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Topic Threads Scheduel: Every Saturday 🍀
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Hello everyone,
Lots of you have been sharing that you'd like more support here on the boards, and we absolutely hear you. We want to reassure you that we're still aiming for our vision of providing 7-day-a-week support, and we're working towards building the volunteer capacity that will allow us to offer that
In the meantime, we're pleased to announce that we'll be introducing weekly support threads every Saturday afternoon at 2-3:30, starting on March 1st. These threads will offer a focused space to connect with others and explore specific topics you have identified as important. These topics were chosen based on the poll we ran last month, and we hope they will be helpful as we aim to grow our support services.
Here's the schedule for March:
Saturday, March 1st: Managing Anxiety
Saturday, March 8th: Dealing with Stress
Saturday, March 15th: Sleep/Insomnia
Saturday, March 22nd: Dealing with Low Mood
Saturday, March 29th: Communication in Relationships
These threads will mostly be ran by myself and Sian and mods
I hope this is good news for you all on this rainy day
Lots of you have been sharing that you'd like more support here on the boards, and we absolutely hear you. We want to reassure you that we're still aiming for our vision of providing 7-day-a-week support, and we're working towards building the volunteer capacity that will allow us to offer that
In the meantime, we're pleased to announce that we'll be introducing weekly support threads every Saturday afternoon at 2-3:30, starting on March 1st. These threads will offer a focused space to connect with others and explore specific topics you have identified as important. These topics were chosen based on the poll we ran last month, and we hope they will be helpful as we aim to grow our support services.
Here's the schedule for March:
Saturday, March 1st: Managing Anxiety
Saturday, March 8th: Dealing with Stress
Saturday, March 15th: Sleep/Insomnia
Saturday, March 22nd: Dealing with Low Mood
Saturday, March 29th: Communication in Relationships
These threads will mostly be ran by myself and Sian and mods
I hope this is good news for you all on this rainy day
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Thank you so much to all of you who have attended our Saturday Topic Threads throughout March! It's felt like such a positive space to chat together and help one another out.
I'm very pleased to say that we've consulted the poll of Topics yourselves have voted for, and the April Topics have now been confirmed!
These are:
2-3:30pm - Saturday 5th April: Building Confidence and Self-Esteem
3:30pm - 5pm - Saturday 12th April: Coping with Procrastination
2 - 3:30pm - Saturday 19th April: Setting Boundaries - with Self and Others
3:30 - 5pm - Saturday 26th April: Thriving Friendships
Why are we hosting Threads at these times?
To help ensure as many people as possible can attend, I will be alternating the times of the Threads to offer X2 daytime threads, and X2 late-afternoon threads.
Please note, at the moment these Saturday Threads are being run by staff (which means we're limited to running them within our working hours 9am - 5pm), however, we are in the process excitingly of recruiting more volunteers, and look forward to hopefully being able to introduce Saturday Topic Thread moderators soon!
Thank you so much to all who have joined and taken part in our April Topic Threads! They've felt like really fruitful and honest spaces.
I can confirm that our May 'set-list' is now up and ready, based on your responses to our previous poll:
2-3:30pm - Saturday 3rd May - Mornings and Daily Routines
3:30pm - 5pm - Saturday 10th May - Studying
2 - 3:30pm - Saturday 17th May - Money
3:30 - 5:00pm - Saturday 24th May - Finding Hobbies you Love
Saturday 31st May 2-4pm - Watch Party instead! - https://community.themix.org.uk/discussion/3606752/what-should-we-watch-on-may-31st-from-2pm-4pm#latest
Feedback:
Do you have any feedback about Topic Threads specifically? What's been working well? What kind of topics feel most interesting? What isn't working for you so far?
We'll love to hear!
Please find here your June scheduel for Topic Threads happening each Saturday this month:
Saturday 7th June - 1:00 - 2:30pm - Making Life Changes (Navigating Careers and Study Choices)
Saturday 14th June - 3:00 - 4:30pm - Coping with Loneliness
Saturday 21st June - 1:00 - 2:30pm - Creativity - Talking all things personal-creative-projects, favourite books and movies, or dealing with creative blocks
Saturday 28th June - 2-4pm Watch Party! (Vote here for what you'd like to watch!)
The themes and topics for these Threads are being pulled from this Poll here: https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaVBDBg3.
If you have not voted yet and would like to get more of a say over which Topic we're covering, please do add your thoughts and suggestions through this link!
How are you finding Topic Threads so far? What's working for you, what's not working? We'd love to hear your feedback!