“For some people, this event may be a shock to their core belief system. While those effects may be devastating, it’s possible to emerge from such adversity for the better, he adds. “We’re still in the middle of this situation, and we don’t know yet what might happen-but there will be serious challenges to people’s lives,” Tedeschi says. “We’re talking about a transformation-a challenge to people’s core beliefs that causes them to become different than they were before.”Īnd the COVID-19 pandemic may have the ingredients to foster such growth. “Studies support the notion that post-traumatic growth is common and universal across cultures,” he says. Growing from trauma isn’t unusual, says Tedeschi, now a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and chair of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth in Bluemont, Virginia. But it holds particular appeal as we live through a pandemic that’s upending lives for people around the globe. It’s a comforting idea in the best of times. Post-traumatic growth is like kintsugi for the mind.ĭeveloped in the 1990s by psychologists Richard Tedeschi, PhD, and Lawrence Calhoun, PhD, the theory of post-traumatic growth suggests that people can emerge from trauma or adversity having achieved positive personal growth.
In the traditional Japanese art of kintsugi, artisans fill the cracks in broken pottery with gold or silver, transforming damaged pieces into something more beautiful than they were when new.
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