Laceweb News

Written 1997. Last updated Feb 2007

The Laceweb is spread throughout the SE Asia, Oceania, Australasia region and very quietly goes 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.

10 March 1998 Posting

Ideas are evolving for a small gathering in Melbourne to form a Trauma Supporters Network for the SE Asia, Australia, Pacific region. This is being mooted by mainstream trauma centres in Melbourne and Adelaide. A few people from Vietnam, the Phillipines and Bougainville may be invited.

11 March 1998 Posting

Around 70 Bougainville residents of the Atherton Tablelands gathered in a Cairns park recently 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 Murrary River as backdrop.

7 May 1998 Posting

Two new Laceweb pages

Two new Laceweb pages will be up on the net 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 Scandanavia.

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'.

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 varous 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 facinating 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 Geof 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.

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.

A Laceweb enabler to give an experiential Workshop at the Sixth International Conference on Holistic Healing organised by the Monash University Medical Faculty at Lorne Victoria. Theme theme is Sociomedicine and Sociotherapy. The background paper is Wounded Healers - Wounded Group

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 yukkiness (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).

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 Bougainvilleans, Aboriginal and Islanders, West Papuans with Hmong and East Timores attending related gatherings (refer In Celebrating the Seventh Anniversary).

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 wisom.

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 Philippino Nurturers funded by DTE to attend ConFest - share Philippino healing ways and wellbeing artistry including ways of the Southern Philippino 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.

Feb 2007 Posting

Ideas are emerging for the evolving Mingles at the 2007 Easter ConFest in Moulamein, New South Wales in Australia. Mingles at ConFest may emerge 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 poets corner and some folk are even talking of presenting a play in progress.

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