{"id":48227,"date":"2020-08-06T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=48227"},"modified":"2020-08-07T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:22:38","slug":"covid-19-how-drawing-helped-us-to-deal-with-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/08\/06\/covid-19-how-drawing-helped-us-to-deal-with-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: How drawing helped us to deal with the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson.png 705w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/Heidi-Edmundson-640x640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>As we welcomed in the New Year most of us had never heard of covid-19, let alone had any idea that our lives were going to be turned upside down by it in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to the pandemic I had developed a passion for staff wellbeing. In particular I was interested in facilitating wellbeing through creativity and I regularly delivered sessions in my department based on the benefits of &#8220;fun and laughter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the start of the pandemic addressing staff wellness seemed daunting. Initially, I was concerned that using creativity might seem trivial or lightweight, and many of my previous initiatives could not be run due to the need for social distancing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.org.uk\/sites\/www.bps.org.uk\/files\/News\/News%20-%20Files\/Psychological%20needs%20of%20healthcare%20staff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guidance from <em>T<\/em><i>he British Psychological Society<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on how to look after your team during both the active and recovery stages of the pandemic suggested actively encouraging expression of concerns and fears from staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aomrc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Guidance-for-planners-of-the-psychological-response-to-stress-experienced-by-HCWs-COVID-trauma-response-working-group.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guidance from <em>T<\/em><\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">he COVID Trauma Response Working Group<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span>also stressed the importance of creating a &#8220;we\u2019re all in this together&#8221; culture within the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Therefore, among all the other challenges, I felt that it was important to continue delivering the wellness sessions to the team and find a way of adapting them to the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I ran weekly 20 minute sessions and used this time to remind everyone of what resources were available within the hospital. I also checked in on how everyone was feeling, inviting them to give me a number out of 10. Finally I asked everyone to draw how they felt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48233 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_1.png 540w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was a very simple task with no right or wrong. Drawing often enables people to express emotions that are difficult to say. For some drawing let them acknowledge or accept feelings that they were unaware that they had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drawing together also created a shared experience. It was a fun task and there was always a lot of laughter\u2014which not only bonds people, but can also reduce anxiety and blood pressure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I often introduced themes for the drawing task, such as how we felt, what we did to help us cope, and more lighthearted ones such as how we looked during lockdown. The sessions were sometimes emotional but some were uplifting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After eight sessions I had over 100 drawings. I felt that it was important to save these and share them with everyone as a record of what we went through as a team so I had them made into a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/435039026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short animated film<\/a> by a graphic designer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48234 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_2.png 540w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/08\/heidi_drawing_2-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching the film is an emotional experience for me and the first few times I cried. Many other members of the team expressed similar feelings. It is powerful to see how everyone\u2019s drawings, when put together, tell a story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one knows what the future is going to bring but all of us are going to have a reaction to the last few months and what occurred. This is the time for reflection. We are dealing with something that we have never had to deal with before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creativity may seem trivial, insignificant even, in the face of everything that has just gone on. However, all forms of creativity can help us to express challenging feelings. Engaging with creative tasks is about engaging with the subconscious and they can reveal things that might otherwise remain hidden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creativity and art are one of the ways humankind makes sense of things, which is what we need at present both in the NHS and society in general.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Heidi Edmundson<\/strong> has worked in the NHS for over 20 years and for the last 10 has been a consultant in emergency medicine at Whittington Health in London.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She is a passionate advocate for NHS staff wellness and its importance with regards to the individual, the workforce and the patients they care for.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heidi_ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@heidi_ed<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> Heidi received a small amount of funding from Health Education England to assist with the running of another wellness project within her department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/435039026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the Emergency Department Health and Wellbeing animation video from Whittington Health NHS Trust.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we welcomed in the New Year most of us had never heard of covid-19, let alone had any idea that our lives were going to be turned upside down [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/08\/06\/covid-19-how-drawing-helped-us-to-deal-with-the-pandemic\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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