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Community Guidelines

A privacy-first peer-support and lived-experience education space for working professionals navigating burnout, recovery, and what comes next.

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Welcome

 

Welcome to Where I’m At.

 

This community is here to offer a calmer, more protective space for working professionals navigating burnout, recovery, career change, and the slower process of rebuilding afterwards.

 

We want this to be a place where people can:

  • feel less alone

  • share honestly without pressure

  • move at their own pace

  • protect their privacy

  • receive peer support without being fixed, judged, or overwhelmed

  • explore what comes next in a way that feels realistic, grounded, and safe

 

These guidelines are here to protect the tone, boundaries, pacing, and safety of the space for everyone.

 

1. Peer support and lived-experience education

(not professional care)

 

Where I’m At is a peer-support and lived-experience education space.

 

This community is shaped by:

  • lived experience

  • reflection

  • practical tools

  • calmer conversation

  • peer connection

  • educational self-study pathways

  • trusted next-step signposting where relevant

It is not:

  • therapy or counselling

  • coaching

  • crisis support

  • medical, psychiatric, nutritional, legal, or financial advice

  • diagnosis or treatment

  • a replacement for qualified professional care

 

Posts, comments, events, and resources here reflect personal experiences, educational content, and opinions, not individual advice.

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Please treat what you read as something to reflect on, not instructions to follow.

If you are unsure what is right for you, speak with a qualified professional who knows your situation.

 

2. Share from your own experience

 

Please speak from your own experience rather than telling other people what they should do.

 

Helpful ways to contribute include:

  • “What helped me was…”

  • “What I noticed in my own recovery was…”

  • “Something I learned the hard way was…”

  • “What made this feel more manageable for me was…”

  • “What I needed at that stage was…”

Less helpful contributions include:

  • telling someone what treatment they need

  • giving step-by-step health advice

  • pushing someone toward a major decision

  • speaking as though your experience is the right answer for everyone

  • acting as someone’s unqualified coach, therapist, or adviser

  • presenting opinion as fact

 

This space works best when members share honestly, gently, and with humility.

 

3. Privacy-first by design

Burnout can feel deeply vulnerable. Please help us protect privacy.

 

You are welcome to:

  • use an alias or nickname

  • avoid showing your face

  • keep details minimal

  • post anonymously where available

  • take part quietly or selectively

Please do not:

  • name employers, colleagues, clients, or identifiable individuals

  • post screenshots of private conversations

  • share another member’s story outside the space

  • copy, forward, or repost community content elsewhere without permission

  • post details that could create avoidable personal, workplace, or legal risk

 

Please treat what is shared here as private and do not screenshot or share other people’s posts outside this space.

 

We cannot guarantee what other members do, but we expect everyone here to take privacy seriously and we act on reports where needed.

 

4. You control your pace

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You do not need to:

  • read every post

  • reply to everything

  • tell your whole story

  • keep up with the community

  • join every event

  • finish every course

  • be highly visible to belong here

You are welcome to:

  • lurk quietly

  • write one sentence

  • use reactions only

  • take breaks

  • step back and return later

  • stay in one part of the framework for as long as you need

  • move slowly and repeat what helps

 

Protecting your energy is part of participating well here.

 

5. Kindness first (no fixing, no diagnosing)

 

Please respond with care.

This means:

  • validate before you suggest

  • ask before offering advice

  • do not shame, mock, or minimise someone’s experience

  • do not pressure people to heal faster

  • do not compare pain competitively

  • do not treat the space like a debate forum

  • do not use someone else’s vulnerability as a chance to display expertise

  • do not turn conversations into arguments about who is “right”

 

Please also do not diagnose, label, or speculate about other people’s mental health, personality, motives, or medical condition in this space, including employers, colleagues, family members, clients, or other members.

 

Speak from your own experience instead.

 

6. Safety and sensitive content

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Some conversations in a burnout community can feel heavy or activating.

 

Please use care when posting about:

  • suicidal thoughts

  • self-harm

  • trauma

  • abuse

  • psychiatric hospitalisation

  • medication experiences

  • intense workplace harm

  • eating or substance-related struggles

  • severe mental health distress

Where possible:

  • add a simple content note at the top

  • avoid graphic descriptions

  • avoid step-by-step harmful behaviour

  • share only what feels necessary and safe

  • keep identifiable details to a minimum

 

If a post is too graphic, too exposing, too destabilising, or too unsafe for the space, moderators may remove it or ask for edits.

 

7. Course and framework safety gate

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If you feel overwhelmed, activated, or unable to cope right now, please do not push yourself further into course material.

