E83| Hidden Arts Of Radical Healing w/ Elder Les Spencer
In a time of growing tension and inter-cultural conflict, Elder Les Spencer recounts stories, principles and findings from an era of unique inter-cultural ‘peacehealing’ in Australia.
Les will be participating at the forthcoming Voicecraft Live event on the themes of War and Unity.
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Les is a post-doctoral action researcher, international conference speaker, writing on inter-connecting between natural life world, social life world and global futures. Action research bridges biomimicry, links between geo-emotional, land topography; and social topography; and people sciences including forensic science, psychosocial disaster response (UN consulting), harm minimizing, community psychiatry, neuro-psychobiology, risk-sharing, consulting to global governance, peace studies, relational mediating and reconciliation ceremonies in post-conflict contexts; hermeneutics and futures studies, behavioural science, clinical sociology.
https://www.laceweb.org.au/ - “A vast library of wellness resources.”
You can access a copy of Les’ book here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ks_O3r3L-Qv0YpGTnlXsy2HpWX5biUaT/view?usp=sharing
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Tim Adalin is a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. This focus has found form in relation to questions of metaphysics (what is, what knowing is, and what is the nature of, and our involvement with, the process of valuation). Across evolving interests in the realms of consciousness and the nature of meaning and identity, from perspectives philosophical, psychological, biological, anthropological, sociological, theological etc., this focus has graduated the recognition that the process of communication, or the transmutation of perception into expression as a generative-relational process of crafting voice, is pivotal to the realisation of desired existential realities.
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Elder Les Spencer recounts principles and findings from a life of action research centred on his book titled ‘Nurturing Community For Wellness’, which documents the life and work of Neville Yeomans and Fraser House. Other topics include free energy, strange attractors, and the relational influence in critical contexts of transformation.
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