<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Catherine,<div><br></div><div>Once facilitated an Open Space where the average age was 75.</div><div>Quite a number of participants had difficulty hearing, as Phelim also mentions,</div><div>and there were a couple of people in wheelchairs.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise no difference that I was aware of.</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings, Gerard</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 21, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Catherine Pfaehler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Dear friends<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I have been asked by the Grey Panthers (a political
organisation of seniors) to briefly present OST to them on Tuesday, Nov. 30<sup>th</sup>.
Most of them are 55 years old or older. They want to have a one-day-event
dealing with their future and their image. At the same time, my contact tells
me that many of them like to tell stories from their earlier lives when they
were still working, and most of them think that a whole day is too long for
them. Some have also become a bit fatalist, not caring too much about the
future anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Please let me know what your experiences are when
facilitating OST for seniors, and how to deal with the above contradictions,
i.e. how to give enough time for storytelling when at the same time one entire
day might be too long for them to attend. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I will be out of my office for a week now, but would
be delighted to find some of your answers in <st1:personname w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:personname>
by then. Thank you already!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">With gratitude, Catherine</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><st1:personname w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Catherine Pfaehler</span></font></st1:personname><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:
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