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LACEWEB
ETHICS
This Web page
was first posted in 1998. Updated
April 2014. Below are some ethical frameworks
used in the Laceweb that were evolved and discussed at the Aboriginal and
Islander Lake Tinaroo Mediation Gathering attended by Aboriginal women from
the Far North Australia remote area community of Yirrkala, and other
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and interculturals from the
Atherton Tablelands region in 1993. This Gathering was supported and enabled
by a Laceweb Self-Help Group called Mediation Matters. The following
ethical frame-work is a model which may be used: For enablers
and nurturers:
o
to
help others help themselves o
to
use the self help action model in supporting other people taking self help
action in enriching wellbeing o
to
recognise the worth of each individual o
to
show respect for the integrity of others by responding to each person's
unique resources and by appropriately recognising and responding to the
differences among people o
to
be responsible for using their caring, sharing, playing, mediating and
healing micro-experiences to increase people's knowledge, understanding,
playfulness, welfare and happiness o
to
make - while using their micro-experiences - every effort to protect the
wellbeing of those seeking their support o
to
use their micro-experiences only for purposes consistent with positive mutual
outcomes o
to
show respect for the integrity of all non-human life and non-life forms -
nurturing the land, air, rivers and sea Personal
Accountability Enablers and
nurturers: o
to
represent fully and accurately their own level of caring, sharing, playing,
mediating and healing micro-experience, credentials and areas of competence. o
to
encourage the spread of humane and playful micro-experiences within the
general community. o
to
accept responsibility for their work and its consequences o
to
use every endeavour to ensure that their support is used appropriately and
ecologically o
to
make every effort to continue to expand the limits of their own models and
maps of the world, and to increase their competence through new learning o
to
only make such statements and claims in representing his/her actions that are
true and accurate to the best of his/her information o
to
make no statement or claim that gives false information about his/her actions
or about actions of other Enablers and nurturers o
to
present the nature and purpose of their approach in language which can be
understood and evaluated by other people o
to
openly and freely represent the nature of outcomes and processes used in self
help action. o
to
offer referral to other enablers and nurturers should it become reasonably
clear that the recipient of support provided by a enabler/nurturer is not
benefiting from such support o
to
openly and freely represent the nature of conflicts of interest involving
those for whom they provide support o
to
avoid exploitative relationships with others for whom they provide support Recognition
of Current Limits For enablers
and nurturers:
o
to
seek feedback from others qualified to give it, where such limitations or
problems are suspected to refrain from further support where their own
limitations or problems would interfere Public
Discussion of the Laceweb Approach For enablers
and nurturers: o
to
act publicly in ways aimed to enhance rather than detract from the
community's perception of the humane, playful approach, its practitioners, or
practices o
to
make any statements to the others such that they provide balanced
representations of the playful humanity model and its limits. Such statements
will be aimed to inform others about the principles of humanity and
playfulness, and to assist others in making informed decisions and choices.
While an enabler's and nurturers' personal standards and ethics are generally
a private matter, the ethical standards of the humane, playful, together
community take precedence insofar as they affect the public perception of the
Laceweb Approach Respect For
Other Life Ways For enablers
and nurturers: o
to
sufficiently understand the competencies of related fields to make
appropriate referrals to other groups. o
to
show respect for micro-experienced persons in related fields by learning and
acknowledging their customary procedures when interacting with them Other links: Evolving a
Dispersed Urban Wellbeing Community A
far more extensive glossary of Laceweb terms (265k.) is contained in |