Our Growth Path Builder is Now Available!

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@GlenM Awesome news! Congratulations to the Community! Finally, the most awaited tool is here. I hope you all find this tool helps to create some amazing growth paths that could provide the additional support and help all deserve. Yayyyy!

If you all have any questions or need any help! Please feel free to send me a pm.

Give it a try and let us know how are you finding it.

@ASilentObserver thank you Obs!

@GlenM

This is really amazing. I can't tell you how appreciated and worthwhile your efforts are.

Thank you.

Loving the additions and options

I’ve always wanted to make my own path! Thank you for making this free. I can’t wait—I’m already thinking of potential steps!

@TheJenInBlack Awesome! Let us know how it goes! Also, @AffyAvo has started a thread here to capture ideas and challenges:

https://www.7cups.com/forum/SiteUpdatesInformationFortheCommunity_100/CommunityProjectsthingstogetinvolvedin_745/CustomGrowthPathTipsandHelp_240281/

I’m actually having a lot of trouble with this. I’ve tried reaching out to mods and no one seems to know how to help. They referred me to Heather but I haven’t gotten a response yet so I’ll just ask here. So I’m wondering why I’m unable to make a new path (it’s not allowing me to on app or desktop). I also want to know how I can start my path over from step one instead of my current step once I make the new path? I tried to find this thread to ask these questions here but I couldn’t find it and all mods I talked to couldn’t find it either. Thanks! Sorry for all the questions I am just excited

This is really awesome! I’m excited to figure out how to make one and to get started.

@GlenM had been waiting for this. Love to see it finally here. Have tried a small sample. Will try a full customized path and update

@DonaldDraper thank you! I'm going to start working on a confidence growth path today. I'd welcome the help!

@GlenM I like that it's customizable and that new tasks can be added. But I added a task with a description and the description did not appear on the Progress path page. Am I missing something?

@DonaldDraper It sounds like there might be a bug there. Can you add it to Affy's thread:

https://www.7cups.com/forum/SiteUpdatesInformationFortheCommunity_100/CommunityProjectsthingstogetinvolvedin_745/CustomGrowthPathTipsandHelp_240281/

@GlenM

That's amazing! Finally, the growth path is live and is free for everyone. Thank you to all of 7 Cups team for processing this and making it live and for all the efforts made. This great tool will be so helpful for improving health. It was so awaited! Yayy 7 Cups. They have great features and amazing tools to create a path. Thank you to everyone! ❤

That's absolutely amazing! Thanks to the 7 Cups team for all your efforts and for making the growth paths free. This is a great new tool I'm sure will help many! ❤️

Yayyy so excited about this! I personally have been waiting for it for long and am so hopeful for the help it will provide and the higher engagement it will bring❤️
huge thanks @glenm @heather225 @soulfullyabutterfly @asilentobserver and everyone else on both tech team (@devteam ) and community team *~*

tho i have some questions to get started with ^^
1. firstly i have the badges listed above but can't see the option to create my own path, so does everyone with the badges need to fill the interest form and be given the access manually afterwards??

2. Can we have a feautured paths section?
this could contain paths by theraphists/experts and the subcommunity paths, and also most liked, upvoted and used paths by community can be added to that feautured section later on...

suggesting this as i just checked the paths and there are already number of paths, which contain similar steps or topics, and right now it's less than a day since this is announeced and only few are able to make paths, so in time we'll probably have thousands of paths with similar content, some of higher quality than others, this is a good thing in general to have many options but if someone is looking for help for example with a panick attack, and wants a quick way of finding a reliable tool to calm themselves down, stressing about going thru a number of paths and not knowing which would be most useful, or not knowing how to search the paths effectively would make accessing the help really hard... it's a fact that forums themselves are like a maze to many, specially newbies, i'm afraid these playlists might be confusing for anyone not very familiar with them as well, and having featured ones might be of help in preventing this

3. Can the subcommunity home pages have a link to subcommunity growth paths, just alike to how it has for subcommunity chatroom, and Q&A section?

4. Will the "new steps" created for growth paths be checked before being added? (If not how can we ensure the safety of links, videos, and content of these steps, specially on the teen side?)

5. In initial member and listener paths, there is an option to choose from 3 different activities in each step, how can we do that in the paths we make??

6. Is it possible to choose how frequently the repeated steps show up??

7. Would it be possible to guide one to different steps based on how they answer a question?? For example there is this question in initial member growth path, with 6 emojis asking how are you feeling today, could we have a system for the path to take you to a stress management step if you choose anxious, to a 3 things i'm gretaful for if you choose happy and so on??
(and even if this isn't an option yet, would you consider it for next updates? As far as i know Techinchally it isn't hard to do, but would let the paths be much more personalized and give one an experience that meets their need much more specifically at each moment)

sorry for making it too long❤️ I know it can be time consuming to read and respond but thought sharing these points would be of use, also thanks again for bringing this to us, seeing it live is a great feeling *~^

@Listeningsarinn excellent questions! I have copy and pasted your questions and answered inline below:

1. firstly i have the badges listed above but can't see the option to create my own path, so does everyone with the badges need to fill the interest form and be given the access manually afterwards??

--You should defintely have access if you have any of those badges. Can you contact @soulfullyabutterfly so she can help us troubleshoot this.

2. Can we have a feautured paths section?
this could contain paths by theraphists/experts and the subcommunity paths, and also most liked, upvoted and used paths by community can be added to that feautured section later on...

