ABSTRACT

Our research group created a public communication strategy of expressive writing, to use within our research center over the Massachusetts COVID-19 stay at home advisories. Our goals were to 1) build community, 2) recognize the unique experiences, needs, concerns and coping strategies of our colleagues, and 3) create a mechanism to creatively share those experiences. We conceptualized a weekly e-newsletter, “Creativity in the Time of COVID-19,” a collective effort for expressing and documenting the extraordinary, lived experiences of our colleagues during this unique time of a coronavirus pandemic. Through 23 online issues, we have captured 72 colleagues’ perspectives on social isolation, the challenges of working from home, and hope in finding connection through virtual platforms. We have organized the themes of these submissions, in the forms of photos, essays, poetry, original artwork, and more, according to three components of the Social Connection Framework: structural, functional and quality approaches to creating social connectedness.

 抽象的

我们的研究小组制定了表达性写作的公共传播策略，以在我们的研究中心针对马萨诸塞州 COVID-19 留在家中的建议中使用。我们的目标是 1) 建立社区，2) 认识同事的独特经历、需求、担忧和应对策略，3) 创建一种机制来创造性地分享这些经历。我们构思了一份每周电子通讯《COVID-19 时代的创造力》，这是一项集体努力，旨在表达和记录我们的同事在冠状病毒大流行的这个独特时期的非凡的生活经历。通过 23 期在线期刊，我们捕捉到了 72 位同事对社交隔离、在家工作的挑战以及通过虚拟平台寻找联系的希望的看法。我们根据社会联系框架的三个组成部分：创建社会联系的结构、功能和质量方法，以照片、散文、诗歌、原创艺术品等形式组织了这些提交的主题。