Does this make me a Pagan Scholar?
Dec. 14th, 2006 11:15 pmI just got word that I've been invited to speak at the Toronto Pagan Conference in March 2007. I have an hour-long presentation entitled "Faith, Belief, and Knowledge". This is a discussion-presentation I led at KG last summer that turned into quite the lively debate, so I proposed it to the organizers of the TPC. Amazingly, they accepted!
Yikes! I'm both honoured and terrified! I don't want the presentation to be an hour-long Hobbesidian discourse; I'd rather open it up for discussion and debate, but I'm not sure if that's allowed. I'll be hammering this out over the next few months in preparation for the big event.
But I'm worried too. This is a big deal (to me). What if I'm not ready? What if the discussion goes badly? What if everyone just agrees with my opening statements and there's nothing to debate (making me look like a fool)?
These statements are coming from my inner critic (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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But still... I'm a presentor at the Toronto Pagan Conference. Wicked.
Yikes! I'm both honoured and terrified! I don't want the presentation to be an hour-long Hobbesidian discourse; I'd rather open it up for discussion and debate, but I'm not sure if that's allowed. I'll be hammering this out over the next few months in preparation for the big event.
But I'm worried too. This is a big deal (to me). What if I'm not ready? What if the discussion goes badly? What if everyone just agrees with my opening statements and there's nothing to debate (making me look like a fool)?
These statements are coming from my inner critic (
the_exclamation has a name for this being (it's not pretty, but descriptive)) which I know well-enough that I should ignore, but I should also pay enough attention to to make sure I craft a quality presentation. It's the balancing act between being professional and being self-destructive that is ever so difficult to keep a handle on.But still... I'm a presentor at the Toronto Pagan Conference. Wicked.
