Introducing Team Lightship!
Good news! Social Soldiers team is being revamped as Project Lightship with the changes in how it will work. <3
🐾 Click to check 2022 updated requirements
What is project lightship and what is its objective?
Project Lightship is the revival of Social Soldiers team which was created with the intent on eliminating the stigma that comes along with mental illness on social media, guiding those who are depressed/having a hard time/need someone to talk to right here to 7Cups.
As the previous project leaders stated:
Our goal is to combat mental health stigma by going out and finding those who need us the most and bringing them to our safe haven. In accomplishing this goal, we will simultaneously combat stigma head on and take a stance that it is not only okay to get support when you need it, its a healthy and wonderful thing to do for yourself!
We are currently starting the lightship team with twitter and have one track you can contribute in:
Reaching out to 20 people letting them know about the 7cups through the twitter account & making 5 mental health-related posts raising awareness about it
You are welcome to contribute more, those are the minimum requirements to fulfil every month.
Who can join the Lightship Team?
Both listeners and members who meet the requirements can join the team. (Yes, teens can join the team too, yay!)
What are the requirements to join the team?
For the listener,
1+ month as a listener
Verified Listener
Listener Oath
For the member,
1+ month as a member
Member Oath
Both listeners and members will be required to sign the guidelines form(Linked to application) agreeing to follow the guidelines of the team and 7cups. Any violations in guidelines will be taken seriously & result in behaviour points. (Learn more about how behavior points HERE)
What are the guidelines of the team?
Once someone has reached out to you about your application and has given you approval, it is your responsibility to make your own Twitter account, with your 7 Cups handle name (eg rebecca947=@rebecca7Cups).
Please send your login credentials to the lightship email thelightshipteam@gmail.com prior to beginning your month.
Lightship Team's social media accounts should not be used for personal use.
The account is created for spreading 7cups which means we are using them to spread support and awareness, on these accounts you should only follow lighthearted accounts, 7 Cups approved Lightship accounts and other mental health-related accounts.
Please turn off the public DMing feature on your Team Lightship's account.
Please ensure your account is set to public.
Please do not follow/interact with Listeners/Members on their personal social media accounts or unapproved Lightship Team accounts.
You are to represent yourself as a trained active listener and not a mental health professional, crisis counsellor or paid employee of 7 Cups.
If you chose to leave the Lightship Team, it is your responsibility to deactivate your account entirely.
If you agree to the mentioned guidelines above and meet the requirements to join the team, you can fill up THIS(Click me) form. After it, someone from the team will reach out to you to let you know if your application has been approved and to help with setting up the social media account.
If you have any queries regarding it, feel free to reach out to @DreamTouch or @ouiCherie
*edited by forum mentor @rebecca947 to edit coleads and add additional information*
@River
do we have to have twitter for this?
@Joe33
Hey, you dont need to have a twitter account! We will give you the credentials of it.
@River thx river
@River @rebecca947
Love this idea! I was a member on the teen side when Social Soldiers was a thing! This seem much safer and hopefully will be awesome! <3
Stay amazing both of you!
-Joy <3
@JoyfulUnicorn
Yay we hope so too! Stay amazing too 
@Riverthat sounds very interesting
Glad to see that this is back up and running again! 
is there going to be this setup for instagram atall ? alot of people on here looks like they dont have twitter either so if there was an option to do this through instagram would probably please alot more people and get more attention.
@Starlistner23
Hey, for now we are just starting this up with twitter to get settled in and see how it goes, maybe in future we could expand it to instagram, who knows.
@River
Id be interested if it spread to instagram - I have no clue how twitter works lol XD
@River Hope you do
@river @rebecca947
yayyy i've been waiting for this from the first week i joined seven cups! and it should've been a lot of work bringing the project up again thanksss river and rebecca *-*
so i'm definetly applying but i have some questions and suggestions:
1- i know that we are starting with twitter only for now which is a good starting point but any ideas which handels will be added next? instagram and facebook might be good options as they have way more users compared to twitter (and instagram would also be a really easy option as well)
2- can we use our native language to target our countries as many in my own country don't know english into fluency??
