Laceweb News
Written
1997. Updated Sept, 2014. The Laceweb is spread throughout the SE Asia, Oceania,
Australasia region and very quietly going about nurturing healing and wellbeing
in remote places. This news page tells nothing of the wider Laceweb. It
concentrates on some healing happenings on the margins. Dec. 2014 Section D in the Homepage brings together a set of papers on links
between Laceweb and evolving thriving futures. Some of these are new. Others
date back to the 1960’s and 70s. The paper Realising Human Potential explores ways for evolving and realising human potential – personally, interpersonally, communally, inter-communally, culturally and interculturally. It also explores accessing and increasing the capacity of the unconscious mind. Realising Human Potential. Another new paper has
been added called Experiential Learning. It
draws upon Laceweb experience of working with groups in corporate
environments as well as social and communal environments from the 1960s
onwards. Sept
2014 25 folk with a
passionate interest in ConFest gathered in the Victorian Countryside beside Lake
Goldsmith (currently green grass and covered in frost at dawn). This was an
informal conference exploring a number of themes. One was personal and
community wellness during ConFest. Another was on the Handbook handed out at
the front gate to introduce first timers to the ways and spirit of ConFest. There were also sacred
ceremony, a laughter workshop, shared communal cooking and feasting and lots
discussion. The venue was an old bluestone school house. Another similar
conference is planned for the site visit at Moulamein NSW, at the end of Sept
2014.
Some of the attendees
Saturday evening
End of the Laughter
Experience May through August 2014 A Page titled Significant
Laceweb Documents guides folk to a number of Laceweb
Documents that are landmarks in the evolving of Laceweb Action Research. Laceweb Water Harvesting New Soil and Food
Forests provides
glimpses of the ongoing work relating to fostering nature to thrive as a
continuation of the Yeomans family’s work in the mid 20th Century. A
companion page is Evolving Natural Landscape Paradises. A
macro extension page is Thriving Nature – Thriving Human Nature Action research continues on wellness
related processes. Refer two new Papers: o
Healing
Artistry, Gene Expression and Gene Modulation Also action
research themes relating to Governance and Lore/Law has been rewritten as: o
Declaration
of Governance and Law A careful reading right through the above
paper is a precursor to macro action towards transforming wellness. Nineteen Audio Tapes
have been added to the Laceweb site. Also e-books are also freely available: Coming
to Ones Senses - By the Way A
collection of 130 stories from life on wellness Whither
Goeth the World of Human Futures A
four volume E-book Biography of the Life Work of Dr Neville Yeomans Easter ConFest April 2014 Workshop spaces called Laceweb, Mingles, Keyline and
Connexion all appeared at the 2014 Easter ConFest gathering celebration
festival at Moulamein in NSW, Australia. Laceweb Village also appeared. With
over 5,000 attendees the workshop scene was the most active for over 25 years
with 48 workshop spaces and 7 move informal spaces and 876 workshops
available to attend. 2008-2014 POSTINGS Laceweb networking has continued during
this time period. Refusal to take compromising funding has meant that action
has been slower, though never compromised. Funding - Shortage of funds
meant Laceweb has been off the Internet for a time. While seeking
uncompromising funding, action continues, and ideas are emerging for fund
generating via new-old ways of energy exchange. News of these is passing in
the Networks. Rumour Networking - Laceweb enablers
continue to spread rumours of what is working through the Region and further
afield with the open invitation to adapt healing ways to local contexts. Resonant folk in the UK with links through Europe and
Africa and further afield have begun networking and rumours exchange with
Laceweb energy. UK folk are very interested in community mutual help for
wellness as ways of supporting folk
with mental strife in low and middle income communities and countries.
Video and audio material has been forwarded. This has been discussed in
international forums. Keyline and Cultural
Keyline
- Action research continues on the link between Keyline and Cultural Keyline
– the links between nature thriving and human nature thriving. Macro-Program - As research into the
outer reaches of talent in the Laceweb and following prompting from many
places in the Region, Laceweb evolves a Model Macro-program for the Reconstituting
of a Collapsed or Collapsing Society following Extegrity
Guidelines. Laceweb involves local Fiji women natural nurturers in this
Program who identify significant local unmet wellness needs. Laceweb also
gains the free support of over 50 leaders from academic (to Professor level)
and enterprise peak body areas in forming, with the support of these local
Fiji Women the model Program. Laceweb develops for the Program an extremely
detailed state-of-the-art Excel spreadsheet setting out all of the input and
outflow projections for the first five years for evolving the start-up and
organising and operating using Laceweb Way of five major new social
enterprise industries (owned and operated by locals with support) with associated
smaller cooperatives and small landholder livelihood projects, as well as a
very substantial linked humanitarian mutual-help wellness action rollout.
