Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful border experience awakening us to our existential predicament. Such a predicament includes transience and impermanence, unpredictability, emptiness (existential vacuum), and the interdependence of life and death. The anxiety aroused by the pandemic can awaken us to an ontological mode of existence in which we are authentic, aware, responsible, and transcendent. The Chinese idiom reminds us that crises contain both danger and opportunity. Thus, this article explores how out of this awareness can emerge resilience, creativity, and meaning-making in the midst of confinement, isolation, and suffering.
Highlights
In midst of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, I was invited to provide supervision and support for a group of volunteer therapists as they have banded together to provide psychological comfort and care for those in need
This article is an edited amalgamation of two separate essays written as an encouragement to this 200 plus group of dedicated hotline volunteers based out of Wuhan China. Many of these therapists belonged to the Institute of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies (Wuhan Xin Zhan, 人本/超个 人心理研究中心, 武汉心斋)
The first essay was written right after Chinese New Year 2020 (January 25), during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in China where Wuhan and numerous other cities were under lockdown and all of China was practicing self-distancing
Summary
In midst of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, I was invited to provide supervision and support for a group of volunteer therapists as they have banded together to provide psychological comfort and care for those in need. Corresponding Author: Mark Yang, International Institute of Existential-Humanistic Psychology, 4690 Jetwing Circle West, Colorado Springs, CO 80916, USA. Such social distancing was taking place during a time of year for returning to family and loved ones. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about inconvenience and much anxiety and uncertainty.
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