Hello Catherine, Once facilitated an Open Space where the average age was 75. Quite a number of participants had difficulty hearing, as Phelim also mentions, and there were a couple of people in wheelchairs.
Otherwise no difference that I was aware of. Greetings, Gerard On Nov 21, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Catherine Pfaehler wrote: > Dear friends > > I have been asked by the Grey Panthers (a political organisation of seniors) > to briefly present OST to them on Tuesday, Nov. 30th. 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. > > 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. > > I will be out of my office for a week now, but would be delighted to find > some of your answers in OSLIST by then. Thank you already!!! > > With gratitude, Catherine > > Catherine Pfaehler > lic.oec.HSG > Open Space Begleitung > Burckhardtstrasse 2 > CH - 3008 Bern > Telefon +41-(0)31 - 536 05 31 > Mobile +41-(0)76 - 488 15 46 > [email protected] > www.open-space-begleitung.ch > > * * ========================================================== > [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, > unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