This Program has been the model for smaller Laceweb initiatives. Following
urging from interested parties, this Program evolved to be assuming
non-compromising seed funding of US$380
million. The financial crash ended funding possibilities. The Program
experience, processes, documentation and way continues. Fire Affected Area
Support -
Laceweb continues support to at risk people in the Region including local folk in fire affected areas in
Victoria, Australia. Laceweb at ConFest - Laceweb emerges again
at ConFest the Conference Festival that commenced in 1976 with Laceweb
Village and Mingles and associated Laceweb workshops. This gathering is in
dry country in outback NSW Australia. Evolving new soils - Action research extends to fostering
nature going massively into thrival mode in evolving new soils in quantity
– using embodied subtle knowing, sensitivity, and subtle respectful
relational energy evolving a particularly layered blending of cool
decomposing organics and manures, colloidal charcoal, decomposed granite,
basalt, quartz, and other minerals, disaggregated clays, pristine spring
water (returned to memberance of its true nature so it no longer holds
contamination), and trillions of soil organisms - some from the
Yeomans’ farms and selected biodynamic farms throughout Australia. This
makes certain what nature may take thousands of years to evolve –
extra-ordinary soil in 7 to 8 weeks – from low cost materials that may
be readily available in many places of the world. The Wellness of People and
Earth is the Supreme Law. Making this soil with others is fundamentally healing
– as in making whole. Refer Laceweb
Water Harvesting New Soil and Food Forests Re-emergence of Laceweb
Homepage
- When the Laceweb site dropped from the Internet around 1998 there were 69
papers on the Homepage. Action Research and writing has continued between
1998 and 2014 and the Homepage is reappearing with 105 papers in the Laceweb
Archive. Now there is a very wide spread of action themes with the Laceweb
attribute of weaving things together – both within the mode of writing
of the papers, as well as by themes based hyperlinks within and between
papers. Healing Stories - Gathering of the
healing stories and weaving them together and passing these on continue. In
one energy, 130 stories from life were gathered and woven together to provide
one entry into Laceweb Way. The Well - In November 2013,
Laceweb energised an Event called The Well at the Abbotsford Convent in
Victoria – now a community space. Word went out through Laceweb
networks, ConFest Link sites and other networks and Fifty people gathered at
3PM and engaged in Cultural
Healing Artistry till 10PM. Some of the wellness activities at The Well included: o
sound,
vocalising, mimicking sounds in nature (like the breeze in the trees),
chanting and spontaneous choir o
Awareness
and transforming through moving o
Healing
arts (e.g. group mural depicting how we feel at 3:20PM and 9:50PM) o
Shared
feast o
Mind-Body-Emotional
Flexibility o
Evolving
good habits and flexibility - refer Flexibility
and Habit o
Profound
Relaxing o
Graceful
moving o
Social
Relating o
Healing
Wellness Networking o
Awareness
of Healing Meta-process o
Contemporary
groove dance jam o
Silent
Disco (evolving at ConFest enabled by Laceweb Networks)
Entrance to the Auditorium where The Well was energised
The Convent Lawns where we had our evening feast at The
Well Event Melbourne Linking -
Bougainville person who has just completed a PhD travels to Melbourne to link
with Laceweb networks for sharing experience of healing wellness ways that
work. As a youth with his family, this person was caught up in the torture
and trauma of the Bougainville Conflict. Following transforming experiences
while in Melbourne, this person can now access memories from the Conflict
without experiencing devastating emotion. Experiences embodied in Melbourne
linking may be shared in fitting contexts in Bougainville. Refer Transforming The Whole of It Action Research – This continues
in linking Neville Yeomans’ ways; Laceweb ways tapping into the rich
traditions of indigenous healers in the Region (Oceania East Asia
Australasia), the holistic ways of Moshe Feldenkrais, the ecological artistic
wise adapting of NLP and the talent NLP draws upon – and all of this
with the very latest understanding emerging from neuro-psycho-biological
action research. What continues to emerge are processes introducing
flexibility and choice in ways of being in the world with others –
moving on from fragmenting disconnecting disintegrating states in embracing
easy and potent ways transforming towards wellness with others. These
understanding are threaded through pages in Laceweb. Others will be added to
the Homepage in time. From here on the postings are from March
1998 onwards. 10 March 1998 Posting Ideas are evolving for a small gathering in Melbourne
to form a Trauma Supporters Network for the SE Asia, Australia, Oceania Region.
This is being mooted by mainstream trauma centres in Melbourne and Adelaide.
