Announcement- Criteria Change to unlock Listener Community Room!
Hello Listeners Team,
As you might know, Listener Community Room is badge locked. You need, "Verified Listener" badge to unlock it. We heard your challenges and concerns. We making a small change to ease the process.
We are thankful for reaching out and sharing your feedback with us. We are rolling out this change and will keep making improvements to provide all support needed to our Listeners Team!
The vision of this change- Provide a lighthearted environment and support to our listeners while strengthening each other strengths and working together on weaknesses, if any.
Old Criteria- Have the Verified Listener badge!
New Criteria- Complete 4 training guides.
2. First 3 Peer Training- Peer Training- I, Peer Training- II, Peer Training -III
The purpose of completing these guides is to help you to develop your listening skills and become an effective listener.
We hope you find it as an attainable milestone in your listening journey. You can learn from each other to grow while having some joyous moments in the Listener Community Room. It will also allow more listeners to connect and engage with each other in a lighthearted group set up.
Reminder- Ensure Support, Compassion, Care, Respect and Fun when you are present in the room. You are the role model for the new listeners and the potential leaders of the community. If we find unsupportive behavior, your access to the room can be revoked.
We are grateful for your efforts, patience, and support. We are progressing to build a better community for all.
Important note!
I realized not many are comfortable to put their lived experiences on their profiles and that is unable to get access to peer training guides!
I hear your concerns and totally agree with you. Not many of us are comfortable sharing the lived experiences! It is okay.
As per the discussions I had, we figured out there is the other way around to get access to the training!
We have topics like Student Life, General Mental Health, Work Stress, Forgiveness and a few more which I believe we all experience regardless of our roles! So, we can pick one of those to get access to PS guides and get things done!
The purpose to lower the criteria was to boost engagement while ensuring we learn things!
Please follow these steps to get access to Listener Community Room!
Step1. Go to https://www.7cups.com/listener/editAccount.php & Select the topics on which you may have lived experiences and comfortable to share w/ community! If you are uncomfortable, you can pick general topics like "Student Life", "Forgiveness", "Work Stress", "General Mental Health" and others! and click "Save Changes"
Step 2- Go to https://www.7cups.com/listener/training.php and click on Listener Community Guide, Peer Training 1, 2 & 3 to read and complete them..
Step 3. Once you complete the training, you will have badges - Community 101, Peer Training 01, Peer Training 02, Peer Training 03 as shown in the screenshot below!
Step 4. Go to https://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php & find Listener Community Room in the list to enter!
I hope it helps everyone! If you still have any concerns or questions, please share!
Thank you, everyone!
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@ASilentObserver Thanks Obs! This sounds like a more achievable and faster way to enable Listeners to use the LCR. I look forward to seeing how it works out 
Listening .... One Step At A Time
@ASilentObserver thanks Obs for thinking of the best for our listener community
@ASilentObserver
Hi Obs, thank you for looking into the changes! Can I recommend different guides though? Listeners do not gain access to the peer trainings unless they mark down that they have a lived experience. Some listeners do not have or choose not to display lived experiences.
@MonBon - Thank you for pointing this out, MonBon! I still don't know where to look for the (insert right term for learning thing), but I hope those above are linked to the right pages. Also I didn't know I must have at least one topic marked as 'lived experience!' I would have easily been confused times 3 instead of *just* confused x2. And I agree with you, that while some may have 'lived experience' in a certain area - that doesn't mean he/she wants that posted on his/her profile (public profile!). ~BooksHugs
P.S. As here 'they' (who is that anyway?) have taken away my access to the Listener Community Room ... is there a way or would 'they' ever take away my "purple checkmark" signaling that I am a verified listener?
@BooksHugsandTea6370
As of now there is no process for becoming unverified, but I can't speak for the future. Presumably if such a change would occur, the community management team would keep everyone in the loop similar to this type of post.
@ASilentObserver Great Plan to come up with... !
@ASilentObserver Yay, thanks for the lovely update. Appreciate all your support and hard work. :)
@ASilentObserver
I can only think that the new requirements will ensure the intent of listeners to be here to learn and help members while enjoying these rooms.The rules are clearly listed at the bottom of the page, but unfortunately there are some that don't do their part to ensure an inclusive, warm, and welcoming environment. 
@ASilentObserver
Looking forward to seeing what everyone thinks of this change and what it will do for LCR's environement!
@Supportivetime74
Hi obs, what if i just took peer training 1, 2, 3, & 4. and I did pass them all. Who do I report it too?
Did those 4 guides so how do get access
Oh, that`s why I have lost access to the Listener community room... Since I got an old requirement...