By Chloe Yang, 8/19/20, positiveexperience.org/blog
As the pandemic stretches far into the foreseeable future, with jobs, schooling, housing, and almost every other aspect of life a swirl of uncertainty, it is easy to fixate on the negative. Here at HOPE, we do not deny the devastating severity of the pandemic’s effect on lives across the nation. We do not deny Covid-19’s exacerbation of long-standing systemic inequities in healthcare, housing, education, employment, and more. However, we know this image of complete wreckage is not the full picture.
Before and during Covid-19, in webinars and in interviews for blog posts, we have heard stories of resilience and positivity—family members connecting in new ways, youth leading protests for racial justice, individuals reaching out to each other, closing social distances while maintaining physical ones. To honor these stories and share them with the world, we are launching a “Stories of HOPE” webpage, for personal anecdotes of key positive experiences (centered on the 4 Building Blocks of HOPE) that bolstered resilience in the face of adversity. The “Stories of HOPE” page also includes professional stories of how individuals use HOPE in their work. Some of the stories on these pages include sections of interview transcripts that we didn’t include in the resulting blog posts, while others are written testimonials submitted by past webinar participants.
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