At Greater Good, our mission is to share scientific research that can help promote a happier, more compassionate society. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we’re committed to bringing you stories, tips, and tools for these uncertain times in our global community.

We’ll continue to update this page with resources for individuals, families, and educators. You can read our latest coronavirus coverage, or start with these key articles:

Other resources below (click to jump to a section):

Lessons for post-pandemic life
Resources for stress and anxiety
Resources for fostering connection
Well-being resources for parents
Well-being resources for educators
Well-being resources for health care professionals
Well-being resources for workplace leaders
Other coronavirus well-being resources

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Lessons for post-pandemic life

Resources for stress and anxiety

Resources for fostering connection

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Well-being resources for parents

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Well-being resources for educators

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A free online resource for social-emotional learning practices you can weave into your new homeschooling plan.

Greater Good in Education offers Supporting Learning and Well-Being During the Coronavirus Crisis, a collection of activities, articles, and videos. It includes practices and other resources offering ways to address student and adult anxiety in this time of uncertainty, and strategies for cultivating our human connection through kindness, compassion, and other prosocial qualities.

Well-being resources for health care professionals

Well-being resources for workplace leaders

Other coronavirus well-being resources

     
  • Being Resilient During Coronavirus from Dr. Rick Hanson: Learn tips for feeling safe in a time of fear and threat with this video, meditation, and podcast.
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  • How to Hold on to Happiness When Your World Collapses from Sonja Lyubomirsky: A guide to four weeks of self-isolation, including three practices you can do each week to become happier, healthier, and more uplifted.
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  • Coronavirus Sanity Guide from Ten Percent Happier: Get live weekday talks with meditation teachers, guided meditations, and lectures, many of which are specifically related to COVID-19. Health care workers also get free access to the Ten Percent Happier meditation app.
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  • Selected Links: The Behavioral Side of the Coronavirus from the Behavioral Scientist: Read insights about the psychological and behavioral patterns underlying our response to COVID-19.
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  • Real-time Resilience Strategies for Coping with Coronavirus from the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience: Follow this list of valuable tips from experts on resilience and emergency management.
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  • The Crisis Kit: 5 Tools for Helping Clients Through Turbulent Times from PositivePsychology.com: Mental health practitioners can use these five exercises to help clients find calm, a sense of control, and acceptance.
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  • Free Live & Online - Daily Meditation & Support Groups from Mindful Leader: Thirty-minute sessions held Monday through Friday from March 23 to May 1, including 15 minutes of silent meditation and 15 minutes of reflection and discussion.
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  • Coronavirus Resources: Staying Connected in Times of Isolation from Living Room Conversations: Conversation guides to help us connect and understand each other in these difficult times, plus live video chats to help us stay connected.
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  • Coronavirus Anxiety: Daily Updates from Judson Brewer: Daily YouTube videos on how to work with these uncertain times and develop healthy, mindful habits, from a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who specializes in mindfulness and habit change.
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  • KarunaVirus by ServiceSpace: “Karuna” means compassion in Sanskrit. This website offers a collection of news stories about compassion and love amid a time of fear.
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  • ArtsWave Edition of Mindful Music Moments from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera: 10 weeks of daily doses of guided meditation set to music.
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  • Mindful Poetry Moments and the On Being Project: Participating schools, individuals and organizations will be offered recordings of poets reading their work. The audio will be accompanied by mindful prompts and meaning-making questions like “Does this poem encourage gratitude? How?” and “What’s a line in this poem that brings a strong visual image to your mind?”

For parents

     
  • Kind World Explorers from Camp Kindness Counts, a Greater Good Parenting grantee: A guidebook to support parents with distance learning that provides activities and example conversations that families can have to help foster communities of compassion.
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  • Resilient Parenting, from Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, a Greater Good Parenting grantee: A digital, online parenting tool that can be made available to any families in need of support. It includes topics such as self-care, addressing trauma, how to have difficult conversations with children, and many other very pertinent topics for these times with a focus on character-building. This tool is a partnership between a social worker/case manager and a family, via phone, tablet or laptop that allows for weekly reflection, sharing and support. To receive it, email Heather.Kamia@lssmn.org.
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  • Parents and COVID 19: Helping Your Children from InfoAboutKids.Org: Here are suggestions for talking with younger and older children about COVID-19, as well as suggestions for parents.
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  • How to Talk to Children about Difficult News from the American Psychological Association: Instead of shielding children from the difficult news around us, adults should talk to kids about what is happening.
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  • Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: This resource will help parents and caregivers think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect their family— both physically and emotionally—and what they can do to help their family cope.
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  • How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus from PBS KIDS for Parents: Share age-appropriate information, provide reassurance, and what they can do to help during COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) from Healthy Children, American Academy of Pediatrics: Tips for parents about what they need to know about COVID-19.

For educators

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