Imagination Game: Create Your 7 Cups Visual Representation!

Our community is a living dynamic concept, made up of the people who participate in it, and we are a world full of people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. It’s through our diversity that we seek to broaden our horizons and expand our imaginations. I am a visual person - I like to put images, analogies, and metaphors to concepts to more clearly relate them. The internal 7 Cups team has enjoyed doing visualization exercises to get a glimpse into what we all envision when we’re thinking about what 7 Cups looks like.

When you imagine 7 Cups, what visuals come to mind?

As Glen shared in this month’s community update:

“I sometimes look at 7 Cups like a village or city and the different parts of the site are represented by buildings or neighborhoods with cobblestone streets and paths that connect them. The group support rooms are over there. If you hop across the stepping stones then you can find the forums. Take a left there to walk past the library that holds the Academy. You get the idea. You can think of all of the people walking in and out of the buildings with listeners and members. Activities highlighted take place in the town park under the trees or in different rooms and cafes across the village.”

My map of the community looks very similar. Sometimes it’s an expanding town that’s slowly evolving into a city as we become stronger and make advancements. Sometimes it’s a communal garden because it promotes a sense of shared responsibility, cooperation, and community engagement and we can see the outcome of our efforts (fostering a therapeutic environment).

What visual representations surface when you think of 7 Cups? And here's the fun part - @audienta came up with 3 fantastic ways for us to do this!

1. Use one of these sites to create cities like these:

https://citycreator.com/

2. https://inkarnate.com/
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3. If yours isn't a map or you'd prefer to draw your idea, here's an example audienta did!

Note: there's no right or wrong vision! Please have fun with this and we'll be eagerly looking forward to seeing your creations!

And of course, you are not required to create any visuals at all! You may simply tell us about it in text!

You are not required to create any visuals at all! You can tell us about your vision in text, in Images you found online, pictures you took - anything goes, however you wish to express your vision!