What is Social Convoy?
Journey: As we all know our life is a journey. We start at one point and finally, we reach another point. During this journey we travel through many places, experiencing many victories, small wins, failures, slips, and bruises. We meet umpteen people on the way. We click with some of them, become friends with them, and share our joys, victories, and failures with them.
Co-Passengers: Some of these people accept us, feel happy about our laurels, and become sad when we slip at some points. They travel with us, become attached to us, and are involved with our activities. We also accept them and become friends with them. They are our friends and are known as our convoy.
Dependence: We depend on this convoy for solace, for their advice to us, and for their encouraging words. We share with them our insults and hurts also. These social groups are critical elements of good adjustments at every stage of human development.
What does Social Convoy do?
Growth and Moving Forward: We are social creatures and thrive on our interactions and relationship with our group, and with our convoy. Thus, we grow and develop. We are surrounded by this supporting group who move with us throughout life. We feel happy in their presence and vice versa.
Social Network: The convoy model represents social connections that people accumulate at different stages of life. The closeness and the exchanges of social support are felt by the individual as and when one comes across various people.
Protective Shield: The social convoys are best described by their structure and function. The convoy may consist of school buddies, family members, a spouse, or even neighbors. This social convoy provides a protective layer of social relations to guide, encourage, and socialize with individuals as they go along.
Social Support: The social convoy is nothing but a personal network of individuals from whom we give and receive social support.
The benefits of Social Convoy:
You are not alone: The social convoy eliminates the risks of loneliness, aging, depression, self-harm, fear, and anxiety. It builds self-confidence in the minds of people and they grow to achieve greatness.
Better quality of Life: Social convoy builds mental health in the person and lasting human bonds are created with each other. A dynamic social convoy brings an excellent quality of life and everyone in the group becomes an achiever.
The high end is- Master Mind Group: The modern industrial and business community has evolved a group from the social convoy concept to create “Master Minds” and everyone in the group supports one another to create winners. The convoy moves along.