Your Growth Path
We are excited to announce the launch of the growth path early next week. I'm writing you now to give you a heads up and answer any questions you might have. Below please find a description of the growth path and a link to an image of the growth path. All feedback is welcome!
Growth Path Text:
Your Growth Path has 3 components: Connect, Grow, Practice
Connecting with kind, genuine, and caring people is very important. (+)
--We all need authentic human connection to grow. It is like sunlight for plants. You can connect in one on one chats with listeners or through group support chat. Think of connecting as a way to fill up your emotional gas tank. Stress lowers our tank. When we talk to a listener, we get our tank filled back up.
Learning gives us a map that shows us where we are and where we want to go. (+)
--Without a map you can feel lost. Our free test and self-help guides will create a custom map for you. Right now you are at Point A and want to get to Point B. We will help you get there!
Practice provides easy to use skills to help us live a better life. (+)
--Life can be much easier if you have skills or techniques to help you cope. Most of these skills are very easy to master. We?ll start with the simple practice of gratitude or being thankful. Next, we?ll add mindfulness. As you grow, we?ll add more skills for you to master.
The best way to grow is to make it a habit. Each day you?ll have the opportunity to connect, learn, or practice. You can do one or more exercises. It is entirely up to you.
If you miss a day, or something comes up, don?t worry about it. There is no pressure here. Simply take the next easy step in your growth path to get back on track.
Start by taking our free emotional wellness test. It will teach you more about yourself and help us create a custom Growth Path just for you. It takes less than 3 minutes.
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Once you hit start, we'll then drop you on the free emotional wellness test. We'll also ask you to identifythe main issues you want to address. These issues correspond to our self-help guides. The path will have a variety of exercises including: chatting with a listener or group, reading a lesson in a self-help guide (all paths start with the acceptance and commitment therapy guide), gratitude journal entries, mindfulness exercises, or posting in the forum. We'll be adding more exercises, but believe we are off to a strong start.
Members and guests will have the option of sharing their growth plan with their listener. The listener will be able to see the last step, the current step, and the next step. Listeners, please read Laura's excellent post here.
The path is the same for everyone for the first 20 or so steps and then it diverges based on the issues you would like to address. For example, I might struggle with anxiety, so my path would work as outlined above, but then lesson 21 would start with lesson 1 of the anxiety help guide. We've made each step simple and easy to follow. As you make progress down your path, you'll have the option of retaking the emotional wellness test to track your progress.
Here is an image of what the growth path will look like:
https://imgur.com/gallery/zVFfJPZ/new
We are doing something quite beautiful together here. As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback. Thank you!
Hi, This is a grate Idea! I do just have one thing I would like to clear up for myself. If we ask the member if they would like us to go through the first lesson with them, Do we as the listenerjust need to go to: Training then to the ACT guide lesson 1?
I think this is a wonderful idea and am looking forward to it. I'm new to this and it's already helped but I also need to work on the whole ways to cope with anxiety and depression thing because I'm not so good in that area so this will push me to do so.
When can we access this? Thank you. Xxx
Thanks for feedback! We are working on a few more changes and we plan to post it live later this afternoon. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Growth path is now live! Just click on "dashboard" and you'll see it. Would love to hear your thoughts.
@GlenM Thank You! It looks fabulous! I can't wait to get started! The only thing I miss is seeing my Account Summary on the Dashboard (Now Growth Plan). A small detail, I realize, as I can see it from my Conversations Page! I'm going to give the Growth Plan a whirl right now! Thanks again for all you do for us here at 7 Cups!
@GlenM Sorry to be posting so much about this, but I thought you'd want the feedback. I'm getting a lot of messages that say that I've completed Part 1, 2, 3, etc of Growth Path but I haven't done anything! Am I missing something? Maybe I shall just give it some time.
right on the dashboard/growth path page you should see steps like 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Each step is a step on your growth path. Does that make sense?
nope, don't see it Glen. Sorry.
@GlenM I finally received my Growth Plan! YAY! Thank you soo much for this! Excellent idea and thank you for following through! :D
I have no clue what im doing
@sweetpeabekkiiit is right on your dashboard/growth path page. if you scroll up you'll see the button. right under your profile.
My profile i didnt no u had one
Still not really sure where to go to get to this.
@lostinthemusic13it is right on your dashboard/growth path page. if you scroll up you'll see the button. right under your profile.
Thank you @GlenM!
I find I am 'stuck'. These were my options:
Write down 3 things you are thankful for in your Gratitude Journal.
? or ?
Share what you are thankful for with a listener or send 5 messages in group support.
I was in group support and sent quite a few messages. I still am at the same place. I do I get a group support message to register for this?
It worked with the listener, but I have tried a few times with group support chat and nada.
To be honest, I just kind of been guided by the app and it brought me to my growth page. I'm new so I hope that helps.
Sherri S.