Oh Angel, that is really really awful. I'm so sorry to hear your community is facing that, and very much appreciate the time you took to wrote the article. The spirograph metaphor is lovely. As someone mentioned in the article comments, it is really difficult for the friends and family to not believe they could have done more, to not have thousands of regrets: could have done this or that and the outcome would be different. At my former company - which operated very much like a coworking space - we lost one of our beloved longest-time staff to suicide. I was able to bring in a counselor to help us work through our shock and guilt and loss and remorse and all those horrible regrets. Over time many of us have come to understand that we did love him enough, that we held him as close as we could and supported him over and over in the dark days that we knew he was having. But for him, the pain he suffered was greater than the love and support he had, and he made his choice. So I guess my long winded point is that it is absolutely vital to be part of that spirograph of support you so elegantly describe and to look up always and pay attention to each other, and to make sure the people you know have those friendships and connection. That way, even if in the end for some people it isn't enough, it will be better to have contributed what you could and watched out for each other so maybe it won't happen again, and someone else may not make that choice. *hugs*
On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 5:48:49 PM UTC, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > Hello Dear Friends. Cohere had a sad and terrible loss this week. I wanted > to share what went down in case your community ever has to face it. > > > http://coherecommunity.com/blog/coworking-and-suicide-what-the-spirograph-can-teach-us-about-community > > > ps. it's the worst. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
