Academy Sessions Elective Removal

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well. I am here to make an announcement. As you may know, 7 Cups Academy has two types of sessions running, academy check-in and the other is orientation sessions. These started back on Jan 28, 2022.

The aim of these sessions was to add to the academy trainee support system. Eventually, we introduced an elective where you could either attend or host 4 academy check-ins and or orientation sessions. The challenge with these sessions remained two-part, one: it's not possible to pick a time that works for all interns/trainees so too often the sessions have few participants and at times none. Secondly finding host coverage is challenging as the session times can’t be moved with ease.

After evaluating the effort vs. benefit of these sessions and the elective, we have come to the conclusion that it's time to stop these sessions and as a consequence, the elective focusing on attending/hosting these sessions currently available in internship, CDM LDP, and QLP will cease to exist.

We understand that some trainees/interns may have been working towards the elective so to accommodate anyone left, these sessions will continue to run until October 16, 2023. So if you have chosen this elective, please attend the sessions before that date and complete it. You can find info on which ones are currently running here.

The individual academy program leads will make the decision on whether they wish to replace this elective with some other option. At the moment no new elective has been finalized.

A big thank you to our hosts who have consistently hosted these sessions @SirenofSirenity and @Yourbuddy30

Note: If you joined any of the academy programs before Sep 26, 2023, and have the driven badge. It can be used as an elective option. However, anyone who joins after can not use the driven badge as elective.