Thanks for the prompt Harrison - have just
started to read this thread about fear -
fascinating conversation indeed and so much
profound wisdom and experience condensed into
brief commentaries by folks - thank you....
I will collate the comments and bring to my
meeting with the psych professor - who is close
to being ready to meet me - he's been preoccupied
with grant-writing and, I guess, afraid of missing out on funds...
For myself - I get a great buzz from facing the
unknown in Open Space and then equal measure of
fear and anxiety as my ego sets in with all sorts
of concerns....mostly stemming from my
insecurity....however, as I get older and more
accustomed to the inevitable recognition that
opening space 'works', I'm finding that this fear
is subsiding....and, would you believe, I start
looking for new opportunities to be fearful....as
though my belief in the certainty that Open Space
works needs to be replaced with uncertainty about
something else....am I a slow learner? Perhaps
there is a need for me to really own this 'need
to fear', befriend the fear and work hard to
prevent it's projection onto others....and Open
Space allows me, or rather, invites me to 'feel
the fear and do it anyway....(Susan Jeffers?).
Ah well, my own internal reference points need
something to doubt thank God, otherwise I'd be a
bit of a know-all....and we know that those who
get too big for their britches will be exposed at the end!
Cheers
Brendan
At 08:10 PM 2/04/2007, Harrison Owen wrote:
Brendan -- nice to see you here, and you are just the person I was looking
for. Or more specifically I was wondering how your Psychologist Professor
was getting on with his considerations of the therapeutic effects of Open
Space. And indeed -- if he could contribute something to our discussion of
fear? (In a recent note I said, "I find myself wishing that the Aussie
Psychologist might join our discussion. It might be interesting to hear what
folks from that discipline have to tell us about fear, about opening space
to reduce fear, about ????")
Harrison
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