PAT Meeting - July 2023

@Fristo

1. Okie in general!

2. We can send to those who never send or never get appreciation, maybe. (I actually want to send appreciations but I'm waiting when we do not have many. 😁

3. Our current team is amazing! and we got new people like Teeny 🐢, Heather 🌸, Nii 🌙, Charlie 🐙, Camp ⛺!

Looking forward to Hawaii and nutella! 🎉

1. We don't talk about how I'm doing 🤭😭 my stay on the team is amazinggg I am so grateful to be part of the ✨best✨ team on cups (: Thank you to everyone who answered my questions and welcome me to the team.

2. When we get to not many, I have some people I want to appreciate - not people I've ever spoken to, but people I see fighting their hardest. I appreciate their courage.

3. bake everyone a cake 🙃

@Fristo *wears formals to enter the meeting* Oh ahem ahem... Hello chomper general Sir Monte Fristo!

1. Stay has been goood so far :D PAT is very welcoming and encouraging. Probably the warmest place on here.

2. Hmm, I think if we (the already existing PAT team) come across some new wholesome cuties, we can appreciate them so that they would feel good and appreciated :D This would make them feel good and might lead to more appreciations if they reciprocate, and spread it. It hurts no one, so it's nice. As part of my responsibilities as a room supporter in the newbie hub, I can look out for interesting posts and appreciate them (maybe 1 additional appreciation per week from the newbies I can do). I will think more stuff like that. Another thing is if we can promote one or two days in the month... call it Gratitude Day? maybe the full moon day or something? Maybe we already have something like that, I think during the cups anniversary we might've seen more positivity :D

3. Aww, stop it youu guys ❤️ So, umm... maybe we can have a collage of all of us? Like the current PAT team, we can feature all the current team members :D It might help to view ourselves as part of a team that's been working, like we have in the google sheets. I would like to know where sun has all this power to have done hundreds of appreciations :O they are too kind, what is their secret :O Maybe we can discuss our approaches, and how do we feel when we make our things, our inspirations? I dunno, I feel happy and wish to learn more about all of us as I just joined. I could be wrong or ignorant about certain things so I would like to know :D

@Fristo

Yay a forum meeting!😮❤

How are you doing? How is your stay on the team as a smile spreader?

I'm doing alright. My stay in the team as a Smile Spreader is absolutely gratifying!

What can we do to encourage more people to use our appreciation form?

I feel as you do haha, hard to strike this balance!

💛 Invite your peers

💛 I think we can try having more fun, creative, encouraging posts for the community, some sort of activities we can encourage the community to partake in by appreciating themself or their peers!

Perhaps we can try doing monthly theme based activities! For instance:

August- Kindness in Forums (everyone would be encouraged to appreciate people they come across in forumland who are supportive, kind, resourceful, interactive, compassionate etc)

September- Self appreciation-September (Everyone be encouraged to appreciate themself)

October- Mentor Appreciation Month (everyone encouraged to appreciate mentors~ any track, any body they feel is a *mentor* [doesn't necessarily have to be one in mentor role] to them)

November- Chatroom Partycipants Appreciation (hosts, participants of discussions, regular members, listeners, anyone being welcoming, inclusive, kind and loving in chatrooms)

December- Appreciate your listeners (for members) and Appreciate your members (for listeners) ~ to appreciate people we may talk often with in PMs, and/ or appreciate their support and inspiring mindset!

We'll think of 2024 in 2024! 😛

💛 Having more gratitude circles and chatroom sessions involving peer appreciation activity!

💛 Appreciate peeeeerssss yourself!

💛 Last but never the least, Alerts xD

What can we do for one another?

What can we not do for one another?!😮 There's so much to do, just gotta be willing for it!

💛 Take time to upvote, and comment on your team mate's posts (we all know we put so much effort and time in creating posts, sometimes the ones receiving or sending may not respond to tags for reasons best known to them but it means *universe-lot* to have someone acknowledge your efforts and take time to admire your dedication as a Smile Spreader~ hearing even a "good job with this one" might do more wonders than you may imagine)

💛 Take time to Check-In with each other (perks: you get to know wonderful people you work with even more), participate in QnA discussions, welcoming team mates, forum discussions (such as this one too). ~ Cultivate a sense of belonging and team-work!

💛 Spotlight your team mate here

💛 Nominate them for badges

💛 Take ideas from this post on multiple Ways You Can Appreciate At 7 Cups Masterpost

I agree with Charlie's, Sunshine's ideas!

and Teeny *nom cake* 🐢

Sending appreciations to newbies would be great! 😃🐙

I like Sunshine's monthly theme! 🤗

Yes yes, Charlie 🐙, Sunshine have made hundreds or maybe thousands graphics!

