



{"id":65191,"date":"2020-06-14T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=65191"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:07:08","slug":"covid-19-dealing-with-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/education\/art-psychotherapy\/covid-19-dealing-with-change","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: DEALING WITH CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, Covid-19 disrupted what until now had been thought of as, familiar, self-evident, taken for granted. The restrictive measures of protection brought about an interruption to the flow of life, affecting each person individually. Everyone reacts differently in an effort to process, comprehend and deal with the stimuli emerging from this encounter with something so unfamiliar and unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Within this feeling of being in limbo, experienced worldwide, despite its rationalization, something remains that cannot be fully absorbed by the symbolic, nor by social reality. There is something which cannot be verbalized. nor be fully explained, either individually or collectively.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that breaks within each person\u2019s equilibrium when things as we know them are disrupted? What is his position with regards to limits and \u00a0\u00a0extremities as they emerged through social distancing brought on by Covid-19? Such questions can be the starting point for exciting journeys of self-discovery. The act of creation can prove to be a personal pathway of discovery as to how each person responds to change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/web3\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Howtodealwithstressinthepostlockdownperiod-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How to deal with stress in the post-lockdown period<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/web3\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Journals-Covid-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Creative journals \u2013 visual narrative as the art of opening up following confinement in the times of Covid-19 <\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Elisabeth Ioannides, Education Curator \u2013 Art Psychotherapist EMST<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Irene Kokkorou, Social Worker, on a Children\u2019s and Adolescents\u2019 Art Psychotherapy Degree<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 11px;\"><em>Drawing: Dimitris Kannas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, Covid-19 disrupted what until now had been thought of as, familiar, self-evident, taken for granted. The restrictive measures of protection brought about an interruption to the flow of life, affecting each person individually. Everyone reacts differently in an effort to process, comprehend and deal with the stimuli emerging from this encounter with something so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86306,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65191\/revisions\/86306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}