A few people from Vietnam, the Philippines and Bougainville may be invited. 11 March 1998 Posting Around 70 Bougainville residents of the Atherton
Tablelands gathered in a Cairns park for a healing celebration. Another
networking gathering is planned. The Gathering was hosted by The Bougainville
Association in Cairns. Energy seems to be growing for a small group from
these residents to explore healing ways so that they may be a resource group
in supporting trauma survivors in Bougainville. 12 March 1998 Posting: Laceweb Village was at the 1998 Easter ConFest and at
the same location as New Year - the Eastern end of the main beach at the very
end of the site from the front gate. Workshops took place with views of the
Murray River as backdrop. 7 May 1998 Posting Two new Laceweb pages Two new Laceweb pages will be up on the Internet in the
next few days. Healing
Ways Encyclopaedia outlines an extensive array of healing
ways gathered from the Laceweb over the years. Healing
Group Processes outlines many of the processes that may be
used by enablers in nurturing group processes. As well, there are brief
descriptions of many micro-experiences for taking group action. Laceweb Village - Easter ConFest The Laceweb Village was a rich nurturing experience for
over 200 participants. Three workshop areas were in regular use - two within
marquees and one under the trees. The site overlooked a beautiful beach on
the Murray River at Tocumwal NSW Australia. A noticeboard describing Laceweb Action was set up at
the ConFest Workshop Noticeboards. An estimated 2,000 people would have seen
this noticeboard. Many of the micro-experiences and processes in the two
new Internet Homepages were explored at a number of workshops. Participants
found that: ·
the healing ways were easy to use ·
the healing ways work! ·
they could easily pass the
micro-experiences on to others ·
that these new people could also
use them, get good results and easily pass them on! Bougainville Association Inc. formed A new group has been formed by Bougainville people in
the Atherton Tablelands called the Bougainville Association Inc. It has held
a number of meetings and arranged gatherings. Its aim is to provide support
to healing action on Bougainville. Attendance at International Trauma Gathering A Bougainville Laceweb person is leaving this week to
attend an international gathering on Support for Trauma being held in
Scandinavia. A Bougainville person who attended ConFest at the
Bougainville Peace Signing Indication received to say that all the signs for good progress
towards a last peace were at the Peace Signing Ceremonies in Bougainville. 8 June 1998 Posting A number of new Laceweb pages have been prepared and
links have been placed on the Laceweb Home Page
29 June 1998 Posting A number of new Laceweb pages have been prepared The Trauma Proposal and the Micro-project has now been
forwarded by the Bougainville Survivors of Trauma Association and by the
Laceweb to a number of possible funding Bodies. The Chairperson of the above Association has sent in a
briefing paper to the Australian Government's Joint Standing Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade's, 'Inquiry into the Bougainville Peace
Process'. Australia Government recognises Bougainville Laceweb person
with an award for contributions to the Bougainville peace process. A Laceweb enabler is getting under way on Ph.D.
research project exploring the evolving of the Laceweb as a small social
movement. The oral history of the Laceweb will be documented and the
practical outcomes of self help healing action. 17 July 1998 Posting Regular healing sharing among Bougainville Families has commenced in Far
North Queensland with weekly gatherings to explore various healing ways. Other
festive gatherings are being planned with song, dance play and food to
share. A revised copy of the Trauma Proposal has been placed on the
internet. This can be found through the Laceweb home page. A fascinating case study has also been added to the
Laceweb Home page. It's called Developing
Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander Drug and Substance Abuse Therapeutic
Communities This study has many 'layers' to it. It sets out
possible action processes. There are brief glimpses of the healing
micro-experiences of Aboriginal elder Geoff Guest of Petford Aboriginal Farm.
A seven day Gathering of over 80 Aboriginal and Islander nurturers from
remote places was evolved. Also attending were Australian Therapeutic
Community Association board members and Aboriginal Permaculture people and
others. The Gathering was set up as a healing sharing. All manner of
cross-cultural and intra-cultural conflicts, misunderstandings and 'sticky
mess' quickly engulf everyone. Mob psychology, crowd manipulation,
stampeding, power plays and dominant/dominated cultural ruptures abound. And
in all of this goo there are magic moments and scope for potent
understandings about intercultural healing.
Geoff Guest at Petford 16 Nov 1998 Posting Some new pages have been added to the Laceweb home
page. You may want to have a browse. One is the Laceweb Macro Project for the SE Asia
Oceania Australasia Region. It's called Laceweb -
Self-Help Action Supporting Survivors of Torture and Trauma in SE Asia,
Oceania and Australasia - Small Generalisable Actions A short version of the previous page may be found at Short Version Laceweb Research Update In the mid sixties Neville Yeomans placed in Sydney
Archives a collection of his Fraser House papers and other materials on
Community Festivals and Community Healing Safety Projects. A Laceweb enabler
has been researching these as Doctoral level studies on the Laceweb. Many of
the people who were linked into this early healing action may be tracked and
their healing memories may be gathered. Healing ways and processes may be
placed on the net as they are prepared. Laceweb Village at ConFest - 28 Dec 98 to 3 January 99 ConFest time again and the Laceweb Family Village will
provide a place for sharing healing ways. Themes will be 'playfully
celebrating life' and 'nurturing the child within'.
