Updates: Healthy Habits going live & more initiatives!

In the Group Support News, I have a few updates for you all. All texts in blue are hyperlinked and clickable!

Healthy Habits going live! As you may know, we are going to trial Healthy Habits (an extended version of Sharing Circles). The first session of Healthy Habits will go live on September 21, 2020 (Monday) for both adults and teens. Yay!! We look forward to having you.

Join the Healthy Habits Team! To ensure hosting coverage of these sessions, we need your help and support. Please carefully read through the application form. We have listed time slots we need, but if you can fulfill other times not listed, please fill in that option. We are excited to invite our trainees of the leadership development program to participate in it and get group support experience from a host perspective. We hope you'll join us in doing something wonderful for our members!

Collaborative community efforts! Sharing Circle/ Healthy Habits are collaborative community efforts. When we launched sharing circle sessions, Community Moderators spearheaded them and supported the community. But, the goal is everyone feels empowered to host these sessions and follow the structured path to interact and support each other. We understand that hosting is anxiety-inducing activity but we all are here with you to back up and support. Take one step at a time, try and progress to host these chats like any chat we have in the community. Your collaborative efforts will be much appreciated.

Group Support I New Ideas A big thanks to @GlenM and @Aleks2 for their original idea. This is another level of the same idea. We created a sub-forum in the group support for new ideas related to Group Support. If you have any idea to take group support chat rooms to the next level of support and help, please post in this thread. Here is the model you can follow to share your idea with us:

• Problem - please state clearly
• Solution - usually the opposite of the problem
• Hypothesis 1 - a concrete way we can implement a solution to try to address the problem.
• Hypothesis 2 - a second concrete way we can implement a solution to address the problem.

And, the leadership team will review those ideas and the best one and in terms of feasibility will be picked for more improvements.

Welcoming & Celebration Initiative! This is the combination of two ideas proposed by @Vivelespatates and @Tazzie! Under this initiative, we will be opening a group support room on every weekend as pop-ups where:

• New members will be greeted, welcomed, and provided a few resources to get to know the community and each other, and
• Everyone will be welcomed to share their milestones and accomplishments they achieved during the week like taking steps on the growth path, earned a new badge, got into a new role, received an appreciation, or anything in between to share and celebrate with all. We are working on the details of it and we will keep you all updated on it more.

Buddy Program for Room Supporter and Chat Room Moderators! We are going to initiate a buddy program where a new room supporter or chat room moderator will be paired with an existing moderator and room supporter to get support in their new role. We will keep you updated on its progress!

Thank you all for all your support!

Stronger Together: We rise by lifting others

We invite you to join group support rooms to connect, chat, and support each other through the rough phase everyone goes through. If you are unable to join a group support room, please check this thread to see if you have all badges required to see and enter the support chat room.

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• Room Supporter
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• Earn cheers and a badge! Lead pop-ups

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• Group Support Room Emergency Form
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