Dear Doug,
if you are the facilitator for such a potential gathering, urge the
sponsor to have his planning group discuss which approach should be taken.
If you are the sponsor, find a facilitator that will work with you and
your planning group to deal with the questions you are raising.
The questions you are raising are routinely discussed by the system
itself (via the venue of the planning group). The planning group needs
to have a way to share their needs/goals/expectations, arrive at the
theme for the event and decide who needs to be at the event (in addition
to themselves) so that their expectations under the theme they choose
will be met.
The planning group should "mirror" the "system" that is expected to be
at the event: people with dementia, teenagers, families, professional
caretaker, neighbors... the sponsor creating the planning group will
know best.
In seemingly difficult or impossibe situations its best to stick to the
"normal" way. The main reason for that is that the facilitator can stay
focused on expanding time and space for all the steps leading up to and
during and after the event. From the very outset, long before the event,
all things that the system can do (and it is about everything in my
experience) they should do... this is a sure fire way to have
selforganisation take over.
Have a great weekend
mmp
On 08.11.2013 17:09, doug wrote:
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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