Brendan you are a delight! I can't imagine a more complicated (and profound) answer to a simple and off the cuff remark. The wonders of Open Space!
And -- I am waiting with breath held for the "Prof's" response. If he is looking for a good study area, for which money might fall from the skies -- how about Open Space and Fear / Fear in Open Space?? After all there is already a psychological name for it -- probably even a diagnosis and treatment. Last time I checked it was called "Agoraphobia." Yep -- we're in the books as a clinical phenomenon. And maybe we even have the cure...??? Whoever said this was a sane group of people????? Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan McKeague Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Terrorised by Terror 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 > > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
