Community Guidelines

Last Updated June 2022

Hi, we’re happy you’re here exploring what it means for you to choose within.

Our Community Guidelines are here to help guard the well-being of our anonymous community. We’re using anonymity as a vehicle for radical vulnerability, so we need a shared language as a baseline for what is acceptable in sessions you choose to make public.

The Within app is designed to be a space for authentic and vulnerable self expression through recording self-guided audio sessions. A small space for you to name how you feel and use self affirmation as a way to self-regulate and to reframe your experiences and emotions as needed.

Guiding Philosophy

  • You are responsible for your own well-being

  • You should consider the well-being of others as equal to you own

  • It is ok and encouraged to need, ask for, and proactively seek help from mental health services or professionals

  • While a helpful self-talk aid, this app will not solve your problems, nor is this therapy

  • It is ok to hear content that you do not find valuable or resonate with and simply move on

Recommendations:

  • Lead with vulnerability about how you feel

  • Do treat yourself with respect and loving kindness

  • Do listen to the sessions of others with curiosity and compassion

  • Do (when in session) refer to people in your life by the nature of the relationship (brother, boss, friend etc) and avoid names

Monitoring

We do not monitor the content of private sessions in any way at anytime. You have the right to say whatever you want to in private sessions. Once you make a session public it enters the community and must meet the standards of our community in order to remain public. We reserve the right to take down public sessions for any reason at anytime. We periodically review community sessions against the following guidelines to make sure the space is free of the following:

Identifies Another

  • We prohibit proper names in public sessions. Only refer to people by the nature of the relationship. ie my brother, sister, friend, boss, colleague, partner, son, daughter, family, etc

Contains Spam

  • We prohibit the spread of or attempts to spread false information or news

  • We prohibit the artificial amplification or suppression of information and any attempts to manipulate the platform to enable this

  • We prohibit the propagation of "spam," which is generally irrelevant or unsolicited messages shared in the community. Spam can include but is not limited to content around self promotion, event promotion, or any content not relevant to the personal experience

Contains Hate Speech

  • We prohibit content that contains hate speech. Anything that incites, promotes or justifies hatred, violence and discrimination against a person or group of persons for a variety of reasons

  • We prohibit the use of slurs

Bullying or Harassment

  • We prohibit bullying, using words to try to hurt or attack someone

  • We prohibit harassment, using specific words and or references to content you’ve heard through the community to retaliate with cruel, offensive, insulting, or discriminatory language

Inciting Violence

  • We prohibit the use of this platform to share content in public sessions that would incite violence or criminal activity

Contains Self Harming

  • We prohibit content in public sessions that glorifies or incites self-harm such as describing choosing to injure one’s self through: Cutting, Scratching, Burning, Carving words or symbols into the skin, Hitting or punching oneself (including banging one’s head or other body parts against another surface), Piercing the skin with sharp objects such as hairpins, Pulling out hair and any attempts at taking one’s own life