Doug -- It's still there. One of the continuing pillars of stability in this changing world! And as near as I can figure out, "Space Holding" is an ancient and honorable undertaking, dating back at least to the 1st Shamans. What they called it, I don't know. But I am sure they never published...
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of doug Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:35 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Looking for earliest reference to term [Holding the Space] Is it in the early version of the User's Guide that used to be on Harrison's site? :- Doug. Germann On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 13:25 -0700, Jeff Aitken wrote: > Dan, > > > I remember the phrase around 1990-1992 in the context of small group > facilitation (not necessarily Open Space facilitation, though we were > using Open Space in our graduate program in organization development > and transformation.) > > > Harrison's Users Guide may be the first published reference, but I'm > also looking through some old Quaker activist facilitation manuals > (does anyone else remember the "vibes watcher" role in consensus > meetings?) > > > Best wishes > > > Jeff Aitken > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:58:41 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSList] Looking for earliest reference to term [Holding the > Space] > > dan, > > good luck in your search! > > i've found that the phrase is used in a variety of contexts-- > in dance, psychotherapy, in spiritual and New Age places.... > > if you found the earliest reference to the phrase, i'd be impressed! > > appreciatively, > raffi > > > _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To > post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send > an email to [email protected] To subscribe or > manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
