In this paper, the author describes the progress of her methodological development, and the turns of her approaches, in working with the family/home experience of the people. In her youth (the Mid-1970s ~80s), the author encountered many teenagers who had made their way out of their families to live on the streets, in factories or the sex industry. Inspired by this group of “home-and-away” teenagers, in the following years of her teaching and researching career, the author was able to make a critical review on the methods and theories developed in the West on the subject of family therapy. The author, while reframing “family/home”, develops as her working method an research approach that regards the “family/ home” as a proper social field, by using the three-dimensional space of the Chinese Boxes of Social Systems and the Social Study as key concepts. A Small Room with Starry Sky is the name of the workshop that working with this family experiences. Finally, the author adopts the concept of the “action method/practice” of a “sociometric researcher”, which is inspired by the essential principles of Moreno, the founding father of the social-psycho theater, to anticipate a path of returning to the methodology of action practices for her fellows who also working with the “family experience” in the fields of psychology, social work and education. |