An Idea to Support Hosts

Hi everyone,

The idea that I have is to have support in place for hosts who have had a difficult session to avoid burnouts even if it is cute animal photos, self help techniques or just somewhere to vent or a log about anything that might have happened in a session. I know that there is peer support for listeners who have had a difficult chat so it would be a good idea for something similar to be available to sharing circle/healthy habits/discussion hosts.

From personal experience and experiences of other hosts, hosting sessions especially when the topics bought up (particularly in sharing circle) can be really heavy and support needs to be put into place to avoid hosts dropping out.

I know that members cannot PM members though but I think that there should maybe be regular check in sessions for hosts to give peer support in one of the rooms and to maybe have someone around during the sharing circles, healthy habits sessions and discussions to give 1-2-1 support if needed.

I have already bought this up with hopebeyondpain and they are going to take the suggestion to the community managers so maybe something can actually be done about it. Please feel free to share feedback on this idea.

Tagging all discussion leaders, sharing circle hosts and healthy habits hosts so they can see this post.

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