrative Identity
McAdams's work established that people make sense of their lives by constructing personal narratives, stories that integrate past, present and future into a coherent narrative identity. Life Framing draws on this to help people surface and examine the stories that have quietly shaped them.
Pamela A. Hays
Cultural Identity
Hays's work on how cultural factors intersect to shape identity and worldview informed the development of CulturAlign®, which extends this by incorporating the dynamic, temporal self embedded in values across past, present and future.
Structure — How can I see my life differently?
Externalising your life story so you can observe it from the outside.
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Narrative STRUCture
Greimas's structural analysis of narrative was a starting point for StoriCompass®, a reimagined methodology that helps people see the pathways, elements, patterns, tensions and possibilities within their own life stories.
Barbara Tversky
Spatial Thinking
Tversky's research on how spatial reasoning shapes thought informed the externalisation tools in Life Framing, helping people map their stories visually so they can engage with them from a different perspective.
Shift — What else is possible?
Expanding what you believe is genuinely available to you.
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
Framing Effects
Their work on how framing shapes perception and choice informed the development of G.A.M.E. Frames and the Shift stage of Life Framing.
Shape — What world am I helping create?
Becoming an intentional contributor to the world around you.
Jerome Bruner
Self-making and World-making
Bruner's work on how narrative is central to acts of meaning, self-making and culture-making informs the Shape stage of Life Framing, where personal transformation extends outward into the cultures we help create.
Yoshi Kashima
Cultural Dynamics
Kashima's work on how culture is transmitted and transformed through social interaction informs the collective dimension of Life Framing, where personal transformation ripples outward into the cultures we inhabit and help create.
You do not have to navigate becoming alone.
Life Framing invites you to pause, reflect and reconnect with who you are becoming.
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