August 2026 Community Update!

Dear Community,

I hope you all are well!

Things are good here. I’m off on a camping trip with my family today for the weekend. The whole crew will be together, which is a nice gift!

We celebrated our 13th birthday! Here is a video. Shout out to @soulfullyabutterfly and @Heather225 for doing such a great job with the festivities. And a big thank you to all who contributed and celebrated with us. It was a delight.

Our birthday always feels like a holiday to me. One of my favorite days in the year.

We also launched back us tool. Many of you have asked how you can support us. If you have resources, believe in our mission, and want to help, then please do! It would mean a lot to me. 7cups.com/back-us. It will likely take a while, but with enough monthly supporters we will hopefully get to a place where this can help cover some of the bills.

The free peer credentialing / certification program is also in process. We hope to finish up the curriculum in the next two weeks. I shared it with 2 people at SAMHSA and they were genuinely impressed. Our next step is to submit the curriculum and get official accreditation. One step at a time. We are getting there!

Last, I did my attempt at a short Way of the River video. Many of you gave me very helpful feedback. Thank you! I need to make several shorter videos and optimize them. I’ll keep iterating until we get there.

Have a lovely weekend!

GlenM 

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The Community Beacon has been a smashing success. We have seen so much enthusiasm for this campaign that I wanted to find a special way to recognize those who are serving at a high level. Beyond our All for One badge, I introduced the next tier of participation: the "Themed Week Trooper" badge as a milestone for 100 days of participation. Please swing back after this post to congratulate our first two awardees here.

The Welcome Committee is the friendly front line of 7 Cups, dedicated to greeting new members, offering guidance, and helping newbies feel at home. We are currently looking for passionate individuals to fill two vital roles:

1. Team members (you must be a Verified Listener): (Click here for details.)

2. Project Agents: Help lead behind the scenes! Assist in running team operations and managing committee projects. If you're already a team member, even better! (PM me for details.)

Listener Verifiers Project ring a bell? Are you a seasoned leader who has been on the Verified Listener Team before? I am looking specifically for people who have occupied the role of being a Verifier in recent years and can return to the team (even if only temporarily) to onboard and train new verifiers. My bat call post is here if you want to respond there, or you can just PM me! I’d appreciate all the help to scale this team back up.

Hope

July’s primary focus was on completing the Certified Peer Support Specialist Program curriculum. During the month, development work was finalized for Modules 11 through 19, including the creation of post-module activities. These modules have now been published within the dedicated Peer Support Specialist sub-community.

With this progress, the majority of the curriculum development phase is now complete. The remaining work involves finalizing assessments for the program, bringing us close to completing the first phase of development.

Beyond this, work continued on maintaining ongoing operations across academy programs and supporting existing initiatives.

SoulfullyAButterfly

This month, we marked 7 Cups turning 13 by concluding several events as part of a 13 Day Countdown to the big day! You can find the annual birthday video filled with community wishes here

We have also re-launched  the LGBTQ+ Huddle as a 24/7 space for safer support, and are looking forward to launching further similar spaces and events to help expand support options across the community.