October 2021 Community Wrap 🎉

Hi there SANE Community 👋

We are back with a wrap up of what's been happening across the forums in October 2021. We also have information about where to find upcoming discussions for November below 🙂

#️⃣Trending topics:

• Daily Achievements (Lived Experience Forum)
• The Butterfly Room - ED Support (Lived Experience Forum)
• Growth Mindset (Lived Experience Forum)
• Everyday photo experiences that make you grateful/laugh/happy (Friends, Family and Carer's Forum)
• Parents supporting unwell adult children (Friends, Family and Carer's Forum)

🎉 Celebrate a member:

@Sophia1 for your kindness, compassion and empathetic support across the forums community. Your posts in this discussion are just some of the examples of the care that you provide to others. Well done!

@Sandy-66 for starting discussions to share your passion for peer support, and the role peers have played in your journey. You will see one of your quotes below as our quote of the month 🙂

@chibam for your thoughtful questions and contributions to Topic Tuesdays. We love seeing the questions you bring to Topic Tuesday discussions and your knowledge from your own experiences. Thank you!

@Judi9877 for continuing to lead the Daily Achievements space in the forums! I love seeing all the amazing community support and celebration that happens here, and it wouldn't be possible without your leadership 🙂

🗓 SANE events to take part in next month

There are so many discussions and events taking place this month, and we invite you to join in! To find out all the events taking place, check out the calendar below or our thread What's happening on the forums in November 2021 🗓

🔦Spotlight on:

In October, we wrapped up the last of our Let's talk about emotions discussions with the topics of Sadness and Happiness. If you want to check out the 4 discussions we had and get involved, you can join the discussion here Let’s talk about Emotion: Introduction.

SANE hosted three Topic Tuesday last month. We started the month with a discussion for BPD Awareness week, with special guests @KirstyNEABPD and @BPDSurvivor, talking about creative wellbeing and approaches to recovery. Topic Tuesday // BPD Awareness Week 2021 – Discover Creative Wellbeing // Tues 5th October, 7pm-8:30pm AEDT

We then spoke about tools and tips for self, indiviudal and systemic advocacy Topic Tuesday // Tools for Advocacy // Tues 19th October, 7:00-8:30PM AEDT.

Lastly, we ended the month in the friends, family and carers forum talking about moving from isolation to connected as a carer with Peer Ambassador @SA64Topic Tuesday // "You don't have to be isolated as a carer" // Tues 26th October, 7pm-8:30pm AEDT

You can still view the discussions and hear from the community using the links above.

🎊SANE news:

This month, we welcomed lots of new peer workers to the SANE team! SANE's team is growing - Introducing our new peer support workers 🎉. Please join me in welcoming @Paperdaisy @Former-Member @Former-Member @Former-Member @Former-Member @RiverSeal @Former-Member

We will also be opening applications for the Community Guide Program soon, so if you are a Senior Contributor and are interested to apply, please keep an eye out for more details!

🌸 Quote of the month:

"There's something special connecting with others that share and understand your struggles and pain which is sometimes difficult if you know another doesn't really feel your experience in the same personal way." @Sandy-66

Tagging those who supported the last month's Community Wrap

@eth @frog @Anastasia @Dimity @Snowie @Shaz51 @RedHorse @Fluttershy1 @Former-Member @cloudcore @Emelia8

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