February 2019 Awareness Events
February Special Events Master Post of events in the works and other awareness days to consider getting involved with:
- Eating Disorders Awareness Week: 2/25-3/3
- Teen Dating Violence Awareness month
- Resources Thread (teens only)
- Celebrating with discussions on February 17th!
- Random Acts of Kindness Week: Feb 3-9
- International Boost Self-Esteem Month
- High Five Live! 2/21
- Teen Self-Esteem & Body Image Comic Activity!
- Twitter Takeover! 2/22 (details coming soon!)
- International Day of Women's Health: Feb 12
- Safer Internet Day: Feb 5th
- Love Yourself Week with the Personality Disorders SC: Feb 10-16
- Valentine's Day: February 14th
- Friendship Day: February 11th
- Rare Disease Day: Feb 28th
- Heart Disesase Awareness Month
- Caregivers Day: Feb 15th
Please post in this thread and let us know if you are working on any of these events already and let's see if there are opportunities to collaborate and work together! Remember, there is an opportunity to earn the new Busy Bee Badge!
Please also let us know if you are working on additional events during the month of February that I may have missed.
Hey everyone !
So I am leading / planing my frist event with personality disorders and I'm super excited for love yourself week.
I blame @suBSea for encouraging me to make this thread for more information on it. It was her idea 😄
The love yourself week came from thinking about how much one should love themselves but how we struggle with this. Before we can love others we need to love ourselves .
The event will run from the 10th to the 16th of February . Each day has a theme. The purpose of the theme is to have the same thing in both the forums , feed and sessions on that chosen day.
If you would like to get involved, please contact me.
If you have any feedback or ideas you can post them here or contact me. 💓 Not sure if that is little information 😄
@Rivercat22 hi I want to get involved. How can I do that?
hey kate!
i am planning to do something about -Teen Dating Violence Awareness in our Relationship & Friendship Community!
Like how to recognize an healthy/unhealthy relationship, how to get out of it... etc.!
@AveryLove It is also Friendship day on the 11th of February ---- if you have any ideas !
@fluffyUnicorns84 thanks for letting me know!! will definitely do something on that!
@AveryLove let us know so we can put it in our whats going on posts and help at all .
@fluffyUnicorns84 @Kate we will also do something about Valentines Day & Friendship Day!
@AveryLove
I'd totally love to be able to contribute! *explores some ideas in her head*
@Moana22 awesome! i will pm you!
@AveryLove
I would love to help you with this! If you need any help or feedback, let me know!
@LivieGrace pm incoming! 
@Kate
Hiya. I'm planning to do something for the Safety team for the Safe Internet day and a discussion on kindness and giving each other compliments ( Team TBD) for the random acts of kindness
@Kate
I am planning to work on the issue of women's health by spreading awareness about menustration through discussions.
@empathhere
That's awesome to hear, I'm doing the same! ❤
Rare Disease Day is Feb 28th this year.
@AffyAvo Adding to the list!
@AffyAvo You got any ideas what you like to see for this?,
@fluffyUnicorns84 I hope we can get some discussions going. I'll do some forum posts. Some feed posts ideas have been happening too.
Also, I would love to see outreach to rare disease communities!
@Kate
Hi, the 35+ Sub-Community has the following planned.
Whats a better way than kicking off February than celebrating it for being the Library Lovers Month? Catch the 35+ questions and quotes of the weeks this month highlighting World Cancer Day, sending cards to our friends, as well as sparkling random acts of kindness. Celebrate your pets, digital learning and much more this month - only 28 days this time!!!
Forum discussions on the following:
- Safer Internet Day (Clean Out Your Computer)
- National Make a Friend Day - Friendship Day
- International Day of Women's Health
- Valentines Day
- National Caregivers Day
- National Battery Day (Safety Challenge to change all batteries including check them in vehicles and campers)
- Tell a Fairy Tale Day – Game
- Rare Disease Day
Discussions written and currently in the process of being approved in the room for Feb focus are below.
Other discussions scheduled can also be found here.
- Valentines Trivia Quiz
- Ways to make friends
- Safer Internet - Clean Out Your Computer
Badges we will be working on are:
- Icebreaker Champion
- Positivity Challenge
Updated Information!
I have some things planned for Relationship & Friendship Support Community!
Teen Dating Violence: icebreaker questions about healthy/unhealthy relationships
I am planning on also creating a forum section in our community for people going through abusive relationships in honor of the month.
also, im planning on posting more infomation about the topic and resources.
Valentines Day: Icebreaker questions. Maybe a forum discussion on not being in a relationship on valentines day, or share your appreciation with someone here on 7cups
Friendship Day: Why friendships are important, difficulties in friendhips.
If you have any ideas or want to help out, feel free to pm me!
(could be both forums and/or group support, but most of them more likely forums)
@Kate - what is the best way for communities to get events listed on the masterpost before it is published? Should they reach out to you directly or is there a form that can be filled out? Thanks!
cc: @AffyAvo
@Anomalia I've just been adding as we go. Trying to put up lists several months at a time so anyone who comments in it with a plan or idea, I will add. March is up here if anyone wants to plan ahead.
@Kate awesome, thanks!
@Anomalia To post in this thread or whichever months thread / or even message myself or kate... what they working on and I been messaging to get more details / see if it doable etc. <3
@fluffyUnicorns84 - thanks!
There's also February Heart Month...Heart Disesase Awareness Month...
Healthy Living Celebrates this Every year with an Event and badges..... I don't see that listed as something celebrated in February unless I overlooked it?
@PoliteOcean We not had this one listed , great that healthy living are doing something for it. Do let us know what you are doing so we can include it in the weekly checkin <3.
Hey @Kate
Aside from helping out with Eating Disorder Awareness Week, another day that I am interested in doing something for is Time to Talk Day, which is February 7th. It is pretty soon, so i'm not entirely sure of the size of the event - maybe just a feed tag or something. Although it is a primarily UK based event, with a UK mental health charity - this day is all about speaking about mental health and promoting that change! I'd love to do something about why we talk about mental health
I know that outside of 7 Cups, I will be doing lots of events relating to this day through other organisations and thought it may be nice to have a reminder about why its so so important to raise awareness, and talk about mental health! I shall think more about it, but I'd love for as many people to join in with the tag as possible! If anybody is interested, than please let me know and I can message/tag you when the post is up! It is time to talk so we can change the future
I'll post about Eating Disorder Awareness Events, when we have more of a concrete plan, but exciting things are be planned!
@emsworld I agree we should do something for time to talk day...... maybe could encourage people do open chats just encouraging people to talk. Something on feed ? Maybe forum post about why its important to speak out?
Hey @fluffyUnicorns84
That sounds like a good plan! I'll try and get something drafted to do maybe a feed tag.
forum post about why its important to speak out?
I think the forum post sounds like a great idea to create conversation! I'm sure everybody has a reason to speak out about mental illness, so it will be great to have a post sharing things and building a discussion!
Open Chats are always good, I'll try and host some and spread the word that moderators/doorkeepers could open the rooms up and encourage that conversation aha!
Emma
