What Community Thinks: Group Chat Support Sessions Feedback

Hello Member Group Chat Participants,

I am writing this post to share the community feedback on two small initiatives we started a while ago.

• Scheduled Discussions:

Three weeks ago, we started an effort to post the schedule of some sessions here. Last week, we reached out to all participants of these sessions to hear their experiences and 86% of the participants gave us a rating of 10/10 along with their positive, meaningful, and impactful experiences from these sessions.

A big shout out to all the discussion leaders who stepped up and hosted these wonderful sessions and a special shout out to @AmintaBlack for starting sessions on OCD Support and @SirenOfSerenity for hosting Anxiety Support Sessions in the night hours Eastern time every week.

• Teen Take Over Sessions:

Ten weeks ago, we started an initiative called Teen Take Over Sessions that I host every Monday at 1.00 PM Eastern Time. In the span of 10 weeks, a teen takes over sessions evolved a lot, and a big credit and shout-out go to all teens and their participation. Every week we discussed a topic that was recommended by them that varied from Anxiety, Depression to DID & Personality Disorder and so on. It was a joy to see how teens took over this session to have an inclusive, supportive and compassionate discussion.

Last week I reached out to all to hear their experiences and 72% of participants gave a 10/10 rating and 29% of participants gave 9/10 rating along with their positive and meaningful experiences from these sessions.

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But, we have a way to go to bring more support sessions during all time blocks. So,

• For Scheduled Discussions: If you are not a Room Supporter or a Chatroom Moderator but are willing to host support sessions on specific topics ranging from Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma, Eating disorders, Positivity, etc, please use this form (only Adults) to express your interest. While teens can reach out to either Sophiasanae or ASilentObserver (me)
  
  
• For Teen Take Over Sessions: We are planning to scale up it for one-two more time blocks and we could use some help with consistent organizing and hosting this session on another time block. If you are interested in it, please send me a message at ASilentObserver

Thank you all for your compassionate support, feedback, and ideas to make these sessions better for everyone and bring more and more support for all. We look forward to seeing it scale up further.