陳明發〈濾思場〉300

輕雷，細簷滴。碎句、碎句、碎句。心頭醒轉的漢語說：下了一夜的，是唐朝微雨，卻用了晚宋語氣。扣窗拂曉從不管這些，別看它此刻打的是弱光，它大有光芒十足的時候。（9.10.2025 臉書）

Dr.Tan Beng Huat(陈明发博士)
Professional Background & Industry Leadership

Dr. Tan Beng Huat is regarded as one of the early pioneers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) education in Malaysia. In the mid-1990s, he led Motivation Alliance, among the earliest training institutions to receive official certification from the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources. His leadership tenure spanned approximately six years, from 1995 through the early 2000s.

Working closely with international NLP practitioners, Dr. Tan—who has been engaged in professional training since 1981—integrated internationally recognized methodologies with context-specific local content, supported by his own research and extensive field experience.

Concurrently, he developed an interdisciplinary framework known as “Studies of Mind and Inner Quality” (心灵素质学), which gained strong endorsement from media organizations, academic institutions, as well as political and community-based bodies. This framework emphasizes inner capacity, values-based leadership, and reflective intelligence as foundations for human development and social innovation.

Following the 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis, Dr. Tan strategically shifted his focus from individual potential development toward community- and industry-based capacity building, particularly within the cultural and creative industries. Throughout this transition, one principle has remained constant: the central role of creativity, poetic sensitivity, and reflective thinking in research, development, and training.

Guided by this orientation, Dr. Tan’s work has progressively incorporated transdisciplinary approaches, including Noetic Science and Poetic Thinking, which continue to inform his leadership, research, and advocacy initiatives today.

About the Founder of iconada.tv（爱垦网）
Dr. Tan Beng Huat(陈明发博士)

As 2026 approaches, the non-profit network ICONADA 爱垦网(www.iconada.tv) will mark its 17th anniversary. Dr. Tan, its founder, is widely recognized as a pioneer in research and development of Malaysia’s cultural and creative industries. In addition to ICONADA, he also founded 《叙叙吧Cerita Malaysia》 (www.ceritamalaysia.org), a platform dedicated to documenting, cultivating, and advancing local cultural narratives and creative practices.

Dr. Tan’s professional journey spans more than four and a half decades. In the 1970s, he participated in specialized training programs by national psychological warfare unit （perang saraf）under Malaysia's Prime Minister Department, an experience that contributed to his early understanding of human behavior, communication dynamics, and social influence.

He later emerged as a nationally recognized senior human resources trainer, and became an influential advocate and strategist for youth movements, contributing to leadership development and civic engagement initiatives nationwide.

Following 16 years in human resource development, Dr. Tan transitioned into long-term research, practice, and advocacy within the cultural and creative sectors, a focus that has now extended nearly three decades. Across this period, he has remained committed to voluntary, mission-driven work, emphasizing sustainable impact over formal recognition.

Through extensive practice—and having produced, directed, or supervised an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 original content works—Dr. Tan has developed a substantial body of insights and reflections. These materials are now being systematically curated and released in stages, as a gesture of appreciation to long-standing collaborators and supporters in Malaysia and abroad, and as a contribution to future-oriented discourse on social and economic transformation.

Recognizing that many transformational initiatives exceed the capacity of a single individual or generation, Dr. Tan emphasizes the importance of documentation, knowledge transfer, and institutional memory. His work is intended to serve as a practical reference framework for both urban and rural transformation efforts.

In recent years, Dr. Tan has been actively advancing an innovative “Rural–Industry–Academia” vocational education and collaboration model, aimed at nurturing locally grounded cultural and creative industries. This model seeks to strengthen industry–school partnerships, empower under-resourced rural youth, and translate cultural creativity into sustainable economic and social value.