[OSList] OS for Dementia?
doug
ost at footprintsinthewind.com
Fri Nov 15 07:20:52 PST 2013
Harrison--
Agreed wholeheartedly!
:- Doug.
On 11/15/2013 09:17 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:
> Actually, Doug... if you read between the lines I was pulling everybody's
> leg a bit. It is not so much about doing something special or different, if
> only because we are all in this dementia thing together, or certainly on the
> way. It is just about living... and opening space wherever, however,
> whenever, with whomever -- as often as we can.
>
> Harrison
>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] OS for Dementia?
>
> Suzanne and Harrison--
>
> Thanks Harrison and Suzanne. What I picture from what you have each written
> is opening space in an even more open manner. Lisa-style, without words
> perhaps, just inviting with eyes and hugs and music or humming or pictures
> or dancing with your hands....
>
> :- Doug.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/14/2013 03:09 PM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
>> Well Harrison... I guess I will need to reflect on that...or not so
>> much. Funny how when it gets real close, like really close, we do a
>> lot to eliminate the pain (for a mom, a child or whoever) and pain
>> there was when spaces around mom felt really closed and conversations
>> seemed more like interrogations.
>>
>> Open Space was never like that for me so... I will open myself up and
>> tell myself that whatever I did to make some of the hurt go away was
>> not controlling or wrong, it was simply Life and Open Space. And I
>> guess that's the point that I'm getting right now.
>>
>> So Doug, perhaps what I can imagine now through and with Open Space
>> is that more and more people would have opportunity to be with each
>> other in the way that Open Space invites us to be with each other. And
>> there would be much that would be good that would happen -- loving
>> connections with new insights I imagine.
>>
>> Like wow, I can feel a few knots in my stomach feeling myself shift a
>> belief that I was so certain about.
>>
>> Thank you for this rich insight Harrison. But I do still have those
>> knots in my stomach thinking about it.
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net
>> <mailto:hhowen at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Doug -- I've been a little slow to respond to this one. Slowness
>> seems to
>> come with advancing years. To your question -- OS for folks with
>> Dementia?
>> Why not?
>>
>> If nothing else that population of folks would probably include just
>> about
>> everybody over 65. Of course, Dementia comes in a variety of flavors
>> from
>> mild to horrific, but those of us of a certain age have more than a
>> little
>> existential experience with the critter. It is a little upsetting,
>> sometimes. The name of your best friend which evaporated. Those lost
>> eyeglasses that you suddenly find on your nose. Finding yourself
>> standing in
>> the middle of a familiar room with absolutely no idea about why you
> were
>> there, and what on earth you came to do. It happens. Been there...
>>
>> So, OS for Dementia? Certainly, unless of course those of us so
>> afflicted
>> have suddenly been excluded from the sacred circle of Homo sapiens.
> And
>> actually, I don't really think there is much choice. Fact is (I
>> find), all
>> the world is self organizing (open space) and life goes better for
>> those who
>> have learned, in one way or another, to navigate that world. Life gets
>> clunky, closed and (more) painful when we make the mistake of
>> thinking we
>> are actually in charge. I think this is true for all of us, but for
>> those of
>> us with diminished(ing) mental capacity there are some special traps
>> along
>> the way.
>>
>> For example, take the situation of the forgotten name. We can sit
>> there and
>> agonize over the lapse of memory. We can beat on ourselves for being
> so
>> forgetful. We can remember (oh yes, we do remember some things!) how
> the
>> proper name just sprang instantly to mind...
>>
>> With a little effort we can feel totally miserable, and our misery is
>> compounded by the fact that the harder we try to remember, the more
>> distant
>> that elusive name seems to become. But there is a solution -- Just
>> let it
>> go! More often than not, once we let go, the all important name
>> miraculously
>> appears. And if it doesn't... A smile is often better than proper
>> nomenclature.
>>
>> A little Open Space is good for just about everything and everybody.
>> And I
>> have to admit that I have forgotten all the things it isn't good for.
>>
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>> 7808 River Falls Dr.
>> Potomac, MD 20854
>> USA
>>
>> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)
>> Camden, Maine 04843
>>
>> Phone 301-365-2093 <tel:301-365-2093>
>> (summer) 207-763-3261 <tel:207-763-3261>
>>
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>>
>> 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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