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Hi Jennifer!<br>
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Thanks for referencing such a great research tool. I looked at all
the books listed from 1900-1981. Check this out!<br>
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Nothing before '51, and over half of the 342 references were from
1951-54. There was a dark age of holding space from '55-'70, with no
references. And of the 342, over 96% treated "holding space" as a
noun, rather than a process. They are about physical containers for
stuff, livestock, or prisoners.<br>
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Below I list the exceptions - some of which seem to hint at the way
"holding space" as an element of facilitation, though none do so
directly. The Leibniz and Kant papers were interesting in that they
peered into the concept of space itself, holding the concept if not
actual space. Very interesting is that the military concept of
"holding space" related to the Vietnam war starts to come close to
the facilitation sense, but the last one by Robert Nozick seems to
come the closest.<br>
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1953 - Princeton Alumni Magazine - "holding space" for slots in a
talent show at Princeton.<br>
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1971 - The New Yorker Volume 46, Part 7 - page 85 - "<span
class="st">Farther toward Green, a young woman named Vaughan
Kaprow, shivering in the evening cold, began <em>holding space</em>
for another organization that had a special greeting for Billy
Graham — the Pasadena Women's Liberation Group.</span>"<br>
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1973 - A Paper about Leibniz's Philosophy which looks at space
differently, "<i>holding space</i> to be relational."<br>
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1973 - the Michigan Library talked about "holding space" for sign
ups for tickets (flights to New York), similar to the holding space
for slots in a talent show in 1953.<span class="st"><br>
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1976 - Ecology - Volume 57, Issues 1-3 - Page 286: "</span><span
class="st"><span class="st">Porter (1974) speculated that the high
degree of coexistance on Caribbean reefs is due to a "balance of
abilities" divided among the Caribbean corals, such that no one
species is competitively superior in acquiring and <em>holding
space</em>."</span><br>
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1976 - The Philosophy of Kant Explained - Page 89 - <span
class="st">"It is thus obvious that we can only explain how we can
have legitimate a priori synthetic judgments in geometry by <em>holding
space</em> as</span>..."<br>
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1977 - Object Relations Family Therapy - Page 72 - "
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<span class="st">the family therapist gets transference information
from the interactions in the shared <em>holding space</em> of the
family."</span> Still a noun.<br>
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1977 - All quiet on the Eastern front: the death of South Vietnam: "<span
class="st">Time was a secondary dependent variable, a function of
our success in winning and <em>holding space</em>."</span><br>
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1978 -
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<span class="st">BBC transcript - Many reasons why: the American
involvement in Vietnam - "it's because you're holding this space
in the territory of the rural areas. Also you're <em>holding
space</em> in another sense altogether</span>"<br>
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1979 - Arts Magazine - Volume 53, Issues 6-8: "Moss now opens wide
gaps in the grid, erasing large segments of the retaining wall that
had been holding space 'back'. A new spontaneity and elasticity
develops between color and field: an energy."<br>
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1981 - Kant and the Transcendental Object - "<span class="st">And to
all these impressive reasons for <em>holding space</em> and time
to be phenomenal, Kant adds the further reason that there are a
great many axiomatic principles which govern things in space and
time, which are not logically necessary, since ...</span><br>
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1981 - Robert Nozick: Philosophical Explanations Page 83 - "
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<span class="st">The word "I" might be the marker for the blank, <em>holding
space</em> in which the self can appear</span>."<br>
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Regards,<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/14 7:41 AM, JenniferHurley-HFA
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If Google Scholar is
any indication, the usage, at least in print, seems fairly
recent:</div>
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On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Daniel Mezick <<a
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This is extremely helpful, Jennifer! Thank you<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/14 9:14 AM,
JenniferHurley-HFA wrote:<br>
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<div>I have no idea about the earliest usage, but it's a
phrase often used by Quakers. <br>
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Since July 2011, I continue to wander, searching for the
earliest known reference to the term "holding the
space." Anybody know?<br>
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