Three Wise Young Men,a Cyber Community and Music — Counselling As Social Action: Storying a Community of Care in the Aftermath of Violence |
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| Authors: | Dr Elmarie Kotzé Linda van Duuren Judy Small |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Human Development and Counselling, University of Waikato, New Zealand;2. Educational Consultant, Cape Town, South Africa;3. Family, Youth and Children's Law Services, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This article describes counselling practice as social action, reporting on a case of children witnessing community violence and its aftermath. Highlighted is the role of friends who made a stand of solidarity against such violence. Outsider witness practices helped recruit and grow a community of care for the client and his friends. This community of care was significantly enhanced by the involvement of a lawyer/musician/activist who composed a song with the three friends to take a stance against guns and violence in their society. Caring solidarity, generosity and doing hope together formed small but significant alliances against entrenched practices of violence. |
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| Keywords: | community of care community violence doing hope together witnessing practices |
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