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Laceweb - A Map of Self Help Healing Ways
Written 1997.
Last updated Feb 2007.
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The Laceweb is simultaneously:
- a massive social experiment,
- a social movement, and
- linked social action
among indigenous, disadvantaged small minimised minorities and intercultural people in the SE Asian Australasia Oceania Region.
The Laceweb as Experiment is a long term action
research Macro-Project (over 40 years) into humane healing
re-socialising wellbeing processes. Action researchers have been
evolving through the Region.
The Laceweb as Social Movement is evolving an
informal network of enablers, nurturers and healers among the above
people engaged in self help towards wellbeing - refer An Example of Enabling Indigenous Wellbeing.
From beginings over 40 years in Australia, it has been extending among
people throughout the SE Asian Oceania Australasia Region. Many engaged
in this movement have little or no sense of being action researchers or
part of a research experiment.
The Laceweb as social action is enabling self help
towards wellbeing by the above people. Many engaged in this action have
little or no sense of being action researchers, or being part of a
social movement, or research experiment.
This page gives a brief map of this threefold Laceweb. As 'experiment', the Laceweb is broad ranging.
The Laceweb's research population has been 'oppressed marginalised minorities of the Region -
people on the margin - those who dominant people may characterise as the 'misfits'
(sociopathic and other deviant criminals), the 'broken' (psychotics,
schizophrenics, sociopaths and other psycho-social deviants) and the
'minimised' (disadvantaged small minimised minorities and indigenous
people). The central research questions have been, 'How may processes and action be enabled that have the following outcomes:
- How may lots of different 'broken people' individually and collectively get together again?
- More specifically, how may individual and social wellbeing be humanely renewed in a conflicted collapsed society?
- How may this restart when people are filled with dread,
are profoundly traumatized, pervasively distrustful and filled with
hatred and vengeance, or profound apathy and dispair?
- How may a gulf between people and between ethnic groups, races and cultures be healed?
- How may a humane nurturing mediating healing support
network be weaved such that people may help themselves expand
humanitarian caring rights and talents, and humanitarian caring
democratic community?
- How may the above resocialising be enabled such that
all the locals help create their emerging society's weltenschauung
through humane emergent community self help processes?
- How can such a society emerge with humane caring for
and respectful relating with co-existing and neighbouring societies and
/or emerging societies who are also reintegrating?'
Implicit in the foregoing is that the reintegrating process:
- is humane and caring
- respects and celebrates racial, ethnic, spiritual and cultural diversity
- fosters nurturing relationship between diverse peoples and groups
- is in the hands of all of the diverse locals and groups who
jointly determine self help action creating the society they all evolve
together
- may be with enabling support by outside enablers with nothing happening unless locals want it to happen
- leads to the emergence of a humane society respecting diversity that meets the needs and aspirations of all the locals
Also implicit is that in using Laceweb processes people in different
regions and places may evolve differing societies. That is, Laceweb
action is not 'pushing' a 'particular society'. Rather, the
reintegrating Laceweb processes are seemlessly intercultural and have
scope for enabling the emergence of a diverse range of societies. Each
of these would have a common characteristic of being humane and caring
for peoples of that society and other societies and have humane healing
mediating processes for resolving conflict both within the society and
between other socities.
The Laceweb 'Social Praxis Experiment' is spreading across many
countries in the SE Asia Australasia Oceania Region, with outreaches
into Asia. It is 'centre' is in rural and remote areas of Northern
Australia.
'Collapse' includes the breakdown of public and private
services and the economy. Bougainville and East Timor are two examples
of the many extant disintegrated societies. The findings and
understandings emerging from the Laceweb Experiment may have
implications for all peoples around the World. The list of fractured
people in the Region is extensive - Australian Aboriginals and
Islanders, Bougainvillian, East Timorese, Irian Jayan, the Aceh in West
Sumatra, the Moro in the Phillipines, to name a few.
The Laceweb's Specific Objectives and Priorities
The Laceweb Experiment is based on action research evolving and
extending an informal network of healing action researchers who in turn
may create healing contexts and moments wherein healing may take place
and 'that which works' may be consensually agreed and passed onto other
healing action researchers. Models may be evolved, refined and passed
on to determine there transferability to other cultural contexts.
Psycho social wellbeing
Rehabilitation and healing learning self help action by and for
survivors of torture and trauma; in particular projects aimed at
enabling women and children victims of human rights abuses;
Implementing of Indigenous/disadvantaged small minority based healing learning and rehabilitation processes;
Activities to mobilise and apply healing learning talents, including
setting up healing learning experiential units capable of rapid
deployment;
Learning contexts for health and wellbeing workers in the healing of survivors of torture and trauma.
The action research has centred around:
Psycho-Social Processes Used to evolve the Laceweb
- Set up Residential Therapeutic Community Unit within NSW
Public Mental Health System - Fraser House, a large (80 bed plus
outpatients) unit. In 1959, independent of Maxwell Jones' UK
Therapeutic Community pioneering work, Dr Neville Yeomans set the Unit
with many features, processes and therapies that were World firsts.
- Innovative therapies - evolving a wide range of therapies within the Unit
- Set up Australia's first Community Mental Health Centre
- Set up a Community Arts Market surrounding (5) above (Paddington Market in Sydney)
- Self Help Groups evolving out of the Unit- Grow, Mingles, Nelps, Connexion
- Enabling Healing Festival Gatherings
- Set up Therapeutic Community Houses based on the Unit - a series of houses in Queensland country centres
- Enabling Micro and Macro Healing Sharing Projects
- Networking - evolving of an informal
enabler-nurturer network among indigenous and disadvantaged minimised
small minorities and interculturals in remote areas of Northern
Australia and then to the Region
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