June 2026 Community Update!

Dear Community,

Happy Summer! June 1! We are already here yet again. I love the summer because the world quiets down a little bit, especially around August.

I wrote a post titled Care is Electricity. You can also find a shorter LinkedIn version here. Thank you all for the comments and for sharing the post. The feedback has been encouraging. What we do here is very unique as we don’t really fit into any normal organization categories. The good news is we are getting better at describing it. The Care is Electricity post was another step in the right direction!

We’ve also made some progress on the peer support certification front. We now have 6 or 7 of the modules completed and we are working hard to finish up the rest soon. We do have a meeting with SAMHSA in June to further help amplify the Academy.

I’ve also been busy on the partnership front and hope to mention more on this front soon!

Best,

GlenM

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Thanks to everyone who took part in May events in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, alongside Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Awareness Month and Maternal Mental Health Month. Those who stepped in to write posts and host events have earned the exclusive MH Awareness Month badge! Congratulations @jesusredeemedme2425 @AiluraTheCat @TovaCares76 @YourCaringConfidant @SmoothOpertor55 @Angelanj Please visit this post after reading the update to check out the great content from your peers!

The Community Beacon campaign has been a smashing success! Engagement and morale are soaring, thanks to your weekly contributions. The encouraging and collaborative energy in these threads truly captures the essence of what 7 Cups is about. It’s like seeing our best efforts at the forefront, and I am so proud of how you show up for each other and for yourselves!!

As an extra incentive, everyone who reaches 30 days of participation in this campaign earns the “All for one” badge. The first batch of winners can be congratulated in this post! 

If you’re new to the beacon, the weeks refresh every Thursday in this forum!

In last month’s update, I launched a special 7-week forum series aptly called The 7 Cups Values Series to explore our values and what they mean to us. Each value has its own dedicated post. You can catch up on them by visiting the masterpost here and let me know in the replies there which value you resonate with most!

My availability will be changing for a while. All the contacts for coverage are outlined here. If you have any questions, my PMs are always open to you!

Hope

In May, we started work on building out the coursework for the Peer Support Specialist track. We’ve made solid progress so far, especially with developing the modules, and things are moving in the right direction. This is an important step toward eventually having our own Peer Support Specialist program in place. If you’re interested in learning more about this track, click here to learn more about it.

We also had our first three listeners earn the Active Listener Recognition Certificates for reaching 10 or more Tulip nominations. A big congratulations to them. You can find out who they are and congratulate the rest of the nominees here.

We also took some time to celebrate Eid al-Adha with the community. Even though Eid has wrapped up, you’re still welcome to join in and take part in the post here. Aside from that, it’s mostly been steady maintenance work across the board.

SoulfullyAButterfly

We launched the Social Support Room group chat this month as a bridge between member community room and support room 24/7. After a trial and user feedback, this room is now badge locked and access is available to anyone who applies here.

As part of the May Mental Health Awareness month events, one of our therapists, Ashley Flewellen (@AshleyNFlewellenLPC), held a workshop on Breaking the Stigma.

We look forward to announcing new events and activities as we move forward to June.