“Flow,” says Joe Ripperger, is an elixir that
can so captivate climbers they will choose a
dirtbag existence in order to maintain the
feeling.
A practising psychiatrist since 1993 and an
accomplished climber and mountaineer, Joe
Ripperger harbours a special interest in mood
disorders. The phenomenon of flow, he believes,
is the result of a mental process born of
maximized performance.
But what is it? How does it happen? When does
it appear? What are the conditions that allow
flow to occur and re-occur?
At this Section meeting, Joe will tackle those
and other intriguing questions as he explains
the mental processes that support climbing
performance, answering why climbers climb
mountains with a focus on the highly satisfying
phenomenon of flow, and how climbers recognize
it, use it and lose it.
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Registration for this event closed on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 11:00 PM.