Together Well: Documenting COVID’s Impact through Storytelling

Together Well is an online collection of stories (some audio and written but most video) about experiences of COVID.  This collaboration between the Relational Leadership Institute (www.relatelab.org) and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (nwnmcollaborative.org) was designed to “collectively make sense of the pandemic’s impact on all members of the community: nurses, social workers, patients, family members, doctors, caregivers, students, chaplains, scholars, educators, activists, and artists.” In addition, the stories were assembled in the hope that reflecting on pandemic experiences can provide a basis for change in healthcare and communities that “better center connection, relationships, and well-being.”  Stories document not only hardship but also ways that the COVID crisis led teams, communities, and individuals to  innovate, collaborate, and change in powerful ways that we may wish to continue as we move forward.

The 37 stories in the collection are listed on the webpage; each has a thumbnail and an image.  There is also a video (the first entry in the collection) about the project.  Stories are brief enough to show in a class or workshop.  The videos are hosted on YouTube so it is possible to provide closed captioning and transcripts are also available.

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