Star Leaders Assemble ✨

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou Awesomeee Sun. Thanks for starting this thread. I believe it will be useful for the present as well as future star leaders of the Peer Appreciation Program.

@GloriaD

Personally, I offer empathy/validation and then an alternative point of view.

For example,

It makes sense you feel that way, it can be so difficult to see these things in ourselves- especially if we're struggling. The fact that you're here participating in this check-in (discussion, etc) actually shows a lot of (supportiveness, kindness, etc) towards yourself. It's okay if you don't have the mental resources to offer that to others right now, I'm proud of you for doing your best in offering it to yourself.

I hope I understood the question 😛 and really looking forward to seeing other's responses!

@GloriaD @WarmLightXO @Fristo

Oooh good question, Gloria, it is almost a little off-putting for someone to use the form but not say anything positive mhm, I get why this question came up and am glad you invited everyone's thoughts too.

My approach is similar to Elliot's in situations like these (mostly in chats and such, where more dialog on the same can be developed, so that gives the person a good space to share what they want to as well) but since it's one of the form responses, going by Fristo's idea sounds good too.

We reaching out to the person and letting them know what the program is about, what the form can be used for etc, along with ofcourse validating their feelings and commending them for even trying.

One that I came across recently in the dash, there wasn't a positive message per say in the space provided, but they did pick some qualities in themselves, and that's also making me wonder, if perhaps we can make a post using the qualities alone? (That is in case, there are some selected)

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

It's perfect Sun! 💕

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

Thank you Sun, that’s good 😊

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou I am thinking 😯 Can we make it a one-stop feedback thread for any team to share the appreciation hosts receive across teams through the host feedback form? It will be up to the various team leaders to use the thread or not, but we can at the least, invite them! A single host appreciation thread could spread a lot of positivity in the community.

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou Once in a while sounds good! As new feedback accumulates, we can make new posts in the Appreciation the Hosts thread! We can make it frequent too, and post the appreciation as it comes, depending on our enthusiasm to post the feedback and spread the love.

Awesome work, once again, Sun! Lately, you've been making me more and more happy through efforts such as this hehe Keep being you and more you!

I like this idea, a special spot could make people feel in company and not called out for appreciating themselves.

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou

I agree with you Sun, @StargirlTina and @WarmLightXO ! Dedicating a thread for self appreciations may help make it easier to openly appreciate ourselves, and motivate many others to do so 😊 We currently have a peer self appreciation thread I think, maybe once we create a self appreciation thread in general, we could post team members self appreciation in that too 🌻

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou Would it mean that we'd post peer to peer appreciations in our program thread, while self-appreciations (submitted through the peer appreciation form) will be posted in a different thread?

Want to make sure I am getting it correctly😀

If so, then we will have sort of two program threads and that might confuse team members about which sort of appreciation to post in which thread. One program thread keeps it simple (has kept it simple and non-confusing so far.)

But I also love the idea of encouraging self-appreciation more! One idea is, that we can mass tag self-appreciators of a month (every month), along with asking them how is their progress with regard to developing self-love within themselves! This could be a separate thread and we post there monthly.