--yes that is the plan exactly!

suggesting this as i just checked the paths and there are already number of paths, which contain similar steps or topics, and right now it's less than a day since this is announeced and only few are able to make paths, so in time we'll probably have thousands of paths with similar content, some of higher quality than others, this is a good thing in general to have many options but if someone is looking for help for example with a panick attack, and wants a quick way of finding a reliable tool to calm themselves down, stressing about going thru a number of paths and not knowing which would be most useful, or not knowing how to search the paths effectively would make accessing the help really hard... it's a fact that forums themselves are like a maze to many, specially newbies, i'm afraid these playlists might be confusing for anyone not very familiar with them as well, and having featured ones might be of help in preventing this

--People will be able to search by a combination of keywords, upvotes, hearts, and comments. The steps and paths that are most effective should surface through these searches. Ultimately, different steps and different paths will be helpful for different issues and other variables so the goal is to help people in the most personalzied way that we can.

3. Can the subcommunity home pages have a link to subcommunity growth paths, just alike to how it has for subcommunity chatroom, and Q&A section?

--Yes also the plan! You have a great product sense!

4. Will the "new steps" created for growth paths be checked before being added? (If not how can we ensure the safety of links, videos, and content of these steps, specially on the teen side?)

--Right now only trusted members, listeners, and experts can add steps.

5. In initial member and listener paths, there is an option to choose from 3 different activities in each step, how can we do that in the paths we make??

--I imagine you could just provide 3 links?

6. Is it possible to choose how frequently the repeated steps show up??

--Let me check on this!

7. Would it be possible to guide one to different steps based on how they answer a question?? For example there is this question in initial member growth path, with 6 emojis asking how are you feeling today, could we have a system for the path to take you to a stress management step if you choose anxious, to a 3 things i'm gretaful for if you choose happy and so on??
(and even if this isn't an option yet, would you consider it for next updates? As far as i know Techinchally it isn't hard to do, but would let the paths be much more personalized and give one an experience that meets their need much more specifically at each moment)

--Yes this is also part of the plan, but will come a bit further down the road. Ideally, what I'd love to see is the option for plans to branch based on responses and other triggers. Very good thinking!!!

Thanks for sharing your feedback - I did onboard Sarin after their great Interest Form yesterday

Whoa!!!! @GlenM and team!

This is super versatile and useful. Love everything about this. WE can now make bespoke Growth Paths to suit our style of practicing therapy. Bit too excited about this right now ha!

@GrahamBarroneICHP Love the enthusiasm! Yes, and we can also feature paths in the future, so let me know when you have one ready!

The new growth paths, Amazing!!!

7Cups You Rock.

To the 7Cups Admi team, man oh man, this was your Best Idea, to date.

Three Cheers to the 7Cups Admi team.

Way to go team!!!

Way to go team!!!

Way to go team!!!

Yea!!! 7cups Admi Team.

Love each and everyone of you.

@Happy900 thanks for the support happy!

@GlenM Your welcome.

@GlenM

I have a question: how do I edit my growth path after I created it?

So I created this path. But I only added one step so far. https://7cups.com/path/playlist/dbt-under-construction

@GlenM

I wasn't sure where else to ask this, but what are the guidelines for individuals creating/building these Growth Paths?

For example, if someone were to include a song/video in their path, are there language requirements? Outside of obvious no-nos or triggering content, like, if someone in the video swears once or twice (rather than excessive inappropriate language), is that okay? Can videos/songs be in languages other than English or only English? What about a song that isn't sexually explicit but maybe has some connotation or suggestion? Max or min lengths of videos?

Outside of video/song content, what else is and isn't okay? Where is the boundary between us offering supportive activities/videos and us seeming to offer therapy/therapeutic tools/content when we're not trained as therapists and listeners are told to not give advice? If we're using videos/images/info from other sites, do we need to credit/cite them in some way on the paths themselves, or is that not required due to the nature of the paths themselves?

If we don't have this already, could we maybe get some Growth Path Community Guidelines put together and posted somewhere? It might make the creative process a bit easier for folks who may feel unsure about their paths or the content they're creating/posting.

And do we/will we at some point have some sort of Growth Path moderation? I see the up and down votes for items, and I assume items that receive a lot of down votes may be reviewed, but are paths reviewed in general? Or will they be? And if we have Growth Path moderators at some point, would they have edit powers for paths, would the creators be notified, would this be more of a flagging process like with profiles/forum posts, etc?

Sorry for the 20 questions! I've created one path already to play with it, and it's really cool, just kinda want to get some clarification if possible as I move forward and for others in general too if anyone else had similar questions.

Thank you in advance and thanks for putting together this neat opportunity/tool for the community.

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@LuLuRings

Great questions! Looking forward to your guidance @glenm

@GlenM @Heather225 @SoulfullyAButterfly

Just following up on this! Thank you!

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@LuLuRings Hi there,

1. No, there are no language requirements, if you have access to the builder we trust you to share appropriate content with the community and we celebrate diversity - please tag the song with "song" so I can also add it to the Official 7 Cups Playlist path - as for minor swearing etc. I recommend adding a Trigger Warning of some sorts with a brief explanation. There is no max/min length either.
2. I think as long as we share what we feel adds to awareness and mental health support we can add them, I would recommend simplifying what you would like to share in your own words and trying to link it up or make it applicable to the community needs. You are welcome to mention credit, for example when quoting a famous psychologist.
3. Yes, moderation will be considered soon. If you have any concerns until then, you can PM one of us to share any concerns.

I like the Guidelines idea.

@SoulfullyAButterfly Much appreciated, thank you for the clarification!

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