January 2019 Special Events
January Special Events Master Post of events in the works and other awareness days to consider getting involved with:
- Mental Wellness Month
- No Name Calling Week (Jan 13-19)
- Hobbies Month - Feel free to add ideas, sign up . Any questions etc please pm @fluffyunicorns84
- Trivia Day: Jan 4th
- Birth Defect Prevention Month
- National Complimenting Day: Jan 24
-National Hugging Day: Jan 21
- Community Manager Appreciation Day: Jan 28 (I promise I didn't make this one up! 
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- Mentor Month
- Mentor Month Activites in Teen Zone
- Echoes of Kindness in Veteran Support
- Motivation & Self-Help Bingo
- Safety & Knowledge Crossword
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 January that I may have missed.
Please review and let me know what others you have in the works or if you'd like to help with any of the events listed above!
@fluffyunicorns84
hey kate! for Mental Wellness Month i was kinda thinking about doing some stuff in Relationship & Friendship Community about having a healthy relationship with yourself!
Do you already have any ideas for doing something for Mentor Month? sounds interesting!! 
National Complimenting Day omg that sounds awesome: I'd love to work on this project with maybe A&G or Teen Zone! I'd also be happy to collaborate with any subcommunities on this, so please let me know if you're interested in working together :D
@peppermintlove i am!! a collab with TSEBI?
@Hope3729
Let's get planning
@peppermintlove @Hope3729
Jumping in because I saw teen zone XD Pepper, want to do it for TOZ? A TOZ/TSEBI collab sounds sick! (And Im totally not biased.) You up for it, Hope? I can help plan too if youd like! Would love to join.
@Imogene im in!
@peppermintlove I was just going to do anon shoutout challenge see how many we could get in the day using anon shout form we have anyways - person who submits the most gets glitterstar badge. What do you think?,
Also like to do something about gratitude and wellness maybe just a forum discussion and cr discussion if poss - if got any ideas on that.
@fluffyUnicorns84
Shoutout challenge sounds great and I love the idea of a forum discussion - we should definitely have more of those! I'll have a think of some ideas and pm you :)
@Kate what is mentor month about?
@soulsings i guess about appreciating our mentors? 
but am not quite sure!
@Kate @Jill7cups
35+ has the following planned for Januray:
Happy 1st Birthday 35+ Sub-Community – Join in the celebration and earn the SC Cupsiversary badge and a few other badges
This January, Questions and Quotes of the Week powered by the 35+ Butterfly kick off with an awesome Celebration of Life, discuss our hobbies, mark some acceptance that the only disability in life is a bad attitude, and celebrate our mentors. Finally, the earth without art is just eh. Join us this January to inhale possibility and exhale creativity.
Join us in the Forum for:
💖 SC Cupsiversary badge - for participating in a SC's anniversary event
💖Ice-Breaker Champion badge
💖Games - In honor of - Trivia Day: Jan 4th we have the following fun. We will also be having fun that day with scheduled and pop up trivia in the Thirty-Five & Over room.
💖Crossword puzzle
💖UnScrabble game
💖Bingo Game
💖 In honor of the National Hugging Day: Jan 21 we will be giving free hugs out that day with pop up sessions in the Thirty-Five & Over room. However, the room knows you can always give hugs out to folks every day.
💖 In honor of the National Complimenting Day: Jan 24 we have the following activities to participate in. We will also be Complimenting that day with pop up sessions in the Thirty-Five & Over room. However, the room knows you can compliment folks every day and individuals would appreciate that.
💖 Positive Affirmation Letter
💖 Appreciation to others - Spread the Love – Community Shout-Outs
We started a motivational/accountability partner/buddy? Please click here for more information. Those that stick with your partner/buddy for at least 2 months will receive the Accountability badge.
💖 Self-care Badge – Challenge exercising 3 times a week for 1 month January 1 – 31, 2019
💖 Birthday challenge? Get Creative, make a present or card to wish 35+ Sub-Community a Happy Birthday. Then share it with us using https://imgur.com
Lots of Discussions - Click here!
