Compassion, Burnout, and Self-care During COVID-19: On the Collective Impact of Self-soothing Super Highways

Sarah J. Tracy (), Brianna L. Avalos (), Laura Martinez (), B. Liahnna Stanley (), Sophia Town () and Alaina C. Zanin ()
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Sarah J. Tracy: Arizona State University
Brianna L. Avalos: Arizona State University
Laura Martinez: Arizona State University
B. Liahnna Stanley: Arizona State University
Sophia Town: Fordham University
Alaina C. Zanin: Arizona State University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, 2022, pp 191-209 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is a story of six researchers who came together to make sense of the tumult triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The team centered emotion and affectivity, letting it guide research design, team meetings, and the ways we related with interviewees and each other. The project also prompted us to critically examine our habits and realize the relatively privileged ways our own strategies of self-soothing could have problematic repercussions on the collective. As such, centering compassion and emotion not only served as a method of individual coping but also served to critically reveal how we as academics are enmeshed in systems that bring trauma to bear. This chapter closes with several ideas about how we might engage in research methods during and about times of collective suffering that move beyond individual emotional release and may prompt relational work toward communal catharsis and systematic change.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6_11

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