Fall | August – November 2020 Adapting to the New Normal CONNECT SUPPORT ENABLE www.communitycentershanghai.com Dedicated to serving the needs of the international community in Shanghai ADJUSTING TO THE NEW NORMAL Commit to a half day and receive key information to support your life in Shanghai 2020 Shanghai 123 is a FREE immersive half-day orientation catering towards the “New Normal” in Shanghai. Shanghai 123 will provide supportive information and resources that you need to help navigate Shanghai. We will discuss common issues, answer questions, and share tips to help support you in the “New Normal” in Shanghai. Leave with an essential foundation for life in this dynamic city. We bring in knowledgeable speakers and experts to address topics important to you: • Culture shock • Banking in China • Water & air concerns • How to navigate the medical system • Tech talk, mobile phones, satellite TV, the internet and more! • Workplace challenges and work-life balance • Traveling in China • ... and much more Pudong Center Minhang Center Partner Locations Aug 28, Sat Sep 4, Fri Sep 9, Wed; Location TBD Sep 18, Fri Sep 23, Wed Sep 25, Fri; Location TBD EVENT SPONSORS Scan the QR Code to register: WeChat: CCSShanghai Facebook: CommunityCenterShanghai For additional information, www.communitycentershanghai.com contact [email protected] Sessions in the mornings, from 9 am to 12:30 pm THANK YOU OUR 2020 – 2021 CORPORATE PARTNERS Pudong Founding Partner Since 2012 Minhang Founding Partner Since 2013 Concordia International School Shanghai Shanghai American School BUND LEVEL PARTNERS Parkyard Hotel Costco Manufacturing of Shanghai Wholesale GOLD LEVEL PARTNERS Team Education Western International School Consulting of Shanghai SILVER LEVEL PARTNERS United Family Parkway Health Healthcare COMMUNITY PARTNERS Abundant Grace International Fellowship Active Kidz Shanghai BECOME A PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY CENTER SHANGHAI To Connect, Support, and Enable Internationals to Adapt and Thrive in Shanghai WELCOME Let’s Adjust to a New Normal, But Aspire to a Better Normal! The “new normal”. I bet you have used this phrase to describe If you are anything like me, you will find that, in addition to seeking life post Covid-19. It is the term that most us are using to help us guidance to navigate the new normal, you are also starting to reframe our current reality. It may not perfectly fit as a description, use new words and phrases. On page 15 we share some of the but it asserts that things will never be the same as they were responses we have had from the community in terms of things they before — and so, “welcome to the New Normal.” As lock-downs now say that would not have made sense at all in 2019. are lifted and loosened around the world, we are all debating how Surrounded by uncertainty, it’s okay to admit that things are not we can return to some semblance of normality. We all have had to normal and therefore seek to reimagine what that new normality reimagine what life post Covid-19 looks like. looks like. It’s okay to allow ourselves to grieve or to be scared. It’s We are all placing much hope on quickly finding a vaccine for okay not to be comfortable with what is going on. I like to think Covid-19; despite some reason for optimism, a viable treatment is that as we reflect on this “new normal”, we do so not just from an still unlikely until well into 2021. This means that we will have to get individual perspective but also from a community perspective. used to and adapt to a very different lifestyle – in our homes, in our As I reflect on this year and look forward to the rest of the year, I schools, in our businesses. am deeply appreciative that 2020 has provided us with the unique We have dedicated this issue of the magazine to reimagining and opportunity not only to adapt to a “new normal” but to go beyond discussing what the “new normal” for the community in Shanghai and define aBetter Normal for us as individuals, our families, our looks like. Members of our community share their experiences and communities, and our environment. describe the impact Covid-19 has had on their lives (page 9). Our Senait Petros Tekeste counselors and experts share their tips on how to navigate a post CCS Executive Director Covid-19 environment on page 16 & page 28. 4 | www.communitycentershanghai.com CONTENTS ABOUT US 4 Welcome 6 Locations 7 Overview 8 Center Highlights NEW NORMAL Adapting to Our New Reality 9 Better Than Normal P9 10 On Adjustment, Resilience, and a Fresh Start 11 Double-Lens Covid Check 12 There is No Universal Normal 13 My “New” Normal in the Year of the Pandemic 14 New Normal – On School Life 15 A New Language 20 Cover Story – Speed Limits COUNSELING 16 Resilience and Community 18 Anxiety in 2020 21 Counseling Service at CCS 23 Counseling Corner P16 CHARITIES Resilience and Community 24 Giving Tree 25 Bring It Back to the Book 26 CharityLINK 27 Youth Opportunities COMMUNITY BUILDING 2 Shanghai 123 28 Practical Tools and Tips For advertising and promotional inquiries with Community Center from Experts Shanghai, contact: [email protected]. 