# Holding Space Holding space means preserving enough attention, time, and conversational safety for another person's account to develop before it is redirected or judged. ## Notebook evidence PDF page 10 of [[Scanned_20260730-1825]] records “Hold the space Respectfully.” Pages 20–22 then convert that intuition into a diagnostic list of interruption patterns and a dated manners rule. ## Relationship Holding space is the constructive counterpart to [[Interruption]]. In this archive it is also a small-scale form of [[Agency-Preserving Systems]]: the listener protects the channel through which another person's reality can enter the record. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1825]], PDF pages 10 and 20–22.