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Emerging from COVID- 19 — Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth in Children
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds meaning” Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, (Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author and Holocaust survivor).
Meaning-making is fundamental to healing. The act and art of finding purpose in peril is a primary component of post traumatic growth. While adults have the advantage of perspective-taking and history of positive life experiences to help shield against traumatic events, the world’s children are most at risk of suffering long term consequences of the current global pandemic. Building resiliency in children requires community effort to help mitigate the effects of the current global crisis. But how? As Dr. Dan Siegel says, “Connect to re-direct” (Whole-Brain Child). Our connection, familial, communal, national and global is the protective shield that will guide the children through.
In the early 1500’s in China, the potter Chōjirō was commissioned by Zen tea master Sen Rikyū to design wares expressly for the tea ceremony. In an attempt to create a new kind of beauty, by deliberate repudiation of existing forms, Chōjirō developed a…
