Terrorised by Terror
Brendan McKeague
mckeague at iprimus.com.au
Tue Apr 3 09:00:34 PDT 2007
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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>From Tue Apr 3 17:19:36 2007
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:19:36 -0400
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Got this note from a nice fellow in Germany. Seems he want a little info.
What should I tell him?
Harrison
-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Kuhn [mailto:johannes-kuhn at gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:08 PM
To: hhowen at verizon.net
Subject: request for an interview / NewAssignment
Dear Harrison,
my name is Johannes, I am a journalist from Germany also participating in
NewAssignment.net, an open source journalism-project.
If you have not heard about the project, you can read a short outline here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/business/media/19carr.html
Of course I can only invite you to check the page of the first project,
which will be running in association with wired.com - and maybe participate
yourself:
http://zero.newassignment.net
But actually I am writing you because I am covering (Assignment Zero is
about "crowdsourcing") the topic of unconferences. As you participated in
the "Third Annual International Symposium on Organization Transformation" in
1985 and are associated with the Open Space movement, which had a concept
that is pretty similar to unconferences, I would like to ask you to talk
about your experiences.
Why do you think unconferences are so popular now - is it just a new label
or are they really different from the thing you did in 1985?
How did your unconferences in the 80s develop over the time?
How was the atmosphere as far as conflict-solving and inspiration was
concerned? What great ideas came out of the conferences?
In which way was the goal of bringing out a joined paper, treaty, whatever
(I hope my information are correct about it) out of it difficult to fulfill?
Do you think it is acknowledged enough that Open Space Technology was the
forefather of the unconference, not FooCamp?
What do you think the future will bring for this concept - will it influence
business-sessions for example?
If you like we could also phone or skype. It will be definitely interesting
to hear from you!
Thank you very much,
Johannes
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>From Tue Apr 3 17:35:10 2007
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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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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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