Surviving COVID 19 Lockdown of 2020 each of us had our owncoping mechanisms. It seems that now in 2024 we are experiencingcollective amnesia. The title of this book: Watching While Waiting:Surviving the Pandemic through Creativity and Refl ective Practiceissues an invitation to you the reader to take a moment breathedeeply and refl ect back upon our collective experience in order todiscover and appreciate the lessons we learned.