This paper is an exploration of trauma, how and why it can surface during ethnographic and qualitative research, and the importance of anticipating its potential presence. We present a model to help plan for and...
Tag: mental health
Social Resilience: Shifting from an Individual to a Shared Social Model for Building Resilience
Through Designing Your Future workshops at Cook County Jail in Chicago as part of WIND (Women Initiating New Directions) programming, we have had the chance to connect with incarcerated women awaiting trial....
The Giving Caregivers: Resilience as a Double-Edged Sword in the Context of Healthcare
In this paper we challenge an assumption about caregivers of chronic patients that we’ve repeatedly encountered in our ethnographic fieldwork: that of the inherently and permanently resilient caregiver, or a...
When Resilience Becomes Resistance: Recultivating Intimacy through Relational Mindfulness
What forms of our pandemic adaptation have also become barriers to connection? In this wildcard session, around 40 EPIC attendees collectively examined the aspects of resilience that support—and sometimes hold us back from—the intimacy and safety we seek to create as ethnographers. Researchers...
Sankofa; Look Back, Side-Eye the Future
This PechaKucha is an invitation into Sasha’s journey, probing questions such as: What is the true meaning of...
On Being Well in a Time of Hell
PechaKucha Presentation—For the past year, people around the world have adjusted quickly to unforeseen constraints presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Upheaval during the pandemic has resulted in a deep sense of grief leaving people in an unpredictable cycle of losing control and attempting to...
Tutorial: Leading with Care—How to Support the Mental Well-being of Your Team
Leaders and managers develop care strategies and plans of action for supporting their teams, their people, and themselves. Overview This tutorial was conducted at EPIC2021. Exercises and discussions have been...