Terrorised by Terror/ Fearful of (open) space

[Harrison Owen]

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

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Brendan
McKeague
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:01 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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
>
>

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