June 1999 Posting. Laceweb energy hosts the celebrations in Cairns of the
UN Day in Support of Trauma Victims. Nov 1999 Posting. A Laceweb enabler meets with Bougainville and other
Islander people in Cairns. Ideas for a Trauma Healing Gathering in June 2000
are explored. Possibility of East Timorese and Hmong Vietnamese attending.
Refer Evolving
a SE Asia Pacific Self Help Trauma Support Intercultural Network - A Small
Micro-Proposal . Feb 2000 Posting. Plans underway for Laceweb energy to again host the UN
Day in Support of Trauma Victims in June 2000. West Papuan people agree to join with Bougainvillian,
East Timorese and Hmong Vietnamese people as hosts and participants at a
proposed healing trauma gathering in June 2000. Laceweb enablers to give an experiential Workshop at
the Sixth International Conference on Holistic Healing organised by the
Monash University Medical Faculty at Lorne Victoria. The theme is
Sociomedicine and Sociotherapy. The background paper is Wounded Healers - Wounded Group
Lorne Victoria – The
location of the Sixth
International Conference on Holistic Healing April 2000 Posting Laceweb energy runs six gatherings during the East
ConFest at Tocumwal NSW. Themes include - Healing
Storytelling and The Healing
Power of Love. Another theme was maintaining integrity in
living with and without unpleasant behaviour. Many of the healing ways that
may be shared at the Cairns gathering in June were explored with groups of up
to 90 people in outdoor settings. May 2000 Posting. Invites to the proposed healing trauma gathering in
Cairns during June 2000 have been extended to West Papuans, Aboriginal and
Islanders, Bougainvillians, Bosnians, East Timorese and Hmong Vietnamese
people. We are still seeking a suitable venue. It is proposed that the
gathering will run from 17th to the 24th June. July 2000 Posting. Laceweb activity was intense in the Atherton Tablelands
Region in Far North Queensland during the month commencing 17 June in support
of the UN Peace Week and the 26 June UN Day in Support of Survivors of
Torture and Trauma. Details have been posted on the Communal Ways for Healing the World Page under
Timeline 2000 - 2001 (June - July).
On the Way up to the Atherton Tablelands in Far North
Tropical Queensland A Laceweb enabler was engaged in healing modelling of
the Aboriginal Elder Geoff Guest. Some of this modelling has been posted at
the new page The Healing
Ways of Old Man - Geoff Guest. More will be added to this
page. Details and photographs about Geoff
Guest's Salem Youth Camp have been posted. A Page has been posted detailing a Macro-Plan for
Developing all aspects of Wellbeing in the Se Asia Oceania Australasia Region
- Self-Help Action Rebuilding Well-Being in the SE Asia
Oceania Australasia Region - Exploring Possibilities For Small Generalisable
Actions Among Disadvantaged Indigenous & Small Minority People.
Two poems by Neville Yeomans have been posted at Inma. 'INMA' is about the
sense/feel of the Laceweb. 'On Where' is about a place for the emerging of
Laceweb Inma energy. 2001 - 2002 Posting Laceweb Village at ConFest. Healing Wellbeing
Gatherings in Far North Queensland attended by Bougainvillians, Aboriginal
and Islanders, West Papuans with Hmong and East Timorese attending related
gatherings (refer Celebrating the Seventh Anniversary of the Small Island
Gathering). 2002-2004 Posting Enabler Action continues in the Region with local
grassroots networks linking and sharing healing Wellbeing Ways (refer Cultural Keyline Chapter Thirteen). DTE funds
Aboriginal elder of high degree to attend ConFest. Shares indigenous healing
ways and wisdom. 2004 Posting A Cambodian Nurturer funded by DTE to attend ConFest. -
shares Cambodian healing ways and wellbeing artistry. Oct 2005 Posting PhD Research completed on the Life Work of Dr Neville
Yeomans (refer Cultural
Keyline). Two Filipino Nurturers funded by DTE to attend
ConFest - share Filipino healing ways and wellbeing artistry including ways
of the Southern Filipino Indigenous Lumad People. 2006/7 New Years ConFest Posting Laceweb Workshop space again emerged at ConFest with a
Mingles type gathering under lights. Sensory and Body approaches to wellbeing
were explored. With DTE funding support 275 CDs were given to ConFest
attendees on the history of ConFest and its links with wider action. Ideas evolved Mingles
at the 2007 Easter ConFest in Moulamein, New South Wales in Australia.
Mingles at ConFest emerged as a delightful shaded space overlooking the
Edwards River. Energy is discussing having this open 24 hours a day with mood
lighting in the evening. Perhaps free drinks and nibbles and bring food to
share. Space of soft acoustical music - a poet’s corner and some folk
are even talking of presenting a play in progress. Other Links: Governments
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