Week Three: Chapter 5 & 6

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What is the main message of each chapter?

The main message in chapter 5 (Cultivate your identity) is the importance of badges, rituals and shared languages in promoting the togetherness of a community.

Paying attention to who shows up (chapter 6) elaborates the necessity in keeping track of the returning members and asking for feedback. This is crucial for the proper growth of a community.

How does each chapter apply to 7 Cups?

Cultivating your identity (Chapter 5) applies to 7 cups by promoting a sense of belonging and togetherness.

1. For example as a newbie, seeing other newbie badges in group chats helped me feel like I was not alone. It also helped the other chatters address me with kindness and patience.
2. Another example of how shared language, culture and badges are crucial in 7 cups is that it creates unity. Sometimes in my free time, I go through profiles and the badges acquired. I smile when I see a badge showing they attended the 5th Cupversary. I once connected and bonded with a listener who attended and got the badge of an event that I attended. It was awesome.
3. Abbreviations such as LSR are great examples of shared languages.

Paying attention to who shows up (chapter 6) is relevant to 7 cups in that it shows growth and impact. 7 cups values feedback by providing feedback forms and feedback buttons as in the case of 1-1 chats.

How can YOU help with the aim of each chapter?

I can help promote these 'cultivating your identity' (Chapter 5) culture in 7 cups by honoring the badges.

1. For example respecting moderators with the mod badges, welcoming cuppers with the newbie badges and consulting the cuppers with support badges.
2. I could also respect the rituals in group chats for example, casual chats pauses when a new person joins... welcoming takes place before resuming.
3. I could ask for clarification if I don't understand the shared language and also provide meaning of shared language when asked. For example cuppers.

I can help with the aim of chapter 6 (Paying attention to who shows up) by providing both positive and constructive feedback for the betterment of our community.

@JoyHappyNess - excellent answers! Great job!!!

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I've really enjoyed this course so far! I'm actually surprised by how much I've learnt. I think there are so many important points in there. It's funny because I've noticed a few of these things in real life scenarios when things have gone terribly wrong. For example, I saw a whole group of volunteers disband once when the leader never, ever thanked people for their hard work or acknowledged them. He never admitted to any of his missteps either. These were really passionate people, but their passion for the particular project all just drained away. Interesting!

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♥︎ Moving along swimmingly ♥︎ really loving this academy program.

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I got 10/10. Really learning alot

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9/10. Interesting reading. 🌹

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Chapter 5 Questions

I think that a signature ritual that 7 Cups out to implement is the ability to set up appointments with members, in the sense that the member sees your availabilites and is able to sign up for a slot. Currently, 7 Cups only allows the listener to book parts of a calender, that is not public to anyone. Perhaps, it would be helpful to have certain times for group meets or individual meets that can be blocked out by yourself and other people, so that way there is more of a ritualistic feel to activities.

I learned that an important part of developing a community is creating a shared identity, and this can be done through signature rituals, such as the 7 Cups member and listener oaths so there is a shared creed or code of behavior so to speak. Giving people badges is also great because it helps distinguish people from the crowd and also those who have earned more badges to relate to one another; it also encourages listeners and members to achieve and keep going and acknowledges their contributions.

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Chapter 6 Questions

It's natural for projects to sometimes fail or not go the way that you wanted; the most important thing is to ask people why they are not interested and what could be done to improve the role. Feedback is incredibly important in these instances because it's an opportunity to change and grow and make things better, whereas if you do nothing, nothing will change obviously. So you have to put effort into it and not just give up.

I learned that it's important to keep track of people who show up, so you understand why they are there and how you have retained their interest. That way you can keep providing and helping them engage in content and conversations that they enjoy, instead of random guessing; you want to maintain their interest over time because that is what makes the community strong and robust. It's always good to ask what people like directly because it can give you much more insight than just guessing.

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9/10 hyaah

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I scored a 10/10

Awesome course!

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Done!

Done, 10/10 :)

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chp 5 & 6 : 7/10 (1st attempt)

               : 10/10 (2nd attempt)

Creating a signature ritual was a very creative question and I had a lot of fun while brainstorming. 

Thank you for this opportunity. ✨

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9 out of 10 🥳

@Hope nine out of 10 please know I have to use an accessibility feature to help me type and write and then I have to put it into a special kind of software to have me read it back

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@Hope Done! 10/10 😃

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I am a bit frustrated that all the other quizzes required answers that included both chapters. This time I did what I had done before, only to discover that the chapters had been split into two quizzes as all of them should have been all along. Oh well, no harm. I answered both chapters for the first quiz and then did the second quiz for chapter 6 only.😊

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Chapters five & six....

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