Introductions

[JonW]

Sounds like a good plan, Fee.

[BioSattva]

Welcome to our community Vixine
I'm about to qualify as a counsellor in the UK and it was my own therapist who introduced me to it
I look forward to getting to know you better.

Also everyone, I'm going to close this thread tomorrow as it is getting so long and I was thinking of encouraging new members to start new intro threads. We are getting busier all the time and I don't want anyone to get missed. Does that sound like a plan?

Fee, from what I have seen on other forums, normally this kind of thread is left to get longer and longer. Imagine if a hundred new members joined and each created a new thread - that would be worse imo.

[Gareth]

Fiona and I discussed this yesterday, and to be honest neither of us like either solution (one thread/many threads). Where people introduce themselves they often give a bit of their story, and that story is getting buried in the earlier pages of this thread. I don't like the idea of millions of threads either, but I like it more than what we currently have. At least you can use the search facilities to find somebody's introduction. If people have better ideas of how we can run the introductions, then they will be gratefully received.

[BioSattva]

Maybe multiple threads but in a specific 'folder' within the 'Our Community' folder - possibly titled 'Member Introductions'. Even if members don't post their introduction thread in there at first, a Mod can shift them into that. In this way the 'Our Community' section needn't be cluttered with lots of introduction posts, if that's the main concern.

On all the other forums I've been on, they've kept it all on one thread. It depends on whether you think member introductions are so important. If I want to know more about a member, I think I'm more likely to look at the profile, rather than search for an introduction - especially since peoples' practices will probably change over the years.

I've always felt that the introductions thread is more for current members to be made aware of new members and for new members to make a polite entry to the forum, rather than have a kind of biography of their lives to refer to....

[FeeHutch]

We have various changes in the works, including a different place for people to post their mindfulness stories if they so wish.

What I would ask is that you bare with us right now while we try and get lots of new ideas and people to help facilitate those ideas into place. I think some of these ideas we will have to try out to really understand how they will work in practice. Nothing is set in stone and we will always be open to feedback and encourage honesty.

It is a journey for all of us