February Group Support Event: Kindness, Courage, Connection
- Open discussion: Share your experiences and concerns about online safety, mental health, and promoting kindness.
- Forum activities: Participate in exercises that foster empathy, support, and positive online interactions.
- Resource sharing: Discover valuable resources to help you stay safe, spread kindness, and prioritize your well-being.
- Connect with others: Come together to build a supportive community and share, support, and learn from shared experiences.
- Empower yourself: Gain knowledge and resources to navigate online challenges and promote mental health.
- Inspire change: Be part of the event to promote a safer, kinder, and more supportive space for all.
- Safety & Knowledge group chat is open 24 hours for the entire week
- Group Discussion on cyberbullying, fake news, rumors, gossip, triangulation, and online privacy.
- Forum activity on sharing positive and uplifting messages in a post to spread awareness and encouragement for a safer internet.
- The positivity group chat is open 24 hours in a given week
- Group Discussion on Compassion, Kindness, and random compliment chain activity
- Forum activities on sharing positive news stories, uplifting quotes, inspirational posts, and the Pay it Forward chain.
- The eating disorder group chat is open 24 hours in the given weeks.
- Group discussions on eating disorder awareness and support
- Forum posts on general awareness, support, and celebrating milestones and small steps.
- Rolling out a resource - Care Package
@ASilentObserver
Woahhh such awesome events, thanks for sharing, Obziee. Looking forward to them!🤩
@ASilentObserver
Woohoo! A month filled with awesome events!
@ASilentObserver Thank you for posting the schedule, Obs! 💜
What a lovely month filled with events! I look forward to meeting with all of you out there in the events. Thank you for being a lovely part of Group Support! 💜
Thank you all for joining and making our first discussion on Safer Space great. It was great to discuss safety with you all and I look forward to attending and discussing more topics on safety throughout the week!
A quick shout and thank you: @Kristynsmama @exuberantGrapefruit8347 @emotionalTalker2260 @Love33Cari @Zeraphim @Claritea @Suryansh @Wyatt283 @Username9876 @SleepyPersonForever @CompassionateArrow @anonySummer5462 @prettyinpink444 @honestSky5854 @SailingGuru @gentlesky4544 @HealingTime @freshella @Walker7957 @Bing22 @vroomvrooom @DivorcePapers @wishfulWillow6962 @AutisticYouth @Whyme3112 @PatienceImpatiens @freeman @thoughtfulGrapes1163 @OrchidMelody @OpenH3artOpenM1nd @MindfulJourney22 @mylifeisacyclone @ImpudentIncognito @nessapressure05 @FaithMonk9473
Also thank you to Pat and Autistic youth for additional questions and encouragement to discuss more about safety, boundaries, and privacy. You all make the group chats safer, encouraging, and inclusive for all. 🙌
@ASilentObserver It was a pleasure to have a kind hearted people like you around and discuss the things in the safe zone.
Thank you for making this space available! There was a lot of interest!
@ASilentObserver
Thank you Obs and all my wonderful buddies who were present for the session today! It was great 😄
@ASilentObserver
👁👄👁 I got tagged.
It was a good session, for the time I was there (I guess). So thank you obsie
@ASilentObserver
Thanks Obs for arranging a safe space for us.. It was great discussing about safety and boundaries..
thank you group support for giving us so many events to look forward to!!
...Couldn't help but notice that freedom of speech is not one of the topics for the planned discussion.
I like the idea of a "safer Internet" to some extent but as always, there are questions...
- safer for whom, exactly?
- What must be given up to achieve this state of safety? Who would be required to give up XYZ? Trade-offs are a thing.
- How would the climate of safety be consistently enforced? (To be blunt, is that even possible across multiple nations, time zones, etc.)
@slowdecline48
Hi, Regarding Freedom of Speech, I'm up for a discussion of this anytime.
Internationally, there is: World Press Freedom Day, which is May 3
https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day
Also, there's NONPARTISAN CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS, but that's not international, it's based in USA.
October 21 - 27, 2024
https://www.freespeechweek.org/
@slowdecline48
Sorry for the super wonky formatting on the previous post. I couldn't get the system to cooperate with me. Perhaps this platform does not approve of my message lol.
@PatienceImpatiens It does not, because your message is unsafe & could be triggering!...but seriously, that's cool. I do realize that in a community/on a website like this one, other values are just as important--or may surpass--freedom of expression. When there are a lot of people with mental & emotional issues in one place, obviously there has to be some kind of code of conduct in order for the site/community to function at all, besides the welfare of the members themselves. A balance has to be maintained, & just where that balance is is not always obvious or clear.
@slowdecline48
lol, true enough.
Yes, I would agree that in a place where people are gathered, most who are struggling, that the standards of care have to be somewhat more----- I don't know, precise, caring, I'm not sure what the word is I'm looking for.
On the other hand, giving people a place or a space where they are free to express themselves/ourselves is a value of mine.
But that has turned out wrong for so many who try, bravely to venture into difficult spots, and then make honest reports, or they return maimed or dead.
(References for my mentions of Freedom of Speech --- warming, some of these details may be triggering to some as they reference abuse and harm and even death to people seeking to report on conditions in different countries): Khashogghi (the journalist who was cut into pieces after entering an Embassy, he thought to get a Visa) or the dude (Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state, and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed), who was returned from North Korea brain dead and who died shortly thereafter, Navalny who is currently imprisoned in some remote prison) These are just a few examples. I continue to wear a bracelet for someone whose parents call for attention to be drawn regularly for him in the daily paper. Worldwide, at least 65 journalists have disappeared since 2005, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
