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Three Wise Young Men, a Cyber Community and Music — Counselling As Social Action: Storying a Community of Care in the Aftermath of Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Elmarie Kotzé ,
Linda van Duuren  and
Judy Small
Elmarie Kotzé*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development and Counselling, University of Waikato, New Zealand.elmariek@waikato.ac.nz
Linda van Duuren
Affiliation:
Educational Consultant, Cape Town, South Africa.
Judy Small
Affiliation:
Family, Youth and Children's Law Services, Melbourne, Australia.
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr Elmarie Kotzé, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
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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.

Keywords

community of carecommunity violencedoing hope togetherwitnessing practices
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2011 , pp. 194 - 207
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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