Open AccessA Music Therapy Story From Eersterust, South Africa
Author(s) -
Carol Lotter
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
voices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1504-1611
DOI - 10.15845/voices.v4i2.179
Subject(s) - active listening , music therapy , visual arts , psychology , history , gender studies , art , sociology , communication , psychotherapist
As music therapist I work at YDO one afternoon per week with an open group, with adolescents involved in assault cases. This story grew out of a process of the group constructing a story through listening to a series of CDs - music that I had chosen. I had a flip chart on which I transcribed the story as they presented different aspects of it. Before playing the CDs I asked the group what our story should be based on, and they decided that the story would be about Eersterust, their home-town.