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Laceweb Action - July 2001

Better than dodging bullets in the jungle
Attendees experience many joy-filling moments permeated with wellbeing possibilities.

The three metre high mythical creature
Over 30 children participate in Cultural Healing Action which uses all forms of art - sculpture, drama, storytelling, movement, poetry and the like to enable healing possibilities.

Linked through creative artistry
Cultural Healing Action has roots among the Pacific Islanders who use cultural artistry to resolve conflict, and as a social reconstituting process. The children can get inside this creature and become three metres tall.

Brother belong me
A far place from being a commander in the BRA - together we are now exploring peace-healing ways. Another process shared is called Mediation Therapy. These ways may be traced to the pioneering therapeutic community, 'Fraser House', and the therapeutic community houses in Mackay and Cairns. The ways are also resonant with Geoff Guest's therapeutic community, Petford.

A West Papuan with the children
This West Papuan man hid from military and militia for 10 years in remote jungle - now sharing peacehealing ways in a peaceful setting.

Everyday context healing moments
The group shifts to Holloways beach in the afternoon to be surrounded by others relaxing - a far place from torture and trauma.

Healing places
The healing possibilities of spaces and places are explored as well as the process and feel of placemaking, spacemaking, and the evolving of contexts rich for healing moments.

Storing colourful pleasant memories
Attendees explore ways of using sub-modes of the senses to reconstitute memory of awful times - to break the previous profound linking between 'recall traumatic event' and 'feel awful'.

Gathering at home
This day the gathering is taking place at a local house - again grounding healing in everyday contexts.

Two West Papuans and two Bougainvillians
Ways of reconstituting memory are experienced - experiencing how to 'store' memories in different ways. Some see the traumatic event in their 'minds eye', as if it is happening again right in front of them and feel awful. Others remember the event as if it is a tiny black and white photo on the horizon behind them, and in so doing, have no overwhelming feelings stirred.

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