“Finding Our Peace” is one of my more personal contributions to the Immersion Experience. It includes callbacks to traditional Korean ink paintings and the mugunghwa (rose of Sharon, the national flower of Korea) motif. Participants in the study spoke often of the distances they traveled away from family, the distances they traveled to stay connected to family and home communities. They also explored the ways they sought intellectual homes in ELOP, on campus, or other fields in academia. Participants imagined some internal peace that transcended the travel, the longing for an intellectual and creative home that welcomed their whole selves and not just their minds or research. The peace included forgiving themselves for tradeoffs they made for work, and new strategies not to have to make those tradeoffs again. The peace came from our elders and our families and our futures.
“Transatlantic” is a draft study of “Finding Our Peace.”
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