Current biggest challenges faced as a counsellor

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Current biggest challenges faced as a counsellor

• Dr Johann Roux
• South Africa

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Acknowledgement

• Bridgid
• Megan
• Ramodungoane
• Sakkie
• Thabiso

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Challenges

• Is it a death sentence?
• Is this fear in my head?
• Or is it in the eyes of everyone I see?
• It is not just me
• I can no longer pretend it is not there
• Invisible virus
• Convincing us to stay quiet
• Through fear and scare
• You try to bust us up
• You break up communities
• Like a snake you bring fear
• You accuse us
• You blame us
• We are learning
• To stand together
• Be strong to .. Put on the light.
  
  Bridgid Hess

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Challenges Some amongst many

• Denialor Fear or both
• Anticipation of loss
• Fatalism
• Social discourses
• Stigmatization
• Blaming
• Judging
• Engaging people in participatory ethical
  conversations
• Responsibility
• Constructive accountability

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Challenging the challenges

• Respecting the local
• Deep respect and care
• Language
• Words are never innocent
• Battle vs. relational metaphors
• stand against the effects of HIV vs. Kill the
  virus
• Looking for metaphors that will help
  internalising practices of health
• Invitation to listen to a letter from
  Tshegofatso Makgatlha

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Challenging the challenges
I have learnt this knowledge inside my heart. It
is coming from my heart to my head, not the other
way around. I came expecting to be told what I
must learn but you kept asking questions and
using our experiences. This is the first
workshop where I will go away and feel as if I
really know because we worked from our experience
and not only from information.
A participant
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Challenging the challenges

• Participatory generative conversations
• Generative conversations creating change
• From knowledge to conversations of wisdom
  Conversations of wisdom
• From self-other to selfother
• Creating a space for the selfother
• Creating communities of care!!!!
• Religion - helpful/not helpful
• Challenging confidentiality
• Domestic violence?

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Communities of care
Family
Religious Communities
Communities
Person
Workplace
Clinics
Government
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Challenging the challenges

• Using the context
• Coordinating sex with several partners in a
  responsible and constructive accountable way.