<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear oslist<br></div><div><br>One of my dear friends has a disease and is preparing for the long journey of the funeral<br>She is familiar with open space and has asked me to facilitate an opens pace for her funeral<br><br></div>I wounder how I should approach this and if this is perhaps a wonderful thing that I could offer as a part of the general funeral services.<br><br></div><div>with love<br></div>Kári<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 December 2015 at 14:50, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Eleder: <br>Thank you for sharing this.<br></div>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...<br><br></div><div>I felt like if he was there with us.... a live !<br></div>Adriana<br><div>.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2015-12-09 7:24 GMT-06:00 Eleder_BuM via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><p>Good
morning,<br></p>
<p>my mind comes back to a conversation invited by Pernilla last Wosonos in Krakow,
in which she asked us, more or less: "<i>what
everyday situations do you know in which the OS spirit is present?". </i>These days I realized <b>funerals can also be open space.</b></p>
<p>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). <a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/gregrivera" target="_blank">Here you canenjoy some of his paintings</a>.</p>
<p>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...:).</p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">So, deep in
pain and far in the distance, I wrote a message to a bunch of the ones that had
related to him:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Hi, how are you? <b>Next Sunday Dec6 (12:00) some
friends of Greg´s will be meeting in Mundaka</b>, near La Bañera (the house they
used to live in) to celebrate the joy of having shared life with him. </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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.</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Please, forward the invitation to whoever that
would like coming. </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Eleder 638733223</span></i></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The agenda was
completely blank. There was nobody in charge and lots of passion on the clear
issue: saying goodbye to the big friend.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">We listened
standing in a circle the 20 folks of us. Then someone put the issue; <i>“would you like to share the story on how
you met Greg?”</i>. People spoke from their heart and listened deeply,...</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">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: <i>“would you like to share the
feature(s) of Greg you liked and would like to see expanding in the world?”. </i>A
wise collective response emerged: playfulness, generosity, love, courage,
artfulness, open mind, social awareness, being a “hub”, simplicity, peacefulness,
humour, calmness,…</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">We laughed,
cried, chatted, projected, dreamed, hugged, loved (with) each other...</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">When people
left there was a deep agreement: this was great!</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Simple,
comfortable, enriching, participative, self-managed, joyful, emotive,…</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Many of us were familiar with OS and familiar with what
had just happened: this was great and simple.</span></p><p>This was
just life just open space.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,132,180);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">@<span>Eleder_BuM</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p></div>
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