February Community Events - Week One - From 4th February - 10th February

During the week of the 4th February, we have lots of events going on throughout our community! We look forward to seeing you all participate in them. Below, you will find a schedule of events going on for the various awareness weeks, months and days for this week! All forum links will be edited once they are published, and alerts will be made with the correct timings of discussions!

Random Act of Kindness Week (4th-10th February)

Chatrooms:

Join us for discussion on how listeners can show kindness to themselves and others.

Join us for discussion on how members can show kindness to themselves and others - Join Moana22 Friday @12 est pm in Compassion corner for teens. & Fluffyunicorns84 Friday @3pm est in compassion corner support for adults.

Keep an eye out on alerts with lots of pop up free hugs sessions !

Forums:

Kindness challenge - 2 daily tasks to encourage us to be kind to ourselves and others . If you complete all 14 tasks you will get the Kindness Challenge badge.

Feed:

Happy Random Act of Kindness Week … *insert daily icebreaker* @tag others to join in #febevents #kindnessweek #apprecititude

Monday - What does kindness mean to you?

Tuesday - How does it feel to be kind to someone else?

Wednesday - How does it feel to be kind to yourself?

Thursday - Offer a listening ear to a someone….

Friday - Sunday - What is your favourite way to self care?

Kindness train - Join river for Appreciation Team challenge of the month. Details to be added.

1st week of Self Esteem Month:

Chatrooms:

Pop up self esteem sessions

Feed:

Happy Self Esteem Month …….. Help us celebrate by sharing gifs and pictures that encourage boose in self esteem. Tagging @ @ @ to join in too! #febevents #selfesteem

Time to Talk Day: 7th February

Chatrooms:

Mental health stigma discussion for members

How to handle mental health stigma chats, join Amy 5pm ET in teen listeners for teens & Adults tbc

Pop up Open chat sessions in all the rooms for a chance to talk about what is on your mind.

Forums:

What is it important to talk about Mental Health ?

Using Active Listening with our children

How do you talk to children about mental health?

Pop up open chat challenge for Mods ! - click here

Feed:

Happy Time to talk Day ! - Celebrate with us by taking a selfie holding a piece of paper with word(s) what you feel contributes to a good talk about mental health / or just share the words. Anyone that posts with a selfie will get 20 cheers/Growth Points. Tagging @@@ to join in too ! #timetotalk #febevents (to get the prize you need to include #timetotalk in the post)

Share gifs pictures etc on Why its important to talk or encouraging people to talk #febevents #timetotalk

Additional Subcommunity Events:

Join Veterans and Family & Caregivers >>here<< for the "Awareness Heroes' event from February 3rd to February 8th.

Join Relationship & Friendship Subcategory for activities for Teen DV Month click here

Safety & Knowledge is celebrating Internet safety day - Details to be added.

Healthy Living is celebrating Heart Disease Month - Details to be added

Join the Young People of Color Community >>here<<on February 8th to celebrate Black History Month.

We are also needing help with posting things on the forum/feed or leading discussions this week and throughout the month. If you have some spare time and can help out please sign up here: or give @fluffyunicorns or @Kate a pm.