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H.O.P.E. | Honoring Our Pandemic Experiences

The last two years have been an incredible journey for each of us at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The Office of Well-Being has brought together partners across JHM to create H.O.P.E. (Honoring Our Pandemic Experiences).  H.O.P.E. is a series of JHM-sponsored events to process our pandemic experiences, using the arts, creativity and reflection.

Throughout 2022, join your colleagues for concerts, a photo contest, storytelling workshops, lectures, and more. 

Featured H.O.P.E. Events (Slideshow)

Service of Remembrance, Gratitude and Blessings

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Join your colleagues across JHM for a virtual Service of Remembrance, Gratitude and Blessings on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 11 a.m. JHM chaplains and spiritual leaders will offer prayers, music and opportunities for us to share our reflections and remember those lost during the pandemic. Click here to join.

This program is open to all employees as a part of the Office of Well-Being's H.O.P.E. (Honoring Our Pandemic Experiences) initiative.

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Music for a While Guest Week

Kevin Sowers and a student playing instruments together.

The Peabody Institute is pleased to bring back ‘Guest Week’ this December for its Music for a While program, serving hospital staff, patients and caregivers through musical performances in the public spaces of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Staff and students with a musical background from all JHM entities are invited to perform alongside Peabody students at Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore during the week of Dec. 12-16. This is a special opportunity to showcase your musical skills and support the hospital community. To participate, participants needed to submit an interest form by November 11.

Music for a While

Peabody concert

Live musical performances are back in three public spaces at Johns Hopkins Hospital beginning in September. Enjoy informal, live musical performances that are sure to lift spirits and bring hope. Peabody musicians will be joined by special musical guests. Whether passing through, pausing for a moment, or settling in for the hour, time spent with music provides the opportunity for self-care and hope.

Learn more View the fall schedule
      

    Additional H.O.P.E. Events

    Join your colleagues for in-person and virtual concerts, webinars, storytelling workshops, lectures, and more.

    See upcoming events 

    H.O.P.E. Staff Stories

    Julia Grossman
    Physician Assistant
    Suburban Hospital
    Pandemic Activity: knitting masks/gardening

    How did your activity support you in believing there was hope?
    I have always been a positive person, and fixing things or just making them better gives me great satisfaction. It is part of the reason I am a health care provider. As a physician assistant, working in the surgery and trauma services, I get to do this every day. I learned how to sew as a child, and I joined other colleagues in producing what was needed, and not available, at the beginning of the pandemic. Although resources were limited, I had enough fabric in my stash to make masks for family and friends, and particularly for several children who needed smaller sizes in order to go out with their parents.

    As for knitting and planting flowers and vegetables (many from seed), I have done these things for many years. Hands in wool or alpaca, or soil, is very relaxing, and there is a certain joy that comes from transforming a ball of yarn into a hat, or a seed into a pepper, cucumber or beautiful flower bed. It was also fun to give some of these things away.

    See Staff Stories

    listen and enjoy! H.O.P.E. Pandemic Playlist

    Music has entertained and inspired us, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, music united us. The Office of Well-Being, in partnership with Peabody Institute, is excited to share the playlist of songs that lifted our spirits and helped us find meaning over the past two years.

    Some songs may evoke strong emotional reactions; we invite you to keep listening or stop listening, tending to self as needed.

    The links below will redirect you to a third party website.

    Video Gallery (Slideshow)

    When the Dust Settles

    At Johns Hopkins Medicine, we believe that arts can be instrumental in helping us process and make meaning of our experiences, and feelings of grief and loss. Participating in collaborative, creative activities fosters connection, community and well-being.

    Read the story behind this video

    Kassim Alli-Balogun

    Kassim Alli-Balogun, a home care nurse with Johns Hopkins Homecare Group, put smiles on his patients' faces during the pandemic by creating videos of their pets. The videos helped make patients feel more comfortable during uncertain times.

    H.O.P.E. — Employees Share Healing Activities

    Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and critical care resident Olivia Sutton saw beauty during the pandemic in the most unusual place: medicine vial caps. “I started saving the colorful vial caps on every medication I administered to a patient over the entire pandemic, and have assembled them into a mosaic self-portrait of myself in the OR that reminds me of what we’ve all gone through,” she says.

    Prayers for Healing and Peace

    word cloud from the meeting

    There is considerable turmoil in the world, in our city and state, as well as in our personal lives. The Johns Hopkins Department of Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy held an opportunity for colleagues to pause and mindfully focus on peace. Chaplains from different faith traditions will prayed together and offered an opportunity for participants to offer their prayers as well.

    Watch a recording (JHED required)

    Honoring Our Pandemic Experiences (H.O.P.E.)

    Kevin W. Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine shares the inspiration for H.O.P.E.

    March, An Original Poem

    "We'll Keep Moving, Forward, Together, to Heal"

    As we look for ways to reflect on the events of the past year, many of us have turned to writing, music, art and other creative mediums. Watch a video to hear Mia Scharper, communications manager for Johns Hopkins Medicine International, read her poem, March, accompanied by Peabody Institute cellist Lindsey Choung. 

    Download a copy of the poem
       

      they are on a roll Wellness Carts

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      Wellness carts are circulating at six Johns Hopkins hospitals with self-care items, healthy snacks, and art supplies for staff, courtesy of the International Arts + Mind Lab and the Office of Well-Being.

      Contact your hospital’s wellness cart organizer to request a visit.

       
       

      We want to hear from you!

      Both surveys will take approximately 4 minutes to complete.

      • My H.O.P.E. story

        We invite you to share your experience of participating in any of the H.O.P.E. events, activities, or share an experience you have had during the pandemic.

      • H.O.P.E. Feedback

        We would like to hear from you about how we can improve this year-long program.

       

      H.O.P.E. Team

      The H.O.P.E. initiative is led by the Johns Hopkins Office of Well-Being, in collaboration with:

      Contact Information

      Office of Well-Being

      email: [email protected]
       
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