💖 @CaringBrit is going to do some DJ songs for all of us to help with our 35+ celebration. She uses samcloud which can be pretty picky so it might not work on phones or tablets so you might need to check multiple browsers because laptops and phone browsers are choosy.
She will go on the air and DJ for 4 hours Monday, January 7 3pm-7pm EST and Wednesday, January 9 7am - 11am EST. The radio link she will add in this posting the day of the events and you can request a song on this form link. She will have the Special Events room open for chats. If for some reason the room changes the change will be posted in this forum posting. Any requests she will find them in her music and add them to the queue on the caster broadcaster. Hope you have fun enjoying the music that everyone selects for our celebration.
💖Feed - Join us on the 35+ feed to help celebrate!
If anyone has other ideas please let me know. Thanks
I'm thinking of having a Bingo that will run from 21st January until the 31st for the Motivation and Self-Help Community. Hopefully, we could integrate all the events for January and this will include appreciating mentors and community managers as well as joining free hugs sessions within that week and more!
If anyone or any SC wants to collaborate or help us out, please let me know! (especially that posting in the appropriate forums might be included in the Bingo) c: Things have yet to be finalized - the details aforementioned can still be tweaked.
@Erato We still have 7 vacant slots for the bingo to be completed! If any SC wants to suggest tasks or forum threads be linked in accordance to our January Events, please don't hesitate to message me :)
@Erato
Hi, I posted this last night if you would like to include it as part of your bingo or any link off of it. Thanks
Happy 1st Birthday 35+ Sub-Community – Join in the celebration and earn some badges
@DanaMH Thanks dana! <3 I've already linked one of the threads c: I'll add another one too if you like
@Erato
Sure you can and thanks
I'm also willing to host a mentor month celebration in the Listener Learning & Journey Subcom, if anyone has any fresh ideas or suggestions to plan through it, please let me know as well!
As of now, @Hope3729 and I are brainstorming for the themed check-ins/icebreakers but not final yet!
@Erato That sounds like a great idea! Keep us updated with what you plan.
@Kate Thank you! We'll let you know the final plan, for sure! c:
@Erato @Kate We've posted our first themed check-in for January!
Join us in every check-in as we talk about mentoring and how a mentor has influenced you - CLICK HERE
@Kate @fluffyUnicorns84
I'm keen to have a group support event in the last week of January to try and get 2019 off to a good start, but what do you think? I was thinking we could do a 7-day long event with different support teams as the focus for each day and we'd do something like the Mix n Match event where we invite people to host pop-ups or smaller-scale versions of the current discussions we have.
Proposed agenda for teen side:
Day 1: Compassion Corner
Day 2: Anxiety, Depression, Events
Day 3: Disability, LGBTQ+, Healthy Living
Day 4: Student, Teen Zone
Day 5: Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, Relationship
Day 6: Support Plus
Day 7: General day for all communities; I thought we could aim to have 24 discussions on this day, one for each hour, but that might be being too ambitious XD Perhaps that could be the goal?
There could also be a constant theme in the sense that each day one or two discussions could be held on the New Year - I'm willing to write a series of discussions for that if needed! Thoughts?
cc: @Erato @Rose
@Imogene I love the set up of this however Id like to hold off , to a later month as we just had the mix and match event for group support and we also looking at reorganising things a little, might be a good event to try do some kinda support team relaunch. Love to do it later on in the year though and do it for both adult and teen side. @Kate would you agree with this? Also tagging our Group support ambassadors @lorraine234 @Sweetlily41
Happy 2019 7Cups! Addiction Support has created a forum thread event for setting goals for this year. We'd love to hear your goals, and you can also check out some helpful links in creating and maintaining them.
If you post your response by Jan 8th, you will receive the resolution ruler badge! Click on the link below to reach the event. We look forward to hearing from you! :)
Goals for 2019
January for Personality Disorders we are thinking of doing a sort of accountability challenge, the idea would that people would be paired together and have certain "challanges to do each day" and members will be paired with listeners to help them with it, like let's say it's to Compliment yourself, if that's something hard for them to do they will have a listener buddy to talk about it and help them come up with a compliment.