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Nurturing Evolutionary Development - Fostering Social and Personal Evolutionary Processes We seek the emergence of an invigorated, unifying Australian ethos, and then beyond this we advocate an Australian role in helping The Foundation's main action strategy is to use NED volunteers to as*ist and encourage individuals and groups to adopt the principles of they tackle their particular specialised work role or field of interest. If you've got the big idea and need funding to help get the project going, we'd love to hear from you. Together, we'll develop your idea Community grants of up to $10,000 are currently available to small community based organisations or individuals who are interested in working with us on projects that build human potential, implement restorative practices and sustain our planet. The Social Developers' Network is a non-profit, free as*ociation of people with a commitment to personal and social development. Social Developers meet at national and regional workshops, to contribute and share knowledge and experiences. Between workshops Social Developers keep in touch in person, by phone and mail, and online. In 1975 two long-standing friends, John Russell from Melbourne and Ned Iceton from Armidale organized a first workshop. Restorative practice is a strategy that seeks to repair relationships that have been damaged, including those damaged through bullying. It does this by bringing about a sense of remorse and restorative action on the part of the offender and forgiveness by the victim. The NED Board has an interest in encouraging and supporting the adoption of Restorative Justice practices in Australia. The founder of NED, Ned Iceton was instrumental in bringing the value of this work to the attention of the NED community. After retiring in 2016, I was asked by the NED board to explore the possibility of Newcastle becoming a Restorative City (I live at Lake After a few false starts I was introduced to staff in the Law Faculty of the University. An enthusiastic steering committee, headed by Tania