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o A copy of the report on the 1994
Laceweb 'Small Island, Coastal and Estuarine People Gathering Celebration', a
happening funded by the Human Rights Commission of the UN. This report gives
a description of the types of healing actions that happened. Aboriginal,
Islander, Small minority and intercultural people attended from remote
regions of Australia. Report to
the UN on the Laceweb 'Small Island Gathering' o Ideas are evolving for a follow-on
Gathering to the 'Small Island Gathering', an international event held in the
Atherton Tablelands Australia during 1994 (refer previous page). This second
Gathering, resonant with the UN 'Year of the Oceans', may be in preparation
for a proposed United Nations General Assembly session on 'Small Island
Developing States' in 1999 or 2000. The Small Island Gathering o
This
is a report of a 1992 Gathering in Far North Queensland Australia about
establishing therapeutic community among indigenous people. Many learnings
are shared. All is not as it first seems. While 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 getting beyond cultural imposition towards
intercultural healing. LACEWEB -
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