[OSList] Open Space funeral (Greg Rivera, in memoriam)

Wed Dec 9 06:50:02 PST 2015

Eleder:
Thank you for sharing this.
I had a similar experience when my step father passed away. We made a
circle and I asked the friends and family members who wanted to say
something related with José Luis Gonzalez  it was very  impressive and
moving and all listened to the person who had  like a talking stick it was
inspired by my Open Space practice I loved to be able to listen to
different stories, we shared tears, we  laughed and remembered many things
about this great person who lived 91 years learning and contributing in so
diferents ways to in our lives as relatives, friends...

I felt  like if he was there with us.... a live !
Adriana
.

2015-12-09 7:24 GMT-06:00 Eleder_BuM via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:

> Good morning,
>
> my mind comes back to a conversation invited by Pernilla last Wosonos in
> Krakow, in which she asked us, more or less: "*what everyday situations
> do you know in which the OS spirit is  present?". *These days I realized *funerals
> can also be open space.*
>
> Last Sunday some friends of NY based scientartist Greg Rivera's met to
> celebrate having had him as a friend, some days after his unexpected dead
> (Nov 26th). Here you canenjoy some of his paintings
> <http://www.saatchiart.com/gregrivera>.
>
> He had been living in the Basque Country during the period 2007-2013 and
> made a big impression on and built close relationships with plenty of
> social innovators in the area (always a happy spirit, he coined terms suchs
> as “underground mayor” =UM...:).
>
> So, deep in pain and far in the distance, I wrote a message to a bunch of
> the ones that had related to him:
>
> *Hi, how are you? Next Sunday Dec6 (12:00) some friends of Greg´s will be
> meeting in Mundaka, near La Bañera (the house they used to live in) to
> celebrate the joy of having shared life with him. *
>
>
>
> *Feel free to bring something to eat and drink, as we plan to share
> lunchtime, after a walk around the village. We´ll be bringing, as well, any
> object, story, song, paint, idea,... that connects us with him and with
> each other.*
>
>
>
> *Please, forward the invitation to whoever that would like coming. *
>
> *Eleder  638733223*
>
> So, some days later, we met last Sunday (Dec 6th) on a beautiful field
> over the sea and  shared some food and drinks around a table.
>
> The agenda was completely blank. There was nobody in charge and lots of
> passion on the clear issue: saying goodbye to the big friend.
>
> As we ate and drank, last people arrived and joined the small groups that
> formed and dissolved spontaneously now and again, people using their two
> feet.
>
> Then, some time near the end (the end time, I realized, was fixed by the
> amount of food and drink we served :) someone said he wanted to share a
> poem inspired on Greg's last days, reflecting on the relationship between
> life, dead and art.
>
> We listened standing in a circle the 20 folks of us. Then someone put the
> issue; *“would you like to share the story on how you met Greg?”*. People
> spoke from their heart and listened deeply,...
>
> Someone sang a verse following the long tradition os singing improvised
> verses. Then he proposed to get close one to the other, hugged in a closer
> circle now. Then he invited us: *“would you like to share the feature(s)
> of Greg you liked and would like to see expanding in the world?”. *A wise
> collective response emerged: playfulness, generosity, love, courage,
> artfulness, open mind, social awareness, being a “hub”, simplicity,
> peacefulness, humour, calmness,…
>
> We laughed, cried, chatted, projected, dreamed, hugged, loved (with) each
> other...
>
> When people left there was a deep agreement: this was great!
>
> Simple, comfortable, enriching, participative, self-managed, joyful,
> emotive,…
>
> And: it was for me very empowering and releasing to know that we ourselves
> could manage the mourning in such an elegant way, in a region and time
> where almost every funeral goes under a catholic tradition, completely in
> another way.
>
> Many of  us were familiar with OS and familiar with what had just
> happened: this was great and simple.
>
> This was just life just open space.
>
> Cheers,
>
> @Eleder_BuM <https://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM>
>
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