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The Laceweb - Self Help Healing Action
Last
updated April 2014. Section O - Cultural Sensitive
Response to Disasters
o Shows
a brief overview of Laceweb micro-project capacity to support macro
endeavours preparing for and responding to major disasters. Preparing for and Responding Well
to Disasters - PRWD o
The page contains
a template for preparing reports relating to psycho-social wellness
conditions on the ground following man-made and natural disasters. This
template assumes a frame of action consistent with fully respecting,
interfacing with and supporting local mutual-help. Rapid Assessing of Local Wellness,
Psycho-Social Resources & Resilience Following Disasters (RAD)
o
Provides
background information about the action research over more than fifty years
that has gone into evolving the RAD template and associated documents, and
experiential learning processes. Evolving
RAD o
Drawing
upon Philippines experience, sets out differences between three paradigms
that are used in providing aid following man-made and natural disasters;
firstly, the bio-medical Model, secondly, the Social Welfare –
Community Development Model, and thirdly, the Psychosocial Enabling of
Self-help and Mutual-Help model. Recognising
and Evolving Local-lateral Links Between Various Support Processes o A story of the healing ways used by
humble village natural nurturer women to return to wellness after extreme
stress. Regaining Balance through
Mutual-Help - A Story from Life o
Draws upon the Action
Research on Resilience by Professor Violeta Bautista and her colleagues. Sets
out themes for preparing RAD Assessors to readily find folk with resilience
in its many forms. RAD and Resilience o
Outlines the methodology used and the possible terms of reference for RAD Assessment of local psychosocial resources and
wellness. Action Researching RAD in
the Field o Sets out the kind of Proposal
that may be received by the RAD Network seeking one or more of the RAD
Network’s members to be deployed on a Rapid Assessment in an Emergency
and provides important backgrounding information. Outline of a RAD Project Proposal o Briefly discusses
experiential learning and experiential learning environments in the context
of RAD Assessing. It also provides a feel of experiential learning outcomes
for natural nurturers participating in learning with others and provides a
glimpse of the kinds of folk who may become involved. RAD
Experiential Learning Gatherings o
Outlines processes contributing to self-care of the RAD Teams during
and after trips in the Field. Self Care of the RAD Rapid
Deployment Team o Lists some of the contents of
a possible Terms of Reference for a RAD Proposal. Possible Terms of Reference for RAD Assessment
of Local Psychosocial Resources and Wellness o Briefly discusses responsibilities. Responsibility for Distributing
RAD Reports o
Acknowledges the
processes and people involved in evolving RAD and details links to Psychnet. RAD Secretariat o
A revised and
extended copy of an actual RAD Report from a War Zone in Southern
Philippines. Report from the Pikit War Zone o
A set
of Newsletters published by Psychnet. They include Action Research throughout
out the East Asia Oceania Australasia Region into healer networks among
indigenous people and small minorities by Dr L Spencre of UN-Inma, a Laceweb Mutual
Help Network. They also report on a Gathering in the Philippines country-side
of 49 healers people from 11 countries to assess Dr Spencre’s findings
and recommendations. The later newsletter reports on the results of this
meeting and the following field testing in the War Zone in Southern
Philippines. Back to the
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