The Symbiosis app promotes social health
Social health may be defined simply as the degree to which relational needs are met and not violated. Relational needs and wants are the emotional benefits of social connection.
Identify your relational needs and wants
People typically share many core relational needs, but the intensity of need may vary. The intensity of need may even change over time and as circumstances change. Symbiosis's journaling, questionnaire, and self-scoring features can help you identify your current relational needs and wants.
Understand your social health
Visualize your social health with Symbiosis's relational needs chart. See which needs are lacking, which are strong, and which are changing over time.
Reflect on with whom you're spending time. This can be done on an individual level through the quality time journaling and relationship health features or at a categorical level. Compare how much time you're dedicating to friends vs your partner, coworkers vs your family, others vs yourself, etc. Set your own balancing goals, or use Symbiosis's default recommendation algorithms to achieve better relationship balance.
Fill relational need gaps
After understanding your current social health, you can adapt your behavior to fill your relational need gaps. Either you can try to improve your existing relationships by expressing your needs and opinions on how they might be met or you can spend time with people who might be better prepared to meet your needs and wants. Meeting relational needs requires social skills that need to be trained and developed. For some people that's easy. For others it's hard. Whether you're trying to improve your existing relationships or wanting to spend time with other people, Symbiosis can help you. Learn from the articles and other resources posted on Symbiosis. Try out some of Symbiosis's tips and suggestions. Configure your recommendation settings to target certain relational needs, and Symbiosis will try to suggest people who are experienced in meeting relational needs like yours.
Build a supportive network
Social health isn't just about individual relationships, categorical relationships, or relational needs. It's also about your social network and how it affects you. Using Symbiosis, you should have opportunities to get involved in supportive communities and build social resilience. People join the Symbiosis community to improve social health both for themselves and for others. When you interact with people with this intention, together you can cultivate trust, affection, and positive influence.