Sunshine 🌞❤ I'm vv sure you have the certificate that says congratulations for 500 graphics created! 🤗❤

@Fristo

How are you doing?

I'm okay :') mostly hehe..

How is your stay on the team as a smile spreader?

Well I haven't been here very long, but I really do love being part of all this. Just the idea of... being part of a team.. and spreading kindness and happiness <3 it's awesome. I hope I can be of some use here in the PAT :')

What can we do to encourage more people to use our appreciation form?

I agree with everyone else's ideas so far, especially Teeny's and Victoria's.

There are *many* other cupsers I'd really love to appreciate hehe <3 so I'm going with Teeny in that, well that's what I'll do when we are low on appreciations.

I also think mentioning the appreciation forms a bit more in chatrooms would help a little <3 and there's another thing I thought of hehe.

More self-appreciations! I think it's awesome how we see cupsers appreciating their peers, that's good but we don't see as many *self* appreciations. Maybe some cupsers feel that they're not worthy of being appreciated, or maybe others think it would be better to appreciate others and appreciating yourself isn't as nice. Or... maybe it's because the low amount of self-appreciations may discourage them :( I am not sure, hehe, these are just my thoughts :')

I thought maybe *we* should appreciate ourselves more <3 everyone in the PAT?

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Okay that's it Nii 😭😭

What can we do for one another?

I love Sun's ideas and Charlie's ideas as well. It's true, we should hold more team discussions in the forums. It would be a fun way to get to know each other better and ask questions and.. yeah.

*sending lots of love and hugs to all* <3

@Fristo

First Team meeting appearance *gulps*

1.

Doing pretty well actually, trying to go with the flow and keep the negative out even if it's hard.

I saw Fristo throwing out (hashtag 😂) ads for the Smile Spreader Role and I seen some of the appreciation posts before, wrote a few myself; thought they were so lovely and wanted to take part in creating them!

Small gestures/things like these can have an important impact on someone when it's presented to them and I am happy to be the person to deliver it.
And since I'm a creative person, I love to give every post my own little personal touch by spending some extra time making a fitting graphic. 🎨😄

Notes:

No access to post editing; Fixing mess-ups is not possible 😞

Unclear in the documents how to go from Guest smile spreader to Team Member except for "consistency"; Do guest smile spreaders ask Fristo? Or is it like a monthly eval? 😄

2.

Maybe have a special event where, just like Sharing Circle, people can join a queue, and they get 2 minutes to tell who they appreciate and why. And maybe another or during the same event, they also get 2 minutes to appreciate themselves.

Also before the "appreciation sharing" starts, maybe Fristo or another Team member can explain why it is important for people to show and receive gratitude and appreciation as an intro for people in the Special Event, warming them up a little.

Also, posting the appreciation link in groups like Member Community Room might help increase the number of appreciations.

3.

no, you! 😊

Idea: Fristo sends us $100 starbucks giftcards. ( Ok that was a joke 😂)
Idea: A Monthly PAT Appreciation thread where anyone in the 7cups community can post a "thank you" to the team.

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1. im doing good. im enjoying my time as a smile speader
2. a good way to encourage is by mentioning it when you are done hosting a discussion in a support room
3. i think hearing each others feedback and suggestions is a great place to start

@Fristo

Oh my first ever PAT meeting, super cool!💫

1) Checkin: Nutella here is doing pretty well! 😊 In fact, I just posted my first ever peer appreciation post and I've looked at it a couple hundred times hihi (: I just recently joined the team and very excited to work alongside all you guys and to get to know you too! Cheers to us!! Being a smile spreader seems so meaningful and productive.

2) What can we do to encourage more people to use our appreciation form, hmm, I think the best way would be to individually reach out to active listeners and tell them about how they could use this form to appreciate their members and the progress they've made, I personally have got a lot of members in mind for whom I'll use the form ^_^ this way the members might also get to know about it and it'll probably start a chain of appreciating one another hopefully! Or we can make a post about how easy it is to just write something appreciative for another person, and we smile spreaders will turn it into a beautiful post :D

3) I really liked what @Sunisshiningandsoareyou and @grimsmark8 aka Charlie suggested!

We can definitely have a collage for us like Charlie mentioned and maybe it also has things which define us or which are our favorite, so that we can get to know each other better! We can have chatrooms for ourselves (not sure if this is possible) but something like gratitude circle where we can meet and stuff 😊