31 Upcoming Events 32 Event Recap Planner: Senait Petros Tekeste, Sammi Zhou 34 Policies Editor: Lisa Stewart Designer: Sarah Wu Cover Photo: Johan Prozesky www.communitycentershanghai.com | 5 LOCATIONSCCS L OCA T I O N S DOWNTOWN W Fuxing Rd 复兴路 ulumuqi COUNSELING CENTER R d 136 3631 7474 乌鲁木齐路 Line 10 淮海中路 Shanghai Library d Middle Huaihai R 衡山路 d R Hengshan PUDONG (021)021 3382 3382-1770 1770 HONGKOU Line 6 PUTUO Yun Shan Road Y LUJIAZUI unshan Rd CHANGNING Hongf 云山路 Line 9 eng Rd HUANGPU Lan Tian Road 黄杨路 Huangy 红枫路 杨高中路 XUHUI HUAMU gao (M) Rd HONGQIAO ang Y ang Rd Biyun Rd 碧云路 Baihua Rd (021)136 7151 136-7151-9554 9554 Jin feng Rd 运乐路 北青公路 Jidi Rd 纪翟路 白桦路 锦绣东路 幸乐路 xiu Rd Beiqing Rd Yunle Rd t Jin 金丰路 Eas Xingle Rd Baole Rd 保乐路 Zhuguang Rd GIS MINHANG 诸光路 崧泽高架路 y (021) 6406-3866 e Hw 021 6406 3866 Songz Line 2 Pudong Center Minhang Center 3F, Building 3, No. 1146 浦东新区金桥 2F, No. 360 Xingle Road, 闵行区华漕镇 Biyun Road, Jinqiao, 碧云路1146号3号楼3层 Huacao, Minhang 幸乐路360号2楼 Pudong 靠近黄杨路 Shanghai 201900 Shanghai 201206 CCS-Minhang CCSSH2016 Downtown Counseling Center Hongqiao Satellite Center Ambassy Club Puxi, 淮海中路1500号 136 7151 9554 No. 1500 Middle Huaihai 近乌鲁木齐中路 CCSHQCenter Road Shanghai 200031 ccs-counseling Corporate Office Executive Director: Senait Petros Tekeste Community Relations: Events: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Workshops, Talks, Tours, & Room Rental Operations Director: D. Adrienne Harris Advertising and Sponsorship: [email protected] [email protected] Pudong: [email protected] HR: [email protected] Counseling: [email protected] Minhang: Marketing: [email protected] [email protected] Charity: [email protected] Hongqiao: [email protected] 6 | www.communitycentershanghai.com www.communitycentershanghai.com | 6 COMMUNITY CENTER OVERVIEW Our Name: Our Vision Many people sharing one heart Community Center Shanghai (CCS or ) connects, supports, and enables internationals from the moment they arrive in Shanghai, through relevant community-building activities. CCS is a not-for-profit organization, strategically located in Shanghai’s international communities in Pudong, Hongqiao, and Minhang. CCS responds to the ever-changing needs of the CONNECT ENABLE community by providing relevant programming that equips individuals and families so that they can maximize their potential while in China. SUPPORT Our Services Counseling Charity Community Building Community Center Shanghai Community Center Shanghai Community building is at the core has a counseling department provides the opportunity of everything Community Center with more than 20 professional to give and serve in the Shanghai offers. CCS does this counselors that speak 10 different community through its by providing a platform for the languages. The counselors well-known and established community to connect through offer professional, charity, Giving Tree. CCS’s interesting tours and explore compassionate support to CharityLINK provides a platform interesting topics through talks and individuals, children, for collaboration, referrals, and workshops. Improve a language couples, and families. an opportunity for volunteer or skill. Dabble in a new hobby or matching. interest. Take a tour and explore the city. Promotions • Community Center Shanghai – The channel to reach internationals, serving their needs and connecting them to companies that provide relevant products • Discerning customers looking for quality products and services • Contact [email protected] www.communitycentershanghai.com | 7 CENTER HIGHLIGHTS CCS Supports Lifeline’s R U OK? Day If you would like to get involved and volunteer with Lifeline – whether delivering helpline services, raising funds, attending outreach events, or conducting administrative duties – you can apply to participate in the next Lifeline Training Program by completing the volunteer training form on the Lifeline website (www.lifeline-shanghai.com) and emailing it to [email protected]. If you feel like you need support, please don’t hesitate to reach out and connect with Lifeline and our counselors at CCS. CCS counselors come from various countries around the world and offer counseling services in multiple languages. CCS had the honor of participating in Lifeline’s R U OK? Day Our counselors have a broad range of backgrounds, on June 20, to raise awareness about mental health and well- experience, and specialties and see not only individual clients being. Lifeline offered their 3-hour R U OK? workshop and of all ages, but also couples and families. Counselors are also an R U OK? workshop designed specifically for schools. available at three locations (Pudong Jinqiao, Downtown In the 3-hour workshop, participants learned skills to support Huaihai Road, and Minhang) and some are available those they are concerned about, including four steps to have evenings and weekends as well as traditional business hours.