When Fear Meets Fearlessness

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dc.contributor.authorFisher, R. M.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-26T19:16:16Z
dc.date.available2019-08-26T19:16:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-23
dc.description.abstractThis video by Dr. R. Michael Fisher takes up a fearanalysis of the latest viral event: where a 16 year old (Nick Sandmann) white excited angry male, trying to be brave in front of his many Catholic highschool peers, stands in front to block an Indigenous elder (Nathan Phillips) and small handl-full of Indigenous youth in Washington, DC a few days ago. Fisher attempts to elevate the discourse and media-hype around this event to a more informed and mature evolutionary developmental perspective on how to better manage and transform fear/terror into higher consciousness, virtues and an emancipatory educational direction. There's great healing opportunity here beyond the spectacle. Fisher concludes his fearanalysis saying the young man represents fear (i.e., fear-based worldview) and the Indigenous elder represents fearlessness (i.e., a love-based worldview)--it is a philosophically and historically important educative moment for all, if we choose to learn from it beyond and outside of the typical discussions and debates (mostly fear-based themselves) now raging around this event.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36879
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/110797
dc.language.isoenen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIn Search of Fearlessness Research Institute
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.relation.ispartofseries23
dc.rightsUnless otherwise indicated, this material is protected by copyright and has been made available with authorization from the copyright owner. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en
dc.rights©2019 R. M. Fisher
dc.subjectfear-based worldview
dc.subjectlove-based worldview
dc.subjectNick Sandmann
dc.subjectNathan Phillips
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.titleWhen Fear Meets Fearlessness
dc.typevideo

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