We put things in pockets, bottles, boxes, and barrels — containers of every kind, serving every purpose, in every size: from small cosmetic jars to vast cargo ships. The actual ability to contain doesn't always matter. We turn emotions into containers when we are bursting with anger or filled with pride. We talk about events that happened in the past or will happen in the future as though language had intuited relativity before physics. Containers pervade our life, its basic unit, the cell, being itself a semi-permeable container.
And don't forget 'holding space' my favourite metaphorical (useful, curious) phrase in facilitation and the like... very much borrowing from ritualised 'sacred space' and 'liminal boundaries', in some people's minds, but I suspect with quite a different psychological origin.
And don't forget 'holding space' my favourite metaphorical (useful, curious) phrase in facilitation and the like... very much borrowing from ritualised 'sacred space' and 'liminal boundaries', in some people's minds, but I suspect with quite a different psychological origin.