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!
Nice glennThanks
I'm so excited about this! I can't wait. I'm sort of new to 7cupsoftea. Although we have the "progress section" on here, I think the growth path would be a wonderful opportunity to 7cupsoftea community.
I know you stated it above that if we miss a few days or something of the sort, it's alright - just do the next easy step to get right back on track for the growth path,butsome people will take the growth pathvery, veryseriously as a way to grow and be better; and if they miss more than just a few days (maybe a week or two weeks, maybe even a month), they might think that they can't grow since they missed so many days. So maybe there could be something written somewhere that will calm this potential fear. Something along the lines of: "The growth path is here to help you grow whenever you are ready to grow. We all have our ups and downs and that's all apart of the process of growth. So if you miss a few days or more than a few days (weeks, months, years), it's quitealright. The growth path will still be here when you need it. Just follow the next step of the growth path from where you left off."
Some people might even start the growth path, then leave for awhile, and then return. So then the results from their emotional wellness test may not be valid anymore. So can they retake the test? Restart the growth path?
Wheres the test you speak of ive searched and cant find
It's the free emotional wellness test.
Wheres the test you speak of ive searched and cant find
Sounds awesome! I cant wait to start :)
Really cool
This is an excellent addition to helping us realize and work toward positive growth in our lives. This will help all of us take control of our own growth in many area! Way to go!
I am just your average everyday teenage girl and to be honest,that is why I believe i will be good at this.
i have been through a lot, abuse, bullying, cyber bullying, self harm, attempted suicide, drug use, police involvement and relationship struggles.
I am currently going through a rough time and i believe i can use this to help others. Also i study A level psychology and sociology and im said to be an excellent listener.
Not Sure yet.
I enjoy listening to people, helping people.But more often than not people want advice. As long as you inform them that it is ultimately their decision and that they need to know that unless what is said is best for them and they acknowledge thatthen I do not see the problem with it. At times it seems more difficult and limited to reply to users when we are limited on what we can say. Any feedback on this?
After 7 cups of tea, I feel like a new kitty! Thanks everyone. You are all awesome
Seems to not really be anything other than some points for no reason. The same way people will see how many friends they accumulate on Facebook and have followers on Twitter and Instagram.
