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Community Guides - who they are and what they do!

NikNikSenior Contributor17 Oct 2017, 6:50 pm AEDT

Community Guides - who they are and what they do!

Hi there,

As you may have seen, we did a call out for the latest round of Community Guides.

Community Guides are long term members of the community, who help others feel heard, feel welcome and less alone. You may seem them around getting involved in things like:

Encouraging members to participate in discussions
Welcoming new members
Helping members feel less alone, whether it be through sharing on their own experience or through connecting members with similar experiences
Starting new and engaging discussions
Special events, such as Topic Tuesday
Answering 'How-to' questions from other members

This round of Community Guides are:

@Appleblossom @CheerBear @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member @PeppiPatty @Phoenix_Rising @Queenie @Sans911 @Shaz51 and @soul

Over the next 24 hours, you will see the title under their names change from 'Senior Contributor' to 'Community Guide'

In the meantime, I thought I would start this space so Community Guides can introduce themselves (incase you don't know them) and you can say hi!!

Thanks,

Nik

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Shaz51Senior Contributor18 Oct 2017, 8:48 am AEDT

Re: Community Guides - who they are and what they do!

Yes, I'm back.....--- yaaaaaa @PeppiPatty

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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor18 Oct 2017, 8:38 pm AEDT

Re: Community Guides - who they are and what they do!

Hello fellow Forumites,

I am Phoenix_Rising. There isn't very much to know about me. I'm just your typical run-of-the-mill autistic sea turtle with borderline personality disorder (BPD). I'm female and 40 years old (which, given sea turtles live to 150, is ridiculously young).

I have a very extensive psychiatric history spanning the past twenty years. Much of what I struggle with these days is due to trauma I have experienced within the mental health system, rather than the events that brought me into contact with that system in the first place. Consequently, I am super passionate about changing some of those systemic issues that I believe cause far more harm than good. I hold strong values around the importance of lived experience in informing policy and change. I also hold strong values around empowering consumers and as much as possible, breaking down the power differential that currently exists between "the experts" and consumers.

I spend a lot of my time riding the waves of super overwhelming emotions that are a core feature of BPD. Thus you can usually find me here: Riding a wave.

When I'm not floating around the ocean, I can often be found doing yoga in the most peculiar yoga group in the world: The great yoga adventure or doing a bit of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Let's do dialectical behaviour therapy.

I think that's about all there is to know about me...oh except that I fully intend to change the world.