Weekly Group Support Open Letter- Week of Feb 24

Hello everyone,

I am inspired by you. Such wonderful teamwork in Group Support Rooms and in the entire community. I am thankful for all the good work, feedback and proactively working on building community.

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." - Les Brown

Great, so lets check what we did and accomplished together last week!

• We completed 98 member discussions and 14 listeners discussions during the week. In case you missed them and want to join them, please check the Community Calendar for the scheduled discussions and details.

In case, you finding it difficult to enter a room, then check the requirements to join rooms here. If you have the requirements but wondering when our rotational rooms are opened, then please check the schedule here!

• We started Get to Know You Daily Sessions. These sessions are meant to connect and interact to get to know each other better. Just like a small-town neighborhood where everyone knows everyone and always up to support each other. It happens every Tuesday to Saturday at 12 pm ET in ASilentObservers Office for both adults and teens. On Sunday 12 pm ET, we have our weekly community chat to problem solve and address the group support issues in ASilentObservers Office. Please come and join us. We look forward to meeting you.

• We are thinking of opening the discussion leader role for both members and listeners so we have more hands on the deck to have these guided and fun discussions in different rooms throughout the week. You will be able to lead the discussions as long as a mod present with you to ensure the room is moderated while you host the discussion. We are working on setting up basic criteria for who can be the discussion leader. Please drop your thoughts on this in the comments so we can make it a better opportunity for everyone.

• We are working on bringing some discussions on topics like Bullying, DID, Anger Management. I will keep you posted about its progress. I am thankful to all who came forward to help me with it.

• We have started a dialog in the Group Support Forums - What is your idea of ideal group support chat room? The purpose of this dialog is to identify and figure out your ideal group support room participation and what we could do together to achieve it. So if you have any thoughts, please share it here!

• For listeners, we started a dialog - 3 Key Tips You Can Share with a New Listener! We want to ensure our new listeners and everyone get the best support and resources so they can support our members better. If you have some tips, please add them to the thread and read others' thoughts as well. I hope you find something new to learn from it.

• We are thinking about creating a handbook named - Members Primer where all basic information will be included to share with all our new members. We are hoping that helps them to figure out the site navigation and basic things better. For this, we need your help. Please share what basic information you think we can include? All thoughts are welcome!

And, thats it from me this week. Other improvement plans are in-progress. We will continue to address all our concerns one by one with group discussion and team efforts. I will keep you posted. Thank you for your patience and for being with us.

Some resources in case you need it-

• If you have an appreciation for a moderator, room supporter or listener- please use this Review form!
• If you have an appreciation for a member- please submit your appreciation through this form!
• Group Support - FAQs
• AMA w/ Group Support Manager
• Weekly CommunityMod & Rooms Schedule
• Steps of Growth as a Listener!!
• More Group Support Updates!

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