<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Doug, Suzanne, Harrison and all,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:50 PM, doug <<a href="mailto:ost@footprintsinthewind.com">ost@footprintsinthewind.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Suzanne and Harrison--<br><br>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....<br><br>:- Doug.<br><br><br><br><br>On 11/14/2013 03:09 PM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Well Harrison... I guess I will need to reflect on that...or not so<br>much. Funny how when it gets real close, like really close, we do a lot<br>to eliminate the pain (for a mom, a child or whoever) and pain there was<br>when spaces around mom felt really closed and conversations seemed more<br>like interrogations.<br><br>Open Space was never like that for me so... I will open myself up and<br>tell myself that whatever I did to make some of the hurt go away was not<br>controlling or wrong, it was simply Life and Open Space. And I guess<br>that's the point that I'm getting right now.<br><br>So Doug, perhaps what I can imagine now through and with Open Space is<br>that more and more people would have opportunity to be with each other<br>in the way that Open Space invites us to be with each other. And there<br>would be much that would be good that would happen -- loving connections<br>with new insights I imagine.<br><br>Like wow, I can feel a few knots in my stomach feeling myself shift a<br>belief that I was so certain about.<br><br>Thank you for this rich insight Harrison. But I do still have those<br>knots in my stomach thinking about it.<br><br>Suzanne<br><br><br><br><br>On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a><br><<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">mailto:hhowen@verizon.net</a>>> wrote:<br><br> Doug -- I've been a little slow to respond to this one. Slowness<br> seems to<br> come with advancing years. To your question -- OS for folks with<br> Dementia?<br> Why not?<br><br> If nothing else that population of folks would probably include just<br> about<br> everybody over 65. Of course, Dementia comes in a variety of flavors<br> from<br> mild to horrific, but those of us of a certain age have more than a<br> little<br> existential experience with the critter. It is a little upsetting,<br> sometimes. The name of your best friend which evaporated. Those lost<br> eyeglasses that you suddenly find on your nose. Finding yourself<br> standing in<br> the middle of a familiar room with absolutely no idea about why you were<br> there, and what on earth you came to do. It happens. Been there...<br><br> So, OS for Dementia? Certainly, unless of course those of us so<br> afflicted<br> have suddenly been excluded from the sacred circle of Homo sapiens. And<br> actually, I don't really think there is much choice. Fact is (I<br> find), all<br> the world is self organizing (open space) and life goes better for<br> those who<br> have learned, in one way or another, to navigate that world. Life gets<br> clunky, closed and (more) painful when we make the mistake of<br> thinking we<br> are actually in charge. I think this is true for all of us, but for<br> those of<br> us with diminished(ing) mental capacity there are some special traps<br> along<br> the way.<br><br> For example, take the situation of the forgotten name. We can sit<br> there and<br> agonize over the lapse of memory. We can beat on ourselves for being so<br> forgetful. We can remember (oh yes, we do remember some things!) how the<br> proper name just sprang instantly to mind...<br><br> With a little effort we can feel totally miserable, and our misery is<br> compounded by the fact that the harder we try to remember, the more<br> distant<br> that elusive name seems to become. But there is a solution -- Just<br> let it<br> go! More often than not, once we let go, the all important name<br> miraculously<br> appears. And if it doesn't... A smile is often better than proper<br> nomenclature.<br><br> A little Open Space is good for just about everything and everybody.<br> And I<br> have to admit that I have forgotten all the things it isn't good for.<br><br><br> Harrison<br><br> Harrison Owen<br> 7808 River Falls Dr.<br> Potomac, MD 20854<br> USA<br><br> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br> Camden, Maine 04843<br><br> Phone 301-365-2093 <tel:301-365-2093><br> (summer) 207-763-3261 <tel:207-763-3261><br><br> <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/">www.openspaceworld.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/">http://www.openspaceworld.com</a>><br> <a href="http://www.ho-image.com/">www.ho-image.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="http://www.ho-image.com/">http://www.ho-image.com</a>> (Personal Website)<br> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of<br> OSLIST<br> Go<br> to:http://<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br> -----Original Message-----<br> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br> <<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br> [<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br> <<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>] On Behalf Of doug<br> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 11:10 AM<br> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br> Subject: [OSList] OS for Dementia?<br><br> Friends--<br><br> Have been thinking that a population OST could serve in a major good<br> way is<br> among people who have dementia. How?<br><br> Perhaps we have a mixed group of people with dementia living in a<br> congregate<br> housing setting and teenagers. We gather them in a circle and do the<br> normal<br> things. The teenagers could help the oldsters remember the<br> instructions and<br> post topics. The title could be "Issues and Opportunities with Growing<br> Younger Every Day."<br><br> How, if at all, would you change the normal format of OST for this<br> group?<br> What other mixture of people would you invite? What other titles?<br><br> Perhaps we could get family members to gather with them around the topic<br> "Issues and Opportunities to Still Be Family" or "Meet Me Here Today."<br><br> I wonder.... 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