[OSList] OS for Dementia?

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Doug,
if you are the facilitator for such a potential gathering, urge the 
sponsor to have his planning group discuss which approach should be taken.
If you are the sponsor, find a facilitator that will work with you and 
your planning group to deal with the questions you are raising.

The questions you are raising are routinely discussed by the system 
itself (via the venue of the planning group). The planning group needs 
to have a way to share their needs/goals/expectations, arrive at the 
theme for the event and decide who needs to be at the event (in addition 
to themselves) so that their expectations under the theme they choose 
will be met.

The planning group should "mirror" the "system" that is expected to be 
at the event: people with dementia, teenagers, families, professional 
caretaker, neighbors... the sponsor creating the planning group will 
know best.

In seemingly difficult or impossibe situations its best to stick to the 
"normal" way. The main reason for that is that the facilitator can stay 
focused on expanding time and space for all the steps leading up to and 
during and after the event. From the very outset, long before the event, 
all things that the system can do (and it is about everything in my 
experience) they should do... this is a sure fire way to have 
selforganisation take over.

Have a great weekend
mmp

On 08.11.2013 17:09, doug wrote:
> Friends--
>
> Have been thinking that a population OST could serve in a major good way
> is among people who have dementia. How?
>
> Perhaps we have a mixed group of people with dementia living in a
> congregate housing setting and teenagers. We gather them in a circle and
> do the normal things. The teenagers could help the oldsters remember the
> instructions and post topics. The title could be “Issues and
> Opportunities with Growing Younger Every Day.”
>
> How, if at all, would you change the normal format of OST for this
> group? What other mixture of people would you invite? What other titles?
>
> Perhaps we could get family members to gather with them around the topic
> “Issues and Opportunities to Still Be Family” or “Meet Me Here Today.”
>
> I wonder.... I invite you to wonder with me....
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