[OSList] OS for Dementia?
doug
ost at footprintsinthewind.com
Fri Nov 15 07:34:31 PST 2013
Sorry, I meant Christine! Maybe my own short term slipping? <grin>
:- Doug.
On 11/15/2013 10:22 AM, doug wrote:
> Suzanne--
>
> What has been the underlying current of the conversation on AI list
> about this?
>
> :- Doug.
>
>
>
> On 11/15/2013 01:08 AM, Christine Whitney Sanchez wrote:
>> Doug, Suzanne, Harrison and all,
>>
>> I find it interesting that a few weeks before Doug started this
>> conversation, a parallel conversation about using Appreciative Inquiry
>> with people with memory loss has been taking place on the AI Listserv.
>>
>> And I find it heartening to simply hear your voices via this wonderful
>> list. I’ve been a butterfly for quite a while but I am in the space
>> with you.
>>
>> Namasté,
>>
>> Christine
>>
>> Christine Whitney Sanchez, Partner
>> Innovation Partners International
>> Phoenix, AZ, USA +1.480.759.0262
>> www.innovationpartners.com <http://www.innovationpartners.com>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:50 PM, doug <ost at footprintsinthewind.com
>> <mailto:ost at footprintsinthewind.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>>> <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
>>>
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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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