March 2021 Community Update!

Dear Community,

Hope you all are doing well! My kids are back at school full-time now so all of a sudden I have a much quieter house. I hope school, work, and everything else is getting better for all of you.

Quick updates on my end. The apps continue to evolve. Every week or two we are releasing a new update, so please download the most recent versions to see the changes we are making. The community and expert growth paths are off to a very strong start! Check them out when you can. I wanted to highlight the relapse prevention growth path by John Norcross, a leading psychotherapy researcher. This path is great for anyone struggling with slipping (eating, drinking, or smoking slips or any sort of addiction). Please also check out these awesome welcome videos from our crew: Grace, Obs, Laiba and H (here is one from me) We will be adding other leader welcomes soon!

One last path update: soon everyone will be able to make their own private paths. There will be 3 options: private, unlisted (you can share it with others with a link) and public. If you do not have the path builder badge then you will only be able to make a private path for yourself.

Heather (H)

Hey, lovelies! I know many of you have been asking for some more one-on-one time with me, so I have introduced my “Open Office Hours” every Thursday at 6PM ET! Check out this post for details.

We’ve been hard at work building out the Custom Growth Paths. Even the Admins and Ambassadors have been creating (for example, you can see mine on Being Brave). If you’re liking these paths, we want to know what you’re enjoying, and what kind of impact they have had on you! Anytime you complete a path you’d like us to know about, please fill out this quick survey! It would mean a lot to us, and to our Path Builders who have been putting so much time and effort into creating them!

And for the Path Builders, I would like to ask you to please add this step to your paths so we can increase exposure to this survey to collate as much valuable information as possible.

The Step is called Growth Path Feedback and if you can’t add it through the link, you can search for it in the editor! (You are also welcome to creat your own step with the survey link!)

Quality Specialist: EvelyneRose

We are rolling out more and more safety quizzes and discussions! Thanks to @Power for all your hard work on making sure our Safety Awareness Team is keeping the community informed and proactive in the pursuit of keeping a safe and caring environment.

The Anonymous Evaluations Team is continuing to expand. They are always looking for new team members! @RebekahRoyal and @LuLuRings are heading AE Team, while @Midnightraven999 and @Asherwolfice head the Anonymous Feedback Team. We hope this initiative continues to spur quality endeavors. If you’re interested in joining, please contact the leader of the respective team.

Programs Coordinator: SoulfullyAButterfly

The Content Development and Marketing Program (CDM) for the 7 Cups Academy has resulted in several great content articles to be published soon! We expect to widen the categories covered in the Expert and other site sections.

Beginning next quarter (April) the Content Team will be restructured to include formal focus areas including Growth Paths, other content areas, as well as formal editorial assistant positions.

On the Translations Project end, we have had lots to celebrate about with the great work of our leaders proactively leading site translation efforts, with the Portuguese site translation project led by @optimisticDay8079 standing completed (help celebrate here). In addition, we marked the successful completion of our first App translation project here.

Beginning next quarter, the Translations Project will formally have app projects too so please keep an eye for further announcements!

Subcommunity Coordinator: Tazzie

Our subcommunities continue to evolve and flourish. With support from our ambassador @Mel and the leadership team, we have successfully onboarded new forum supporters

@CheeryMango has been generously investing their time in supporting subcommunity leaders across the board with building growth paths on various topics.

We are continuing to do well with new community events and activities . More leadership developments, growth paths and events are in store for next quarter!

Teen Coordinator: Mimi

What a month it’s been for Teenie Town! The chains never stop turning, and I just wanted to congratulate our Project Leaders, Agents, Listeners, Members, Hosts, Moral support figures! Everyone! For being proactive and having one aim in mind - How do we help make the Teen side better for everyone?

@Asherwolfice has been working diligently and closely to support the Teen Group Support end, where we are working on improving rotational rooms and hosting weekly feedback discussions to improve the quality of the Group Support area for Teens.

If you’ve noticed, Teenie Town’s population has been going up and up! Welcoming many new faces, and some returning faces. Our daily check-ins in the teen listeners room continue to thrive as well as more amazing listeners are stepping up to become leaders of the community. @cuteOrange213

Teen side hosting of popups has seen a rise. We have started a Popup Meetup Thread for people to voice their opinions/suggestions about the popup discussions here. Feel free to PM @DonaldDraper for any question(s) you might have about popup discussions.

The teen discussions team has been working on bringing more topic discussions to the community as well as strengthening the daily sessions for both members and listeners. @hopedreamlove

Catch up on a few of the serious topics here; down at the CM station! Drop your great ideas here in our community box! Help me create a compassion growth path - HERE!

Laiba

In 7 Cups academy news, we evaluated the Group Dynamics and Leadership Development Program and reduced the requirements to join the program. Additionally, the program is now open to members. Apart from that, the academy programs continue to function as usual and our LinkedIn verification initiative has so far verified/recommended the work on 19 academy grads.

This month has been mainly focused on creating custom growth paths. I have created the study motivation, managing anxiety and preventing burnout at 7 Cups growth path. Moreover, the community and I worked together to form the Leadership Basics and the Watering Hope Path. It has been an incredible experience working with the community and learning from your ideas and contributions. I am hopeful that the paths created will help and support many. Please do check them out.

Obs

This month we set up the Mod Help Center which hopefully our chat rooms moderators may find helpful in providing all the support to the members in the group chat rooms and moderating the chat rooms.

We also started a new initiative 7Cups Rising Star where it is an opportunity for community members to collaborate with community leaders and nominate someone of their choice whom they feel are suitable and shine in a role if they will get the chance.

Also we rolled out some initiatives to ensure a supportive and therapeutic environment in the regular chat rooms like: Community Fun Activities and Support Checkins.

On another quick note, we have two new group support mentor leaders who will oversee specific parts of the group support to ensure we all have a good time in the chatrooms. And, we recognized more than 340 community leaders for their wonderful contributions in the month of February and March. Please drop them a congratulation or appreciation message here.

Thank you for being with us and for being a part of our community!