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A gentler route may be:

  • RECOGNISE if things still feel confusing, frightening, or hard to name

  • RECOGNISE → Module 6: The Come Down Phase if you need immediate softening and safety

  • RECOGNISE → Module 8: The Support Module if you need help mapping support outside the platform

  • RESET if you need more steadiness, rhythm, or basic support

  • REINVENT Checkpoint only when you feel ready to look forward gently

  • REINVENT Work Life Foundations if work feels loudest and you want a lighter first step

  • REINVENT Work Life if you want deeper structured support around work after burnout

  • REINVENT Partners if you want specialist perspectives beyond the core framework

 

You are allowed to slow down, skip ahead, pause, repeat, or come back later.

There is no prize for pushing too fast.

 

8. No promotions, recruitment, or unsolicited DMs

 

This space is for support, not prospecting.

 

Please do not:

  • promote your business or services without permission

  • recruit clients, members, or followers

  • message people privately to pitch offers

  • send repeated unsolicited direct messages

  • use the space to grow an audience off-platform

  • use the community as a lead-generation space

  • present yourself as an authority over other members

Private messages should always be respectful and welcome.

 

Please do not use DMs to:

  • pressure someone into replying

  • offer unqualified support, coaching, or crisis help

  • continue contact after someone has said no

  • move conversations into a more private space without consent

  • bypass community boundaries or moderation

 

If someone asks you to stop messaging them, stop immediately.

 

If you receive a message that feels invasive, inappropriate, promotional, manipulative, or unsafe, please report it.

 

9. What’s welcome here

 

This is a space for:

  • honesty

  • reflection

  • slower conversations

  • lived experience

  • gentler rebuilding

  • small wins

  • uncertainty

  • anonymous sharing

  • quiet participation

  • work and life questions after burnout

  • honest reinvention at a realistic pace

  • taking one next step at a time

 

You do not need to sound polished here.

You do not need to have answers here.

You do not need to be “doing recovery right.”

You do not need to impress anyone here.

 

10. What may be moderated or removed

 

Moderators may review, limit, edit, or remove content that includes things like:

  • harassment, bullying, or repeated disrespect

  • hate speech or discriminatory language

  • graphic self-harm, suicide, or violence content

  • step-by-step harmful behaviour

  • medical, psychiatric, nutritional, legal, or financial instructions presented as advice

  • diagnosing or labelling other people

  • naming employers, colleagues, clients, or identifiable individuals

  • screenshots or copied content shared without permission

  • spam, promotions, recruitment, or repeated unsolicited DMs

  • large copied excerpts, copyrighted material, or paid content shared without permission

  • content that puts privacy, safety, or community tone at risk

 

We may also moderate content that is not malicious, but is simply too activating, exposing, unsafe, or out of scope for this particular space.

 

11. Moderation approach

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Moderation is there to protect the community, not to punish people for being human.

Where possible, we aim to use the least intense action that restores safety and protects the tone of the space.

Depending on the situation, moderators may:

  • hide content temporarily while it is reviewed

  • remove content

  • ask for edits

  • request a content warning

  • send a reminder or warning

  • pause a thread

  • mute, suspend, or remove a member in more serious situations

 

Repeated or serious breaches may lead to removal from the community.

 

12. Partner pathway boundaries

 

Some parts of the ecosystem include trusted expert-led content or referral pathways through REINVENT Partners.

 

Please remember:

  • partner content belongs to the external expert or provider

  • external services remain the responsibility of the external provider

  • not every topic in this ecosystem is taught directly by Chris

  • referrals, where included, are optional and should be assessed independently

  • expert sessions, partner pages, or external offers do not replace your own judgement

  • external pathways do not replace qualified professional care where needed

 

This community may include expert sessions, pathway pages, or optional next steps beyond the platform, but they should always be understood as distinct from the peer-support and lived-experience education space itself.

 

13. Crisis and emergency limits

 

Where I’m At is not able to provide:

  • crisis counselling

  • emergency response

  • clinical support

  • immediate risk assessment

  • urgent safeguarding intervention

If you are in crisis, feel unsafe, or believe someone is in immediate danger, please contact:

  • emergency services

  • a crisis line

  • a doctor

  • a therapist

  • another qualified local professional

 

Please do not rely only on the platform in an emergency.

 

14. Final reminder

 

This community is built around:

  • safety

  • privacy

  • honesty

  • slower rebuilding

  • lived experience

  • educational support

  • grounded hope

  • protecting limited energy

  • taking one next step at a time

 

You are welcome here as you are.

You do not need to be impressive.

You do not need to explain everything.

You do not need to move quickly.

You just need enough space to begin where you are.

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