Why is Social Media Important with Positive Community Norms?

Have you seen The Montana Institute’s recent social media posting?

As you have recently seen, The Montana Institute (TMI) is utilizing our social media pages to promote a ‘30 Days of the Positive’ campaign in order to bring positive change to the world. In this week's blog post we will continue to explore how we can use The Science of The Positive to change community norms in order to transform culture, ultimately resulting in building healthier and safer communities. Via our social media channels we post in a cadence of Spirit - Science - Action - Return. We would like to demonstrate how to use social media to bring about positive community change. 

How does social media fit in with Positive Community Norms?

Let’s face it. Social media is now just as much as part of our lives as eating and sleeping is. Social media is built into the fabric of our community as a whole. Using the 7 Step Model that we teach in our trainings, we are going to bring positive change and demonstrate positivity within our social media communities. Social media has become a part of our daily lives and is constantly affecting our perceptions of the world, and for those of you who have heard Dr. Jeff Linkenbach speak, perceptions shape our realities. What we believe we see and what we see we believe. 

Social media is also extremely influential on our children’s’ behaviors and emotions. Not only is it hard enough to attend high school and try to fit in with your local high school crowd, you now have the ability to see what other high schoolers are doing across the world. Depression and anxiety are a real concern. 

Social media is a tool, a medium that we can use for communication and it alters perceptions of those that use it. In order to bring positive change to communities we need to recognize the positive that already exists within the community. It’s similar with our use of social media: how can we as conscious social media users highlight the positive that already exists within social media? This is the ongoing conversation we would like to have with you. Follow us on all of our social platforms in order to stay in the loop!  As of right now we are actively posting Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

What can you do to help?

We want to share your content! We would love it if you (The Montana Institute Community) would be a part of this story. We want to highlight the work that you are doing right now to make a positive change. If you have any content that you would like to share, whether it be from a blog post, a news article, a podcast clip, a published study, or anything you would like us to promote, feel free to send any information to Chris@montanainstitute.com.