3- are we allowed to share mental health realated fun or mood memes and short videos as these are the most visited type of content in social media nowadays?? i could provide examples of what type of memes and short videos i mean here if needed
4- are we going to have a seven cups logo on profiles or 7cups name in usernames?? (i'm asking because i was reading the replies on a social soldiers thread the other day and i saw someone saying that people sometimes consider them robots or sth)
5-are we allowed to start supporting or chatting to people on twitter before redirecting them to cups? (following the previous thing i mentioned this would make more connection and ess robot feeling to people and give them an idea on what 7cups is about)
6- i know that the accounts will be given to us specially for this purpose does that mean we'll also have an @7cups gmail? and if yes can we use it for other cups projects too?
sorry it became a lonnnng post full of questions &-&
i'd be more than happy if i can help with anything related to this project in addition to joining it so just let me know ^^
thanks again guys!
@Listeningsarinn
Hey! Thanks for the questions
i know that we are starting with twitter only for now which is a good starting point but any ideas which handels will be added next? instagram and facebook might be good options as they have way more users compared to twitter (and instagram would also be a really easy option as well)
Since we are just starting it off, we arent sure of it yet but they are very good options for sure!!
2- can we use our native language to target our countries as many in my own country don't know english into fluency??
We sure could as per the need when you are reaching out to native language but we wouldnt want whole profile to be based on that language if I make sense.
3- are we allowed to share mental health realated fun or mood memes and short videos as these are the most visited type of content in social media nowadays?? i could provide examples of what type of memes and short videos i mean here if needed
Yes! You are welcome to share those It would make it more relatable and fun too!
4- are we going to have a seven cups logo on profiles or 7cups name in usernames?? (i'm asking because i was reading the replies on a social soldiers thread the other day and i saw someone saying that people sometimes consider them robots or sth)
We are going to use same Lightship team avatar as profile pics and 7cups name in usernames for consistency purpose, will also help us know each other, other than that, feel free to personify your account and share posts as long as it goes with guidelines of 7cups.We can also try to be more personalized with reaching out instead of using the same templates.
5-are we allowed to start supporting or chatting to people on twitter before redirecting them to cups? (following the previous thing i mentioned this would make more connection and ess robot feeling to people and give them an idea on what 7cups is about)
We dont talk in dms because we want it to be as safe for everyone joining the team as possible, but you are welcome to interact in timelines after reaching out if you want to!
6- i know that the accounts will be given to us specially for this purpose does that mean we'll also have an @7cups gmail? and if yes can we use it for other cups projects too?
Unfortunately we cant use the gmail used for the account for other projects.
Thank you for all the questions! We love answering them
Am I allowed to create my own "7 Cups OliviaWilson5" account on Twitter, for my internship referral link clicks requirement, as long as I do not state I am apart of this project? I currently don't meet the requirement of 1 month+ as a member to be able to join Lightship.
@OliviaWilson5
You can use your personal Twitter account for that! Beware on your personal account to not reveal your 7 Cups username. For a 7Cups specific account, for safety and security purposes, you must be part of the team. :)
@rebecca947
Thank you!
@River Hey I applied a form and was contacted by someone from the team but realise we have very different time frames so I can never seem to catch them, could I ask for some help setting up?
@KatieTheBigRockOne
If you still need help, PM me :) unless I'm the one you're talking about, in which case PM @River 😂
@rebecca947 ah don't worry we 100% sorted it (the listener I was talking to was river aha, suppose I was struggling setting up with time zone differences but we solved it and my accounts up) thankyou!
@River
I was looking forward to this program. Finally, it is here. Thank you so much!
@River What will we on that twitter? I mean will be our job?
@ItsMaisy
Hey hey! On our lightship accounts we search twitter with hashtags to find people who might like to know seven cups exists, replying to them while they are having a hard time and letting them know they are not alone... we give them our referal links and invite them to cups for a safe place to chat and talk...
@Listeningsarinn Okay i got it. Thanks for telling me:)