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Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. It is the core function of our online community here at SANE Forums! We want to start having more conversations about it with each other to make sure we all have the skills to support each other!

The topics we are going to cover are:

- community values

- safe spaces

- communication (open ended questions; reflective listening & affirmations)

- empathy

- holding space

See you here Tuesday night!

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

@frog To be non-judgemental is so important and really hard when it goes against the grain of our natural human instinct to judge and assess another (wired into us across evolution!). But it is one of the key pillars within this online community, and I am always so impressed as to how open people are here within the SANE Forums, many of you hold space for each other so proactively

@whatsinaname Sensitivity is very important, and thank you for raising the example of PTSD. I am sorry to hear you are navigating the symptoms of this, but we're all here for you And a really great point in relation to sensitivity.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Alrighty crew in an effort to keep on track with time for tonight's chat - on to question 2!

As a member of this forum, or even as a moderator or community manager, we are not here to “fix” any one else’s situation. What we can do, is be there for them. Three really important communication tools we can use to ‘hold space’ are open ended questions; reflective listening & affirmations.


Open ended questions are questions that can’t be answered with a yes/no, good/bad type answer.

Reflective listening is about showing the person you’ve understood what they have said.

Affirmations are statements that recognise strengths or behaviours that lead to positive change.


Asking open ended questions can help the people you are talking to open up and drive the conversation towards the things they want/need to talk about. Can you think of some open ended Qs you’ve used in the forums?



In response to: Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Thanks for the tag, just following along quietly

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

hey @whatsinaname

welcome to the forums 🙂 haven't seen you here before

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Respect & sensitivity.

I was once voted (by all staff) as being the most Respectful employee - the person who most embodied the value of respect.

Adge

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Sounds good @Snowie! Happy to have you here in any capacity 🙂

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Amazing @Adge I'd believe it too! How lovely is that

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Ask about their hobbies

or what they did on the weekend

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

I think some of the questions I have found helpful that people have asked me and that I've asked others hoping they'll be helpful too, are things like "what's happening for you today?" and "how are things going/how are you?".

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Re: Topic Tuesday // What online peer support looks like // Tues 16th July, 7pm-9pm AEST

Thanks @Former-Member and @MDT.

A good first open question is, how has your day been?

One I like too is, what do you think you need right now?

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