the living document

This chapter introduces a pedagogical device that fostered community within online, hybrid, and in-person teaching modalities, while also providing a space for personal reflection. In exploring the power of writing, alongside the guided writing exercises for each seminar theme, we collectively created and nurtured ‘ the living document ’—a shared, anonymous Google document—by adding brief reflections in each class throughout the course. It offered an opportunity for connection beyond the usual classroom interactions, while also mobilizing affective, embodied personal archives in the process of translating between International Relations and inner relations.